Which AI does what, exactly?
Everyone mentions ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, open source, agents… and almost nobody explains what any of it means. This is your plain-English guide: no benchmarks, no jargon, no assumption that you’ve been following the AI industry for years.
“I spent a solid three years confused about which AI I was supposed to be using. Turns out the answer is: it depends. But now at least I can tell you what it depends on.”
The Big Names (Frontier Models)
The most powerful and widely-used AI tools: the ones your friends, family, and the news are almost certainly talking about. Made by large companies, mostly with free tiers. If you're just starting out, this is where most people begin.
Not sure what ‘frontier model’ or ‘AI agent’ means? Kevin has a plain-English glossary. →
The tool that started the conversation, and still one of the best for almost anything you ask it to do.
ChatGPT's available models, context limits, and usage caps vary by plan and can change over time.
Free tier available · Paid plans provide higher limits and additional features.
No — ChatGPT is proprietary.
Particularly strong at reading long documents, explaining things clearly, and tasks that need careful reasoning.
Free tier available · Paid plan for more usage.
No — proprietary
Google's AI. Works across Search, Docs, and Gmail, and genuinely useful if you're already in the Google ecosystem.
Free tier available · Paid Google AI plans (AI Plus, AI Pro, AI Ultra) add more use and more Gemini inside Gmail and Docs.
No (Gemma — Google's open version — is though)
Built into Windows and Microsoft 365. If you live in Word and Excel, Copilot is already waiting.
Microsoft changes the models and usage limits behind Copilot by feature and plan, so there is no single reliable context-window figure for the whole product.
Free Copilot available · Paid Microsoft 365 plans add deeper integration and higher access.
No — proprietary
Real-time access to X. Useful when you need an AI that's actually caught up with today's news.
Free with an X (Twitter) account · Paid plan for more usage.
No — proprietary (built by xAI)
One app, many chatbots. A simple way to try ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini side by side without juggling separate logins.
Gives you access to AI models and bots from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and others — including chat, image, video and audio tools — through one app and subscription.
Free tier available · Paid plan for heavier use and premium bots.
No — proprietary (made by Quora)
Many of the big AI models in one app for about US$10 a month, with a router that picks one for you.
One app and one subscription for many AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and open-source makers (including Chinese models such as Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi). Its RouteLLM router can pick a model for each question automatically.
Paid only: Basic about US$10 a month, Pro about US$20 a month. No free plan. Free alternative: Poe's free tier.
Web, iPhone and Android, with voice.
Abacus.AI says it doesn't use your data for training and encrypts it. Your prompts still go to whichever model company answers, and some of the models on offer are Chinese; pick those only for things you'd be happy to share. We can't fully guarantee privacy for any big model.
The assistant that's already on a newer iPhone, now able to hold a proper conversation and help inside your apps.
Apple's rebuilt Siri, launched in beta on 14 September 2026 with iOS 27. It holds a conversation, has its own app with chat history, understands what's on your screen, can search your own messages, emails and photos, and can take actions in supported apps. Apple built it with its own models alongside Google's Gemini.
Free with iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 on supported devices. Join the waitlist in Settings, then Siri, then Try Siri AI.
iPhone 15 Pro or newer, iPads and Macs with M1 or later, plus other supported Apple Intelligence devices. English at launch. Available in most regions; in the EU it is unavailable on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch but available on supported Macs and Vision Pro. It does not work with mainland-China Apple Accounts.
Apple says requests handled by its Private Cloud Compute are not stored or made accessible to Apple. Chat history syncs through iCloud. As with any big AI company, we can't fully guarantee privacy.
Open Source & Local Models
These models have their code — and often the AI itself — freely available to download. Some can run entirely on your own computer so nothing leaves your machine. They take a bit more effort to set up, but they're free and extremely private.
“The code is public. The AI is often free. For some people, that is the whole point.”
Meta's current open-weight model family: multimodal, downloadable, and available to run without a subscription under Meta's community license.
Free to download under Meta's Llama 4 Community License; also available through hosted providers.
Open weights under Meta's community license — not an OSI open-source license
Yes, as Meta's latest downloadable (open-weight) family, released April 2025. Meta's newest AI, Muse Spark, which now powers the Meta AI app and the Muse agent, is not downloadable. There is no Llama 5 yet.
A French AI company offering open-weight models and Vibe (formerly Le Chat), its assistant for everyday questions, documents, research and coding.
Context limits vary by Mistral model and product; use the live model documentation when a specific limit matters.
Vibe (formerly Le Chat) is free for everyday use with limits. Pro is US$14.99 a month (US$5.99 for verified students) for more messages, deeper reasoning and all-day coding. Mistral also publishes downloadable open-weight models.
Some Mistral models are open-weight; the hosted Vibe service is proprietary. Mistral AI is based in France and is subject to applicable EU data law.
Surprised the entire AI industry with its reasoning ability, though it routes through Chinese infrastructure, which is worth weighing.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (in the app and on the web since August 2026) and V4.1 Flash (September 2026), with context windows of up to 1 million tokens. R1 was the early-2025 reasoning model that first made DeepSeek famous.
Free in the app and on the web. The developer API is pay-as-you-go and among the cheapest available.
Yes, the models are open-weight. ⚠️ Made in China: the app and website run on DeepSeek's own servers. We can't guarantee your privacy here (no big AI company can fully guarantee it), so keep sensitive personal information out.
Microsoft's compact model, capable enough for most tasks and designed to run on more modest hardware.
Free — specifically designed to run well on less powerful computers.
Yes
Google's free, open model family. The small, downloadable cousin of Gemini, made to run on your own hardware.
Free — open weights, downloadable under Google's Gemma terms.
Open weights — free to download and run under Google's Gemma terms
AI Agents & Specialist Tools
These go beyond 'ask a question, get an answer.' AI agents carry out multi-step tasks on your behalf — searching, reading, comparing, and presenting results. You're hearing about these constantly right now because they represent a genuinely new way of working.
“This is the part that surprises people. You stop asking. You start delegating.”
Every answer comes with sources you can click and check — the AI tool that shows its working.
Free tier available · Paid plan for more daily searches.
No — proprietary
Formerly NotebookLM. Upload your own documents and ask questions about them, like having a researcher read everything for you.
Works from the sources you add (documents, links, videos) and answers with citations. Newer agentic chat can also research and create files with or without sources, and each notebook now has a secure cloud computer that can run code for data analysis.
Free.
No
A self-hosted, open-source AI assistant that connects models and agents to the chat apps and tools you already use.
A self-hosted AI assistant and gateway that runs on your hardware, connects to chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Slack, and Discord, and can use tools, skills, memory, and scheduled automation.
Free and MIT-licensed. You supply a supported local model or model-provider access, which may have its own cost.
Yes — MIT licensed and stewarded by the independent OpenClaw Foundation
⚠️ Requires setup and careful permissions. Desktop apps and guided onboarding are available, but this remains a powerful self-hosted agent for confident users.
Give it a complex question, wait a few minutes, and get back a sourced research report instead of a quick answer.
A research mode that performs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, reasons through the material, and produces a comprehensive report with citations.
Limited access on the free plan · Extended access on Perplexity Pro and higher tiers.
An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness for research, coding, and creation, built for technical users who want control over the workflow.
DeerFlow 2.0 is an open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that can research, code, and create using sandboxes, memory, tools, skills, subagents, and a message gateway.
Free — open-source framework. Technical setup and your own model or API access may be required.
⚠️ Requires technical setup — it is an agent framework, not a click-and-go consumer research app.
Google's research agent: searches the full web, reads multiple sources, and writes you a structured summary.
Google's answer to Deep Research — searches across the web and your connected Google documents, then produces a structured report.
Free tier available · More use with a paid Google AI plan (AI Plus, AI Pro or AI Ultra).
Can search your Google Drive and Docs as part of its research — unique to Google's ecosystem
An open-source personal agent that lives on your computer, remembers your work, and reaches you through Telegram, Discord, or Slack.
A personal AI agent that runs on your own computer, keeps long-term memory of your projects, and reaches you through messaging apps. It can run scheduled tasks, research, and routine jobs on your behalf.
Free — open source. Connect a supported model provider using API credits, a local model, or an optional subscription such as Nous Portal.
Yes — MIT-licensed. Configuration, memory, and skills stay local; prompts or data may be sent to model and tool providers you configure.
⚠️ Requires setup — built for confident, technical users. Very new and fast-moving.
Point your phone at something and hear what it is: free AI descriptions, plus real volunteers when you want a person.
A free app for people who are blind or have low vision. Be My AI describes photos and answers questions about them in dozens of languages; you can also video-call a sighted volunteer or a company's accessibility team.
Free. No charge for calls, AI descriptions or support.
iPhone and Android, and hands-free on Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
Photos you send are processed by an AI service to describe them. Don't photograph cards, passwords or ID. We can't fully guarantee privacy for any AI service.
Microsoft's Seeing AI is also free, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases, on iPhone and Android.
OpenAI's always-on helpers inside ChatGPT: they keep working on your goals in the background, for a Pro-sized price.
Always-on AI agents inside ChatGPT, announced 29 September 2026. Each dot has its own cloud computer and browser, connects to apps through ChatGPT's plugins, works toward a goal in the background and learns from your feedback. Runs on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra.
Included (one dot) with ChatGPT Pro, which starts at US$100 a month (Pro 200 and Pro 500 cost more), and with Business Premium. Not on Free, Go, Plus or Business Standard.
ChatGPT on web, desktop and mobile, plus Slack and Microsoft Teams; texting is promised. Pro users in the UK, EU and Switzerland can't use dots yet.
You can set rules to allow, block or require approval for actions; sensitive steps such as password changes always need your OK, and it signs in without showing your passwords to the model. OpenAI says dots can still make mistakes, so review anything consequential.
Meta's personal agent: it runs errands for you, asking before anything important.
A personal AI agent that does tasks for you: booking, form-filling, shopping, customer-service calls, travel plans. It works in its own secure virtual computer with its own browser, keeps going after you close the app, and asks before sensitive actions such as sending an email or making a purchase.
Free, with a weekly usage limit. Power is US$20 a month and Maximum is US$100 a month; both only raise the limit. You must be 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to subscribe.
Launched in the US on 8 September 2026 and in Canada on 18 September 2026, on the web, iPhone and Android, plus WhatsApp. Not in the UK or EU yet. Some big shops (Amazon, for one) block it.
Meta says a separate monitor approves anything Muse sends to the internet, Muse cannot see your passwords or card numbers directly, and you can opt out of your chats being used to train Meta's AI. Security experts still urge caution about giving any company this much access. Turn on only the apps you need.
Run AI on Your Own Computer
These aren't AI models themselves — they're the apps that let you run open source models locally, entirely on your own machine. Nothing leaves your computer. No subscription, no internet required once set up. The difference between the two is mainly about how comfortable you are with clicking buttons versus typing commands.
“No internet. No company logging your questions. Just you and a very fast computer.”
The friendliest way to run AI on your own computer: a proper app with a simple interface, no commands needed.
A proper desktop app — looks and feels like real software — that lets you browse, download, and chat with local AI models. The most beginner-friendly way to run AI locally. No command line needed.
Open it like any other app, browse a catalogue of models, click download, and start chatting. Has a built-in chat interface that looks a lot like ChatGPT — but everything runs on your machine.
Free for personal use. The models it runs are also free.
Mac, Windows, or Linux. At least 8GB RAM — 16GB recommended. No technical skills required.
For those comfortable with a terminal: run powerful open models locally with complete privacy and no subscription.
A lightweight local-model runtime that lets you download and run AI models with simple commands and exposes an API for local apps. It is more technical than a desktop chat app.
Download and run models locally from Ollama's library, then chat in the terminal or connect a compatible third-party interface or application through Ollama's API.
The local runner and many downloadable models are free. Optional Ollama cloud model usage is paid.
Mac, Windows, or Linux. Memory needs depend on the model; some comfort with a terminal or command prompt helps.
The lean open-source engine that quietly runs AI models on ordinary computers. Powerful, free, and not for the faint-hearted.
A lightweight, open-source engine for running AI models on everyday computers — even without a high-end graphics card. It's the foundation many friendlier local-AI apps are built on.
Free — open source.
Yes — fully open
Mac, Windows, or Linux. Comfort with a command line helps — most people use it through a friendlier app instead.
A native Apple Silicon inference server with continuous batching, SSD-backed caching, and OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs.
A native macOS inference server built on Apple's MLX framework, with continuous batching and paged SSD KV caching for Apple Silicon.
Free — open source.
OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs, managed from a macOS menu-bar app.
An Apple Silicon Mac. oMLX is macOS-only and is aimed more at local serving and agent workloads than first-time consumer chat.
Apple's own open-source framework for running AI on Mac hardware. The foundation, more for builders than for browsers.
An open-source framework from Apple for running AI efficiently on Apple Silicon. It's a foundation that other Mac AI tools are built on, aimed at developers more than everyday users.
Free — open source.
Yes — made by Apple
An Apple Silicon Mac. Built for developers.
The internet's library of open AI. Where the world's free models and datasets live, and where much of open AI is shared.
A huge public platform hosting hundreds of thousands of free, open AI models and datasets — the central hub of the open AI world.
Free to browse and download · Paid plans for hosting and heavier compute.
The platform hosts open models; many are fully open
The Global Field
AI is no longer just a Silicon Valley story. China in particular has produced several world-class models that rival — and in some cases lead — the Western field. These come up constantly in tech conversations and news, so it's worth knowing they exist. A note worth making: all three listed here are from Chinese companies. That's worth being aware of when it comes to what data you share with them.
“Worth knowing they exist. Worth knowing where they're from. Worth making that call yourself.”
Alibaba's model, strong in both Chinese and English and one of the most capable widely-used Chinese-origin AI tools.
The family changes quickly. Current official releases include Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash for omnimodal agent work, Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate for live interpretation, and Qwen-Image 2.1 for image generation and editing.
Qwen Chat is available on the web, and many Qwen model releases are open and downloadable. Alibaba Cloud API or hosted use may be paid.
Many models are released openly, but licensing and availability vary by model. Made by Alibaba Cloud (China). ⚠️ Use caution with sensitive personal data.
A free-to-try chatbot from China’s Moonshot AI. The K3 model handles enormous context, reads images, and is useful when smaller tools run out of room.
Kimi K3, released July 2026: a mixture-of-experts model with about 2.8 trillion total parameters and roughly 104 billion active per token.
Up to 1 million tokens. That is the reason to try it when you have long PDFs, large notes, or a codebase that makes smaller chatbots start politely losing the plot.
Long-document research, coding help, agent-style browsing and automation tasks, and working with text plus images in the same conversation.
Start at kimi.com for the consumer chatbot, or use platform.kimi.ai for the API. Developers can call the Kimi K3 model through an OpenAI-compatible SDK path.
Launch pricing was reported at about $0.30 per million cached input tokens, $3 per million fresh input tokens, and $15 per million output tokens. Check Moonshot's live pricing before budgeting anything serious.
Moonshot has published full Kimi K3 weights on Hugging Face under the Kimi K3 License. Open weights do not mean laptop-friendly: this is a very large model, not a weekend download for a normal home setup.
Free chat on kimi.com and the apps. Paid memberships start at about US$19 a month and include Kimi Code, its coding agent; bigger plans (about US$39, US$99 and US$199) add more usage and the full K3. Kimi has said chat and Kimi Code will move to separate plans, so check the live price before paying. Honest comparison: the entry plan saves only about a dollar a month against Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus. The real savings are pay-as-you-go: Kimi's coding models cost less per task than the top US models.
Moonshot AI is a Chinese company headquartered in Beijing. Its privacy policy says your chats may be used to improve its models, and we found no opt-out. We can't guarantee your privacy here (no big AI company can fully guarantee it), so keep personal, financial and work-confidential material out.
A capable Chinese model for both conversation and longer writing tasks, with a growing international user base.
MiniMax M3 combines a one-million-token context window with native multimodality for text, images, audio, and video.
Free access is available in MiniMax consumer apps; API access is usage-priced. Check MiniMax's live pricing before budgeting.
M3 is published as an open model. ⚠️ MiniMax is a Chinese company, which is relevant for privacy and data-residency decisions.
Making Images & Video
These tools turn a plain description into a picture or a video clip. Type what you want to see and they produce it: illustrations, photos of things that never happened, even short cinematic scenes. Each one has its own strengths and its own rules about how you can use what it makes, so check the profiles before publishing anything.
“You type what you want to see. It makes it. I still find that slightly unreasonable.”
The image generator known for sheer beauty. If you want pictures that look like art, this is the one people reach for.
Creates striking, often beautiful images from text descriptions. Known for its artistic quality.
Paid — subscription required, no free tier.
No — proprietary
OpenAI's image generator and editor built directly into ChatGPT. Describe a picture or upload one to change it in plain language.
Creates images from text and edits uploaded images directly inside ChatGPT.
Free access available · Paid ChatGPT plans provide higher limits.
No — proprietary (OpenAI)
A downloadable image-model family that can run on your own machine, with free community licensing for most individuals and small organizations.
Generates and edits images from text or images. Current Stable Diffusion 3.5 models can be self-hosted, used through Stability AI's API, or accessed in web applications.
Free Community License for individuals and organizations under $1M in annual revenue · Paid enterprise licensing above that threshold and paid hosted/API options.
Downloadable/open-weight models under Stability AI's Community License; use is subject to that license rather than unrestricted public-domain terms.
Adobe's image and video generator, built to be commercially safe. Made for people who need to use the results in real work.
Generates images and video from text, designed so the results are safe to use commercially. Built into Adobe's apps.
Free tier available · Included in Adobe subscriptions.
No — proprietary (Adobe)
A pioneer of AI video. Turns text and images into short film clips, and helped start the whole AI-video wave.
Creates short video clips from text prompts or still images. One of the longest-running AI video tools.
Free tier available · Paid plans for more and longer videos.
No — proprietary
A Chinese video generator known for smooth, realistic motion. Capable and popular, with the usual data caveats.
Generates realistic short video clips from text or images, known for smooth, natural motion.
Free tier available · Paid plans for more usage.
No — proprietary
xAI's image and video generator, built into Grok. Fast, loosely filtered, and aimed at quick creative experiments.
Creates images and short videos with sound from text or photos, built into Grok. Built for speed and quick iteration.
Free tier available · More via X / Grok subscription.
No — proprietary (xAI)
ByteDance's video generator, from the company behind TikTok and CapCut. Strong, cinematic clips, with the usual data caveats.
Generates cinematic short videos with synchronised audio from text, images, or reference clips. Made by ByteDance, accessed through Dreamina and CapCut.
Free daily credits · Paid for more.
No — proprietary
Google's flagship video model, generating realistic video with native audio and available to try in Google Flow.
Generates and edits realistic video with native sound from text, images, or existing video. Google's current flagship version is Veo 3.1, available through Google Flow and Google developer products.
Free Google Flow access includes daily credits · Paid Google AI plans provide more credits and higher limits.
No — proprietary (Google)
The design app most people already know, now with AI woven throughout. Familiar, friendly, and quietly very capable.
A friendly design app for posters, social posts, presentations and more, now with AI built in for generating images, writing text, and editing.
Free tier available · Paid plan for premium features.
No — proprietary
Music, Voice & Sound
AI for the things you hear. Some of these write and perform complete songs from a text description; others turn writing into natural-sounding speech, in almost any voice and language. A small section for now, but it covers some of the most surprising things AI can currently do.
“I made a song about my printer. It had a chorus. We live in remarkable times.”
The leading AI voice tool. Turns text into remarkably natural speech, and can clone a voice from a short sample.
Turns written text into natural-sounding speech, and can recreate a specific voice from a short sample. Used for narration, audiobooks, and dubbing.
Free tier available · Paid plans for more audio and features.
No — proprietary
Write a song by describing it. Suno turns a few words into a complete track, vocals and all, in under a minute.
Creates complete songs — music and vocals — from a short text description. Pick a style, add lyrics if you like, and it writes the rest.
Free tier available · Paid plans for more songs and commercial use.
No — proprietary
Google’s browser music studio: type what you want, get a full track with vocals, and steer it like you’re talking to a patient producer.
A free-to-start web app from Google that turns text, image, and audio prompts into songs using DeepMind’s Lyria 3.5 music model. Google launched Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music on 29 July 2026, with claims of better musicality, lyrics, vocals, and control.
Beginner-friendly if you can use a browser and a Google account. No DAW or music theory required. You prompt a Producer-style chat, then edit, remix, share, or download the song.
Free plan: $0, daily credit top-ups, 2 concurrent generations, and core features. Pricing page checked 2026-08-10 showed annual-billing rates of Starter $6/month, Plus $18/month, and Member $48/month, with about 600, 2,000, and 6,000 songs respectively. Monthly billing may show higher numbers, so check the live toggle before subscribing.
Downloadable songs; the pricing comparison lists mp3, wav, and m4a downloads, plus stem downloads. The product surface also advertises projects, sharing, and AI music videos using Veo. Outputs carry Google’s SynthID watermark, which is provenance labeling, not a separate ban on use.
Google says it does not claim ownership of original content generated with Flow Music, and Google’s general terms say original generated content remains yours. That does not erase rights questions around uploads, artist impersonation, commercial use, or music-platform rules. Treat commercial use as plan-and-terms dependent, and read the current terms before using a track in paid work.
Flow Music’s privacy notice says Google collects uploads, generated outputs, usage information, and feedback, and may use them to improve Google products and machine-learning technologies. Human reviewers may process a sample, with account disconnection steps. Do not upload confidential audio, private family material, or anything you would not want reviewed.
Quality varies by prompt; expect some generic AI-band moments. This is not a replacement for a human collaborator or a traditional DAW workflow. Rights, training data, and platform rules in AI music remain contested industry-wide. The card is a product map, not legal advice.
Same basic job: make a song from a sentence. Flow Music is Google’s version, with a Lyria engine, a Google account, and optional video tools. Suno is the dedicated music-product competitor already in the Lineup. Pick based on which one sounds better to your ears, not brand loyalty. Old-fashioned, I know.
Building Apps & Websites
These use AI to build software: websites, apps, and small personal tools. Some are editors made for professional programmers, but the newest ones let you describe what you want in plain English and watch it take shape. You don't need to read a line of code to end up with something that works.
“Twenty-two years in IT, and now the computer writes the code. I've decided to find that relaxing.”
An AI-first code editor that's become the developer favourite. For people who write code and want AI deeply built in.
A code editor with AI built into its core — it can write, explain, and fix code as you work. Aimed at people who write software.
Free tier available · Pro plan for heavier use.
No — proprietary (built on the open VS Code)
Some coding background. This is a developer tool.
The coding IDE formerly called Windsurf, now expanded into a command centre for managing local and cloud coding agents.
A full coding IDE with an Agent Command Center for managing local and cloud agents. Windsurf was renamed Devin Desktop in June 2026; the original editor and workflows remain available.
Free tier available · Pro, Max, team, and enterprise plans for higher quotas and more features.
No — proprietary (built on the open VS Code foundation)
A coding background. This is a developer tool for writing code and managing coding agents.
Describe an app in plain English and watch it get built. The poster child for 'vibe coding,' aimed at non-coders with an idea.
Builds working web apps from a plain-language description — handling the design, the logic, and the database. No coding required.
Free tier available · Paid plans for serious building.
No — proprietary
Just an idea and plain words. The free tier is enough to test one.
Hand Off the Busywork (Automation)
These connect the apps you already use, like email, spreadsheets, and calendars, and quietly handle the repetitive steps between them. "When an invoice arrives, save the attachment and add a row to my spreadsheet." You set the rule up once, and it keeps happening without you.
“It does the boring parts while you do something better. The closest thing yet to a second Kevin.”
A powerful automation tool you can run yourself. Connects your apps and lets them work together, with full control over your data.
Connects your apps and automates tasks between them — 'when an email arrives, save the attachment and log it.' Can run on your own server for full data control.
Free to self-host · Paid cloud version for convenience.
Source-available (fair-code) — free to self-host; not strictly open source
⚠️ More setup than Zapier or Make, especially self-hosted
The original app-connector. Links thousands of services together so routine tasks happen on their own, no code needed.
Connects thousands of apps so routine tasks happen automatically — no code, just pick a trigger and an action.
Free tier available · Paid plans for more automations.
No — proprietary
Beginner-friendly — built for non-technical users
A visual automation tool where you build workflows by connecting dots on a canvas. More flexible than Zapier, a little more involved.
Connects apps and automates tasks, built around a visual canvas where you join steps together. More flexible than the simplest tools.
Free tier available · Paid plans for more credits.
No — proprietary
A little more involved than Zapier, but very capable
This guide is updated quarterly. Tools change fast — if you spot something out of date, let us know.