AI tools we compare

Prices for United States, before sales tax Data release 2026.10.16-3, Oct 16, 2026 Rules 2.1.0

• ChatGPT

  OpenAI

  ChatGPT is OpenAI's general assistant, with Codex for coding. It suits people who want one app for chat, images, files, voice and code, from a free tier up to $500 a month.

  Free plan, paid from $8 a month

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• Claude

  Anthropic

  Claude is Anthropic's general assistant, with Claude Code for coding. It suits people who work with long documents, files or code and want an ad-free app, from Free up to $200 a month.

  Free plan, paid from $20 a month

  Research & Search · Writing & Content · Coding & Development · Business & Productivity · Data & Analytics · Agents & Automation · Audio & Voice

• Gemini

  Google

  Gemini is Google's AI assistant, sold through Google AI plans that also include Google storage. It suits people whose email, documents and files already live in a Google account.

  Free plan, paid from $4.99 a month

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• Perplexity

  Perplexity AI

  Perplexity is an AI search and research service that puts citations on every answer. It suits people who look things up often and want to check where each answer came from.

  Free plan, paid from $20 a month

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• X Subscription (Cursor, Grok, X)

  Anysphere

  Cursor is a code editor with AI agents built in, for developers. Since October 12, 2026 its plans are sold as the X Subscription, which also includes Grok and X Premium.

  Free plan, paid from $8 a month

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• GitHub Copilot

  GitHub (Microsoft)

  GitHub Copilot is GitHub's coding assistant for code editors, the command line and pull requests. It is built for developers, not as an everyday writing assistant.

  Free plan, paid from $10 a month

  Research & Search · Coding & Development · Business & Productivity

• Suno

  Suno, Inc.

  Suno makes full songs with vocals from a text prompt or your own lyrics. Who owns those songs, and how many you can download, depends on the plan.

  Free plan, paid from $10 a month

  Audio & Voice

• Udio

  Uncharted Labs, Inc.

  Udio makes songs with vocals or instrumentals from a prompt or your own lyrics. Since late 2025 you cannot download what you make, and Udio and its licensors own it.

  Free plan, paid from $10 a month

  Audio & Voice

• ElevenLabs

  ElevenLabs

  ElevenLabs is a voice and audio platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects, transcription, voice agents and music. One monthly credit pool covers all of it, and commercial use starts with the first paid plan.

  Free plan, paid from $6 a month

  Audio & Voice

• Otter

  Otter.ai, Inc.

  Otter records, transcribes and summarizes conversations, with a notetaker that joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. It suits people who want a written, searchable record of meetings, interviews and recordings.

  Free plan, paid from $16.99 a month

  Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Wispr Flow

  Wispr, Inc.

  Wispr Flow is a dictation app that types what you say into any app, with a Notetaker that records meetings on your computer. It suits people who write a lot and would rather speak than type.

  Free plan, paid from $15 a month

  Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Superwhisper

  SuperUltra, Inc.

  Superwhisper is a dictation app that turns your voice into formatted text in any app, on macOS, Windows, iPhone and Android. Its free plan runs speech recognition on your own device.

  Free plan, paid from $8.49 a month

  Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Runway

  Runway AI, Inc.

  Runway is a web and mobile app for generating and editing video, images and voice with its own Gen models and models from other companies, paid for in credits. Its Terms leave you the owner of what you make and do not restrict commercial use.

  Free plan, paid from $15 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Luma

  Luma AI, Inc.

  Luma is the Luma App, where Luma Agents generate and edit video, images and audio with Luma's Ray models and models from other companies. Its old Dream Machine address now leads to the app, and its pricing page lists three paid plans and no free plan.

  paid from $30 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Higgsfield

  Higgsfield, Inc.

  Higgsfield is a web app that generates video, images and audio with models from many companies, among them Seedance, Kling, Veo, Sora 2 and Nano Banana, paid for in monthly credits. Its Free plan has no credits, and its paid plans differ mostly in which models you may use.

  Free plan, paid from $19 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• HeyGen

  HeyGen Technology, Inc.

  HeyGen is an avatar video platform: you type a script and a stock or custom avatar presents it, and it can translate a video with lip sync. Commercial use starts with the first paid plan.

  Free plan, paid from $29 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Synthesia

  Synthesia Limited

  Synthesia is an avatar video platform that turns a script into a video read by a stock or personal avatar, with dubbing, voice cloning and captions on every plan. On October 1, 2026 it renamed its Creator plan to Pro.

  Free plan, paid from $29 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Descript

  Descript, Inc.

  Descript is a video and audio editor in which you edit a recording by editing its transcript, with AI tools for voice, avatars, clips and generated media. It runs on macOS, Windows and the web.

  Free plan, paid from $24 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity · Audio & Voice

• Midjourney

  Midjourney, Inc.

  Midjourney is a paid image generator on the web and in Discord that also turns an image into a short video. There is no free plan, and companies above $1,000,000 a year in revenue need Pro or Mega to own what they make.

  paid from $10 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation

• Ideogram

  Ideogram, Inc.

  Ideogram is an image generator with documented workflows for putting text in images and making logos, plus editing, upscaling and a video app. Its Terms allow commercial use on every plan, but everything made on Free is public.

  Free plan, paid from $20 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation

• Adobe Firefly

  Adobe Inc.

  Adobe Firefly generates and edits images, video and audio on the web and in mobile apps, using Adobe's own models and partner models. Adobe says it does not train its generative AI on your content, and its Terms leave you the owner of what you make.

  Free plan, paid from $9.99 a month

  Images & Design · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity

• Canva

  Canva US, Inc. (Canva Pty Ltd group)

  Canva is a design platform with templates, a logo maker and AI tools for images, video and interactive sites, on the web, desktop and mobile. Free includes a small monthly AI allowance; Pro is for one person.

  Free plan, paid from $18 a month

  Images & Design · Coding & Development · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity

• Lovable

  Lovable Labs Incorporated

  Lovable is a chat-based builder for websites and web apps that hosts what you build and includes a backend with a database and user sign-in. Free covers small projects; Pro adds custom domains, code editing and code download.

  Free plan, paid from $25 a month

  Images & Design · Coding & Development · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity

• Replit

  Replit, Inc.

  Replit is an app builder with a browser-based project editor, where Replit Agent builds web and mobile apps from a prompt, then hosts them with a database and user sign-in. The free Starter plan is a trial: its one published app goes down after 30 days.

  Free plan, paid from $20 a month

  Images & Design · Coding & Development · Business & Productivity

• v0

  Vercel Inc.

  v0 is Vercel's app builder: you describe a web app and an agent writes, runs and fixes the code, then publishes it to Vercel. Hosting is not part of a v0 plan; it runs under your own Vercel plan.

  Free plan, paid from $30 a month

  Images & Design · Coding & Development · Business & Productivity

• Microsoft Copilot

  Microsoft

  Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant, free with a Microsoft account and built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote on the paid Microsoft 365 plans. It suits people whose documents, email and files already live in Office and OneDrive.

  Free plan, paid from $9.99 a month

  Research & Search · Writing & Content · Images & Design · Coding & Development · Video & Animation · Business & Productivity · Data & Analytics · Agents & Automation · Audio & Voice

Prices for United States, before sales tax. "Uses" lists where at least one plan documents every feature a task needs; it says nothing about answer quality.