🤖 AI Tools Cheat Sheet 2026

Click any card for a detailed breakdown — use cases, pros & cons, pricing tiers, and more

✅ Free 💙 Freemium 🔓 Open Source 🔒 Closed Source

💬 Large Language Models / Chatbots

ChatGPT
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

OpenAI's flagship chatbot. General Q&A, writing, coding, analysis.

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Claude (Anthropic)
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Safety-focused AI. Excellent at long documents, coding, and nuanced writing.

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Gemini (Google)
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Google's multimodal AI with deep Workspace integration.

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Grok (xAI)
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Real-time web search, unfiltered responses, deep X/Twitter integration.

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Meta Llama 3
✅ Free🔓 Open Source

Meta's open-source LLM. Run locally, fine-tune, private deployments.

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Mistral AI
💙 Freemium🔓 Open Source

European open-weight AI. Excellent performance-to-size ratio.

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Perplexity AI
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI-powered search engine with real-time cited sources.

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DeepSeek
✅ Free🔓 Open Source

Chinese open-source LLM with strong reasoning (R1 model).

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🎨 Image Generation

Midjourney
🔒 Closed

Industry-leading image quality. Stunning artistic outputs for creators.

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DALL·E 3
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

OpenAI image gen. Precise text-to-image with detailed prompt following.

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Stable Diffusion
✅ Free🔓 Open Source

Fully open-source. Run locally, fine-tune, massive model community.

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Adobe Firefly
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Commercially safe AI images. Integrated with Photoshop & Illustrator.

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Flux (Black Forest Labs)
💙 Freemium🔓 Open Source

Next-gen image model with exceptional photorealism and prompt adherence.

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Canva AI
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI image generation + full design suite. Perfect for non-designers.

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💻 Coding & Development

GitHub Copilot
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI pair programmer in VS Code, JetBrains. Code completion + chat.

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Cursor
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI-first code editor. Edit entire codebases with natural language.

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Claude Code
🔒 Closed

Agentic coding CLI. Understands full codebases, writes & debugs autonomously.

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Tabnine
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Privacy-focused AI code completion. Works offline, on-premise option.

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Codeium / Windsurf
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Free AI code completion + agentic Windsurf IDE with Cascade feature.

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Replit AI
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Browser-based IDE with AI coding, app generation, and cloud hosting.

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🎬 Video & Audio Generation

Sora (OpenAI)
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Text-to-video up to 20 seconds. High cinematic quality by OpenAI.

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Runway ML
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Video generation, editing, and effects. Used by filmmakers worldwide.

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ElevenLabs
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Ultra-realistic voice cloning & TTS in 30+ languages.

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Kling AI
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Impressive video generation with excellent natural motion quality.

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Suno AI
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Generate full songs with lyrics and vocals from a text prompt.

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Whisper (OpenAI)
✅ Free🔓 Open Source

State-of-the-art speech-to-text in 100+ languages. Fully open source.

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📋 Productivity & Writing

Notion AI
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI writing and Q&A built into Notion workspace for notes and docs.

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Grammarly AI
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI writing assistant for grammar, clarity, tone, and style across apps.

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Jasper AI
🔒 Closed

AI marketing copy for blogs, ads, social media, and email campaigns.

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Otter.ai
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI meeting transcription, notes, and summaries for Zoom/Meet/Teams.

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Microsoft Copilot
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

AI across Microsoft 365 — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

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⚙️ AI Infrastructure & Platforms

Hugging Face
💙 Freemium🔓 Open Source

The GitHub of AI — 500k+ models, datasets, and deployable Spaces.

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LangChain
✅ Free🔓 Open Source

Framework for building LLM-powered apps with chains, agents, retrieval.

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Ollama
✅ Free🔓 Open Source

Run LLMs locally on your machine with one command. Completely offline.

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Replicate
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Run open-source ML models via API. Pay-per-use for images, video, LLMs.

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Vertex AI (Google)
🔒 Closed

Google Cloud's ML platform for training and deploying models at scale.

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AWS Bedrock
🔒 Closed

Amazon's managed AI service. Access Claude, Llama, and more via unified API.

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🤖 Autonomous AI Agents

AutoGPT
✅ Free🔓 Open Source

Autonomous agent that breaks goals into tasks and executes them.

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n8n AI
💙 Freemium🔓 Open Source

Visual workflow automation with AI nodes. Connect 400+ apps.

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Make (Integromat)
💙 Freemium🔒 Closed

Visual automation platform with AI modules to connect apps and workflows.

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