All AI tools we track
139 tools in 16 categories. Each links to a verdict, what changed, a setup guide and the sources. Machine-readable: /tools.json.
Best AI tools for vibe coding
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Code | Update now if you use the sandbox or run Claude Code on a cloud provider; skip if you wanted flashy new features, this is a hardening release. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 2 | Codex CLI | A quality-of-life release: worth updating if you re-type the same prompts or switch models a lot, not a reason to switch tools. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 3 | Lovable | A friendly way for non-developers to get a working web app and a first-customers plan; check credit costs before you commit. | Reported | |
| 4 | Replit | Strong pick if you want build, hosting and monitoring in one place; read the credit and overage rules first. | Reported | |
| 5 | v0 | Good for UI-heavy web work, especially if you deploy on Vercel; the October changes are about teamwork and polish. | Reported | |
| 6 | Cursor | Worth a look if you run agents on several repos or want one place for editor, cloud agents and Git hosting; the October changes are mostly for teams. | Reported | |
| 7 | Base44 | No-code AI platform that builds apps and websites from your words, with backend, authentication, payments and hosting built in. | Reported | |
| 8 | Bolt | Browser-based AI builder that turns a chat prompt into a hosted website or app, with a free plan and token-based tiers. | Reported | |
| 9 | Firebase Studio | Google's web-based AI workspace for full-stack apps; Google says it is sunsetting Firebase Studio on March 22, 2027 and new workspaces can no longer be created. | Reported | |
| 10 | Kiro | AWS's agentic coding tool that turns prompts into requirements, designs and tasks (spec mode), with an IDE and a CLI. | Reported | |
| 11 | Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) | Windsurf was renamed Devin Desktop on June 2, 2026: a full IDE with an Agent Command Center for managing local and cloud coding agents. | Reported |
Best AI coding agents
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Code | Update now if you use the sandbox or run Claude Code on a cloud provider; skip if you wanted flashy new features, this is a hardening release. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 2 | Codex CLI | A quality-of-life release: worth updating if you re-type the same prompts or switch models a lot, not a reason to switch tools. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 3 | Gemini CLI | Skip it as a new starter on a consumer plan; keep it only if you are on an enterprise license or a paid API key. | Reported | |
| 4 | Cursor | Worth a look if you run agents on several repos or want one place for editor, cloud agents and Git hosting; the October changes are mostly for teams. | Reported | |
| 5 | GitHub Copilot | A sensible default if your team already lives on GitHub; check which plan you need for new models. | Reported | |
| 6 | opencode | Update when convenient for the runtime security fixes; pick opencode if you want an open-source agent that is not tied to one model vendor. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 7 | Cline | A good open-source pick if you want an agent inside your IDE or a CLI and an SDK to embed it; the October notes are incremental. | Reported | |
| 8 | goose | Pick goose if you want an open-source agent with real subagent controls; v1.56.0 is a solid, subagent-heavy update. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 9 | Amazon Q Developer | AWS's AI coding assistant for IDEs and the CLI, with a free tier and a $19 Pro tier; IDE plugin support ends April 30, 2027. | Reported | |
| 10 | Augment Code | Coding agent and 'Cosmos' platform with a Context Engine, CLI and cloud agents; plans are flat team prices with usage included. | Reported | |
| 11 | Devin | Cognition's autonomous software engineer: a cloud coding agent that tests in its own browser and aims to hand back a mergeable pull request. | Reported | |
| 12 | Kiro | AWS's agentic coding tool that turns prompts into requirements, designs and tasks (spec mode), with an IDE and a CLI. | Reported | |
| 13 | Qodo | AI code review platform with 15+ agentic workflows for IDEs, pull requests and security, priced by team credits. | Reported | |
| 14 | Warp | Warp's terminal and agent platform; it now pitches 'open infrastructure for cloud software factories' defined as code, with any model. | Reported | |
| 15 | Zed | High-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, open source with AI optional. | Reported | |
| 16 | Kilo Code | Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and Cloud, with 500+ models at zero markup or your own keys. | Reported | |
| 17 | OpenHands | Open-source AI coding agent platform you can start locally, automate with workflows and run with any model. | Reported | |
| 18 | Continue | A configurable open-source assistant; the CLI worked with a local model through a YAML config. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 19 | Windsurf (now Devin Desktop) | Windsurf was renamed Devin Desktop on June 2, 2026: a full IDE with an Agent Command Center for managing local and cloud coding agents. | Reported | |
| 20 | Aider | Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal that maps your codebase and connects to almost any LLM, including local models. | Tested (smoke test) |
Best AI tools for building agents
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Code | Update now if you use the sandbox or run Claude Code on a cloud provider; skip if you wanted flashy new features, this is a hardening release. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 2 | OpenAI Agents SDK | Pick it if you want a small, official framework for multi-agent flows on the OpenAI API; the update is incremental. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 3 | LangGraph | A dependable foundation for stateful agents; this release is a routine fix, so only update if the RemoteGraph or recursion fixes affect you. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 4 | Google ADK | Update with care: a big, useful release for Gemini users, but it includes a telemetry default change. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 5 | CrewAI | Reasonable if you like the crew-of-agents mental model; the memory and tool-loop fixes in this release are worth taking. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 6 | Mastra | A strong TypeScript option if you are building agents in a Node stack; read the breaking-change note on sessions before upgrading. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 7 | FastMCP | If you run FastMCP servers, upgrade and read the security notices; the OAuth issuer step is not automatic. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 8 | n8n | Great fit for small teams that want to wire apps and AI together without code; the license is fair-code, not open source. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 9 | Langflow | MIT-licensed visual builder for AI agents and MCP servers with a very large GitHub following. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 10 | Botpress | Customer-support AI agent platform with a free plan and conversation-based paid plans. | Reported | |
| 11 | Gumloop | Agent builder for teams; plans start at $37 per month with 20k included credits. | Reported | |
| 12 | Lindy | AI 'employee' builder that connects to your tools; Free plan with $50 in credits that last 7 days, then credit-based plans. | Reported | |
| 13 | Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft's platform for creating and managing custom agents, workflows and apps with no code. | Reported | |
| 14 | Pydantic AI | Python agent framework built on Pydantic types, covering agents, realtime voice, image generation and embeddings. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 15 | Relevance AI | Platform for specialist AI agents for sales, customer success, marketing and HR, with an embedded deployment team. | Reported | |
| 16 | Voiceflow | Platform for chat and voice AI agents for customer experience teams. | Reported | |
| 17 | Vercel AI SDK | Vercel's TypeScript SDK that gives one API across many model providers, with streaming and agent helpers. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 18 | Agno | Open-source agent framework that now sells a self-driving agent platform you run in your own cloud. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 19 | Composio | Managed tool-calling and authentication for agents across 1,500+ apps, with a free tier of 100,000 tool calls a month. | Reported | |
| 20 | Dify | Open-source platform for building LLM apps and agent workflows with a visual canvas; licensed under a modified Apache 2.0 with extra conditions. | Reported | |
| 21 | OpenHands | Open-source AI coding agent platform you can start locally, automate with workflows and run with any model. | Reported | |
| 22 | LangChain | Open-source framework for building LLM applications and agents in Python and JavaScript, from the team behind LangGraph and LangSmith. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 23 | Haystack | Apache-2.0 Python framework for building search, RAG and agent pipelines, maintained by deepset. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 24 | Browser Use | Open-source library that lets AI agents drive a browser, with a pay-as-you-go cloud browser starting at $0.02 an hour. | Reported | |
| 25 | DSPy | Worth a look if you want structured, testable LM pipelines; start with a plain Predict module before optimisers. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 26 | Semantic Kernel | Microsoft's model-agnostic SDK for building AI agents; its README calls Microsoft Agent Framework the enterprise-ready successor. | Reported | |
| 27 | Mem0 | Open-source and hosted memory layer that lets agents remember users across sessions, with a free tier and published request quotas. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 28 | LlamaIndex | Open-source data framework for retrieval-augmented generation and document-centred agents, with a hosted document platform alongside. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 29 | Instructor | A small, light way to get typed output from a model; good first step before reaching for a full framework. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 30 | Flowise | Open-source drag-and-drop builder for LLM flows and agents; GitHub marks the main repository as archived with its last push in Aug 2026. | Reported | |
| 31 | smolagents | Hugging Face's small Python library for agents that write and run code; the docs say the core logic fits in roughly a thousand lines. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 32 | Letta | Platform and open-source framework for stateful agents that keep and improve memory across sessions. | Reported | |
| 33 | AutoGen | Microsoft's open-source multi-agent framework; its README now says the project is in maintenance mode and points to Microsoft Agent Framework. | Tested (smoke test) |
Best AI tools for video
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luma | A good pick for creators who want several video models in one workspace; Ray 3.2 launched on June 9, 2026, so check which models are live on your plan. | Reported | |
| 2 | Runway | A strong choice if you want one place to drive many video, image and audio models from an agent; many items are paid-plan only. | Reported | |
| 3 | Kling AI | Worth testing for action and camera-heavy shots; our information is secondhand from Luma plus the Kling homepage. | Reported | |
| 4 | ComfyUI | The tool to learn if you want maximum control over open models on your own GPU; it has a learning curve. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 5 | Descript | AI video and audio editor where you edit by editing text; Free plan, paid plans measured in media hours and AI credits. | Reported | |
| 6 | HeyGen | AI avatar video with a Free plan and paid tiers at $29, $49 and $149 a month. | Reported | |
| 7 | invideo | AI video editor with agents; plans at $10, $30 and $75 per seat a month billed annually. | Reported | |
| 8 | OpusClip | Turns long videos into shorts and posts to social platforms; Free forever plan. | Reported | |
| 9 | Pika | AI creative platform with a free plan and monthly tiers at $10, $35 and $95. | Reported | |
| 10 | Synthesia | Business video platform with AI avatars in 140+ languages and a free credit allowance. | Reported |
Best AI tools for writing
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ChatGPT | Still the broadest all-round assistant; the October updates matter most if you write documents, decks or work with audio. | Reported | |
| 2 | Claude | A strong writing partner; try Claude Duet only if you are on Pro or Max and comfortable with a research-preview product. | Reported | |
| 3 | Gemini Notebook | A good fit for turning a pile of documents into drafts and decks you can check against sources; availability of new features is rolling out. | Reported | |
| 4 | Copy.ai | Go-to-market AI platform now priced by workflow credits. | Reported | |
| 5 | Grammarly | AI writing assistant that works across apps; Free $0, Pro $12 per month, Enterprise custom. | Reported | |
| 6 | Jasper | AI platform for marketing teams with brand governance and AI visibility tracking; 7-day free trial. | Reported | |
| 7 | Writesonic | Platform for tracking and improving visibility in AI search with article generation. | Reported |
Best AI tools for music
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suno | The most complete song-making tool we track; the v6 editing features are the draw. Rights and licensing questions are yours to check. | Reported | |
| 2 | ElevenLabs | Best for builders adding voice or music to products; the Video to Music API is the interesting new piece for creators. | Reported | |
| 3 | ACE-Step | The pick if you want open weights and local control; expect a manual setup and no recent updates. | Reported |
Best AI tools for images
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midjourney | Use the thinking rerun if prompt-following misses are your pain; be careful with privacy when sharing folders. | Reported | |
| 2 | ComfyUI | The tool to learn if you want maximum control over open models on your own GPU; it has a learning curve. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 3 | ChatGPT | Still the broadest all-round assistant; the October updates matter most if you write documents, decks or work with audio. | Reported | |
| 4 | Runway | A strong choice if you want one place to drive many video, image and audio models from an agent; many items are paid-plan only. | Reported | |
| 5 | FLUX (Black Forest Labs) | Black Forest Labs' FLUX image models, available through an API with per-image pricing; the flux GitHub repository is Apache-2.0. | Reported | |
| 6 | Freepik AI | Stock library with AI suite and credit plans; credits valid for 1 year. | Reported | |
| 7 | Ideogram | AI image generator with Plus, Pro and Team plans, pay-as-you-go credits at 1 cent each, and an API. | Reported | |
| 8 | Krea | Creative AI suite for images, videos and upscaling; Free plan with 5,000 units a month. | Reported | |
| 9 | Leonardo.Ai | Image and video creation platform with a free tier, four individual plans, team seats and API pay-as-you-go. | Reported | |
| 10 | Recraft | Text-to-image model and design platform for photorealism and vector output; V4.1 Flash is listed as the latest model. | Reported |
Best AI tools for small businesses
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodcall | A sensible first AI receptionist for a one-person shop; the per-customer pricing is simple, but test call quality yourself. | Reported | |
| 2 | Jobber Receptionist | Best if you already use or plan to use Jobber for scheduling and invoicing; the receptionist works with your Jobber data. | Reported | |
| 3 | Lovable | A friendly way for non-developers to get a working web app and a first-customers plan; check credit costs before you commit. | Reported | |
| 4 | n8n | Great fit for small teams that want to wire apps and AI together without code; the license is fair-code, not open source. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 5 | Replit | Strong pick if you want build, hosting and monitoring in one place; read the credit and overage rules first. | Reported | |
| 6 | ChatGPT | Still the broadest all-round assistant; the October updates matter most if you write documents, decks or work with audio. | Reported |
Best AI assistants
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grok | Grok is SpaceXAI's chat assistant, free to try on web and in apps, with a SuperGrok upgrade. | Reported | |
| 2 | Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, creating and getting work done, with consumer and enterprise tiers. | Reported | |
| 3 | Mistral Le Chat | Mistral's AI assistant: Free, Pro at $14.99 a month, Team at $24.99 per user. | Reported | |
| 4 | Notion AI | Notion's built-in AI and agents; Free $0, Plus $10 and Business $20 per member per month, with AI usage drawing on credits. | Reported |
Best AI search and research tools
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elicit | AI research assistant that searches academic papers, extracts data and drafts reports; free Basic tier with paid per-user plans. | Reported | |
| 2 | Perplexity | AI search with citations in every answer; Pro is $20 a month ($17 billed annually) and Max is $200 ($167 billed annually). | Reported | |
| 3 | You.com | You.com now presents itself as search and inference infrastructure for AI: web search, answer and research APIs plus an inference router. | Reported |
Best tools for running LLMs locally
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cohere | Enterprise AI company: Command models, Rerank and the North platform. | Reported | |
| 2 | DeepSeek | Model API that works with the OpenAI and Anthropic SDK formats and can back agent tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. | Reported | |
| 3 | Hugging Face | The hub where the ML community shares models, datasets and apps, with PRO, Team and Enterprise tiers. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 4 | LiteLLM | Useful as a single interface in front of local and hosted models; check the license files and pin the version because it releases daily. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 5 | llama.cpp | LLM inference in C/C++: the open-source engine many local-model tools build on; MIT-licensed with near-daily build tags. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 6 | LM Studio | Desktop app for running open models locally; the homepage now leads with Bionic, an agent for work and code. | Reported | |
| 7 | Ollama | The common way to run open models locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a cloud option and an MIT-licensed open-source core. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 8 | Open WebUI | Self-hosted AI platform: a web interface that connects to Ollama and OpenAI-compatible models, under its own Open WebUI License. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 9 | OpenRouter | Unified API to many models with fallbacks; a Free tier with 25+ free models and 4 free providers. | Reported | |
| 10 | Replicate | Cloud API for running and fine-tuning open models, with per-use pricing. | Reported | |
| 11 | Together AI | AI cloud for open models: serverless inference, fine-tuning and GPU clusters, priced per token. | Reported | |
| 12 | Jan | Open-source alternative to ChatGPT that runs open models locally or connects to cloud models like GPT and Claude. | Reported | |
| 13 | GPT4All | Local chatbot from Nomic that runs open-source models on your device; the latest GitHub release we saw is v3.10.0 from Feb 2025. | Tested (smoke test) |
Best AI automation tools
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | Visual automation platform: build scenarios by prompt or drag and drop, credits-based billing, a free plan with no time limit. | Reported | |
| 2 | Pipedream | Integration layer for AI agents with managed auth and 10,000+ tools across 3,000+ APIs; free to build, pay in production. | Reported | |
| 3 | Power Automate | Microsoft's automation platform with a 30-day free trial and per-user and per-bot plans. | Reported | |
| 4 | Zapier | No-code automation with 9,000+ apps and AI agents; free plan of 100 tasks a month. | Reported | |
| 5 | Activepieces | Open-source workflow automation with chat, agents, tables and 770+ apps; $20 or $200 flat monthly plans. | Reported |
Best MCP servers for AI agents
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Figma MCP server | Figma's own MCP server that gives coding agents access to design files. | Reported | |
| 2 | Firecrawl | Web data API: search, scrape and crawl for AI agents. | Reported | |
| 3 | MCP reference servers | The MCP project's collection of reference servers. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 4 | Context7 | Up-to-date, version-specific library docs served to coding agents. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 5 | Chrome DevTools MCP | Chrome DevTools for coding agents. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 6 | GitHub MCP Server | GitHub's official MCP server for repos, issues and pull requests. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 7 | MCP Inspector | The quickest way to check what an MCP server exposes; run it on a current Node or npm may quietly install version 0.15.0. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 8 | Supabase MCP | Connect Supabase projects to AI assistants. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 9 | Sentry MCP | Sentry's agentic tooling and MCP server for errors and traces. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 10 | Playwright MCP | Microsoft's MCP server that lets agents drive a browser with Playwright. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 11 | Notion MCP Server | Official Notion MCP server for reading and editing workspace content. | Tested (smoke test) |
Best AI meeting assistants
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fathom | AI notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams that is free for individuals. | Reported | |
| 2 | Fireflies.ai | AI meeting assistant with a free plan; paid plans $10 to $39 per seat per month billed annually. | Reported | |
| 3 | Granola | AI notepad for back-to-back meetings that captures device audio without a meeting bot. | Reported | |
| 4 | Otter.ai | AI meeting agent with real-time transcription, summaries and action items; free plan, paid per-user plans. | Reported | |
| 5 | Read AI | AI notetaker that works across Teams, Meet and Zoom; Free plan covers 5 meetings per month. | Reported |
Best AI design and presentation tools
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beautiful.ai | AI presentation platform with 300+ Smart Slide layouts; 14-day free trial. | Reported | |
| 2 | Canva AI | Canva's AI image generator inside its design editor; free to try with plans for Pro, Business and Enterprise. | Reported |
Best AI voice and speech tools
| # | Tool | Verdict | Evidence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AssemblyAI | Speech AI APIs for transcription and understanding; start free, pay as you go. | Reported | |
| 2 | Cartesia | Realtime voice AI: text-to-speech, speech-to-text in 44 languages and voice agents, with a free plan and credit tiers. | Reported | |
| 3 | Deepgram | Voice AI APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech and agents with $200 in free credit. | Reported | |
| 4 | Murf AI | Text-to-speech platform with a $10 free API trial, pay-as-you-go credits and per-character API pricing. | Reported | |
| 5 | Resemble AI | Resemble AI now leads with real-time deepfake detection and watermarking for audio, video and images; plans from free to $1,000 a month. | Reported | |
| 6 | Retell AI | Voice AI agents for phone calls with pay-per-minute pricing and 20 free concurrent calls. | Reported | |
| 7 | Speechify | Text-to-speech app that reads PDFs, books and web pages aloud, with a Free plan and a $29 monthly premium price. | Reported | |
| 8 | Vapi | Developer platform for voice agents; $5 free credits, then pay for the minutes you run. | Reported | |
| 9 | Piper | Fast, private speech synthesis on a CPU; mind the GPL-3.0 license if you embed it. | Tested (smoke test) | |
| 10 | faster-whisper | Fast local transcription; on CPU use float32 and check int8 against a reference before trusting it. | Tested (smoke test) |
Reported = written from official sources, not run by us. Tested = a small smoke test whose scope is stated on each tool page (not a benchmark). Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/tools