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4.7Built by former OpenAI safety researchers around a written constitution
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4.5Google's source-grounded notebook, distinctive for generating audio discussions
Canva
4.7The design tool most competitors in this category get compared to
Runway
4.4The category's pioneer for filmmakers, with traditional AI-VFX tools beyond generation
Zapier
4.5Still the widest app library after more than a decade
Cradle
3.8AI models that retrain on every round of your wet-lab data to guide the next protein design cycle – claimed 2-12x faster development, and your data never trains models for anyone else.
Surfer SEO
4.5Combines content scoring with an always-on alert for AI-visibility drops
Cursor
4.7The AI-native editor most competitors now get compared against
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Writing177 toolsAI writing tools help you draft, rewrite, and polish text in seconds, from blog posts and…Show all Writing tools Image Generation264 toolsAI image generators turn a text description into original artwork, photos, logos, and illustrations in seconds,…Show all Image Generation tools Video260 toolsAI video tools create clips from text, turn scripts into talking-avatar presenters, and automate editing like…Show all Video tools Audio158 toolsAI audio tools generate lifelike voiceovers, clone voices, compose royalty-free music, and clean up or transcribe…Show all Audio tools Design221 toolsAI design tools help marketers, founders, and product teams create graphics, websites, logos, and interface mockups…Show all Design tools
Chatbots130 toolsAI chatbots hold natural conversations to answer questions, automate customer support, and act as everyday assistants…Show all Chatbots tools Research86 toolsThese tools help researchers, graduate students, and academics discover relevant papers, map citation networks, question documents,…Show all Research tools Customer Support168 toolsAI customer support tools answer questions, resolve tickets, and take actions across chat, email, and voice,…Show all Customer Support tools
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Haiku Lens
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Junia AI
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Basmo
3.5Reading tracker and journal app with ChatBook, an AI chatbot that lets you ask questions and get summaries about the books you read.
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Sturppy
3.5Financial modeling and forecasting software with an AI CFO chat for established businesses and template models for early-stage startups.
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Influencer marketing platform with a 400M-creator database, audience analysis, fake-follower detection and campaign automation, from $129 a month.
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Nichely
3.3AI topic and keyword research tool for niche sites that maps subtopics, terminology and FAQs, sold on credits during an early-access programme.
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Let’s Enhance
4.5One of the earlier AI upscaling specialists, focused since 2018
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BlazeSQL
4.3A full AI data analyst, not just a text-to-SQL converter
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Brandmark
4.5Generates a logo, then a full matching brand identity around it
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Bundled at low cost into hosting from a company founded in 2004
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Clipdrop
4.4Founded by ex-Google Arts & Culture researchers, now part of Stability AI
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Kommunicate
4.4Controlled automation: AI answers confidently, then knows when to stop
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Pecan AI
4.3Predictive analytics priced for marketing teams making high-value decisions
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Sourcetable
4.3AI built into a real spreadsheet grid, not a separate chat window
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Kustomer
4.2Acquired by Meta in 2022, then spun back out independent in 2023
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Zams
3.6AI workers that carry out business operations tasks end to end.
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DataRobot
4.2An automated machine learning pioneer since 2012, before generative AI
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Cognigy
4.5A German platform built for existing enterprise contact centers
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Tableau Pulse
4.4Pushes relevant insights to you instead of waiting to be asked
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Polymer
4.3Turns spreadsheets and business apps into dashboards, no SQL needed
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Gladly
4.3Organizes support around the customer, not the ticket
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Power BI Copilot
4.4Microsoft's AI layer on the BI platform already inside many organizations
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Qlik
4.3A pioneering BI platform from 1993, three decades before AI dashboards
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Parloa
4.4A German platform managing the full AI agent lifecycle, not just calls
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Domo
4.2A 2010 business intelligence platform, mobile-first from the start
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Databricks Genie
4.4Conversational analytics on top of an established data engineering platform
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Lorikeet
4.4Investigates before escalating, built for fintech and healthcare
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Tellius
4.3Runs autonomous 'missions' that surface answers before you ask
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Sisense
4.2Built to embed inside other software, not stand alone
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Kapture CX
4.2An Indian CX platform built for banking, insurance, and retail specifically
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Formula Bot
4.3Generates spreadsheet formulas, not general AI text functions
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Vizly
4.1Auto-deletes your data within the hour, built with academics in mind
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ThoughtSpot
4.4Pioneered search-bar-style BI, now owns Mode after a 2023 acquisition
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Numerous.ai
4.2An =AI() spreadsheet function for open-ended text tasks
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Refact.ai
4.3Self-hostable end to end, so code never has to leave your network
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Decagon
4.5A fast-scaling 2023 startup building AI agents for consumer brands
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Mintlify
4.5AI-generated and maintained developer documentation, not code
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Bito
4.2A context layer that plugs into the coding tools you already use
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Forethought
4.3Ticket triage and agent-assist, alongside autonomous resolution
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Create.xyz
4.2Generates a full production app, backend and database included
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Sourcegraph Amp
4.3An agentic coding tool built on a decade of enterprise code search
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Gorgias
4.4Built for Shopify stores, ties support directly to revenue
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Cline
4.5Shows you the exact changes before it makes them
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Trae
4.2ByteDance's free VS Code fork, with real data-retention tradeoffs to weigh
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Yellow.ai
4.2Broad channel coverage from an India-based enterprise CX platform
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Zed
4.5Built by Atom's original creators, native and fast rather than Electron-based
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CodeGPT
4.1A marketplace of specialized coding agents, not one fixed assistant
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Help Scout
4.5A shared inbox designed to feel like email, not enterprise ticketing
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Augment Code
4.3Built around indexing an entire large enterprise codebase
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Zendesk AI
4.4AI layered onto the platform that helped define ticketing software
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Aisera
4.3One platform for customer support, IT, and HR service requests
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Tabby
4.3An open-source, self-hostable alternative to Copilot's autocomplete
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Freddy AI
4.4Freshworks' AI layer, spanning support and its wider business suite
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DigitalGenius
4.2Built specifically for e-commerce, order tracking to damage claims
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