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★ HOT · PAID

★ HOT · FREEMIUM

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01AI CODING IDESAI-powered code editors

FREEMIUM● TESTED

AI-first code editor with Composer, MCP, and multi-model support. Powerful but steep learning curve.

VS Code + Copilot

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Classic VS Code with GitHub Copilot.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Codeium AI IDE with Cascade for multi-file edits.

Fast multiplayer editor with AI built-in.

02TERMINAL AGENTSCLI coding assistants

AI pair programming in terminal.

Anthropic CLI agent. Agentic coding in terminal.

OpenAI terminal coding agent.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Google Gemini in the terminal.

Open source terminal coding agent.

03LANGUAGE MODELSChat & LLM platforms

FREEMIUM● TESTED

OpenAI GPT-4 powered assistant.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Anthropic AI. Best for coding and reasoning.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Google multimodal AI. Great long context.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

xAI unfiltered AI with real-time X data.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

04VIDEO CREATIONAI video generation

Free AI video generator.

Kuaishou video generation.

Luma Dream Machine

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Fast video generation with great motion.

Chinese video AI with great quality.

AI video generation and editing.

Gen-3 Alpha video. Industry standard.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

OpenAI text-to-video model.

Google video generation via Gemini.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

05IMAGE GENERATIONAI image creation

Stable Diffusion models & community.

OpenAI image generation in ChatGPT.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

Black Forest Labs. Great open model.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Great for text in images and logos.

Google image gen via Gemini API.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Phoenix model. Great for consistent characters.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

Best aesthetic image gen. Discord-based.

Free image gen with multiple models.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Uncensored/NSFW capable. Great for characters.

Stable Diffusion

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Open source. Run locally or via API.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

SD models online. Good for anime.

06VOICE & AUDIOTTS, cloning, transcription

AI audio/video editor. Overdub voice cloning.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Best TTS. Voice cloning. Emotions.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

OpenAI text-to-speech API.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

FREEMIUM● TESTED

OpenAI speech-to-text. Best transcription.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

07MUSIC CREATIONAI music generation

FREEMIUM● TESTED

AI music generation. Full songs with vocals.

AI music creation. Suno competitor.

08UX & DESIGNAI design tools

FREEMIUM● TESTED

AI app builder. Full stack in browser.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

AI app builder with Supabase integration.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

AI-powered online IDE and deployment.

AI-powered UX design tool.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Vercel AI UI generator. React/Next components.

09APIS & INFRADeveloper platforms

Claude API. Best for coding.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Google API. Vertex AI integration.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

GPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper, TTS all in one.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

Run any open source model via API.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

10RESEARCHAI search & research

FREEMIUM● TESTED

AI search with real-time answers & sources.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

11DEPLOYHosting & deployment

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Edge computing, CDN, Workers, AI.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Postgres + Auth + Storage + Realtime.

FREEMIUM● TESTED

Deploy Next.js and React. Best DX.

12CRM & SALESCustomer relationship management

FREEMIUM● TESTED

CRM, marketing, sales, and service platform.

🤖 AGENT-USABLE🔌 API

13FINANCE & ACCOUNTINGAccounting, invoicing, payments

FREEMIUM● TESTED● EARNING

International money transfers and multi-currency accounts.

Cloud accounting software for small business.

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