AI Tools — the Index

Brand commercials with a recurring face or product; conversational image editing; anything with type in the image (multilingual too).

Pricing: Consumer: Google AI Plus $4.99/mo., AI Pro $19.99/mo., AI Ultra from $99.99/mo. (as of July 2026; Ultra was cut from $249.99 to $99.99 at I/O 2026) — Nano Banana Pro is included in Pro and Ultra. API: approx. $0.134/image (1K–2K) and approx. $0.24/image (4K); Artificial Analysis lists $134/1000 images — consistent. Batch API: 50% discount. Source: gemini.google/subscriptions + OpenRouter/pricepertoken.

Sources: gemini.google · openrouter.ai · pricepertoken.com · support.google.com

Trying out a new model fast before you take it into production somewhere else. The catalog is the strength.

Pricing: Pay-per-use, two modes: (a) by time — CPU (Small) $0.000025/sec ($0.09/h) · Nvidia T4 $0.000225/sec ($0.81/h) · A100 80 GB $0.001400/sec ($5.04/h) · H100 $0.001525/sec ($5.49/h); (b) by input/output — e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet $3.00 per million input tokens. Private models: the entire instance runtime is billed.

Sources: replicate.com · replicate.com · ycombinator.com

The all-rounder for people who need stock, image generation and upscaling in one subscription — agency and marketing day-to-day.

Pricing: Free tier available (limited daily access, per the docs ~20 generations/day, 10 downloads/day, personal use only with attribution). Paid tiers per official docs (AI credits): Premium 20,000/month or 240,000/year · Premium+ 45,000/month or 600,000/year · Pro 300,000/month or 4M/year · Business 45,000 per seat/month · Enterprise custom. Prices per third-party sources approx. $14.50 (Premium), $33.75 (Premium+), $210 (Pro) monthly when paid annually — not officially retrievable, check yourself.

Sources: magnific.com · magnific.com · thenextweb.com · tech.eu

AI video production without code, when you want to compare several models and control camera moves.

Pricing: ⚠️ Not officially verifiable — higgsfield.ai/pricing serves no pricing table when fetched. Per third-party sources (annual billing): Starter $15/month (200 credits), Plus $39/month (1,000 credits), Ultra $99/month (3,000 credits, scalable up to 9,000), plus team plans. Credit packs approx. $5 per 100 credits, valid for 90 days. Check for yourself before recommending.

Sources: higgsfield.ai · higgsfield.ai · higgsfield.ai · startuphub.ai

One subscription to test all the major chat models side by side without paying for five subscriptions.

Pricing: Per poe.com/subscription_plans (annual billing, 17% savings): Basic $4.17/month (10,000 points) · Standard $16.67/month (660,000 points) · Professional $41.67/month (1.65M) · Business $83.33/month (3.3M) · Enterprise $208.33/month (8.25M). Monthly billing is more expensive (third-party sources cite, among others, $19.99 for the Standard tier). Different models consume different amounts of points per message.

Sources: poe.com · poe.com · costbench.com

Pricing: Subscription model with credits, tiers at pollo.ai/pricing (free credits on sign-up). Concrete amounts not machine-retrievable — check yourself before recommending. No figures here because unverified.

Sources: pollo.ai · polloai.tapfiliate.com · pollo.ai · pollo.ai

Pricing: WARNING: the official pricing page serves no content to automated clients; figures from secondary sources (as of 2026, after the rename from Basic/Pro/Ultimate to Starter/Plus/Ultra): Starter ~$15/month (annual) with 200 credits/month · Plus ~$39/month (annual) with 1,000 credits, all models, parallel generations · Ultra ~$99/month (annual) with 3,000 credits · additional credit packs ~$5/100 credits. Credits expire monthly. Sources: https://www.scopeful.org/tools/higgsfield · https://flowith.io/blog/higgsfield-pricing-2026-free-vs-creator-vs-studio/ · https://higgsfield.ai/pricing (official)

Sources: higgsfield.ai · x.com · adskull.io · startuphub.ai

Pricing: unverified — the current subscription tiers for the Freepik AI suite could not be cleanly verified in this research. Check https://www.freepik.com/pricing before publishing and cite with a date. Only the feature scope is verified: the subscription includes Google Veo 3, Kling, Runway Gen-4.5, MiniMax Hailuo, PixVerse, Wan and LTX-2 Pro, among others. Source: https://freepik.app/en

Sources: freepik.app · affiliateprogramdb.com · openaffiliate.dev · affiliateotter.com

Pricing: Firefly Standard $9.99/month (2,000 generative credits) · Firefly Pro $29.99/month (7,000 credits). IP indemnification for paid Firefly and Creative Cloud plans. Source: https://fluxnote.io/guides/adobe-firefly-ai-video-generator-review · https://business.adobe.com/products/firefly-business/firefly-ai-approach.html (official, on indemnification)

Sources: adobe.com · business.adobe.com · licenseorg.com · fluxnote.io

Images that need to show exactly what the prompt says — complex scenes, many elements, text in the image. The most reliable "I describe it, you deliver it" generator.

Pricing: API is token-based: $5/M text input, $8/M image input, $10/M text output, $30/M image output. Per image in practice roughly $0.005 (low), roughly $0.04–0.05 (medium), roughly $0.165–0.211 (high). Batch API −50%. Consumer access via ChatGPT subscription. Source: OpenAI docs + pricing calculators (costgoat, WaveSpeed).

Sources: platform.openai.com · costgoat.com · wavespeed.ai · llm-stats.com

Anything with letters: posters, ad creatives with a claim, logo drafts, packaging mockups.

Pricing: INCONSISTENT across sources — Ideogram changes its plans often. Cited figures: Free (10 slow credits/week, resets Saturdays 00:00 UTC), Basic approx. $7–8/month, Plus approx. $15–20/month, Team approx. $20/user/month, Pro approx. $42–60/month (incl. API). Annual plan saves 25–30%. Ideogram itself explicitly warns in its docs against trusting static pricing tables — only ideogram.ai/pricing is binding. For the site: link to the live pricing page, don't write a hard figure.

Sources: ideogram.ai · docs.ideogram.ai · openaffiliate.dev · ideogram.ai

Logos, icons, illustrations, and anything that has to scale infinitely. The only generator whose output lives on directly in Illustrator.

Pricing: Free: 50 credits/day — BUT WITHOUT commercial rights, images belong to Recraft. Basic $10/month (1,000 credits, annually $120/year) incl. commercial rights + private generation. Advanced $27/month (4,000 credits). Pro $48/month (8,400 credits, incl. video, priority). Extra credits $2 per 200. Annual billing up to −20%. Teams/Enterprise on request. Source: recraft.ai/pricing + recraft.ai/docs/plans-and-billing/paid-plans.

Sources: recraft.ai · recraft.ai · recraft.ai · recraft.ai

Beginners with a Canva subscription; game assets and concept art.

Pricing: Free tier with daily credits; paid tiers above it. Leonardo Essential is included in Canva Business/Enterprise. I could not verify concrete current subscription prices from an official source — unverified, check leonardo.ai/pricing before publishing.

Sources: intercom.help · leonardo.ai · canva.com · canva.com

Graphics-heavy work: posters, ad layouts, anything with a lot of text and defined image architecture. Native 4K without upscaling.

Pricing: Free (starting allowance + daily refresh), Lite $7.99/mo (approx. 5× the Free energy), Pro $19.99/mo (approx. 100× the Free energy + a monthly video allowance). API separate via the Reve console: minimum purchase $10 = 7,500 credits; Create 18 credits (approx. $0.024), Edit 30 credits (approx. $0.04), Remix 30 credits (approx. $0.04). Source: app.reve.com/pricing + help.reve.com.

Sources: app.reve.com · help.reve.com · eesel.ai · eesel.ai

Substantively, a solid all-round point of access to several models for price-sensitive beginners.

Pricing: Plans per the provider from $6.99/month to over $100/month. I was unable to verify the exact tiers from a reliable source — unsubstantiated, check on imagine.art before publishing.

Sources: imagine.art · imagine.art · app.impact.com · flexoffers.com

Pricing: Free 250 exports/month (background remover, retouching, templates). Paid: Pro, Max, Ultra, Enterprise — the official pricing page loads the amounts via script and does not serve them statically; circulating figures (Pro ~$7.99, Max ~$26.99, Ultra from ~$99/month) are UNVERIFIED here and should be checked by hand before publication. API confirmed: Basic $0.02/image from $20/month, Plus $0.10/image from $100/month, Partner $0.01/image from $1,000/month. (Source: photoroom.com/api/pricing)

Sources: photoroom.com · ui.awin.com · photoroom.com · photoroom.com

Pricing: No free tier listed. Plus $30/mo or $25/mo on the annual plan ($300/year) = 10,000 credits · Pro $90/mo or $75/mo annually ($900/year) = 40,000 credits · Ultra $300/mo or $250/mo annually ($3,000/year) = 150,000 credits · Team and Enterprise on request. (Source: lumalabs.ai/pricing)

Sources: lumalabs.ai · lumalabs.ai · openaffiliate.dev

The one subscription if you're a creative who wants to try many image/video models without coding.

Pricing: Free: 100 compute units per day (refilled daily). Paid according to third-party sources: Basic ~$9/month, Pro ~$35/month, Max ~$70/month, Business ~$200/month, plus Enterprise. ⚠️ The included unit amounts contradict each other between third-party sources (Max: 40,000 vs. 60,000 units) — the official page krea.ai/pricing blocks bots. Check yourself before recommending; do NOT present the numbers as verified.

Sources: krea.ai · costbench.com · tooljunction.io

Designing the look: Midjourney for the perfect source image, then image-to-video in Kling or Veo. That's actually how most good AI spots are made.

Pricing: Basic $10/mo (3.3 fast GPU hours) · Standard $30/mo (15 hrs) · Pro $60/mo (30 hrs) · Mega $120/mo (60 hrs). Annual billing −20% ($8/24/48/96). Billed by GPU time, not per image: one still ≈ 1 GPU minute, one HD video batch ≈ 26 GPU minutes. Extra hours $4/hr, never expire. Sources: https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/27870484040333-Comparing-Midjourney-Plans · https://www.eesel.ai/blog/midjourney-pricing

Sources: docs.midjourney.com · eesel.ai · fluxnote.io

Advertising and product images where reliability matters more than 20 attempts — plus anything requiring exact typography (font control).

Pricing: $150/1000 images (= $0.15/image) according to Artificial Analysis — a premium position above GPT Image 1.5 ($133/1k), Nano Banana Pro ($134/1k), and FLUX.2 [max] ($70/1k generation). Access via riverflow.ai as well as API through Runware, Replicate, and OpenRouter. No subscription plans of its own are listed on the website — unverified.

Sources: riverflow.ai · riverflow.ai · x.com · artificialanalysis.ai

A lot of output for little money — ad creatives in variants, infographics, multi-reference fusion (Lite handles up to 14 reference images).

Pricing: Seedream 5.0 Pro (released 2026-07-08): $0.075/image up to 2.36 MP; on WaveSpeed from $0.045/run, scales with parameters. Seedream 5.0 Lite: $0.035/image, up to 14 reference images. Source: seed.bytedance.com + WaveSpeed/OpenRouter/Vercel price lists.

Sources: seed.bytedance.com · seed.bytedance.com · wavespeed.ai · openrouter.ai

Iterative, hands-on creative work instead of prompt lottery: real-time canvas, style transfer, enhancement. Ideal for film people to find a look fast.

Pricing: Free: 100 compute units/day. Basic $8/mo. (5,000 units/mo., $63 annually). Pro $28/mo. (20,000 units, $252 annually). Max $48/mo. (60,000 units, $756 annually). Business $40/seat/mo. (80,000 units, $1,920 annually, up to 50 seats). Annual plan −40% on the consumer plans. Enterprise on request. Source: krea.ai/pricing.

Sources: krea.ai · krea.ai · krea.ai · x.com

Pragmatic access to several models incl.

Pricing: Subscription tiers not verified from an official source — unverified. Check getimg.ai before publishing.

Sources: getimg-ai.getrewardful.com · affiliateotter.com · rewardful.com · rewardful.com

Pricing: Prices vary widely by country, product and promotion — deliberately not stated as a number here (unverified for Germany, July 2026).

Sources: adobe.com · adobe.com

When you're building image/video/audio models into your own tools via API and speed matters. The default building block for media AI in the backend.

Pricing: Pure pay-per-use, no subscription. Examples per fal.ai/pricing: Seedream V4 $0.03/image · Flux Kontext Pro $0.04/image · Nano Banana $0.0398/image · Wan 2.5 $0.05/sec · Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro $0.07/sec · Veo 3 $0.40/sec. GPU rental (discount/list price): H100 $1.89/$3.99 · H200 $2.10/$4.50 · B200 $3.49/$6.25 · B300 $4.49/$8.50 · RTX PRO 6000 $1.10/$2.99 per hour.

Sources: fal.ai · fal.ai · fal.ai

Running or fine-tuning open-weight language models in production when you want neither OpenAI nor Anthropic.

Pricing: Serverless per token: $0.0015–4.50 per million tokens depending on model. Images $0.0006–0.134/image. Video $0.14–3.20/video. Transcription from $0.0015/minute. Dedicated endpoints: H100 $5.49/h, B200 $8.99/h. GPU clusters on-demand $3.99–8.19/GPU/h, reserved $3.09–7.99. Fine-tuning $0.48–8.00 per million tokens (minimum $4/job). Storage $0.16/GiB/month. Free tier available to get started.

Sources: together.ai · together.ai

Looking up which open model exists and what it can do — and trying demos before paying anyone.

Pricing: Free account available (Spaces CPU Basic: 2 vCPU / 16 GB, ZeroGPU with dynamic resources). PRO $9/month (10× private storage, 20× inference credits, 8× ZeroGPU allowance). Team $20/user/month. Enterprise $50/user/month. Spaces hardware $0.03/hr (CPU Upgrade) to $23.50/hr (8× L40S). Inference Endpoints from $0.033/hr (CPU) to $74/hr (B200). Storage $8–18/TB/month depending on volume and public/private.

Sources: huggingface.co

Running ComfyUI workflows without owning a machine with a beefy GPU — and with the original team behind it.

Pricing: No free tier. Standard $20/month (4,200 credits/month, ~380 videos of 5 sec., 30 min. max runtime per workflow, 1 parallel workflow via API) · Creator $35/month (7,400 credits, ~670 videos, custom LoRAs importable, 3 parallel workflows) · Pro $100/month (21,100 credits, ~1,915 videos, 1 h max runtime, 5 parallel workflows) · Enterprise on request. Extra credits purchasable anytime, valid 1 year.

Sources: comfy.org · comfy.org

When you want to run ComfyUI by the hour on large GPUs (up to H200) and also need ready-made model endpoints.

Pricing: Pay-as-you-go without a subscription, shared balance across Models/ComfyUI/Trainer. GPU examples: Medium (T4, A4000) $0.99/h standard or $0.79/h with Pro · 3X-Large (H200) $9.59/h standard or $7.66/h with Pro. Model APIs: image $0.03–0.04/image, video $0.03–0.10/second. Pro subscription $19.99/month (annual $239.90, 33% savings): 20%+ GPU discount, 20 free CPU hours/month, $10 monthly credit, 200 GB persistent storage. Credit expires after 365 days.

Sources: runcomfy.com · docs.runcomfy.com

Pricing: Pay-as-you-go, hourly by machine tier. Per third-party sources: FAST from $0.59/h · RAPID $0.99/h · TURBO $1.75/h. Cheaper with a TD Pro subscription (RAPID $0.79/h, TURBO $1.40/h). ⚠️ Figures from secondary sources — check thinkdiffusion.com/pricing yourself, the machine tiers change with the models.

Sources: thinkdiffusion.com · thinkdiffusion.com · aihungry.com

Image generation at volume, when price per image is the deciding criterion.

Pricing: Pay-as-you-go. Image generation $0.0006–0.24 per image depending on model, resolution and quality (examples: FLUX Schnell $0.0006, SD 3 $0.0019). Failed requests are free. Details: runware.ai/pricing or runware.ai/docs/platform/pricing.

Sources: runware.ai · runware.ai · techsy.io

Brand-specific asset libraries at scale: feed in several reference images, get out dozens of consistent variants. And anything that has to run self-hosted (privacy, cost, no filters).

Pricing: Credit-based, 1 credit = $0.01, API price = playground price. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B from $0.014/image, 9B from $0.015/image (first megapixel flat, each additional one +$0.001). FLUX.2 [pro] from $0.03 (text-to-image) or $0.045 (editing). FLUX.2 [flex] approx. $0.06. FLUX.2 [max] approx. $0.07/image ($70/1k per Artificial Analysis; editing $140/1k). Self-hosting licenses separate. Source: bfl.ai/pricing + docs.bfl.ai.

Sources: bfl.ai · docs.bfl.ai · bfl.ai · openrouter.ai

Full control, zero running costs, no filters. And: training your own LoRAs for a face or a product — the cheapest path to real character consistency.

Pricing: Stable Diffusion 3.5: free for non-commercial use AND free commercially for organizations under $1M annual revenue (Community License); above that an enterprise license is required. Stability API: 1 credit = $0.01; SD 3.5 approx. $0.065/generation, SD 3.5 Large Turbo approx. $0.04. Civitai memberships: Free, Bronze $10/month (10,000 Buzz), Silver $25/month (25,000), Gold $50/month (50,000). Source: stability.ai/license, platform.stability.ai/pricing, Civitai docs.

Sources: stability.ai · platform.stability.ai · stability.ai · civitai.com

Pricing: Pure pay-as-you-go, explicitly "no subscriptions, no seat fees" (source: bfl.ai/pricing). Concrete rates: FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] $0.04/image, Kontext [max] $0.08/image; FLUX.2 Pro roughly $0.03 per generation and $0.045 per edit. These figures are NOT listed on bfl.ai (only a calculator there) — sourced from third parties hosting the same models (fal.ai, pricepertoken.com). Mark as "approx." on the site. Alongside this, license tiers for the open weights (Builder, Platform, Professional, Enterprise).

Sources: bfl.ai · fal.ai · pricepertoken.com

Brand commercials with a recurring face or product; conversational image editing; anything with type in the image (multilingual too).

Pricing: Consumer: Google AI Plus $4.99/mo., AI Pro $19.99/mo., AI Ultra from $99.99/mo. (as of July 2026; Ultra was cut from $249.99 to $99.99 at I/O 2026) — Nano Banana Pro is included in Pro and Ultra. API: approx. $0.134/image (1K–2K) and approx. $0.24/image (4K); Artificial Analysis lists $134/1000 images — consistent. Batch API: 50% discount. Source: gemini.google/subscriptions + OpenRouter/pricepertoken.

Sources: gemini.google · openrouter.ai · pricepertoken.com · support.google.com

The all-rounder for people who need stock, image generation and upscaling in one subscription — agency and marketing day-to-day.

Pricing: Free tier available (limited daily access, per the docs ~20 generations/day, 10 downloads/day, personal use only with attribution). Paid tiers per official docs (AI credits): Premium 20,000/month or 240,000/year · Premium+ 45,000/month or 600,000/year · Pro 300,000/month or 4M/year · Business 45,000 per seat/month · Enterprise custom. Prices per third-party sources approx. $14.50 (Premium), $33.75 (Premium+), $210 (Pro) monthly when paid annually — not officially retrievable, check yourself.

Sources: magnific.com · magnific.com · thenextweb.com · tech.eu

Pricing: Firefly Standard $9.99/month (2,000 generative credits) · Firefly Pro $29.99/month (7,000 credits). IP indemnification for paid Firefly and Creative Cloud plans. Source: https://fluxnote.io/guides/adobe-firefly-ai-video-generator-review · https://business.adobe.com/products/firefly-business/firefly-ai-approach.html (official, on indemnification)

Sources: adobe.com · business.adobe.com · licenseorg.com · fluxnote.io

Images that need to show exactly what the prompt says — complex scenes, many elements, text in the image. The most reliable "I describe it, you deliver it" generator.

Pricing: API is token-based: $5/M text input, $8/M image input, $10/M text output, $30/M image output. Per image in practice roughly $0.005 (low), roughly $0.04–0.05 (medium), roughly $0.165–0.211 (high). Batch API −50%. Consumer access via ChatGPT subscription. Source: OpenAI docs + pricing calculators (costgoat, WaveSpeed).

Sources: platform.openai.com · costgoat.com · wavespeed.ai · llm-stats.com

Anything with letters: posters, ad creatives with a claim, logo drafts, packaging mockups.

Pricing: INCONSISTENT across sources — Ideogram changes its plans often. Cited figures: Free (10 slow credits/week, resets Saturdays 00:00 UTC), Basic approx. $7–8/month, Plus approx. $15–20/month, Team approx. $20/user/month, Pro approx. $42–60/month (incl. API). Annual plan saves 25–30%. Ideogram itself explicitly warns in its docs against trusting static pricing tables — only ideogram.ai/pricing is binding. For the site: link to the live pricing page, don't write a hard figure.

Sources: ideogram.ai · docs.ideogram.ai · openaffiliate.dev · ideogram.ai

Logos, icons, illustrations, and anything that has to scale infinitely. The only generator whose output lives on directly in Illustrator.

Pricing: Free: 50 credits/day — BUT WITHOUT commercial rights, images belong to Recraft. Basic $10/month (1,000 credits, annually $120/year) incl. commercial rights + private generation. Advanced $27/month (4,000 credits). Pro $48/month (8,400 credits, incl. video, priority). Extra credits $2 per 200. Annual billing up to −20%. Teams/Enterprise on request. Source: recraft.ai/pricing + recraft.ai/docs/plans-and-billing/paid-plans.

Sources: recraft.ai · recraft.ai · recraft.ai · recraft.ai

Beginners with a Canva subscription; game assets and concept art.

Pricing: Free tier with daily credits; paid tiers above it. Leonardo Essential is included in Canva Business/Enterprise. I could not verify concrete current subscription prices from an official source — unverified, check leonardo.ai/pricing before publishing.

Sources: intercom.help · leonardo.ai · canva.com · canva.com

Graphics-heavy work: posters, ad layouts, anything with a lot of text and defined image architecture. Native 4K without upscaling.

Pricing: Free (starting allowance + daily refresh), Lite $7.99/mo (approx. 5× the Free energy), Pro $19.99/mo (approx. 100× the Free energy + a monthly video allowance). API separate via the Reve console: minimum purchase $10 = 7,500 credits; Create 18 credits (approx. $0.024), Edit 30 credits (approx. $0.04), Remix 30 credits (approx. $0.04). Source: app.reve.com/pricing + help.reve.com.

Sources: app.reve.com · help.reve.com · eesel.ai · eesel.ai

Substantively, a solid all-round point of access to several models for price-sensitive beginners.

Pricing: Plans per the provider from $6.99/month to over $100/month. I was unable to verify the exact tiers from a reliable source — unsubstantiated, check on imagine.art before publishing.

Sources: imagine.art · imagine.art · app.impact.com · flexoffers.com

Pricing: Free 250 exports/month (background remover, retouching, templates). Paid: Pro, Max, Ultra, Enterprise — the official pricing page loads the amounts via script and does not serve them statically; circulating figures (Pro ~$7.99, Max ~$26.99, Ultra from ~$99/month) are UNVERIFIED here and should be checked by hand before publication. API confirmed: Basic $0.02/image from $20/month, Plus $0.10/image from $100/month, Partner $0.01/image from $1,000/month. (Source: photoroom.com/api/pricing)

Sources: photoroom.com · ui.awin.com · photoroom.com · photoroom.com

Pricing: Free tier with daily credits, watermark, and ads. Paid: Personal approx. $6.99/WEEK, Business approx. $9.99/week (with bulk upload and commercial use). These amounts come from third-party sources and are not verifiable on an official pricing page (Remini bills through the app stores) — mark as UNVERIFIED on the page or leave out entirely.

Sources: remini.ai · en.wikipedia.org

Advertising and product images where reliability matters more than 20 attempts — plus anything requiring exact typography (font control).

Pricing: $150/1000 images (= $0.15/image) according to Artificial Analysis — a premium position above GPT Image 1.5 ($133/1k), Nano Banana Pro ($134/1k), and FLUX.2 [max] ($70/1k generation). Access via riverflow.ai as well as API through Runware, Replicate, and OpenRouter. No subscription plans of its own are listed on the website — unverified.

Sources: riverflow.ai · riverflow.ai · x.com · artificialanalysis.ai

A lot of output for little money — ad creatives in variants, infographics, multi-reference fusion (Lite handles up to 14 reference images).

Pricing: Seedream 5.0 Pro (released 2026-07-08): $0.075/image up to 2.36 MP; on WaveSpeed from $0.045/run, scales with parameters. Seedream 5.0 Lite: $0.035/image, up to 14 reference images. Source: seed.bytedance.com + WaveSpeed/OpenRouter/Vercel price lists.

Sources: seed.bytedance.com · seed.bytedance.com · wavespeed.ai · openrouter.ai

Iterative, hands-on creative work instead of prompt lottery: real-time canvas, style transfer, enhancement. Ideal for film people to find a look fast.

Pricing: Free: 100 compute units/day. Basic $8/mo. (5,000 units/mo., $63 annually). Pro $28/mo. (20,000 units, $252 annually). Max $48/mo. (60,000 units, $756 annually). Business $40/seat/mo. (80,000 units, $1,920 annually, up to 50 seats). Annual plan −40% on the consumer plans. Enterprise on request. Source: krea.ai/pricing.

Sources: krea.ai · krea.ai · krea.ai · x.com

Pragmatic access to several models incl.

Pricing: Subscription tiers not verified from an official source — unverified. Check getimg.ai before publishing.

Sources: getimg-ai.getrewardful.com · affiliateotter.com · rewardful.com · rewardful.com

Pricing: Subscription only, no free tier. Desktop: Gigapixel $29/mo or $149/year · Photo $39/mo or $199/year · Video $59/mo or $299/year. Cloud: Astra (video upscale) from $19/mo · Bloom (creative image upscale) $39/mo or $229/year · Image Web from $12/mo. Bundle: Studio $69/mo or $399/year, Studio Pro $799/year. (Source: topazlabs.com/pricing)

Sources: topazlabs.com · topazlabs.com · topazlabs.com · topazlabs.com

Pricing: Prices vary widely by country, product and promotion — deliberately not stated as a number here (unverified for Germany, July 2026).

Sources: adobe.com · adobe.com

Brand-specific asset libraries at scale: feed in several reference images, get out dozens of consistent variants. And anything that has to run self-hosted (privacy, cost, no filters).

Pricing: Credit-based, 1 credit = $0.01, API price = playground price. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B from $0.014/image, 9B from $0.015/image (first megapixel flat, each additional one +$0.001). FLUX.2 [pro] from $0.03 (text-to-image) or $0.045 (editing). FLUX.2 [flex] approx. $0.06. FLUX.2 [max] approx. $0.07/image ($70/1k per Artificial Analysis; editing $140/1k). Self-hosting licenses separate. Source: bfl.ai/pricing + docs.bfl.ai.

Sources: bfl.ai · docs.bfl.ai · bfl.ai · openrouter.ai

Full control, zero running costs, no filters. And: training your own LoRAs for a face or a product — the cheapest path to real character consistency.

Pricing: Stable Diffusion 3.5: free for non-commercial use AND free commercially for organizations under $1M annual revenue (Community License); above that an enterprise license is required. Stability API: 1 credit = $0.01; SD 3.5 approx. $0.065/generation, SD 3.5 Large Turbo approx. $0.04. Civitai memberships: Free, Bronze $10/month (10,000 Buzz), Silver $25/month (25,000), Gold $50/month (50,000). Source: stability.ai/license, platform.stability.ai/pricing, Civitai docs.

Sources: stability.ai · platform.stability.ai · stability.ai · civitai.com

Pricing: Pure pay-as-you-go, explicitly "no subscriptions, no seat fees" (source: bfl.ai/pricing). Concrete rates: FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] $0.04/image, Kontext [max] $0.08/image; FLUX.2 Pro roughly $0.03 per generation and $0.045 per edit. These figures are NOT listed on bfl.ai (only a calculator there) — sourced from third parties hosting the same models (fal.ai, pricepertoken.com). Mark as "approx." on the site. Alongside this, license tiers for the open weights (Builder, Platform, Professional, Enterprise).

Sources: bfl.ai · fal.ai · pricepertoken.com

Hero shots and establishing shots in brand commercials, when the audio should come along with it and prompt adherence has to hold up.

Pricing: Subscription (as of 07/2026, official site): Free $0 · Google AI Plus $4.99/month (200 Flow credits) · Google AI Pro $19.99/month (1,000 credits) · Google AI Ultra from $99.99/month (10,000 credits) or $199.99/month (25,000 credits). Source: https://gemini.google/subscriptions/ — API (official price list, audio always included): Veo 3.1 Standard $0.40/sec (720p/1080p), $0.60/sec (4K) · Veo 3.1 Fast $0.10/sec (720p), $0.12/sec (1080p), $0.30/sec (4K) · Veo 3.1 Lite $0.05/sec (720p), $0.08/sec (1080p). Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing

Sources: gemini.google · ai.google.dev · aiviewer.ai

Trying out a new model fast before you take it into production somewhere else. The catalog is the strength.

Pricing: Pay-per-use, two modes: (a) by time — CPU (Small) $0.000025/sec ($0.09/h) · Nvidia T4 $0.000225/sec ($0.81/h) · A100 80 GB $0.001400/sec ($5.04/h) · H100 $0.001525/sec ($5.49/h); (b) by input/output — e.g. Claude 3.7 Sonnet $3.00 per million input tokens. Private models: the entire instance runtime is billed.

Sources: replicate.com · replicate.com · ycombinator.com

AI video production without code, when you want to compare several models and control camera moves.

Pricing: ⚠️ Not officially verifiable — higgsfield.ai/pricing serves no pricing table when fetched. Per third-party sources (annual billing): Starter $15/month (200 credits), Plus $39/month (1,000 credits), Ultra $99/month (3,000 credits, scalable up to 9,000), plus team plans. Credit packs approx. $5 per 100 credits, valid for 90 days. Check for yourself before recommending.

Sources: higgsfield.ai · higgsfield.ai · higgsfield.ai · startuphub.ai

Pricing: Subscription model with credits, tiers at pollo.ai/pricing (free credits on sign-up). Concrete amounts not machine-retrievable — check yourself before recommending. No figures here because unverified.

Sources: pollo.ai · polloai.tapfiliate.com · pollo.ai · pollo.ai

Motion-heavy brand shots — flowing fabric, water, hair — and multi-shot sequences when cost per second matters.

Pricing: WARNING: The official membership page blocks external requests (HTTP 446), the following figures come from secondary sources. Free: 66 credits/day, expire after 24h, 720p only, watermark, non-commercial. Standard: list price ~$10/mo, introductory offer ~$6.99/mo (~660 credits). Higher tiers up to Ultra (~26,000 credits/mo). API/usage Kling 3.0: ~$0.084/sec (Standard, without video input) to ~$0.168/sec (Pro mode with video input). Sources: https://www.eesel.ai/blog/kling-ai-pricing · https://kling.ai/app/membership/membership-plan (official, but blocked)

Sources: app.klingai.com · app.klingai.com · eesel.ai · kling.ai

Shots that go into a real grade afterwards — when AI material has to fit into a professional post workflow instead of ending as a finished MP4.

Pricing: Official pricing page (as of 07/2026): Plus $30/mo (or $25/mo at $300 annually) with 10,000 credits, commercial use included · Pro $90/mo (or $75/mo annually) with 40,000 credits · Ultra $300/mo (or $250/mo annually) with 150,000 credits · Team/Enterprise on request. Source: https://lumalabs.ai/pricing — credit costs Ray3 HDR: 540p HDR 640 credits/5 sec, 720p HDR 1,280 credits/5 sec, HDR with EXR 1,120 credits/5 sec at 540p. Source: https://lumalabs.ai/learning-hub/dream-machine-support-pricing-information (Note: third-party sources also mention a Lite plan from $9.99 — not listed on the official page, therefore unverified.)

Sources: lumalabs.ai · lumalabs.ai · lumalabs.ai · openaffiliate.dev

Pricing: WARNING: the official pricing page serves no content to automated clients; figures from secondary sources (as of 2026, after the rename from Basic/Pro/Ultimate to Starter/Plus/Ultra): Starter ~$15/month (annual) with 200 credits/month · Plus ~$39/month (annual) with 1,000 credits, all models, parallel generations · Ultra ~$99/month (annual) with 3,000 credits · additional credit packs ~$5/100 credits. Credits expire monthly. Sources: https://www.scopeful.org/tools/higgsfield · https://flowith.io/blog/higgsfield-pricing-2026-free-vs-creator-vs-studio/ · https://higgsfield.ai/pricing (official)

Sources: higgsfield.ai · x.com · adskull.io · startuphub.ai

Pricing: unverified — the official pricing tiers could not be cleanly verified in this research. A free tier exists. Check https://pixverse.ai/ yourself before publishing and back the numbers up with a date.

Sources: pixverse.ai · pixverse.ai

Pricing: unverified — the current subscription tiers for the Freepik AI suite could not be cleanly verified in this research. Check https://www.freepik.com/pricing before publishing and cite with a date. Only the feature scope is verified: the subscription includes Google Veo 3, Kling, Runway Gen-4.5, MiniMax Hailuo, PixVerse, Wan and LTX-2 Pro, among others. Source: https://freepik.app/en

Sources: freepik.app · affiliateprogramdb.com · openaffiliate.dev · affiliateotter.com

Pricing: Firefly Standard $9.99/month (2,000 generative credits) · Firefly Pro $29.99/month (7,000 credits). IP indemnification for paid Firefly and Creative Cloud plans. Source: https://fluxnote.io/guides/adobe-firefly-ai-video-generator-review · https://business.adobe.com/products/firefly-business/firefly-ai-approach.html (official, on indemnification)

Sources: adobe.com · business.adobe.com · licenseorg.com · fluxnote.io

High volume and fast iteration — when you need 30 variants of a shot before one lands.

Pricing: Subscription: $9.99 to $199.99/mo; Pro tier for creators at ~$34.99–54.99/mo. Credit consumption (official API docs): MiniMax-Hailuo-2.3 — 768p/6 sec = 1 video point, 768p/10 sec = 2 points, 1080p/6 sec = 2 points. API from ~$0.19 per video. Sources: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-video · https://magichour.ai/blog/hailuo-23-pricing

Sources: platform.minimax.io · minimax.io · magichour.ai · hailuoai.video

Social spots with an effect gag — when a product needs to melt, explode, or transform.

Pricing: Free: 80 credits/month · Standard $8/month annually or $10 monthly (700 credits, commercial use) · Pro $28/month annually or $35 monthly (2,300 credits, all Pikaffects) · Fancy $76/month annually or $95 monthly (6,000 credits). Sources: https://pika.art/pricing · https://www.eesel.ai/blog/pika-ai-pricing

Sources: pika.art · eesel.ai · magichour.ai

Substantively, a solid all-round point of access to several models for price-sensitive beginners.

Pricing: Plans per the provider from $6.99/month to over $100/month. I was unable to verify the exact tiers from a reliable source — unsubstantiated, check on imagine.art before publishing.

Sources: imagine.art · imagine.art · app.impact.com · flexoffers.com

Pricing: No free tier listed. Plus $30/mo or $25/mo on the annual plan ($300/year) = 10,000 credits · Pro $90/mo or $75/mo annually ($900/year) = 40,000 credits · Ultra $300/mo or $250/mo annually ($3,000/year) = 150,000 credits · Team and Enterprise on request. (Source: lumalabs.ai/pricing)

Sources: lumalabs.ai · lumalabs.ai · openaffiliate.dev

Grinding a blog post or script into a series of videos — marketing repurposing, not craft.

Pricing: Starter $29/month (annual $25, 200 min/month) · Professional $59/month (annual $35, 600 min/month) · Team $199/month (annual $119) · Enterprise on request · free trial. Source: https://pictory.ai/pricing/

Sources: pictory.ai · pictory.ai · pictory.ai · aiaffiliateprograms.ai

Getting a lot of video out of text fast — volume over signature.

Pricing: unverified — not confirmed against the official pricing page in this research; pull from https://invideo.io/pricing/ before publishing

Sources: invideo.io · help.invideo.io

The one subscription if you're a creative who wants to try many image/video models without coding.

Pricing: Free: 100 compute units per day (refilled daily). Paid according to third-party sources: Basic ~$9/month, Pro ~$35/month, Max ~$70/month, Business ~$200/month, plus Enterprise. ⚠️ The included unit amounts contradict each other between third-party sources (Max: 40,000 vs. 60,000 units) — the official page krea.ai/pricing blocks bots. Check yourself before recommending; do NOT present the numbers as verified.

Sources: krea.ai · costbench.com · tooljunction.io

Brand commercials where a character or product has to look identical across multiple shots and the camera can't be random.

Pricing: Official pricing page (as of 07/2026): Free $0 (125 one-time credits) · Standard $12/month billed annually or $15 monthly (625 credits/month, ~52 sec of Gen-4.5) · Pro $28 annually or $35 monthly (2,250 credits) · Max $76 annually or $95 monthly (9,500 credits, 1 month rollover) · Enterprise on request. Standard and up: no watermark, 4K upscaling. Source: https://runwayml.com/pricing

Sources: runwayml.com · affiliates.runwayml.com · runwayml.com · zplatform.ai

When a brand character or a product has to look identical across an entire spot sequence — exactly the point where most AI commercials fall apart.

Pricing: Free: 80 credits/month (~20 standard generations) plus unlimited generation outside peak hours (slower queue, no credit usage). Usage: Vidu Q3 reference-to-video from ~$0.042/sec, Vidu Q3-Mix ~$0.106/sec. Sources: https://www.vidu.com/pricing · https://www.atlascloud.ai/blog/guides/ai-video-model-cinematic-motion-control-storytelling-low-cost-2026

Sources: vidu.com · vidu.com · morphic.com · atlascloud.ai

Designing the look: Midjourney for the perfect source image, then image-to-video in Kling or Veo. That's actually how most good AI spots are made.

Pricing: Basic $10/mo (3.3 fast GPU hours) · Standard $30/mo (15 hrs) · Pro $60/mo (30 hrs) · Mega $120/mo (60 hrs). Annual billing −20% ($8/24/48/96). Billed by GPU time, not per image: one still ≈ 1 GPU minute, one HD video batch ≈ 26 GPU minutes. Extra hours $4/hr, never expire. Sources: https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/27870484040333-Comparing-Midjourney-Plans · https://www.eesel.ai/blog/midjourney-pricing

Sources: docs.midjourney.com · eesel.ai · fluxnote.io

Iterative, hands-on creative work instead of prompt lottery: real-time canvas, style transfer, enhancement. Ideal for film people to find a look fast.

Pricing: Free: 100 compute units/day. Basic $8/mo. (5,000 units/mo., $63 annually). Pro $28/mo. (20,000 units, $252 annually). Max $48/mo. (60,000 units, $756 annually). Business $40/seat/mo. (80,000 units, $1,920 annually, up to 50 seats). Annual plan −40% on the consumer plans. Enterprise on request. Source: krea.ai/pricing.

Sources: krea.ai · krea.ai · krea.ai · x.com

When you're building image/video/audio models into your own tools via API and speed matters. The default building block for media AI in the backend.

Pricing: Pure pay-per-use, no subscription. Examples per fal.ai/pricing: Seedream V4 $0.03/image · Flux Kontext Pro $0.04/image · Nano Banana $0.0398/image · Wan 2.5 $0.05/sec · Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro $0.07/sec · Veo 3 $0.40/sec. GPU rental (discount/list price): H100 $1.89/$3.99 · H200 $2.10/$4.50 · B200 $3.49/$6.25 · B300 $4.49/$8.50 · RTX PRO 6000 $1.10/$2.99 per hour.

Sources: fal.ai · fal.ai · fal.ai

Running ComfyUI workflows without owning a machine with a beefy GPU — and with the original team behind it.

Pricing: No free tier. Standard $20/month (4,200 credits/month, ~380 videos of 5 sec., 30 min. max runtime per workflow, 1 parallel workflow via API) · Creator $35/month (7,400 credits, ~670 videos, custom LoRAs importable, 3 parallel workflows) · Pro $100/month (21,100 credits, ~1,915 videos, 1 h max runtime, 5 parallel workflows) · Enterprise on request. Extra credits purchasable anytime, valid 1 year.

Sources: comfy.org · comfy.org

When you want to run ComfyUI by the hour on large GPUs (up to H200) and also need ready-made model endpoints.

Pricing: Pay-as-you-go without a subscription, shared balance across Models/ComfyUI/Trainer. GPU examples: Medium (T4, A4000) $0.99/h standard or $0.79/h with Pro · 3X-Large (H200) $9.59/h standard or $7.66/h with Pro. Model APIs: image $0.03–0.04/image, video $0.03–0.10/second. Pro subscription $19.99/month (annual $239.90, 33% savings): 20%+ GPU discount, 20 free CPU hours/month, $10 monthly credit, 200 GB persistent storage. Credit expires after 365 days.

Sources: runcomfy.com · docs.runcomfy.com

Image generation at volume, when price per image is the deciding criterion.

Pricing: Pay-as-you-go. Image generation $0.0006–0.24 per image depending on model, resolution and quality (examples: FLUX Schnell $0.0006, SD 3 $0.0019). Failed requests are free. Details: runware.ai/pricing or runware.ai/docs/platform/pricing.

Sources: runware.ai · runware.ai · techsy.io

Nothing anymore. Anyone still sitting on the Sora API should migrate to Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0 or Seedance 2.0 before 2026-09-24.

Pricing: Of historical interest only, the API runs until 2026-09-24: Sora 2 Standard ~$0.10/sec (720p), Batch ~$0.05/sec. Sora 2 Pro ~$0.30/sec (720p), $0.50/sec (1024p), $0.70/sec (1080p), Batch roughly half. Sources: https://costgoat.com/pricing/sora · https://www.eesel.ai/blog/sora-2-pricing — DO NOT INVEST FURTHER.

Sources: help.openai.com · en.wikipedia.org · futurumgroup.com · costgoat.com

Entire commercial sequences from a single pass — when you need multiple shots with the same character and the same look, instead of painstakingly stitching individual shots together.

Pricing: Official (Doubao-Seedance-2.0): 46 yuan (~$6.40) per million tokens for video generation only, 28 yuan (~$3.90) per million tokens for video editing. A 15-sec video consumes ~308,880 tokens = ~1 yuan or ~$0.14/sec. Source: https://technode.com/2026/03/05/bytedances-seedance-2-0-video-model-costs-about-0-14-per-second/ — Third-party APIs: from ~$0.045/sec (EvoLink) or $0.081–0.10/sec (AtlasCloud). Source: https://evolink.ai/seedance-2-0

Sources: seed.bytedance.com · technode.com · atlascloud.ai · evolink.ai

Projects where the rights have to be uncompromisingly clean or the material can't leave the building — and for high volume, where per-second pricing hurts.

Pricing: Model itself free (Apache 2.0, weights + training code + inference scripts open). Via API from ~$0.10/sec. Sources: https://www.cliprise.app/news/wan-2-7-video-release · https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-unveils-wan2-6-series-enabling-everyone-to-star-in-videos_602742

Sources: wan.video · cliprise.app · alibabacloud.com · technology.org

When a distinctive visual signature of your own is the goal: fine-tuning on your own material is simply not possible with the closed models.

Pricing: Model free, open weights (released 01/06/2026). Operating cost = your own GPU time. Sources: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lightricks-releases-ltx-2-the-first-complete-open-source-ai-video-foundation-model-302593012.html · https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2

Sources: ltx-2.ai · huggingface.co · github.com · prnewswire.com

Voiceover, dubbing, audio drama, explainer video — and license-safe score for advertising. The workhorse of the category.

Pricing: Free $0 (10,000 credits, NO commercial license) · Starter $6/month (30,000 credits, commercial license from here on) · Creator $22/month (121,000 credits; first month 50% off) · Pro $99/month (600,000) · Scale $299/month · Business $990/month · Enterprise on request. Source: elevenlabs.io/pricing (as of July 2026).

Sources: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io · techcrunch.com · businesswire.com

Serious editing and color without a subscription — and for anything that must not leave the building.

Pricing: Free $0 · DaVinci Resolve Studio $295 one-time (perpetual license). Source: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Sources: blackmagicdesign.com · blackmagicdesign.com · blackmagicdesign.com

Pricing: unsourced — murf.ai/pricing renders via JavaScript only, no reliable figures available for July 2026. Check yourself before publishing.

Sources: murf.ai · help.murf.ai · market.partnerstack.com

Podcast or long video into a series of shorts, without hunting for the good bits yourself.

Pricing: Free $0 (60 processing minutes/month, watermark, exports expire after 3 days) · Starter $15/month · Pro $29/month · Business on request. Source: https://www.opus.pro/pricing

Sources: opus.pro · opus.pro · help.opus.pro · rewardful.com

Shorts that need to look like something — captions, B-roll and cutting rhythm in a single pass.

Pricing: Free $0 (3 videos/month, max 200 MB / 1:30, watermark) · Starter $19/user/month (15 videos, max 2 min) · Pro $39/user/month (40 videos, max 5 min, 2K) · Business + API $69/user/month (100 videos, max 30 min, 4K/60 fps) · 41% cheaper annually · Magic Clips add-on +$19/month. Source: https://www.submagic.co/pricing

Sources: submagic.co · submagic.co · affiliate.submagic.co

Podcast/interview/talking head, when you want a clean cut fast and without fiddling around in a timeline.

Pricing: Free $0 (60 min/month, 720p, 100 one-time AI credits) · Hobbyist $24/month ($16 annually) · Creator $35/month ($24 annually, 30 h/month, Underlord) · Business $65/month ($50 annually, 40 h, Dubbing) · Enterprise on request. Source: https://www.descript.com/pricing

Sources: descript.com · descript.com · descript.com · help.descript.com

Fast social editing, especially on the phone, and anything headed for TikTok.

Pricing: Free $0 · Standard approx. $10/month · Pro $19.99/month or $179.99/year · Team $24.99/user/month. On iOS/Android the in-app prices are higher (~$21.99–22.99). Prices vary by region/platform/promotion. Sources: https://www.capcut.com/help/how-much-does-capcut-pro-cost + https://costbench.com/software/video-editing/capcut/ — verify against the DE checkout before publishing

Sources: capcut.com · capcut.com · costbench.com · capcut.com

Getting one video into twelve languages without shooting twelve times — and explainer/marketing content without a camera.

Pricing: Free $0 (3 videos/month, max. 1 min) · Creator $29/month ($24 billed annually, 600 credits) · Pro from $49/month · Business $149/month + $20/seat · Enterprise on request. Source: https://www.heygen.com/pricing

Sources: heygen.com · heygen.com · heygen.getrewardful.com · uppromote.com

Corporate content in many languages — training, product, onboarding — when nobody wants to go on camera.

Pricing: Basic/Free $0 (1,200 credits ≈ 10 min/month, 9 avatars, no download) · Starter $29/month ($18 annually) · Creator $89/month ($64 annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: https://www.synthesia.io/pricing

Sources: synthesia.io · synthesia.io · synthesia.io · synthesia.getrewardful.com

Posting shorts daily without standing in front of the camera daily.

Pricing: 5-day free trial · Classic $39/month ($27 annually, 1,600 credits ≈ 25 min) · Pro $149/month ($104 annually, 6,000 credits ≈ 100 min) · Scale $499/month ($349 annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: https://www.argil.ai/pricing

Sources: argil.ai · docs.argil.ai · ycombinator.com

Long→short with post-editing, when Opus is too expensive.

Pricing: Free $0 (60 credits/month, 720p, 1 social account, 3 days storage) · Creator approx. $29/user/month · Business approx. $39/user/month (source for the amounts: https://www.capterra.com/p/10009818/Vizard/pricing/ — the official page https://vizard.ai/pricing only shows prices dynamically; up to 50% off annually). VERIFY YOURSELF IN THE BROWSER BEFORE PUBLISHING.

Sources: vizard.ai · vizard.ai · vizard-corp.getrewardful.com · help.vizard.ai

Subtitles, translation and quick edits straight in the browser — even from someone else's machine.

Pricing: Free $0 · Creator approx. $10/user/month · Pro approx. $21/user/month · Studio approx. $35/user/month (each billed annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: https://checkthat.ai/brands/veed/pricing — the official page https://www.veed.io/pricing renders the amounts dynamically. VERIFY YOURSELF BEFORE PUBLISHING.

Sources: veed.io · veed.io · checkthat.ai · support.veed.io

Team editing in the browser and fast repurposing when several people are cutting together.

Pricing: Free $0 (720p, watermark) · Pro $16/month billed annually ($192/year) · Business $50/month billed annually ($600/year). Source: https://www.kapwing.com/pricing (amounts also at https://checkthat.ai/brands/kapwing/pricing) — double-check before publishing

Sources: kapwing.com · kapwing.com · checkthat.ai

Pricing: unverified — Wondershare runs constantly changing promotional prices; for the index, pull the current figure directly from https://filmora.wondershare.com/store/ and date it

Sources: filmora.wondershare.com · wondershare.com · uppromote.com

Grinding a blog post or script into a series of videos — marketing repurposing, not craft.

Pricing: Starter $29/month (annual $25, 200 min/month) · Professional $59/month (annual $35, 600 min/month) · Team $199/month (annual $119) · Enterprise on request · free trial. Source: https://pictory.ai/pricing/

Sources: pictory.ai · pictory.ai · pictory.ai · aiaffiliateprograms.ai

Getting a lot of video out of text fast — volume over signature.

Pricing: unverified — not confirmed against the official pricing page in this research; pull from https://invideo.io/pricing/ before publishing

Sources: invideo.io · help.invideo.io

Recording interviews and podcasts remotely without dying on audio quality — and pulling shorts straight out of them.

Pricing: Free tier available (Magic Clips limited) · Pro $29/month (includes Magic Clips). Source: https://riverside.com/pricing (figure confirmed through third-party sources) — double-check yourself before publishing

Sources: riverside.com · riverside.com · support.riverside.com · rewardful.com

Long→short including dubbing, when the clip also needs to run in Spanish, French, Thai.

Pricing: Free tier available; Starter approx. $29/month, Pro approx. $79/month, Pro+ approx. $189/month (annual roughly 20% cheaper) — amounts from third-party sources (https://dupple.com/tools/klap-ai, https://superdirector.app/compare/opusclip-vs-klap); the official page https://klap.app/pricing renders prices dynamically only. CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE PUBLISHING.

Sources: klap.app · klap.app · dupple.com

Brand commercials where a character or product has to look identical across multiple shots and the camera can't be random.

Pricing: Official pricing page (as of 07/2026): Free $0 (125 one-time credits) · Standard $12/month billed annually or $15 monthly (625 credits/month, ~52 sec of Gen-4.5) · Pro $28 annually or $35 monthly (2,250 credits) · Max $76 annually or $95 monthly (9,500 credits, 1 month rollover) · Enterprise on request. Standard and up: no watermark, 4K upscaling. Source: https://runwayml.com/pricing

Sources: runwayml.com · affiliates.runwayml.com · runwayml.com · zplatform.ai

Pricing: Subscription only, no free tier. Desktop: Gigapixel $29/mo or $149/year · Photo $39/mo or $199/year · Video $59/mo or $299/year. Cloud: Astra (video upscale) from $19/mo · Bloom (creative image upscale) $39/mo or $229/year · Image Web from $12/mo. Bundle: Studio $69/mo or $399/year, Studio Pro $799/year. (Source: topazlabs.com/pricing)

Sources: topazlabs.com · topazlabs.com · topazlabs.com · topazlabs.com

Pricing: Free (watermarked output, usable as AI mocap) · Lite $10/mo. = 2,100 credits/mo. · Standard $45/mo. or $360/year = 6,000 credits/mo. · Pro $95/mo. or $765/year = 12,000 credits/mo. (Source: Autodesk investor announcement on the freemium launch + cgchannel.com/2025/08/autodesk-cuts-prices-of-flow-studio-subscriptions/)

Sources: autodesk.com · investors.autodesk.com · cgchannel.com · autodesk.com

The rough cut of a talking-head video — silences and "uhm" out — before you really edit in Premiere/Resolve.

Pricing: Free $0 (1 h AI editing/month, watermark) · Plus $20/month (annual $10, 10 h) · Pro $40/month (annual $20, 30 h) · Elite $100/month (annual $50, 100 h). Source: https://www.gling.ai/pricing

Sources: gling.ai · affiliates.gling.ai · gling.ai

Entire commercial sequences from a single pass — when you need multiple shots with the same character and the same look, instead of painstakingly stitching individual shots together.

Pricing: Official (Doubao-Seedance-2.0): 46 yuan (~$6.40) per million tokens for video generation only, 28 yuan (~$3.90) per million tokens for video editing. A 15-sec video consumes ~308,880 tokens = ~1 yuan or ~$0.14/sec. Source: https://technode.com/2026/03/05/bytedances-seedance-2-0-video-model-costs-about-0-14-per-second/ — Third-party APIs: from ~$0.045/sec (EvoLink) or $0.081–0.10/sec (AtlasCloud). Source: https://evolink.ai/seedance-2-0

Sources: seed.bytedance.com · technode.com · atlascloud.ai · evolink.ai

Projects where the rights have to be uncompromisingly clean or the material can't leave the building — and for high volume, where per-second pricing hurts.

Pricing: Model itself free (Apache 2.0, weights + training code + inference scripts open). Via API from ~$0.10/sec. Sources: https://www.cliprise.app/news/wan-2-7-video-release · https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-unveils-wan2-6-series-enabling-everyone-to-star-in-videos_602742

Sources: wan.video · cliprise.app · alibabacloud.com · technology.org

Anything that's a real edit — commissioned work, film, advertising — with AI as an accelerator, not an autopilot.

Pricing: Premiere Pro single app from $20.99/month on an annual plan, or $31.49/month month-to-month; Creative Cloud All Apps $54.99/month; Firefly add-on plans from $9.99/month (2,000 premium credits). Sources: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/plans.html + https://checkthat.ai/brands/adobe-premiere/pricing — the Adobe page loads the amounts dynamically; verify German prices (€) at the German checkout before publishing

Sources: adobe.com · adobe.com · blog.adobe.com · uppromote.com

Voiceover, dubbing, audio drama, explainer video — and license-safe score for advertising. The workhorse of the category.

Pricing: Free $0 (10,000 credits, NO commercial license) · Starter $6/month (30,000 credits, commercial license from here on) · Creator $22/month (121,000 credits; first month 50% off) · Pro $99/month (600,000) · Scale $299/month · Business $990/month · Enterprise on request. Source: elevenlabs.io/pricing (as of July 2026).

Sources: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io · techcrunch.com · businesswire.com

Quick song ideas, demos, moodtapes — with caution for paid advertising as long as UMG/Sony are suing.

Pricing: Free $0 (50 credits daily, NO commercial use, attribution required) · Pro $8/month (2,500 credits, commercial rights) · Premier $24/month (10,000 credits, commercial rights). Source: suno.com/pricing (as of July 2026; the amounts likely correspond to the annual billing rate).

Sources: suno.com · suno.com · digitalmusicnews.com · digitalmusicnews.com

Currently NOT recommended for professional work — you can't export your tracks.

Pricing: unsourced — the pricing page is only retrievable via JavaScript, no reliable figures for July 2026 to be found. Given the missing export, secondary anyway.

Sources: musicbusinessworldwide.com · musicbusinessworldwide.com · billboard.com · dynamoi.com

YouTube, social, podcasts, livestreams — a fast score without license anxiety. For actual commercials: ask first.

Pricing: unverified — the official pricing page isn't directly retrievable (404 or JS-only); third-party sources cite contradictory figures between roughly $11 and $32/month (Creator to Artist Unlimited plans). Check soundraw.io itself before publishing. Verified: all Artist plans include a perpetual commercial license.

Sources: soundraw.io · affiliates.soundraw.io · docs.channel.io · soundraw.io

Pricing: Free/Ambassador $0 (25 tracks/month, personal use only) · Creator $14/month (social media, NO advertising) · Pro $39/month (digital advertising, TV/radio spots, freelance client work, indie games) · Business $199/month (in-app music, large games, agency work) · API/Enterprise on request. Source: mubert.com/render/license or /render/pricing.

Sources: mubert.com · mubert.com · mubert.com · mubert.getrewardful.com

Scores for YouTube videos, podcasts, advertising — with one of the most user-friendly licenses.

Pricing: unverified — the pricing page (beatoven.ai/pricing) returns 404 or renders only via JS; third-party sources cite contradictory figures (approx. $3 to $17/month). Verified from their own site: 'You get a non-exclusive perpetual licence for the generated and downloaded track.'

Sources: beatoven.ai · beatoven.ai

Social media content and games; for TV/cinema only under a separate agreement.

Pricing: Personal $8/month (billed annually; 900 track creations, 300 downloads, MP3+WAV, commercial license) · Pro $24/month (annually; 3,000 creations, 500 downloads, tracks up to 30 min). Source: loudly.com/music/pricing + loudly.com/license-agreement.

Sources: loudly.com · loudly.com · loudly.com

Sound design, foley, atmos, and score when the chain of rights has to be watertight (agency and broadcast work).

Pricing: unverified — the pricing page (stableaudio.com/pricing) renders only via JavaScript, no reliable figures retrievable. The only thing verified: from $1M in company revenue, an enterprise license is required.

Sources: stability.ai · stability.ai · techcrunch.com · stableaudio.com

Music production — demo vocals, harmonies, vocal doubles, without booking a singer.

Pricing: Free $0 (15 conversion minutes, 0 download minutes) · Starter $10/month (15 download minutes, 2 voice slots) · Producer $30/month (60 download minutes, unlimited slots) · Professional $60/month (unlimited downloads). Source: kits.ai/pricing (as of July 2026).

Sources: kits.ai · kits.ai

Film music, trailers, games — and the only provider that transfers the copyright in the result to you.

Pricing: Pro approx. €33/month billed annually (300 downloads/month, all formats incl. WAV, full copyright). Free and Standard tiers with restricted commercial rights. Source: aiva.ai/legal/1 + AIVA helpdesk; verify exact current prices before publishing.

Sources: aiva.ai · aiva.crisp.help

Getting the finished track (an AI track too) to broadcast quality. Complements every generator instead of competing with it.

Pricing: unverified — subscription prices not reliably retrievable from the pricing page. Verified: referrals get 20% off the first subscription or the mastering plugin (first payment only, renewals at full price).

Sources: landr.com · landr.com

Voiceover, dubbing, audio drama, explainer video — and license-safe score for advertising. The workhorse of the category.

Pricing: Free $0 (10,000 credits, NO commercial license) · Starter $6/month (30,000 credits, commercial license from here on) · Creator $22/month (121,000 credits; first month 50% off) · Pro $99/month (600,000) · Scale $299/month · Business $990/month · Enterprise on request. Source: elevenlabs.io/pricing (as of July 2026).

Sources: elevenlabs.io · elevenlabs.io · techcrunch.com · businesswire.com

Pricing: unsourced — murf.ai/pricing renders via JavaScript only, no reliable figures available for July 2026. Check yourself before publishing.

Sources: murf.ai · help.murf.ai · market.partnerstack.com

Consumption (listening to text), less so production.

Pricing: Free $0 (10 robotic voices, up to 1.5x speed) · Premium $29/month (1,000+ natural voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x; annual billing is cheaper). Speechify Studio and the API have their own pricing tiers. Source: speechify.com/pricing.

Sources: speechify.com · speechify.com · speechify.com

Having meetings written up when you need verbatim transcripts — not just a summary.

Pricing: Basic $0 (300 transcription minutes/month). Pro $16.99/user/month, $8.33/user/month annually (1,200 minutes/month). Business $30/user/month, $19.99/user/month annually (unlimited meeting transcription, 6,000 import minutes/user/month). Enterprise on request. (Source: official pricing page otter.ai/pricing)

Sources: otter.ai · otter.ai · app.impact.com

Meetings where a visible recording bot would be awkward — client conversations, first contacts, anything confidential.

Pricing: Basic $0 (AI notes, limited meeting history, chat, shared folders, templates, opt-out from model training). Business $14/user/month (unlimited history, better models, integrations with Notion/Slack/HubSpot/Zapier/Attio/Affinity, MCP, API). Enterprise $35/user/month (SSO, admin controls, org-wide auto-deletion). No annual discount. (Source: official pricing page granola.ai/pricing)

Sources: granola.ai · partners.dub.co · docs.granola.ai

Teams with a lot of calls that want meeting notes automatically in HubSpot/Salesforce & co.

Pricing: Free $0 (unlimited transcription, 20 AI credits/month, 400 storage minutes for the team). Pro $18/seat/month, $10/seat/month billed annually (20 credits, 8,000 storage minutes/seat). Business $29/seat/month, $19/seat/month billed annually (30 credits, unlimited storage). Enterprise $39/seat/month, annual only (50 credits, SSO, SCIM, audit logs). (Source: official pricing page fireflies.ai/pricing)

Sources: fireflies.ai · fireflies.ai

Podcast/interview/talking head, when you want a clean cut fast and without fiddling around in a timeline.

Pricing: Free $0 (60 min/month, 720p, 100 one-time AI credits) · Hobbyist $24/month ($16 annually) · Creator $35/month ($24 annually, 30 h/month, Underlord) · Business $65/month ($50 annually, 40 h, Dubbing) · Enterprise on request. Source: https://www.descript.com/pricing

Sources: descript.com · descript.com · descript.com · help.descript.com

Getting one video into twelve languages without shooting twelve times — and explainer/marketing content without a camera.

Pricing: Free $0 (3 videos/month, max. 1 min) · Creator $29/month ($24 billed annually, 600 credits) · Pro from $49/month · Business $149/month + $20/seat · Enterprise on request. Source: https://www.heygen.com/pricing

Sources: heygen.com · heygen.com · heygen.getrewardful.com · uppromote.com

Recording interviews and podcasts remotely without dying on audio quality — and pulling shorts straight out of them.

Pricing: Free tier available (Magic Clips limited) · Pro $29/month (includes Magic Clips). Source: https://riverside.com/pricing (figure confirmed through third-party sources) — double-check yourself before publishing

Sources: riverside.com · riverside.com · support.riverside.com · rewardful.com

Writing by voice instead of typing — emails, notes, chats, prompts — everywhere in your system. Speaking is much faster than typing.

Pricing: Free tier with a monthly word quota · Pro subscription for unlimited dictation. Exact amounts from the provider (as of July 2026: see wisprflow.ai/pricing).

Sources: wisprflow.ai · wisprflow.ai

Music production — demo vocals, harmonies, vocal doubles, without booking a singer.

Pricing: Free $0 (15 conversion minutes, 0 download minutes) · Starter $10/month (15 download minutes, 2 voice slots) · Producer $30/month (60 download minutes, unlimited slots) · Professional $60/month (unlimited downloads). Source: kits.ai/pricing (as of July 2026).

Sources: kits.ai · kits.ai

Nothing anymore — the service no longer exists. Include only as a warning.

Pricing: n/a — service discontinued.

Sources: techcrunch.com · theplanettools.ai · cooley.com

Developer integrations and projects that want to bill by usage instead of a subscription.

Pricing: According to a third-party source (checkthat.ai, 2026): Flex plan by usage, approx. $0.0005 per second of synthesis; voice clones $2/month (Rapid, from a 10-second sample) or $5/month (Professional, 10–25+ minutes of material); team seats $20/month. NOT confirmed by Resemble itself — the official pricing page (resemble.ai/pricing) was not reachable. Check before publishing.

Sources: resemble.ai · checkthat.ai

The most professional tool on the list.

Pricing: According to a third-party source (dailyaitools.io, 2026): TTS-only $9/month · Explorer $29/month · Creator $45/month · Power $250/month; API and real-time conversion on request. Marketplace with a 3-day free trial. NOT confirmed by Respeecher itself — check before publishing.

Sources: respeecher.com · respeecher.com · dailyaitools.io

Coding, agents, long documents, anything where text quality counts

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output): Claude Opus 4.8 $5/$25 · Claude Sonnet 5 $2/$10 (introductory price until 08/31/2026, then $3/$15) · Claude Haiku 4.5 $1/$5 · Claude Fable 5 $10/$50 · Claude Mythos 5 $10/$50 (limited availability). Cache hits = 0.1×, batch = −50%. Web search $10/1,000 searches. — Subscriptions: Free $0 · Pro $20/month ($17 billed annually) · Max from $100/month · Team $25/seat ($20 annually), premium seat $125 ($100 annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing + claude.com/pricing

Sources: platform.claude.com · claude.com · anthropic.com

One subscription to test all the major chat models side by side without paying for five subscriptions.

Pricing: Per poe.com/subscription_plans (annual billing, 17% savings): Basic $4.17/month (10,000 points) · Standard $16.67/month (660,000 points) · Professional $41.67/month (1.65M) · Business $83.33/month (3.3M) · Enterprise $208.33/month (8.25M). Monthly billing is more expensive (third-party sources cite, among others, $19.99 for the Standard tier). Different models consume different amounts of points per message.

Sources: poe.com · poe.com · costbench.com

All-rounder, largest user base, cheapest entry point (Go $8)

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input / cached input / output): gpt-5.6-sol $5 / $0.50 / $30 · gpt-5.6-terra $2.50 / $0.25 / $15 · gpt-5.6-luna $1 / $0.10 / $6 · gpt-5.5 $5 / $0.50 / $30 · gpt-5.4 $2.50 / $0.25 / $15 · gpt-5.4-mini $0.75 / $0.075 / $4.50 · gpt-5.4-nano $0.20 / $0.02 / $1.25. Batch and Flex −50%, Priority +100%. Source: developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing. — Subscriptions (per chatgpt.com/pricing, via search results; the page blocks automated retrieval): Free $0 (with ads) · Go $8 · Plus $20 · Pro $100 · Pro $200 · Business $25/seat ($20 annual) · Enterprise on request.

Sources: developers.openai.com · chatgpt.com · channeldive.com

Cheapest API, biggest free tier, Office integration

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output), paid tier: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $2/$12 (≤200k tokens), $4/$18 (>200k) — no free tier · Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50/$9 · Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.25/$1.50 · Gemini 2.5 Pro $1.25/$10 (≤200k), $2.50/$15 (>200k) · Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.30/$2.50 · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite $0.10/$0.40. Batch/Flex −50%. Free tier on all except 3.1 Pro Preview. Source: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing (as of 09.07.2026). — Subscriptions: Google AI Plus $7.99 · AI Pro $19.99 · AI Ultra $100 (new developer tier) or $200 (top tier, down from $250); announced at I/O 2026.

Sources: ai.google.dev · gemini.google · workspace.google.com · workspace.google.com

Output-heavy tasks at a low price, very large context

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output), source docs.x.ai/docs/models: grok-4.5 $2/$6 (500k context) · grok-4.3 $1.25/$2.50 (1M) · grok-4.20-0309 (reasoning / non-reasoning / multi-agent) $1.25/$2.50 each (1M) · grok-build-0.1 $1/$2 (256k context, code). Knowledge cutoff Grok 4.5: 01.02.2026. — SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: not substantiated first-hand. x.ai/pricing returns no machine-readable result. Third-party sources consistently state: X Premium $8 · SuperGrok Lite $10 · SuperGrok $30 · X Premium+ $40 · SuperGrok Heavy $300 · Grok Business $30/seat — verify on x.ai/pricing before publishing. Also only third-party sourced: up to $175/month in free API credit via a data-sharing program.

Sources: docs.x.ai · x.ai · felloai.com

Pricing: Free $0 (per third-party sources, limited to 5 advanced queries/day) · Pro $20/month or $200/year · Max $200/month or $2,000/year · Education Pro $10/month (verified students) · Enterprise Pro $40/seat/month · Enterprise Max $325/seat/month · Comet Plus $5/month as an add-on (included in Pro and Max). Plus the Sonar/Search/Agentic Research APIs. — Note: Perplexity does not publish a readily machine-readable pricing page; the subscription prices are consistently documented across several third-party sources, with Pro ($20) and Max ($200) considered confirmed.

Sources: perplexity.ai · partners.dub.co · perplexity.ai · taprefer.com

Pricing: Free tier plus paid subscriptions (check prices on the official site — at monica.im/pricing; not cleanly readable, so deliberately left unsourced here).

Sources: monica.im · monica.im

Pricing: Free tier plus paid subscriptions. $100 (annual plan) — that gives the entry price. Check exact tiers at getmerlin.in/pricing (page not machine-readable).

Sources: getmerlin.in · merlin.tapfiliate.com · aiaffiliateprograms.ai · taprefer.com

Pricing: Free tier plus paid subscriptions — check prices at sider.ai (the site blocks automated retrieval, deliberately left unverified here).

Sources: sider.ai · affiliateotter.com · involve.asia

The one tool where projects, notes and databases converge — and the AI works directly on that own knowledge instead of the open web.

Pricing: Free $0. Plus $10/member/month (base price on the official pricing page; secondary sources quote $12 for monthly billing). Business $20/member/month ($24 monthly according to secondary sources) — this is where the full Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes and Enterprise Search sit. Enterprise on request. Custom Agents metered on top: $10 per 1,000 Notion credits per month, no rollover (source: official pricing page).

Sources: notion.com · notion.com

Writing by voice instead of typing — emails, notes, chats, prompts — everywhere in your system. Speaking is much faster than typing.

Pricing: Free tier with a monthly word quota · Pro subscription for unlimited dictation. Exact amounts from the provider (as of July 2026: see wisprflow.ai/pricing).

Sources: wisprflow.ai · wisprflow.ai

Bulk processing, cost optimization, self-hosting

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input cache hit / input cache miss / output), source api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing: deepseek-v4-flash $0.0028 / $0.14 / $0.28 · deepseek-v4-pro $0.003625 / $0.435 / $0.87. Context 1,048,576 tokens each. Old models deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner: deprecated as of July 24, 2026. Chat app: free.

Sources: api-docs.deepseek.com · openrouter.ai · openrouter.ai

EU/GDPR projects, cheap small models, code

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output), source mistral.ai/pricing/api: Mistral Medium 3.5 $1.50/7.50 · Mistral Large 3 $0.50/1.50 · Mistral Small 4 $0.15/0.60 · Ministral 3-3B $0.10/0.10 · Ministral 3-8B $0.15/0.15 · Ministral 3-14B $0.20/0.20 · Codestral $0.30/0.90 · Devstral 2 $0.40/2 · Magistral Medium $2/5 · Magistral Small $0.50/1.50 · Mistral Embed $0.10 (input only). OCR 4: $4 / 1,000 pages (Document AI $5). Voxtral TTS $0.016 / 1,000 characters; transcription $0.003 / audio minute. Batch −50%, cached input −90%. — Subscriptions (Vibe): Free $0 · Pro $14.99 · Team $24.99/user · Education $5.99 (verified students) · Enterprise on request.

Sources: mistral.ai · mistral.ai

Anyone who sits at the keyboard all day and wants the AI where they already work — one shortcut away, no context switch.

Pricing: Free $0 (permanent, incl. 50 AI messages). Pro $10/month or $8/month with annual billing (20% discount). Advanced AI add-on: +$8/month on top — only bookable as an add-on to the paid Pro plan, unlocks the top models. Team Free $0/user, Team Pro $15/user/month or $12 annually (+$8 for Advanced AI). Enterprise on request. (Source: official pricing page raycast.com/pricing)

Sources: raycast.com · raycast.com · affiliates.raycast.com · manual.raycast.com

Comparing and switching language models without maintaining a separate account and key for every provider.

Pricing: No subscription. Inference at provider price, explicitly with no markup (official FAQ). Fees: top-up via Stripe 5.5% (minimum $0.80), via crypto/Coinbase 5%. BYOK: first 1M requests/month free, then 5% of what the model would cost at OpenRouter.

Sources: openrouter.ai · openrouter.ai

Running or fine-tuning open-weight language models in production when you want neither OpenAI nor Anthropic.

Pricing: Serverless per token: $0.0015–4.50 per million tokens depending on model. Images $0.0006–0.134/image. Video $0.14–3.20/video. Transcription from $0.0015/minute. Dedicated endpoints: H100 $5.49/h, B200 $8.99/h. GPU clusters on-demand $3.99–8.19/GPU/h, reserved $3.09–7.99. Fine-tuning $0.48–8.00 per million tokens (minimum $4/job). Storage $0.16/GiB/month. Free tier available to get started.

Sources: together.ai · together.ai

Open weights, your own fine-tuning, cost optimization

Pricing: PARTLY UNVERIFIED — the official page (alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing) could not be cleanly read, all figures below come from third-party sources and are to be checked before publishing: Qwen3-Max approx. $1.20/$6.00 per million tokens via DashScope (batch $0.60/$3.00). Current flagship Qwen3.7-Max allegedly $1.25/$3.75 as a 50% promotional price (list price $2.50/$7.50). All figures for the international endpoint Singapore; the China endpoint (Beijing) is 60–70% cheaper. Open weights: free to download, cost = your own hosting. Chat app: free.

Sources: alibabacloud.com · pricepertoken.com

Self-hosting, full data control, fine-tuning

Pricing: Weights: free under Meta's community license (no token fee to Meta). Actual cost = hosting, either your own hardware or an inference provider (Together, Groq, Fireworks, AWS Bedrock …), whose prices vary widely. — MODEL STATUS UNVERIFIED FIRST-HAND: press reports mention Llama 5, released 04/08/2026 (600B parameters, 5M token context). The primary source was not retrievable — verify on llama.com before publication. The reports also contradict each other on the license (community license vs. Apache 2.0); when in doubt write "Meta's community license, not OSI open source".

Sources: llama.com · en.wikipedia.org · aiunpacking.com

Developers with their own API keys who don't want a monthly subscription

Pricing: One-time purchase model for the software; ongoing costs arise only through your own API keys with the model providers. Check exact prices on typingmind.com (not cleanly readable → deliberately left unsourced here).

Sources: docs.typingmind.com · custom.typingmind.com · lemonsqueezy.com

Coding, agents, long documents, anything where text quality counts

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output): Claude Opus 4.8 $5/$25 · Claude Sonnet 5 $2/$10 (introductory price until 08/31/2026, then $3/$15) · Claude Haiku 4.5 $1/$5 · Claude Fable 5 $10/$50 · Claude Mythos 5 $10/$50 (limited availability). Cache hits = 0.1×, batch = −50%. Web search $10/1,000 searches. — Subscriptions: Free $0 · Pro $20/month ($17 billed annually) · Max from $100/month · Team $25/seat ($20 annually), premium seat $125 ($100 annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing + claude.com/pricing

Sources: platform.claude.com · claude.com · anthropic.com

Working through a stack of PDFs, transcripts or scripts without the model making things up — every statement is clickable back to the source.

Pricing: Free $0 (100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, ~50 questions/day). Paid limits come via the Google AI subscriptions: Google AI Plus $4.99/month, Google AI Pro $19.99/month, Google AI Ultra from $99.99/month (variant with 20× usage $199.99/month) — prices from gemini.google/subscriptions. No separate NotebookLM subscription.

Sources: gemini.google · notebooklm.google · workspace.google.com

All-rounder, largest user base, cheapest entry point (Go $8)

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input / cached input / output): gpt-5.6-sol $5 / $0.50 / $30 · gpt-5.6-terra $2.50 / $0.25 / $15 · gpt-5.6-luna $1 / $0.10 / $6 · gpt-5.5 $5 / $0.50 / $30 · gpt-5.4 $2.50 / $0.25 / $15 · gpt-5.4-mini $0.75 / $0.075 / $4.50 · gpt-5.4-nano $0.20 / $0.02 / $1.25. Batch and Flex −50%, Priority +100%. Source: developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing. — Subscriptions (per chatgpt.com/pricing, via search results; the page blocks automated retrieval): Free $0 (with ads) · Go $8 · Plus $20 · Pro $100 · Pro $200 · Business $25/seat ($20 annual) · Enterprise on request.

Sources: developers.openai.com · chatgpt.com · channeldive.com

Cheapest API, biggest free tier, Office integration

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output), paid tier: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $2/$12 (≤200k tokens), $4/$18 (>200k) — no free tier · Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50/$9 · Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.25/$1.50 · Gemini 2.5 Pro $1.25/$10 (≤200k), $2.50/$15 (>200k) · Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.30/$2.50 · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite $0.10/$0.40. Batch/Flex −50%. Free tier on all except 3.1 Pro Preview. Source: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing (as of 09.07.2026). — Subscriptions: Google AI Plus $7.99 · AI Pro $19.99 · AI Ultra $100 (new developer tier) or $200 (top tier, down from $250); announced at I/O 2026.

Sources: ai.google.dev · gemini.google · workspace.google.com · workspace.google.com

Output-heavy tasks at a low price, very large context

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output), source docs.x.ai/docs/models: grok-4.5 $2/$6 (500k context) · grok-4.3 $1.25/$2.50 (1M) · grok-4.20-0309 (reasoning / non-reasoning / multi-agent) $1.25/$2.50 each (1M) · grok-build-0.1 $1/$2 (256k context, code). Knowledge cutoff Grok 4.5: 01.02.2026. — SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: not substantiated first-hand. x.ai/pricing returns no machine-readable result. Third-party sources consistently state: X Premium $8 · SuperGrok Lite $10 · SuperGrok $30 · X Premium+ $40 · SuperGrok Heavy $300 · Grok Business $30/seat — verify on x.ai/pricing before publishing. Also only third-party sourced: up to $175/month in free API credit via a data-sharing program.

Sources: docs.x.ai · x.ai · felloai.com

Pricing: Free $0 (per third-party sources, limited to 5 advanced queries/day) · Pro $20/month or $200/year · Max $200/month or $2,000/year · Education Pro $10/month (verified students) · Enterprise Pro $40/seat/month · Enterprise Max $325/seat/month · Comet Plus $5/month as an add-on (included in Pro and Max). Plus the Sonar/Search/Agentic Research APIs. — Note: Perplexity does not publish a readily machine-readable pricing page; the subscription prices are consistently documented across several third-party sources, with Pro ($20) and Max ($200) considered confirmed.

Sources: perplexity.ai · partners.dub.co · perplexity.ai · taprefer.com

Pricing: Free tier plus paid subscriptions (check prices on the official site — at monica.im/pricing; not cleanly readable, so deliberately left unsourced here).

Sources: monica.im · monica.im

Pricing: Free tier plus paid subscriptions. $100 (annual plan) — that gives the entry price. Check exact tiers at getmerlin.in/pricing (page not machine-readable).

Sources: getmerlin.in · merlin.tapfiliate.com · aiaffiliateprograms.ai · taprefer.com

Pricing: Free tier plus paid subscriptions — check prices at sider.ai (the site blocks automated retrieval, deliberately left unverified here).

Sources: sider.ai · affiliateotter.com · involve.asia

Tasks that go beyond code — research, analysis, documents, small apps, all in one run.

Pricing: Free $0 (300 daily credits) · Standard $20/month (4,000 credits) · Customizable $40/month (8,000 credits) · Extended $200/month (40,000 credits). All paid plans additionally include 300 daily refresh credits, up to 20 parallel tasks; annual payment approx. 17% cheaper. Team/Enterprise on request. Source: manus.im/pricing — CAUTION: the pricing table is loaded via JavaScript and was not directly retrievable; figures come from the search index of the same page and should be double-checked in the browser before publication.

Sources: manus.im · manus.im · manus.im · techcrunch.com

The one tool where projects, notes and databases converge — and the AI works directly on that own knowledge instead of the open web.

Pricing: Free $0. Plus $10/member/month (base price on the official pricing page; secondary sources quote $12 for monthly billing). Business $20/member/month ($24 monthly according to secondary sources) — this is where the full Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes and Enterprise Search sit. Enterprise on request. Custom Agents metered on top: $10 per 1,000 Notion credits per month, no rollover (source: official pricing page).

Sources: notion.com · notion.com

Anyone who wants to query their Obsidian archive ("what did I note about X back then?") — with the option that nothing leaves the machine.

Pricing: Free $0 (LLM chat with YOUR OWN API keys, image support, local vault search — Markdown files only). Plus $14.99/month or $139.99/year (= $11.67/month, 22% cheaper): built-in copilot-plus-flash model, AI agents, web search, chat with PDFs/EPUBs/50+ file types. Self-host/Supporter: one-time $349.99 (lifetime self-host access incl. 2 years of Plus). 14-day refund window. The "Believer" tier has been discontinued. (Source: obsidiancopilot.com/en/pricing)

Sources: obsidiancopilot.com · obsidiancopilot.com · github.com

Working through a stack of PDFs, transcripts or scripts without the model making things up — every statement is clickable back to the source.

Pricing: Free $0 (100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, ~50 questions/day). Paid limits come via the Google AI subscriptions: Google AI Plus $4.99/month, Google AI Pro $19.99/month, Google AI Ultra from $99.99/month (variant with 20× usage $199.99/month) — prices from gemini.google/subscriptions. No separate NotebookLM subscription.

Sources: gemini.google · notebooklm.google · workspace.google.com

Cheapest API, biggest free tier, Office integration

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output), paid tier: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $2/$12 (≤200k tokens), $4/$18 (>200k) — no free tier · Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50/$9 · Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.25/$1.50 · Gemini 2.5 Pro $1.25/$10 (≤200k), $2.50/$15 (>200k) · Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.30/$2.50 · Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite $0.10/$0.40. Batch/Flex −50%. Free tier on all except 3.1 Pro Preview. Source: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing (as of 09.07.2026). — Subscriptions: Google AI Plus $7.99 · AI Pro $19.99 · AI Ultra $100 (new developer tier) or $200 (top tier, down from $250); announced at I/O 2026.

Sources: ai.google.dev · gemini.google · workspace.google.com · workspace.google.com

The one tool where projects, notes and databases converge — and the AI works directly on that own knowledge instead of the open web.

Pricing: Free $0. Plus $10/member/month (base price on the official pricing page; secondary sources quote $12 for monthly billing). Business $20/member/month ($24 monthly according to secondary sources) — this is where the full Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes and Enterprise Search sit. Enterprise on request. Custom Agents metered on top: $10 per 1,000 Notion credits per month, no rollover (source: official pricing page).

Sources: notion.com · notion.com

A presentable deck or a quick one-pager site in twenty minutes, without touching PowerPoint.

Pricing: Free $0. Plus $10/month (annual ~$8/month), 1,000 credits/month. Pro $20/month (annual ~$15–18/month depending on source), 4,000 credits/month. Ultra $100/month (monthly only, no annual plan), 20,000 credits/month. ⚠️ The credit amounts are officially verified (help.gamma.app); the dollar figures come from secondary sources because gamma.app/pricing blocks automated requests (HTTP 403). The help center states the annual discount as up to 28%.

Sources: help.gamma.app · gamma-partners-y9y8f3m.gamma.site · help.gamma.app · gamma.app

Company decks that should look designed without anyone knowing design — sales, pitch, report.

Pricing: No free tier, only a 14-day trial with a credit card required. Pro $12/month billed annually or $45 billed monthly. Team (2–20 seats) $40/user/month annually or $50/user/month monthly. Enterprise (20+) on request. Students with a .edu address: 1 year free. (Source: official pricing page beautiful.ai/pricing)

Sources: beautiful.ai · beautiful.ai

Adding visuals to an explanatory text (blog post, concept, pitch) without opening Figma.

Pricing: Free $0 (500 AI credits/week, unlimited editing and importing, PNG/PDF export, with Napkin branding). Plus $9/person/month, annually $6.75/month (10,000 credits/month, PPT and SVG export, 3 Brand Styles, no branding). Pro $22/person/month, annually $16.50/month (30,000 credits/month, custom fonts, unlimited custom branding, credit top-ups). Enterprise on request. Annual billing saves 25%. (Source: official pricing page napkin.ai/pricing)

Sources: napkin.ai · napkinone.notion.site

Having meetings written up when you need verbatim transcripts — not just a summary.

Pricing: Basic $0 (300 transcription minutes/month). Pro $16.99/user/month, $8.33/user/month annually (1,200 minutes/month). Business $30/user/month, $19.99/user/month annually (unlimited meeting transcription, 6,000 import minutes/user/month). Enterprise on request. (Source: official pricing page otter.ai/pricing)

Sources: otter.ai · otter.ai · app.impact.com

Meetings where a visible recording bot would be awkward — client conversations, first contacts, anything confidential.

Pricing: Basic $0 (AI notes, limited meeting history, chat, shared folders, templates, opt-out from model training). Business $14/user/month (unlimited history, better models, integrations with Notion/Slack/HubSpot/Zapier/Attio/Affinity, MCP, API). Enterprise $35/user/month (SSO, admin controls, org-wide auto-deletion). No annual discount. (Source: official pricing page granola.ai/pricing)

Sources: granola.ai · partners.dub.co · docs.granola.ai

Teams with a lot of calls that want meeting notes automatically in HubSpot/Salesforce & co.

Pricing: Free $0 (unlimited transcription, 20 AI credits/month, 400 storage minutes for the team). Pro $18/seat/month, $10/seat/month billed annually (20 credits, 8,000 storage minutes/seat). Business $29/seat/month, $19/seat/month billed annually (30 credits, unlimited storage). Enterprise $39/seat/month, annual only (50 credits, SSO, SCIM, audit logs). (Source: official pricing page fireflies.ai/pricing)

Sources: fireflies.ai · fireflies.ai

Anyone who sits at the keyboard all day and wants the AI where they already work — one shortcut away, no context switch.

Pricing: Free $0 (permanent, incl. 50 AI messages). Pro $10/month or $8/month with annual billing (20% discount). Advanced AI add-on: +$8/month on top — only bookable as an add-on to the paid Pro plan, unlocks the top models. Team Free $0/user, Team Pro $15/user/month or $12 annually (+$8 for Advanced AI). Enterprise on request. (Source: official pricing page raycast.com/pricing)

Sources: raycast.com · raycast.com · affiliates.raycast.com · manual.raycast.com

A knowledge store you actually own and can still read in ten years — files, not a cloud account.

Pricing: Personal use: free, no sign-up. Obsidian Sync $4/month (annual) or $5/month (monthly). Obsidian Publish $8/month (annual) or $10/month (monthly). Commercial license $50/user/year (per the vendor, not mandatory). Catalyst (voluntary support, beta access): $25 one-time. (Source: official pricing page obsidian.md/pricing)

Sources: obsidian.md · forum.obsidian.md

Anyone who wants to query their Obsidian archive ("what did I note about X back then?") — with the option that nothing leaves the machine.

Pricing: Free $0 (LLM chat with YOUR OWN API keys, image support, local vault search — Markdown files only). Plus $14.99/month or $139.99/year (= $11.67/month, 22% cheaper): built-in copilot-plus-flash model, AI agents, web search, chat with PDFs/EPUBs/50+ file types. Self-host/Supporter: one-time $349.99 (lifetime self-host access incl. 2 years of Plus). 14-day refund window. The "Believer" tier has been discontinued. (Source: obsidiancopilot.com/en/pricing)

Sources: obsidiancopilot.com · obsidiancopilot.com · github.com

Coding, agents, long documents, anything where text quality counts

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output): Claude Opus 4.8 $5/$25 · Claude Sonnet 5 $2/$10 (introductory price until 08/31/2026, then $3/$15) · Claude Haiku 4.5 $1/$5 · Claude Fable 5 $10/$50 · Claude Mythos 5 $10/$50 (limited availability). Cache hits = 0.1×, batch = −50%. Web search $10/1,000 searches. — Subscriptions: Free $0 · Pro $20/month ($17 billed annually) · Max from $100/month · Team $25/seat ($20 annually), premium seat $125 ($100 annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing + claude.com/pricing

Sources: platform.claude.com · claude.com · anthropic.com

Serious work on real codebases in the terminal — multi-step refactors, bug fixes, migrations.

Pricing: Free $0 (Claude Code NOT included) · Pro $20/month ($17 billed annually, Claude Code included) · Max from $100/month (5x or 20x Pro usage) · Team seat $25/month ($20 annually) · Premium seat $125 ($100 annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: claude.com/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: claude.com · anthropic.com · anthropic.com · growsurf.com

All-rounder, largest user base, cheapest entry point (Go $8)

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input / cached input / output): gpt-5.6-sol $5 / $0.50 / $30 · gpt-5.6-terra $2.50 / $0.25 / $15 · gpt-5.6-luna $1 / $0.10 / $6 · gpt-5.5 $5 / $0.50 / $30 · gpt-5.4 $2.50 / $0.25 / $15 · gpt-5.4-mini $0.75 / $0.075 / $4.50 · gpt-5.4-nano $0.20 / $0.02 / $1.25. Batch and Flex −50%, Priority +100%. Source: developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing. — Subscriptions (per chatgpt.com/pricing, via search results; the page blocks automated retrieval): Free $0 (with ads) · Go $8 · Plus $20 · Pro $100 · Pro $200 · Business $25/seat ($20 annual) · Enterprise on request.

Sources: developers.openai.com · chatgpt.com · channeldive.com

Tasks that go beyond code — research, analysis, documents, small apps, all in one run.

Pricing: Free $0 (300 daily credits) · Standard $20/month (4,000 credits) · Customizable $40/month (8,000 credits) · Extended $200/month (40,000 credits). All paid plans additionally include 300 daily refresh credits, up to 20 parallel tasks; annual payment approx. 17% cheaper. Team/Enterprise on request. Source: manus.im/pricing — CAUTION: the pricing table is loaded via JavaScript and was not directly retrievable; figures come from the search index of the same page and should be double-checked in the browser before publication.

Sources: manus.im · manus.im · manus.im · techcrunch.com

Pricing: Free $0 (10 credits/month, web and mobile building, extended models) · Standard $20/month ($17 annually, 100 credits, private projects, GitHub integration) · Pro $200/month ($167 annually, 750 credits, 1M context window, "Ultra thinking", custom AI agents) · Business and Enterprise on request. Extra credits per third-party sources $10 for 50 credits (unverified). Source: emergent.sh/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: emergent.sh · app.emergent.sh · techcrunch.com

Bulk processing, cost optimization, self-hosting

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input cache hit / input cache miss / output), source api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing: deepseek-v4-flash $0.0028 / $0.14 / $0.28 · deepseek-v4-pro $0.003625 / $0.435 / $0.87. Context 1,048,576 tokens each. Old models deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner: deprecated as of July 24, 2026. Chat app: free.

Sources: api-docs.deepseek.com · openrouter.ai · openrouter.ai

EU/GDPR projects, cheap small models, code

Pricing: API per 1M tokens (input/output), source mistral.ai/pricing/api: Mistral Medium 3.5 $1.50/7.50 · Mistral Large 3 $0.50/1.50 · Mistral Small 4 $0.15/0.60 · Ministral 3-3B $0.10/0.10 · Ministral 3-8B $0.15/0.15 · Ministral 3-14B $0.20/0.20 · Codestral $0.30/0.90 · Devstral 2 $0.40/2 · Magistral Medium $2/5 · Magistral Small $0.50/1.50 · Mistral Embed $0.10 (input only). OCR 4: $4 / 1,000 pages (Document AI $5). Voxtral TTS $0.016 / 1,000 characters; transcription $0.003 / audio minute. Batch −50%, cached input −90%. — Subscriptions (Vibe): Free $0 · Pro $14.99 · Team $24.99/user · Education $5.99 (verified students) · Enterprise on request.

Sources: mistral.ai · mistral.ai

Anyone who wants a real IDE instead of a terminal — the best compromise between autocomplete and agent.

Pricing: Hobby $0 (limited agent requests + tab completions, no credit card required) · Individual from $20/month, tiered as Pro / Pro+ / Ultra (Pro+ for daily agent use, Ultra for power users) · Teams $40/user/month · Enterprise on request. Source: cursor.com/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: cursor.com · forum.cursor.com · forum.cursor.com · cursor.com

Teams already living on GitHub — Copilot is the path of least resistance.

Pricing: Free $0 (2,000 completions/month, base models, CLI) · Pro $10/user/month (unlimited completions + $15 monthly AI credits) · Pro+ $39/month (premium models incl. Opus, $70 credits) · Max $100/month ($200 credits, priority access) · Business & Enterprise on request. Source: github.com/features/copilot/plans (July 2026).

Sources: github.com · github.com · github.com · dash.partnerstack.com

Delegating tasks instead of pair programming — tickets you want to hand off and check later.

Pricing: Free $0 (light quota, restricted model selection, unlimited inline edits + tab completions) · Pro $20/month (higher quotas, frontier models from OpenAI/Claude/Gemini, cloud agents, overage at API prices) · Max $200/month · Teams $80/month + $40/developer seat · Enterprise on request. Source: devin.ai/pricing (July 2026). IMPORTANT: This makes the old ACU model ($2.25/ACU, $500 team plan) obsolete. windsurf.com/pricing returns a 308 redirect to devin.ai/pricing.

Sources: devin.ai · cognition.com · market.partnerstack.com · docs.devin.ai

Anyone already paying for ChatGPT who wants the agent working through several tasks in parallel.

Pricing: Free $0 (basic Codex for small tasks) · Go $8/month · Plus $20/month · Pro from $100/month (5x or 20x Plus limits) · Business $20/user/month (annual, from 2 users) · Enterprise/Edu on request · or an API key with pure token billing. Since April 2, 2026, billing runs on token credits instead of per message. Source: learn.chatgpt.com/docs/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: learn.chatgpt.com · help.openai.com · chatgpt.com

Anyone who sits at the keyboard all day and wants the AI where they already work — one shortcut away, no context switch.

Pricing: Free $0 (permanent, incl. 50 AI messages). Pro $10/month or $8/month with annual billing (20% discount). Advanced AI add-on: +$8/month on top — only bookable as an add-on to the paid Pro plan, unlocks the top models. Team Free $0/user, Team Pro $15/user/month or $12 annually (+$8 for Advanced AI). Enterprise on request. (Source: official pricing page raycast.com/pricing)

Sources: raycast.com · raycast.com · affiliates.raycast.com · manual.raycast.com

Anyone who wants to grow into the code, needs languages other than JavaScript, or needs real production infrastructure (DB, deployments, scaling).

Pricing: Core: $20/month (annual approx. $240, ~20% savings) — includes $25 in monthly credit, up to 5 collaborators, two concurrent agents, unlimited workspaces, badge removal. Above that Pro and Enterprise. The agent bills "effort-based": simple changes under $0.25 per checkpoint, complex tasks get bundled into a larger checkpoint that costs more. Credits feed AI, deployments and compute. Source: https://replit.com/pricing + https://blog.replit.com/effort-based-pricing + https://docs.replit.com/billing/ai-billing

Sources: replit.com · replit.com · blog.replit.com · docs.replit.com

Comparing and switching language models without maintaining a separate account and key for every provider.

Pricing: No subscription. Inference at provider price, explicitly with no markup (official FAQ). Fees: top-up via Stripe 5.5% (minimum $0.80), via crypto/Coinbase 5%. BYOK: first 1M requests/month free, then 5% of what the model would cost at OpenRouter.

Sources: openrouter.ai · openrouter.ai

Anyone who needs a whole GPU machine (training, ComfyUI, own models) instead of a ready-made model API.

Pricing: Pay-per-use by GPU type and hour (pods) or per second (serverless); prices vary widely by GPU and cloud type — check runpod.io/pricing for current figures.

Sources: docs.runpod.io · runpod.io · runpod.io

Open weights, your own fine-tuning, cost optimization

Pricing: PARTLY UNVERIFIED — the official page (alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing) could not be cleanly read, all figures below come from third-party sources and are to be checked before publishing: Qwen3-Max approx. $1.20/$6.00 per million tokens via DashScope (batch $0.60/$3.00). Current flagship Qwen3.7-Max allegedly $1.25/$3.75 as a 50% promotional price (list price $2.50/$7.50). All figures for the international endpoint Singapore; the China endpoint (Beijing) is 60–70% cheaper. Open weights: free to download, cost = your own hosting. Chat app: free.

Sources: alibabacloud.com · pricepertoken.com

Self-hosting, full data control, fine-tuning

Pricing: Weights: free under Meta's community license (no token fee to Meta). Actual cost = hosting, either your own hardware or an inference provider (Together, Groq, Fireworks, AWS Bedrock …), whose prices vary widely. — MODEL STATUS UNVERIFIED FIRST-HAND: press reports mention Llama 5, released 04/08/2026 (600B parameters, 5M token context). The primary source was not retrievable — verify on llama.com before publication. The reports also contradict each other on the license (community license vs. Apache 2.0); when in doubt write "Meta's community license, not OSI open source".

Sources: llama.com · en.wikipedia.org · aiunpacking.com

Anyone who lives in the terminal and wants to run several agents at once.

Pricing: Free $0 (modern terminal, limited cloud agent access, bring your own AI inference) · Build $20/month ($18 annually; 1,500 credits/month for cloud and local agents, frontier models) · Max $200/month ($180 annually; 12× the credits of Build) · Business $50/user/month ($45 annually, up to 25 seats, SAML SSO) · Enterprise on request (your own LLMs, self-hosted cloud agents). Source: warp.dev/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: warp.dev · docs.warp.dev · news.ycombinator.com

Full control and cost transparency: you pay exactly the tokens the agent consumes — no markup.

Pricing: Open source $0 for individual developers (VS Code extension, CLI, MCP marketplace, community support) — you only pay for AI inference on your own API keys, no subscription. Enterprise on request (JetBrains extension, SSO/OIDC, SLA, central billing, RBAC, team dashboard). Source: cline.bot/pricing (July 2026). Realistic token costs under active use per third-party sources approx. $20–50/month — not officially confirmed, only as an order of magnitude.

Sources: cline.bot · github.com

Professionals and teams who want terminal agents at enterprise level — with commitments on data protection and compliance.

Pricing: No free tier. Pro $20/month (desktop, CLI, SDK; cloud and local background agents; usage stats) · Plus $100/month (approx. 5x Pro limits, Droid Computers) · Max $200/month (approx. 10x Pro limits, early access) · Business on request (up to 150 seats, SSO, SAML/SCIM, Zero Data Retention) · Enterprise on request (on-premise, dedicated compute). Source: factory.ai/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: factory.ai · docs.factory.ai

Non-developers who want to go from thought to a visible, shareable app in hours; the result is portable (real code, GitHub sync).

Pricing: Free: $0 — 5 build credits/day, max. 30/month, plus 20 cloud credits/month (source: lovable.dev/pricing). Pro from $25/month for 100 credits, Business from $50/month (team features, SSO); annually Pro ~$21, Business ~$42 (source: third-party analyses, incl. nocode.mba — Lovable's pricing page does not render the figures statically, so the amounts are marked as third-party sourced). Credit consumption varies with complexity (0.50 credits for a button change up to ~1.70 for a landing page with images, source: lovable.dev/pricing). Monthly credits expire after 2 months, top-up credits after 12 months.

Sources: lovable.dev · lovable.dev · lovable.dev · docs.lovable.dev

Serious work on real codebases in the terminal — multi-step refactors, bug fixes, migrations.

Pricing: Free $0 (Claude Code NOT included) · Pro $20/month ($17 billed annually, Claude Code included) · Max from $100/month (5x or 20x Pro usage) · Team seat $25/month ($20 annually) · Premium seat $125 ($100 annually) · Enterprise on request. Source: claude.com/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: claude.com · anthropic.com · anthropic.com · growsurf.com

Pricing: Four tiers from ~$6.99 to $79.99/month (renewal price). Examples per the provider: Explorer 12 months for $83.88 (regular $119.88), renews at $6.99/month; Starter 12 months for $167.88 (regular $239.88), renews at $13.99/month; Hustler 12 months for $479.88 (regular $671.88), renews at $39.99/month. Every plan includes hosting, email, error fixer, no daily limit — the cap is the monthly credit allowance. Source: https://www.hostinger.com/horizons/pricing

Sources: hostinger.com · hostinger.com · hostinger.com · hostinger.com

Internal tools and business apps that need to stand up fast and don't need to move.

Pricing: Free: $0 (25 message credits + 100 integration credits, unlimited apps — permanent). Starter $16/month. Builder $40/month (custom domain, GitHub integration). Pro $80/month. Elite $160/month. Amounts as monthly equivalent when billed annually; annual billing saves ~20%. Separate credit pools: message credits for building, integration credits for running the live app. Source: https://base44.com/blog/how-much-does-base44-cost + https://www.nocode.mba/articles/base44-review

Sources: base44.com · base44.com · nocode.mba · future-stack-reviews.com

Tasks that go beyond code — research, analysis, documents, small apps, all in one run.

Pricing: Free $0 (300 daily credits) · Standard $20/month (4,000 credits) · Customizable $40/month (8,000 credits) · Extended $200/month (40,000 credits). All paid plans additionally include 300 daily refresh credits, up to 20 parallel tasks; annual payment approx. 17% cheaper. Team/Enterprise on request. Source: manus.im/pricing — CAUTION: the pricing table is loaded via JavaScript and was not directly retrievable; figures come from the search index of the same page and should be double-checked in the browser before publication.

Sources: manus.im · manus.im · manus.im · techcrunch.com

Pricing: Free $0 (10 credits/month, web and mobile building, extended models) · Standard $20/month ($17 annually, 100 credits, private projects, GitHub integration) · Pro $200/month ($167 annually, 750 credits, 1M context window, "Ultra thinking", custom AI agents) · Business and Enterprise on request. Extra credits per third-party sources $10 for 50 credits (unverified). Source: emergent.sh/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: emergent.sh · app.emergent.sh · techcrunch.com

A presentable deck or a quick one-pager site in twenty minutes, without touching PowerPoint.

Pricing: Free $0. Plus $10/month (annual ~$8/month), 1,000 credits/month. Pro $20/month (annual ~$15–18/month depending on source), 4,000 credits/month. Ultra $100/month (monthly only, no annual plan), 20,000 credits/month. ⚠️ The credit amounts are officially verified (help.gamma.app); the dollar figures come from secondary sources because gamma.app/pricing blocks automated requests (HTTP 403). The help center states the annual discount as up to 28%.

Sources: help.gamma.app · gamma-partners-y9y8f3m.gamma.site · help.gamma.app · gamma.app

Pricing: Free: $0 (full editor + AI, Framer subdomain with branding only). Basic $10/month (annual) — custom domain. Pro $30/month (annual) — CMS, staging, analytics. Scale from $100/month (annual only). Enterprise on request. Prices are PER SITE. Editor seats $20/editor/month, content editor $10/month (as of May 2026). Source: https://www.framer.com/pricing and https://www.framer.com/blog/ai-credits-simpler-plans-and-lower-prices/

Sources: framer.com · framer.com · framer.com · framer.com

Content-heavy brand and marketing sites with a CMS

Pricing: Site plans 2026 (after the simplification in May 2026): Starter free (2 pages, 1 GB traffic, webflow.io subdomain). Basic $15/month annually or $25 monthly (up to 300 pages, no CMS). Premium $25/month annually or $39 monthly (CMS with 20,000 items, 40 collections) — replaces the former CMS and Business tiers. Workspace/seat costs come on top separately. Source: https://webflow.com/pricing + https://help.webflow.com/hc/en-us/articles/51059955082387-Updated-pricing-and-simplified-plans-for-May-2026

Sources: help.webflow.com · webflow.com · webflow.com · market.partnerstack.com

Technically confident builders who want framework freedom (React, Vue, Svelte, Astro) or need mobile from day one (via Expo).

Pricing: Free: 1M tokens/month, daily cap of 300,000 tokens. Pro: $25/month with 10M tokens. Teams: $30/member/month. Enterprise on request. 10% discount when paid annually. All paid plans: token rollover, custom domain, no Bolt branding. Source: https://bolt.new/pricing + https://support.bolt.new/release-notes

Sources: support.bolt.new · bolt.new · support.bolt.new · nocode.mba

Client portals, internal tools, and data-driven applications on top of existing tables/databases.

Pricing: Free: $0 (10 app users, unlimited published apps). Basic from $49/month billed annually ($59 billed monthly) — 20 app users. Professional — 100 app users. Business — 500 app users. Enterprise on request (SSO, audit logs, advanced security). 30-day trial. The pricing lever is the number of APP USERS, not the number of apps (that's unlimited); on top of that there are limits on records, user groups, domains, AI credits, and data sources. Source: https://www.softr.io/pricing

Sources: docs.softr.io · market.partnerstack.com · softr.io · softr.io

Complex, logic-heavy web applications where you still have to dig in deep after the AI start — Bubble's differentiator is switching between prompt and visual editor.

Pricing: Starter: $29/month with 175,000 workload units (recurring workflows, basic version control). Growth: $119/month with 250,000 workload units (advanced version control, 2FA, two app editors, ten branches). Team/Enterprise above that. Overage costs around $0.30 per 1,000 additional workload units. Workload units measure server load: every database query, every workflow, every API call consumes some. Source: https://manual.bubble.io/account-and-marketplace/account-and-billing/pricing-plans + third-party analyses (nocode.mba, adalo.com) for the specific figures.

Sources: bubble.io · forum.bubble.io · forum.bubble.io · manual.bubble.io

Anyone who wants a real IDE instead of a terminal — the best compromise between autocomplete and agent.

Pricing: Hobby $0 (limited agent requests + tab completions, no credit card required) · Individual from $20/month, tiered as Pro / Pro+ / Ultra (Pro+ for daily agent use, Ultra for power users) · Teams $40/user/month · Enterprise on request. Source: cursor.com/pricing (July 2026).

Sources: cursor.com · forum.cursor.com · forum.cursor.com · cursor.com

Delegating tasks instead of pair programming — tickets you want to hand off and check later.

Pricing: Free $0 (light quota, restricted model selection, unlimited inline edits + tab completions) · Pro $20/month (higher quotas, frontier models from OpenAI/Claude/Gemini, cloud agents, overage at API prices) · Max $200/month · Teams $80/month + $40/developer seat · Enterprise on request. Source: devin.ai/pricing (July 2026). IMPORTANT: This makes the old ACU model ($2.25/ACU, $500 team plan) obsolete. windsurf.com/pricing returns a 308 redirect to devin.ai/pricing.

Sources: devin.ai · cognition.com · market.partnerstack.com · docs.devin.ai

Anyone who wants to grow into the code, needs languages other than JavaScript, or needs real production infrastructure (DB, deployments, scaling).

Pricing: Core: $20/month (annual approx. $240, ~20% savings) — includes $25 in monthly credit, up to 5 collaborators, two concurrent agents, unlimited workspaces, badge removal. Above that Pro and Enterprise. The agent bills "effort-based": simple changes under $0.25 per checkpoint, complex tasks get bundled into a larger checkpoint that costs more. Credits feed AI, deployments and compute. Source: https://replit.com/pricing + https://blog.replit.com/effort-based-pricing + https://docs.replit.com/billing/ai-billing

Sources: replit.com · replit.com · blog.replit.com · docs.replit.com

Teams already sitting on Vercel/Next.js with at least one developer on board.

Pricing: Free: $0 with $5 in monthly credits, deploy to Vercel, Design Mode, GitHub sync. Premium: $20/month with $20 in credits, purchasable extra credits, Figma import, v0 API. Team: $30/user/month with shared credits and centralized billing. Business: $100/user/month (data not used for training, SAML SSO, RBAC, SLA, SOC 2/ISO/GDPR/HIPAA). Enterprise on request. Billing runs on input/output tokens converted into credits; purchased credits expire after a year. Source: https://v0.app/pricing + https://vercel.com/blog/updated-v0-pricing

Sources: vercel.com · partners.dub.co · v0.app · vercel.com

Pricing: Free 100 credits/mo (assets under CC BY 4.0, low queue priority) · Pro $20/mo or $240/year = 1,000 credits/mo, 60% faster generation, API, private assets, 10 parallel tasks · Studio $60/mo or $576/year (team tier) · Enterprise on request. A full generation costs 20 credits. (Source: meshy.ai/pricing)

Sources: meshy.ai · meshy.ai · help.meshy.ai

Pricing: Free 200 credits/mo (up to 8 models) · Pro $19.90/mo, $13.93/mo on the annual plan ($167.16/year) = 3,000 credits/mo · Max $89.90/mo, $53.94/mo on the annual plan ($647.28/year) = 25,000 credits/mo · Team $109.90/seat/mo, $54.93/seat/mo on the annual plan = 45,000 credits/mo. Paying annually saves 50%. (Source: tripo3d.ai/pricing)

Sources: tripo3d.ai · tripo3d.ai · meshy.ai

Pricing: No free tier listed. Plus $30/mo or $25/mo on the annual plan ($300/year) = 10,000 credits · Pro $90/mo or $75/mo annually ($900/year) = 40,000 credits · Ultra $300/mo or $250/mo annually ($3,000/year) = 150,000 credits · Team and Enterprise on request. (Source: lumalabs.ai/pricing)

Sources: lumalabs.ai · lumalabs.ai · openaffiliate.dev

Pricing: Free (watermarked output, usable as AI mocap) · Lite $10/mo. = 2,100 credits/mo. · Standard $45/mo. or $360/year = 6,000 credits/mo. · Pro $95/mo. or $765/year = 12,000 credits/mo. (Source: Autodesk investor announcement on the freemium launch + cgchannel.com/2025/08/autodesk-cuts-prices-of-flow-studio-subscriptions/)

Sources: autodesk.com · investors.autodesk.com · cgchannel.com · autodesk.com

Pricing: Move One: Free = one-time 30 credits (don't expire, no top-up possible) · Starter $18 + VAT/mo = 60 credits · Standard $48 + VAT/mo = 180 credits · Plus $225 + VAT/mo = 240 credits · Advanced $490 + VAT/mo = 700 credits. Consumption: Gen 1 (s1) 1 credit per person per second, Gen 2 (s2) 2 credits. Move Pro / Move Live / Genesis: on request only. (Source: docs.move.ai/knowledge/move-one-pricing)

Sources: docs.move.ai · move.ai · developers.move.ai