Trending AI Tools in 2026

The most-viewed and most-upvoted AI tools on aitools right now, refreshed regularly.

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Claude

Talk to Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic.

Freemium Text & Writing

ChatGPT

*reviews* - ChatGPT by OpenAI is a large language model that interacts in a conversational way.

Freemium Text & Writing

Mistral

Cutting-edge open-weight LLMs by Mistral AI.

Open Source Text & Writing

Gemini

*reviews* - An experimental AI chatbot by Google, powered by the LaMDA model.

Freemium Text & Writing

Llama

Meta's open source large language model.

Open Source Text & Writing

DeepSeek

DeepSeek V3 and R1 series of LLMs by DeepSeek AI.

Open Source Text & Writing

Perplexity AI

AI powered search tools.

Text & Writing

Flux

Text-to-image models by Black Forest Labs with high-quality photorealistic output.

Open Source Image Generation

Grok

An LLM by xAI with open source and open weights.

Open Source Text & Writing

Phind

*reviews* - Phind is an intelligent search engine and assistant for programmers. Phind is smart enough to…

Text & Writing

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion by Stability AI is a state of the art text-to-image model that generates images from text.

Open Source Image Generation

Midjourney

Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of…

Paid Image Generation

Ideogram

A text-to-image platform to make creative expression more accessible.

Image Generation

DALL-E 3

Latest iteration of OpenAI's powerful image generation model.

Freemium Popular Tools

Copilot

An everyday AI companion by Microsoft.

Text & Writing

You.com

A search engine built on AI that provides users with a customized search experience while keeping their data 100%…

Text & Writing

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot uses the OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor.

Open Source Code & Development

Playground AI

Playground AI is a free-to-use online AI image creator. Use it to create art, social media posts, presentations,…

Image Generation

Qwen

A series of LLMs independently developed by Alibaba Cloud.

Open Source Text & Writing

Cursor

Cursor is the IDE of the future, built for pair-programming with Powerful AI.

Code & Development

Leonardo AI

Create production-quality visual assets for your projects with unprecedented quality, speed, and style.

Image Generation

Codeium

AI for coding assistance.

Other

Exa

Language model powered search.

Text & Writing

Rytr

Rytr is an AI writing assistant that helps you create high-quality content.

Text & Writing

Together AI

Train, fine-tune-and run inference on AI models blazing fast, at low cost, and at production scale.

Code & Development

OpenRouter

A unified interface for LLMs.

Open Source Code & Development

KREA

Explore millions of AI-generated images and create collections of prompts. Featuring Stable Diffusion generations.

Image Generation

Synthesia

Create videos from plain text in minutes.

Video

Colossyan

Learning & Development focused video creator. Use AI avatars to create educational videos in multiple languages.

Video

HeyGen

Turn scripts into talking videos with customizable AI avatars in minutes.

Video

D-ID

Create and interact with talking avatars at the touch of a button.

Video

Resemble AI

Review - Offers real-time voice synthesis with customization options, making it versatile for both developers and…

Audio & Music

Play.ht

AI Voice Generator. Generate realistic Text to Speech voice over online with AI. Convert text to audio.

Audio & Music

OpenAI API

OpenAI's API provides access to GPT-4 and GPT-5 models, which performs a wide variety of natural language tasks, and…

Text & Writing

Gopher

Gopher by DeepMind is a 280 billion parameter language model.

Text & Writing

OPT

Open Pretrained Transformers (OPT) by Facebook is a suite of decoder-only pre-trained transformers. Announcement.…

Open Source Text & Writing

Bloom

BLOOM by Hugging Face is a model similar to GPT-3 that has been trained on 46 different languages and 13 programming…

Open Source Text & Writing

Vicuna-13B

An open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT.

Open Source Text & Writing

MiniMax

Multimodal foundation models for text, speech, video, and music generation

Text & Writing

Meta AI

Meta AI assistant to get things done, create AI-generated images, get answers. Built on Llama LLM.

Text & Writing

DeepSeek

Cutting-edge LLMs for enterprise, consumer, and scientific applications.

Open Source Text & Writing

Character.AI

*reviews* - Character.AI lets you create characters and chat to them.

Text & Writing

Pi

A personalized AI platform available as a digital assistant.

Text & Writing

Qwen

Qwen chatbot with image generation, document processing, web search integration, video understanding, etc.

Text & Writing

Le Chat

Chat with Mistral AI's cutting-edge language models.

Text & Writing

LibreChat

LibreChat is a free and open-source chat interface for assistant AIs. .

Open Source Text & Writing

Komo

An AI-powered search engine.

Text & Writing

privateGPT

Ask questions to your documents without an internet connection, using the power of LLMs.

Open Source Text & Writing

quivr

Dump all your files and chat with it using your generative AI second brain using LLMs & embeddings.

Open Source Text & Writing

Jasper

Create content faster with artificial intelligence.

Text & Writing

Compose AI

Compose AI is a free Chrome extension that cuts your writing time by 40% with AI-powered autocompletion.

Free Text & Writing

wordtune

Personal writing assistant.

Text & Writing

HyperWrite

HyperWrite helps you write with confidence and get your work done faster from idea to final draft.

Text & Writing

Moonbeam

Better blogs in a fraction of the time.

Text & Writing

ChatSonic

*reviews* - An AI-powered assistant that enables text and image creation.

Text & Writing

Anyword

Anyword's AI writing assistant generates effective copy for anyone.

Text & Writing

Hypotenuse AI

Turn a few keywords into original, insightful articles, product descriptions and social media copy.

Text & Writing

Lavender

Lavender email assistant helps you get more replies in less time.

Text & Writing

Lex

A word processor with artificial intelligence baked in, so you can write faster.

Text & Writing

Jenni

Jenni is the ultimate writing assistant that saves you hours of ideation and writing time.

Text & Writing