About this catalog
Best AI Tools List is a catalog of 491 AI tools in 17 categories, from video generators and note takers to AI receptionists and coding assistants.
It exists because buying an AI tool is harder than it should be. Prices hide behind credits, seats and "contact sales". Free plans watermark everything or stop after three uses. Trials renew without warning. Some paid tools turn out to be thin wrappers, and some disappear. People asking for help online kept running into the same problems, so the catalog is built around those questions: what does it cost, what does the free plan include, how does billing work, is there an API, and is the company still around.
What's on each listing
- Every plan, with the monthly price, the yearly price where published, and what each plan unlocks
- The free plan written out, or a plain "no free plan"
- How billing works: flat monthly, per seat, credits, pay per use, one time, or contact sales
- Whether there's an API, and which platforms it runs on
- Whether it's active, acquired, renamed, changed focus or shut down
- The pages the facts came from, and the date we checked them
What's not on it
No star ratings, no "editor's choice", no reviews we didn't write from real use. We don't test tools hands on; we write down what each company says it charges and what each plan includes, so you can compare on facts.
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