The AI tools & agents directorythat checks facts first

AI for chat, coding, creative work, and everyday tasks, alongside personal assistants, MCP servers, and open source projects. Stars and licenses come only from GitHub, prices are never quoted, and API relays carry a risk notice.

tools: 166
categories: 11
comparisons: 3
sources checked: 421

GitHub stars read 2026-10-17
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Find tools for chat, coding, images, video, audio, and everyday work. API relays are flagged separately and never ranked.

11 categories

Coding agents
29 entries
AI coding tools for the terminal, an IDE, or an editor extension. The Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex comparison is a separate page and is not a ranking of this list.
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Open source
20 entries
Open-source AI projects and creative development resources: local models, agent frameworks, workflows, interfaces, fonts, icons, SVG optimizers, and 3D libraries. A license field is stored only when GitHub returns a usable SPDX id.
Dify · Ollama · AgentScope · browser-use
Video
18 entries
AI products for generating, editing, and producing video, plus tools for animation, programmatic video, and media encoding. Entries follow their primary use; check official sources for features and usage limits.
Descript · FFmpeg · GSAP · Hailuo AI · 海螺
Productivity
18 entries
Tools that bring AI into writing, notes, presentations, meetings, and everyday work. Products that carry out multi-step tasks live under AI agents; general chat and search products remain under commercial AI.
Beautiful.ai · Consensus · Copilot for Obsidian
AI agents
14 entries
Hosted products that carry a task forward, including agents that build apps, change a codebase, or run a research flow. Coding CLIs and IDEs live under coding agents.
Bolt.new · Coze · Devin
Commercial AI
13 entries
Consumer chat and retrieval products such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. These entries are the product surfaces, not their coding agents.
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
Image & design
11 entries
AI products for image generation, photo editing, and visual design, plus supporting tools for storyboards, prototypes, and design systems. Video and audio have their own categories; local open-source generation workflows remain under open source.
Adobe Firefly · Canva AI · Excalidraw
MCP servers
10 entries
MCP servers that can be checked against GitHub or official docs. They give an agent tools; they are usually not chat products themselves.
GitHub MCP Server · Chrome DevTools MCP · Cloudflare MCP Server
Audio & music
10 entries
AI products for speech generation, music creation, and audio editing, plus recording and multitrack audio tools. Products primarily used for meeting notes or workplace collaboration live under productivity.
Adobe Podcast · Audacity · Auphonic
Personal assistants
8 entries
AI assistants focused on ongoing personal help, longer-term context, reminders, and proactive follow-through. Availability, access, and persistent capabilities vary; check each product’s current official details.
Cue by Manus · dots · Gemini Spark
API relays
Unverified
Pages about API relay risk. Entries are alphabetical. They cannot be sponsored, featured, or included in a comparison. Unverified, not an endorsement.
15 entries

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Popular open-source projects

Sorted by GitHub stars on the linked repository, read on 2026-10-17. Stars measure attention, not quality.

OpenCodeMIT
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-15: 213,832
n8n
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-15: 207,490
FirecrawlAGPL-3.0
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-15: 191,842
OllamaMIT
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-15: 183,273
Dify
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-15: 158,575
Open WebUI
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-15: 155,797
ExcalidrawMIT
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-17: 134,004
CodexApache-2.0
GitHub stars, read on 2026-10-15: 129,378

Recently added

Ordered by date added, then by name.

Adobe Firefly
Generate and edit visual assets within workflows that connect to Adobe’s creative tools.
2026-10-17
Adobe Podcast
Useful for quickly improving spoken recordings, interviews and podcasts.
2026-10-17
AgentScope
A Python framework for observable and controllable agent applications.
2026-10-17
Audacity
Edit narration, music, and effects in a multitrack audio workspace.
2026-10-17
Augment Code
Coding agents built around codebase context and team development workflows.
2026-10-17
Auphonic
Useful for consistent loudness and cleanup across podcasts, interviews and course recordings.
2026-10-17

Side-by-side comparisons

Factual dimensions only. Column order is reading order, with no scores and no winner.

3 comparisons

Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex
AI coding agent comparison of Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex: vendor, surface, source availability, and pricing model. Reading order is not a ranking, and there is no winner.
4 dimensions
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini
Entry points, vendors, and pricing models for three commercial chat products. This is not a model benchmark, and it does not compare their coding agents.
4 dimensions
OpenCode vs Cline vs Aider
Three AI coding tools you can obtain yourself: license, surface, and who pays for the model. Star counts stay on each tool page and are not compared here.
3 dimensions

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Unverified

API relay risk

A relay handles your requests, keys, and charges. We list names and checkable facts only: no ranking, no sponsorship, no stars.

Amazon BedrockUnverified
AWS's official multi-model cloud platform for Amazon and third-party foundation models.
BifrostUnverified
An open-source, self-hosted gateway for unified provider access, budgets and fallbacks.
Cloudflare AI GatewayUnverified
Cloudflare's official gateway for model requests. The category still does not treat it as an endorsement.
DeepInfraUnverified
Usage-based inference across model types, with dedicated deployments and selected external model APIs.
Fireworks AIUnverified
A platform for open-model inference, dedicated GPU deployments and fine-tuning.
Helicone AI GatewayUnverified
A multi-provider AI gateway and observability platform now in maintenance mode.
Hugging Face Inference ProvidersUnverified
Access multiple inference providers through Hugging Face with consolidated billing.
New APIUnverified
Self-hosted model-gateway software, AGPL-3.0. Operators are responsible for their own data and keys.
OpenRouterUnverified
A hosted API that routes requests to many models. This directory does not endorse it.
PortkeyUnverified
An AI gateway combining model routing, key management and request observability.
ReplicateUnverified
Run community and commercial models through an API, or deploy custom models.
RequestyUnverified
A hosted gateway for unified model access, failover, caching and budgets.
Together AIUnverified
A platform for hosted open-model inference and dedicated deployments, with selected third-party passthrough models.
Vercel AI GatewayUnverified
Vercel's multi-model routing gateway with a unified API, provider selection and failover.
硅基流动 SiliconFlowUnverified
A China-site model API platform providing inference for multiple open-model families.

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FAQ

How is this directory ordered?

Featured is an editorial flag, not a star ranking. Other categories show featured entries first, then alphabetical names. API relays are alphabetical only. They cannot be featured, sponsored, or included in a comparison.

Where do the star counts come from?

Star counts come from the entry's linked public GitHub repository, and each tool page shows the date the count was read. Entries without a public repository show none, and API relays never show one. The number changes over time. It is not a quality score.

Why are prices not quoted?

Prices change often. Entries record verified free, freemium, or paid models and verified plan names. When official pricing is not published, the entry says “Pricing not disclosed” rather than assuming a free or paid plan. Confirm amounts on the official site.