14 tools, prices checked Oct 2026
AI tools for models
Tools with a free tier come first. Prices change, so check the source before you pay.
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Run open AI models on your own computer, free. Seeks private ChatGPT-style chat with open models, offline.
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One Nous sign-in for 200+ models, hosted tools and agent hosting. Seeks hermes Agent users who want one bill instead of a key per lab.
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One API key for 500+ models at provider list prices. Seeks trying and switching between many models without separate accounts.
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Google's flagship reasoning model, top of LMArena right now. Seeks hard reasoning, coding and long agent runs through the Gemini API.
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Anthropic's daily-driver flagship, #1 on Artificial Analysis. Seeks agentic coding, careful writing and long multi-step work.
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OpenAI's mid-priced flagship with a 1M-token window. Seeks strong all-rounder for coding and agents at a lower price than GPT-6 Astra.
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xAI's most capable Grok model for code and chat. Seeks cheap output tokens for a frontier model, with web and X search tools.
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Open-weights MIT model with a rock-bottom official API price. Seeks cheap, fast everyday chat and coding; 1M context with vision.
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Alibaba's 27B Apache-2.0 model that fits on one big GPU. Seeks running a capable model on your own machine, including images and video.
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Moonshot's 2.8T open model, top open model on LMArena. Seeks best-in-class open weights for chat and coding.
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Z.ai's open flagship, #2 open model on Artificial Analysis. Seeks strong open-weights reasoning and agents; a smaller MIT Flash sibling exists.
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Xiaomi's MIT-licensed model, #1 open weights on Artificial Analysis. Seeks top open-weights intelligence at a very low listed price.
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Nous Research's open fine-tunes, from 14B up to 405B. Seeks steerable, lightly filtered local chat and role-play on your own hardware.
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Jev (TypeSafe) New & indie
A closed, hosted "decision model" that returns typed answers, not text. Seeks classification, scoring and routing inside your code, with calibrated confidence.