Top 100 AI Tools (in a table, categorised)

Seven tools on the last version of this list are dead.

Not “pivoting.” Not “sunsetting gracefully.” Gone. Sora burned roughly a million dollars a day and made $2.1 million in its entire life before OpenAI killed the app in April. DALL-E 3 got switched off in May, and there is no DALL-E 4 coming. Tome deleted every deck its users hadn’t exported. Play.ht vanished so completely that the domain no longer resolves.

That is what happened in fourteen months to a list of the biggest names in AI.

So this update is not a pricing patch. Every tool below was checked against its live product page in July 2026. Dead tools are out. Renamed tools carry their new names. Models pretending to be products got replaced by the thing you actually log into. And there is a new category, AI search visibility, because that is where the budget is moving and most tool lists still haven’t noticed.

Built to be scanned, not read.

#	Name	Category	Description
1	Claude	Conversational AI	Anthropic’s assistant; top-tier writing and coding
2	ChatGPT	Conversational AI	OpenAI’s flagship; writing, reasoning, multimodal
3	Gemini	Conversational AI	Google’s assistant; long-context, Workspace-native
4	Grok	Conversational AI	xAI; deep X integration and live web access
5	Microsoft Copilot	Conversational AI	Across Windows, Edge, and the Microsoft 365 apps
6	Meta AI	Conversational AI	Across Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger
7	DeepSeek	Conversational AI	Strong open-weight reasoning model
8	Mistral Le Chat	Conversational AI	European LLM with fast responses
9	Poe	Conversational AI	Multi-model interface from Quora
10	Perplexity	Search & Research	Citation-first AI search
11	You.com	Search & Research	AI search with multiple modes
12	Phind	Search & Research	Developer-focused search
13	NotebookLM	Search & Research	Google’s research notebook with audio summaries
14	Consensus	Search & Research	Search engine for scientific papers
15	Elicit	Search & Research	Research assistant for academic literature
16	Scite	Search & Research	Smart citations for research
17	Genspark	Search & Research	Multi-agent search
18	Comet	AI Browsers	Perplexity’s agentic browser
19	Atlas	AI Browsers	OpenAI’s ChatGPT-native browser
20	Dia	AI Browsers	The Browser Company’s conversational browser, now Atlassian-owned
21	Cursor	Coding & Dev	AI-first code editor
22	Claude Code	Coding & Dev	Terminal-based coding agent
23	GitHub Copilot	Coding & Dev	In-IDE AI pair programmer
24	Devin Desktop	Coding & Dev	Cognition’s agentic IDE, renamed from Windsurf in June 2026
25	Replit Agent	Coding & Dev	Cloud-based build-from-prompt
26	Lovable	Coding & Dev	Full-stack app builder
27	Bolt.new	Coding & Dev	Browser-based app builder
28	v0 by Vercel	Coding & Dev	UI generation from prompts
29	Cline	Coding & Dev	Open-source autonomous coding agent
30	Tabnine	Coding & Dev	Privacy-focused code completion
31	Jasper	Writing & Content	Marketing copy at scale
32	Copy.ai	Writing & Content	GTM workflows and copy
33	Writer	Writing & Content	Enterprise content with brand voice
34	Grammarly	Writing & Content	Writing assistant and editor
35	Anyword	Writing & Content	Performance-optimized copy
36	Sudowrite	Writing & Content	Fiction and creative writing
37	Wordtune	Writing & Content	Rewriting and paraphrasing
38	Rytr	Writing & Content	Budget content generation
39	Midjourney	Image Generation	Most aesthetically polished output
40	ChatGPT Images	Image Generation	OpenAI’s gpt-image-2; replaced DALL-E 3
41	Stable Diffusion	Image Generation	Open-source backbone
42	Flux	Image Generation	Photorealism leader from Black Forest Labs
43	Ideogram	Image Generation	Best for text inside images
44	Leonardo AI	Image Generation	Game and concept art
45	Adobe Firefly	Image Generation	Commercially safe, in Creative Cloud
46	Nano Banana	Image Generation	Google’s image model in Gemini and Flow
47	Recraft	Image Generation	Vector and design-focused
48	Krea AI	Image Generation	Real-time generation and enhancement
49	Runway	Video Generation	Pro-grade video editing and gen
50	Luma Dream Machine	Video Generation	Fast text-to-video
51	Pika	Video Generation	Stylized short clips
52	Kling AI	Video Generation	High-fidelity video from Kuaishou
53	Google Flow	Video Generation	Google’s filmmaking tool, powered by Veo 3.1
54	Synthesia	Video Generation	Corporate avatar videos
55	Hailuo	Video Generation	Strong motion physics from MiniMax
56	Captions	Video Generation	Mobile-first creator video
57	ElevenLabs	Audio & Voice	Industry-standard voice cloning
58	Suno	Audio & Voice	AI music generation
59	Udio	Audio & Voice	Suno’s main rival for music
60	Murf	Audio & Voice	Voiceovers for business
61	Cartesia	Audio & Voice	Low-latency TTS for real-time voice agents
62	Resemble AI	Audio & Voice	Custom voice clones
63	Descript	Audio & Voice	Edit audio/video like a document
64	Notion AI	Productivity	Embedded across the Notion workspace
65	Mem	Productivity	AI-native notes, rebuilt as Mem 2.0
66	Glean	Productivity	Enterprise search across your stack
67	Wispr Flow	Productivity	AI dictation that works anywhere
68	Gamma	Presentations	AI presentation builder
69	Plus AI	Presentations	AI decks inside Google Slides and PowerPoint
70	Beautiful.ai	Presentations	Design-aware slides
71	Decktopus	Presentations	Quick deck generation
72	Granola	Meetings & Notes	Bot-free meeting notes
73	Otter.ai	Meetings & Notes	Transcription veteran
74	Fireflies.ai	Meetings & Notes	Meeting intelligence
75	Fathom	Meetings & Notes	Free meeting recorder
76	Read AI	Meetings & Notes	Meeting analytics and summaries
77	Canva Magic Studio	Design	AI features across Canva
78	Figma AI / Make	Design	Design-to-code in Figma
79	Google Stitch	Design	UI from prompts; the former Galileo AI
80	Uizard	Design	Wireframes to designs, now part of Miro
81	Framer AI	Design	AI-built websites
82	Zapier AI	Automation & Agents	Workflow automation with AI steps
83	Make.com	Automation & Agents	Visual automation builder
84	n8n	Automation & Agents	Open-source workflow automation
85	Lindy	Automation & Agents	Build custom AI agents
86	Relay.app	Automation & Agents	Human-in-the-loop AI workflows
87	Manus	Automation & Agents	General-purpose AI agent
88	Surfer SEO	Marketing & SEO	On-page SEO optimization
89	Clearscope	Marketing & SEO	Content optimization
90	Frase	Marketing & SEO	SEO research and briefs
91	SEMrush Copilot	Marketing & SEO	SEO suite with AI layer
92	Profound	AI Search Visibility	Category leader; tracks 10+ answer engines
93	Peec AI	AI Search Visibility	Mid-market tracking with multi-country data
94	Otterly.AI	AI Search Visibility	Cheapest real entry point at $29/mo
95	Scrunch AI	AI Search Visibility	Serves AI-optimized pages straight to agents
96	AthenaHQ	AI Search Visibility	GEO with a technical SEO layer
97	Ahrefs Brand Radar	AI Search Visibility	AI mentions inside the Ahrefs suite
98	Apollo.io	Sales & Outreach	AI-powered B2B prospecting
99	Clay	Sales & Outreach	Enrichment and list building on autopilot
100	Instantly	Sales & Outreach	Cold email sending and deliverability

What changed since the last version

Thirteen entries came off. Sora, DALL-E 3, Tome, Play.ht, and Galileo AI are dead. Arc Search is frozen in maintenance mode while its team builds Dia at Atlassian. Pi technically still answers, but Inflection moved on to enterprise work and the product has barely shipped since Microsoft took its founders.

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop. Same editor, new name, and Cascade hit end of life on July 1.

Three entries were listing models instead of products. Imagen and Veo are model strings you reach through something else. Flow is the thing you open, so Flow is what’s listed. Nano Banana replaces Imagen for the same reason.

Two were saying the same thing twice. Google Workspace Gemini was just Gemini. Microsoft 365 Copilot was just Copilot. Claude Cowork was just Claude.

In their place: the five best AI search visibility platforms, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Clay, Instantly, Cartesia, Plus AI, Google Stitch, ChatGPT Images, and Nano Banana.

The count is still 100. It just means something now.

The category worth your attention

If you skim one row block, make it AI Search Visibility.

Profound went from a seed round in August 2024 to a billion-dollar valuation in eighteen months. That is not a tool getting popular. That is a budget line appearing out of nothing because CMOs opened ChatGPT, asked it to recommend a product in their category, and did not hear their own name.

The catch nobody sells you on: monitoring is not optimizing. These platforms tell you where you are invisible. They do not fix it. The fixing is still writing, still positioning, still someone deciding what your company is actually for. Buy the dashboard and you have bought a very expensive way to watch a number.

Which is the same trap as every other row on this list. The tools save the doing. They have never saved the thinking. AI didn’t cause content blindness; marketers did, by pointing a hundred tools at the same empty message.

If you want the message sorted first and the tooling second, that is what we do. Start with a free brief, or book a call.