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Replit

Browser-based coding platform with an AI Agent that builds and deploys full apps from a plain-English prompt.

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Conversational AI assistant for writing, analysis, and coding.

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50% off Core with .edu email
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Replit

Browser-based coding platform with an AI Agent that builds and deploys full apps from a plain-English prompt.

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Video · Freemium Oct 2026

Kling

AI video generation from text prompts and images.

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Free for students
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer that suggests code as you type, inside your editor.

Code
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API SOC2 Save ~$40/year on Pro
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

Claude

Conversational AI assistant for writing, analysis, and coding.

Writing
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API SOC2 Save 20% yearly on Business
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

ChatGPT

Conversational AI for writing, brainstorming, coding help, and answering questions.

conversational AI writing brainstorming coding help chatbot
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Wispr Flow

Voice dictation that types in any app, in 100+ languages.

voice dictation speech to text voice typing notetaker
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Fathom

AI meeting notetaker with a genuinely free plan.

AI notetaker meeting transcription meeting summaries sales calls
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Video · Freemium Nov 2026

Hailuo AI

MiniMax's AI video generator for text and image prompts.

AI video generator text to video image to video MiniMax
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Research · Freemium Nov 2026

NotebookLM

Google's research assistant that answers from your own sources.

research assistant source-grounded AI audio overviews study tool Google
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API OSS
Writing · Freemium Nov 2026

Mistral Le Chat

Mistral's AI assistant for chat, search, images and coding.

AI chatbot AI assistant Mistral web search image generation AI coding
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Wispr Flow

Voice dictation that types in any app, in 100+ languages.

voice dictation speech to text voice typing notetaker
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Fathom

AI meeting notetaker with a genuinely free plan.

AI notetaker meeting transcription meeting summaries sales calls
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Video · Freemium Nov 2026

Hailuo AI

MiniMax's AI video generator for text and image prompts.

AI video generator text to video image to video MiniMax
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Research · Freemium Nov 2026

NotebookLM

Google's research assistant that answers from your own sources.

research assistant source-grounded AI audio overviews study tool Google
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API OSS
Writing · Freemium Nov 2026

Mistral Le Chat

Mistral's AI assistant for chat, search, images and coding.

AI chatbot AI assistant Mistral web search image generation AI coding
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Productivity · Paid Nov 2026

Chatbase

Chatbase trains an AI agent on your own content to answer customers on chat, email and WhatsApp. It has no free plan, only a 7-day trial, and each plan includes just 1 agent.

AI chatbot AI support agent customer support chat agent WhatsApp AI
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Audio · Paid Nov 2026

Retell AI

Retell AI lets you build AI voice agents that answer and make real phone calls. It is pay-as-you-go at $0.07-$0.31 per minute, with no free plan — only a one-time $10 credit.

AI voice agents voice AI phone calls call automation receptionist AI
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Attio

Attio is an AI-native CRM that syncs your email and builds your contact database automatically. Its free plan covers 3 seats and 50,000 records, but free emails carry "Sent with Attio" branding and AI use is credit-metered.

CRM AI CRM sales CRM contact management email sync
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Productivity · Paid Nov 2026

Instantly

Instantly is a cold email outreach platform with unlimited inboxes and warmup. It has no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and lead credits are a separate subscription, so the realistic start for sending plus leads is $94 per month.

cold email email outreach lead generation email warmup email sequences
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Research · Freemium Nov 2026

Apollo.io

Apollo.io is a B2B sales platform with a 240M+ contact database, email sequences and a dialer. Its free plan gives 50 email credits per month with no credit card, but credits expire and the free plan connects to Gmail only.

B2B sales lead generation email finder sales database email sequences
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Writing · Freemium Nov 2026

Mistral Le Chat

Mistral's AI assistant for chat, search, images and coding.

AI chatbot AI assistant Mistral web search image generation AI coding
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API OSS Community GPU grants
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Hugging Face

The home of open AI — 1M+ models, datasets and demo Spaces to run, fine-tune and deploy, free for the community.

Code
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Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Stability AI

The company behind Stable Diffusion — image models you can use via API, in DreamStudio, or self-hosted under licence.

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API OSS Off-peak API rates at half price
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

DeepSeek

High-performing open AI chat and API from China — frontier-level reasoning and coding at a fraction of the usual API cost, free to chat.

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Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Replit

Browser-based coding platform with an AI Agent that builds and deploys full apps from a plain-English prompt.

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Video · Freemium Oct 2026

Kling

AI video generation from text prompts and images.

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Free for students
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer that suggests code as you type, inside your editor.

Code
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Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

Claude

Conversational AI assistant for writing, analysis, and coding.

Writing
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API SOC2 Save 20% yearly on Business
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

ChatGPT

Conversational AI for writing, brainstorming, coding help, and answering questions.

conversational AI writing brainstorming coding help chatbot
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Wispr Flow

Voice dictation that types in any app, in 100+ languages.

voice dictation speech to text voice typing notetaker
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Fathom

AI meeting notetaker with a genuinely free plan.

AI notetaker meeting transcription meeting summaries sales calls
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Video · Freemium Nov 2026

Hailuo AI

MiniMax's AI video generator for text and image prompts.

AI video generator text to video image to video MiniMax
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Research · Freemium Nov 2026

NotebookLM

Google's research assistant that answers from your own sources.

research assistant source-grounded AI audio overviews study tool Google
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API OSS
Writing · Freemium Nov 2026

Mistral Le Chat

Mistral's AI assistant for chat, search, images and coding.

AI chatbot AI assistant Mistral web search image generation AI coding
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Productivity · Paid Nov 2026

Chatbase

Chatbase trains an AI agent on your own content to answer customers on chat, email and WhatsApp. It has no free plan, only a 7-day trial, and each plan includes just 1 agent.

AI chatbot AI support agent customer support chat agent WhatsApp AI
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API SOC2
Audio · Paid Nov 2026

Retell AI

Retell AI lets you build AI voice agents that answer and make real phone calls. It is pay-as-you-go at $0.07-$0.31 per minute, with no free plan — only a one-time $10 credit.

AI voice agents voice AI phone calls call automation receptionist AI
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Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Attio

Attio is an AI-native CRM that syncs your email and builds your contact database automatically. Its free plan covers 3 seats and 50,000 records, but free emails carry "Sent with Attio" branding and AI use is credit-metered.

CRM AI CRM sales CRM contact management email sync
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API
Productivity · Paid Nov 2026

Instantly

Instantly is a cold email outreach platform with unlimited inboxes and warmup. It has no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and lead credits are a separate subscription, so the realistic start for sending plus leads is $94 per month.

cold email email outreach lead generation email warmup email sequences
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Research · Freemium Nov 2026

Apollo.io

Apollo.io is a B2B sales platform with a 240M+ contact database, email sequences and a dialer. Its free plan gives 50 email credits per month with no credit card, but credits expire and the free plan connects to Gmail only.

B2B sales lead generation email finder sales database email sequences
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Video · Freemium Nov 2026

Repostit Clips

Turn a YouTube video into scored vertical clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Choose automatic highlights or edit clips manually, then schedule them across connected apps.

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API Save up to 17% with yearly billing
Writing · Paid Oct 2026

Surfer

Content optimisation platform that scores your drafts against what's ranking and tells you exactly what to fix to compete.

Writing
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Audio · Paid Oct 2026

Krisp

AI noise cancellation that removes background noise, echoes and other voices from your calls — in both directions, in any app.

Audio
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API Yearly billing cheaper than monthly
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Fotor

Long-running online photo editor with AI tools for enhancement, background removal, retouching and quick social designs.

Image
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API OSS Community GPU grants
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Hugging Face

The home of open AI — 1M+ models, datasets and demo Spaces to run, fine-tune and deploy, free for the community.

Code
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Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

Poe

Quora's all-in-one AI chat app — talk to GPT, Claude, Gemini and hundreds of community bots in one subscription and one interface.

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API 12 months free for students
Productivity · Freemium Oct 2026

Granola

The AI notepad for meetings — enhances your own notes with a transcript, without a bot ever joining your call.

Productivity
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Save 17% yearly
Productivity · Freemium Oct 2026

Reclaim

AI calendar assistant that defends time for your tasks, habits and focus — and reschedules intelligently when meetings collide.

Productivity
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Save 20% yearly
Productivity · Freemium Oct 2026

Bardeen

Browser automation with AI — scrape websites, enrich leads and move data between apps with one-click playbooks.

Productivity
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API Save ~40% with yearly billing
Video · Paid Oct 2026

Submagic

AI captions for short-form video in 48 languages — the animated word-by-word subtitles behind half the Reels in your feed.

Video
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API Save 50% yearly
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

Opus Clip

Turns long videos and podcasts into viral short clips automatically — finds the hooks, adds captions and scores every clip.

Video
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Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Remove.bg

The original one-click background remover — clean product shots and portraits in seconds, with a famous API for bulk work.

Image
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API Save up to 41% yearly
Productivity · Paid Oct 2026

Motion

AI calendar and project manager that automatically schedules your tasks around your meetings — and reshuffles when life happens.

Productivity
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API Free forever plan
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

Fliki

Text-to-video maker with 2,000+ realistic AI voices — turn blog posts and scripts into narrated videos for social and learning.

Video
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Video · Freemium Oct 2026

D-ID

Turns a still photo and text into a talking presenter video — the API-first avatar platform used for training, news and support.

Video
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API OSS
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Stability AI

The company behind Stable Diffusion — image models you can use via API, in DreamStudio, or self-hosted under licence.

Image
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API 30% off for students
Writing · Paid Oct 2026

Writesonic

AI writing suite for blogs, ads and product copy — plus Chatsonic, its web-connected AI chat with current information.

Writing
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API Save ~20% with annual billing
Writing · Paid Oct 2026

Jasper

The original AI writing platform for marketing teams — brand voice controls, campaign workflows and SEO content at scale.

Writing
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Save 25% yearly
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Napkin AI

Turns your text into clear diagrams, infographics and visual explainers in seconds — built for posts, docs and presentations.

Image
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API OSS Off-peak API rates at half price
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

DeepSeek

High-performing open AI chat and API from China — frontier-level reasoning and coding at a fraction of the usual API cost, free to chat.

Writing
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API 20% off for students
Audio · Freemium Oct 2026

Otter.ai

Meeting assistant that joins your calls, transcribes them live and delivers summaries, action items and searchable notes.

Audio
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Save 50% with annual billing
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

InVideo

AI video maker that turns a prompt or script into a complete video with stock footage, voiceover, subtitles and music.

Video
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API 50% off Pro for students
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Lovable

Prompt-to-app builder that creates polished full-stack web apps with auth, databases and hosting wired in — a favourite for fast MVPs.

Code
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API Annual plan is the best value
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's generative AI for images, text effects and design assets — commercially safe, and built into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express.

Image
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API Save 50% with annual billing
Productivity · Freemium Oct 2026

Taskade

All-in-one workspace with AI agents — notes, tasks, mind maps and automations that turn outlines into finished work.

Productivity
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Student & school discounts on request
Audio · Freemium Oct 2026

AIVA

AI music composer that creates emotional, cinematic soundtracks and songs — used for films, games, ads and content.

Audio
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API Save up to 28% yearly
Image · Paid Oct 2026

Magnific

AI image upscaler and generator famous for adding realistic detail — turn small or flat images into rich, high-resolution visuals.

Image
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Cheaper with annual billing
Writing · Paid Oct 2026

Sudowrite

AI writing partner built specifically for fiction — brainstorm, expand scenes, rewrite prose and keep your story bible in one place.

Writing
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Free forever (1M tokens/month)
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Bolt

Browser AI app builder by StackBlitz — prompt, build, edit and deploy full-stack web apps without leaving the tab.

Code
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API Free Basic plan
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

Synthesia

Enterprise AI video platform — turn text into training, marketing and explainer videos with realistic avatars in 140+ languages.

Video
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API $10 free API credit
Audio · Freemium Oct 2026

Murf AI

Studio-quality AI voice generator with 200+ voices in 20+ languages, built for videos, e-learning and podcasts.

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API Free plan
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Windsurf

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) — agentic AI code editor that understands your whole codebase and writes, edits and runs code with you.

Code
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Student discount on CapCut Pro
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

CapCut

Free video editor (web, desktop, mobile) with powerful AI features — auto captions, background removal and script-to-video for creators.

Video
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API Save 40% yearly
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Krea

Creative AI suite for real-time image generation, upscaling and video — draw or type and watch results appear instantly.

Image
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Save 58% yearly
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

QuillBot

AI paraphrasing and writing toolkit — rewrite sentences, check grammar, summarise and generate citations in one place.

Writing
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Writing · Paid Oct 2026

Copy.ai

AI copywriting and go-to-market platform that drafts marketing copy, sales emails and full content workflows in your brand voice.

Writing
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API Save 33% yearly
Productivity · Freemium Nov 2026

Zapier

The original automation platform connecting 9,000+ apps in Zaps. Pricing checked November 2026: free plan with 100 tasks a month, Professional from $19.99/mo, Team from $69/mo - plus the real free-plan limits.

Productivity
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API Academic pricing up to 43% off
Research · Freemium Oct 2026

Elicit

AI research assistant that finds academic papers and extracts their methods, results and key data into clean tables.

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API 1 year of complimentary v0 for students
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

v0

Vercel's AI UI builder — describe an interface and get production React code with modern styling, ready to deploy.

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API Save 42% yearly
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Photoroom

AI photo editor for product photography — remove backgrounds, generate studio scenes and batch-edit listings in seconds.

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API Save up to 28% yearly
Productivity · Freemium Oct 2026

Gamma

AI presentation maker that turns a prompt or outline into a polished, designed deck in about a minute — no slide design skills needed.

Productivity
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API Save 20% yearly
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

Pika

Playful AI video generator with strong effects — turn text or images into short clips with stylised motion and viral "Pikaffects".

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Save 40% yearly
Research · Freemium Oct 2026

Consensus

AI search engine over 200M+ peer-reviewed papers that answers research questions with cited, evidence-based summaries.

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Audio · Freemium Oct 2026

Udio

AI music generator known for expressive vocals and polished production — create full songs from a text description.

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API Free for schools
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Canva AI

Canva's Magic Studio brings AI image generation, writing and editing into the design tool millions already use.

Image
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SOC2 Save 60% yearly
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

Grammarly

AI writing assistant that checks grammar, clarity and tone everywhere you write — emails, docs and browsers.

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API Up to 33% off with annual billing
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Ideogram

AI image generator famous for accurate text inside images — posters, logos, memes and typography-driven designs.

Image
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API Save ~17% with annual billing
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

HeyGen

AI avatar video platform — turn a script into presenter-led videos with realistic avatars, voice cloning and translation.

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API Cheaper with yearly billing
Productivity · Freemium Oct 2026

Make

Visual automation platform that connects your apps and automates repetitive work — a powerful, affordable alternative to Zapier.

Productivity
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API EDU plan: $8/editor/mo billed yearly
Audio · Freemium Oct 2026

Descript

Edit audio and video by editing text — transcription, overdub voice cloning, filler-word removal and screen recording in one app.

Audio
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API Save up to 20% yearly
Video · Paid Oct 2026

Luma Dream Machine

Text-to-video and image-to-video generation with natural motion, camera controls and keyframe directing.

Video
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API Free plan: 150 tokens daily
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Leonardo AI

AI image generation platform for game assets, illustrations and marketing visuals, with fine control over style and consistency.

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API SOC2 1 year free for college students
Writing · Freemium Oct 2026

Google Gemini

Google's AI assistant for chat, research, writing and multimodal tasks, with very long context and built-in image generation.

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Audio · Freemium Oct 2026

Suno

AI music and song generation from text prompts.

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API Save up to 20% yearly
Image · Freemium Oct 2026

Recraft

AI image generation with precise style and layout controls.

Image
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Productivity · Paid Oct 2026

Notion AI

AI writing, summarizing, and organizing inside Notion workspaces.

Productivity
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API Student discount available
Research · Freemium Oct 2026

Perplexity

Conversational search engine that answers questions with cited sources.

Research
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API SOC2
Audio · Freemium Oct 2026

ElevenLabs

AI voice generation, cloning, and text-to-speech in many languages.

Audio
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API 25% off for students
Video · Freemium Oct 2026

Runway

AI video generation and editing tools, including the Gen-4 video model.

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API Free plan for getting started
Code · Freemium Oct 2026

Cursor

AI-first code editor with pair-programming style assistance across multiple files.

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Save 20% yearly
Image · Paid Oct 2026

Midjourney

AI image generation from text prompts, known for detailed, artistic images.

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How to actually get things done with AI

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The $0 Research Stack

Search the live web, ground everything in your own sources, then draft with a second AI — a full research workflow that costs nothing.

Perplexity 1. Search the live web → NotebookLM 2. Ground it in your sources → Mistral Le Chat 3. Draft and challenge
$0/month Free Tier
Explore Workflow →
Beginner ~15 mins to set up

Voice-First Writing

Draft by talking, structure with AI, polish before it ships — a complete writing workflow that runs on free plans.

Wispr Flow 1. Dictate the draft → Claude 2. Structure and tighten → Grammarly 3. Final polish
$0/month on free tiers Free Tier
Explore Workflow →
Beginner ~1 hour per video

Faceless AI Video Channel

Run a faceless short-video channel: AI-generated footage, an AI voiceover, and a free editor — no camera and no presenter.

Hailuo AI 1. Generate the footage → ElevenLabs 2. Narrate the script → CapCut 3. Edit and caption
$0 to try, $14.99/month to run
Explore Workflow →
Beginner ~30 mins to set up

Meetings That Update Your CRM Themselves

Every meeting records itself, summarises itself, and files its notes and action items against the right CRM record — no manual data entry after a call.

Fathom 1. Record and summarise → Zapier 2. Route the output → Attio 3. File it in the CRM
$0/month on free tiers Free Tier
Explore Workflow →
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The 1-Person Automated Video Channel: from $0-$21/mo in software

An example pipeline for a faceless video channel: chain 4 AI tools to write, voice, animate and thumbnail a full deep-dive video without hiring an editor. Prices and time are estimates; check each tool for current pricing.

4 Tools in Pipeline
~30 mins Time Per Video
$0-$21 Est. Software Cost
1 Free-Tier Tool

The 4-Step Production Pipeline

1
ChatGPT 4o Free

Generates high-retention script outline and viral YouTube title options.

2
ElevenLabs $6/mo

Generates ultra-realistic narration with natural pacing and zero robotic artifacts.

3
Runway $15/mo

Synthesizes cinematic 4K B-roll footage matching each script paragraph.

4
Recraft Free

Generates high-CTR 3D vector thumbnails and channel artwork.

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