AI tools, actually compared
A directory of over a thousand tools, plus guides that price them honestly — what each one costs at the config you will really use, where it breaks, and when the cheap option is the right one.
Start with what you are building
Nobody needs “an AI tool”. They need the four or five that do a particular job, and to know which of them are worth paying for. These are the stacks, not the shopping lists.
AI tools for print on demand
Seven jobs AI genuinely changes in a POD shop — and the print-resolution problem that ruins most first attempts. Free routes cost time; paid routes buy throughput.
AI video tools compared
Runway, Higgsfield, InVideo, Dreamina and the raw model APIs are not competitors — they are three different products. Sort them and the choice gets easy.
AI tools for writing & publishing
Six jobs where AI earns its place, two where it quietly costs you, and the KDP disclosure rule people discover after their book is rejected.
The guides
Research pieces built on measured numbers rather than vendor pricing pages.
- Every way to access Seedance, priced The same 8-second clip costs $0.24 or $2.88 depending which door you use. A 12× spread.
- Higgsfield pricing: what “unlimited” actually means It is not a plan. Credits do not roll over. And it is 10–20× an API route.
- Sora is shutting down — where to go The API stops 24 September 2026. Export your data first.
- We spent $9 testing Kling, Seedance and MiniMax The cheapest model won, and here are the nine defects frame strips miss.
- HeyGen alternatives: avatar or performance? Most people searching this have hit a limit of the category, not the product.
- Do AI agents actually work? We ran one for a month. Two questions predict whether yours will.
- ElevenLabs alternatives Video models make their own audio now. We kept none of it, and the reason is control.
- Dreamina, Jimeng, CapCut, Pippit, BytePlus ByteDance runs a Chinese product and an international twin for nearly everything.
Browse the directory
Over a thousand tools, by category.
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