Perplexity's experimental playground for its models.
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483 tools and websites, sorted by the job they do. Flip the switch at the top to see the AI way or the human-made way.
227 checked against the vendor’s own site, most recently on 8 September 2026.
Top 5 this week
Week of 7 September- 1
Number 1: Cursor
Code editor built around an AI pair programmer.
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Number 2: Captions
Subtitles and editing built for short-form video.
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Number 3: Inworld AI
Builds NPCs that can hold a conversation.
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Number 4: Exa
Search built for models rather than for people.
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Number 5: Elicit
Finds and summarises real research papers, with citations.
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Number 1: Jan
Open source offline alternative to a hosted chat app.
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Number 2: Audacity
The default free audio recorder and editor for twenty years.
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Number 3: htmx
Modern interactivity with almost no JavaScript.
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Number 4: AntennaPod
Open source podcast player with no account.
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Number 5: Dolphin
GameCube and Wii emulator, the reference implementation.
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Open-weight models with a free chat interface.
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European model provider with open-weight releases.
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$14.99/month
Inference hardware built for very fast token output.
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Hosted open models with a single API.
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$0.30/usage
Run open models via API without managing servers.
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$0.25/usage
The public library of open models and datasets.
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$8/month
The company behind the Stable Diffusion image models.
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$19/monthOpen sourceTrains on your data
Image generation aimed at game and concept art.
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Image generation that handles text inside images well.
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$20/monthOpen source
Runs open models entirely on your own machine.
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$20/monthNo training on your data
Desktop app for running local models, no terminal needed.
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$0.13/usageNo training on your data
Open source offline alternative to a hosted chat app.
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Free tierOpen source
Grammar and tone checking across everything you type.
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Open source grammar checking you can self-host.
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Workflow automation you can self-host, with model steps optional.
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€20/monthOpen source