What to pay for, and what we checked

Prices are stamped with the month they were read against the vendor's own page. Changes are dated. No tool here is described as tested, because none of them was.

Price a meeting-notes team What a plan costs at your team size, from a price we can account for. Choose an assistant Three questions, two profiles to read next, no verdict. Audit what you already pay A 30-day checklist that ends in keep, downgrade or cancel.

What changed

Corrections and price changes are dated on the changelog. Vendor changes are dated on the news desk. Both are written by hand; neither is scraped or scheduled.

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Profiles

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ChatGPT

The default AI assistant — the broadest feature set, and the benchmark every other tool gets measured against

WritingFreemium
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Claude

The assistant for people who read a lot: long documents, careful prose, and fewer invented answers

WritingFreemium
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Gemini

The assistant that already has your email, docs and calendar — if you live in Google Workspace

ProductivityFreemium
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Perplexity

An answer engine that cites its sources — the tool to open when you need to check, not just to write

ResearchFreemium
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Midjourney

For mood boards, concept art and illustration: the best aesthetic defaults in the category, the least control over exact composition

Image
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DALL·E

Image generation that lives inside your chat: good at following a fussy written brief, average at making it look beautiful

ImageFreemium
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Stable Diffusion

The image model you run yourself: unlimited private generations and real control, paid for in setup time and hardware

ImageFree / Open source
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Runway

AI video for people who already edit: shot-level control and a post-production toolkit, billed in credits you spend on takes you delete

Video
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What makes a profile here different. Every tool listed here has its own written page: what it is for, what it costs this month, what it is bad at, and a checklist you can run in half an hour. Pricing is re-checked against the vendor's own page, and every page carries the date it was last checked. I don't accept payment for placements, so a recommendation here is only ever a recommendation. Read the full evaluation method or see what changed in the changelog.
From the news desk. Requests to Gemini 3.7 Flash now go to 3.8 Flash without asking (8 October 2026). The news page is written by hand, one primary source per entry, and says so on the page.