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ChatGPT Atlas was OpenAI's AI web browser for macOS, launched on Oct 21, 2025 and shut down on Aug 9, 2026. Its agent and browsing features moved into the ChatGPT desktop app for Mac and Windows and a ChatGPT extension for Chrome.

Comet is Perplexity's AI web browser, free for everyone since Oct 2, 2025 and available on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android. Its built-in Comet Assistant can read pages and carry out tasks for you; the agent needs a paid Perplexity plan.

Gemini in Chrome is Google's Gemini assistant built into the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac, Chromebook Plus and Android. It reads your open tabs and connects to Google apps; its agent, auto browse, is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, first in the US.

Manus is a general-purpose AI agent from Butterfly Effect that works on its own cloud computer to research, browse, build and write for you. It has a free plan with limited credits and paid Pro and Team plans; Meta's $2 billion purchase of it was blocked by China in Apr 2026, and Manus has run independently again since Aug 2026.

Character.AI is a platform for chatting and role-playing with AI characters, free with ads and optional plans ((c.ai) lite from $4.99 a month, or c.ai+). It filed for Chapter 11 on Oct 12, 2026 to sell itself, with Disney as the lead bidder; the app still runs, and users under 18 cannot use open-ended chat.

ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI assistant. It is free to use, with paid plans of Go ($8 a month in the US), Plus ($20) and Pro ($100, $200 or $500), and since Oct 2026 it runs on the GPT-6 models.

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant. It has a free plan, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $100 and Ultra at $200, runs on the Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 models, and leads the main coding leaderboards as of Nov 6, 2026.

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab whose free chat app and open-weight models, now the V4 family (V4-Pro and V4.1-Flash), are MIT licensed and among the cheapest to use by API. Its privacy policy says user data is stored in China, which led Italy's privacy regulator to block it there in Jan 2025.

Doubao is ByteDance's AI assistant in China, free on the web and in apps, running ByteDance's own Seed models (Seed 2.1 since Jun 2026) with Seedance video and Seedream image generation built in. Outside China, ByteDance offers a similar assistant called Dola at cici.com.

Gemini is Google's AI assistant and model family. The app is free, Google AI Plus costs $4.99 a month, Google AI Pro $19.99 with Gemini 4 Argon, and Google AI Ultra $99.99 or $199.99, as of Nov 6, 2026.

GLM is the model family from Zhipu AI, which trades as Z.ai, with a free chatbot at chat.z.ai. The newest, GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash (Aug 25, 2026), are open weight, and the GLM Coding Plan for coding agents starts at $18 a month, as of Nov 6, 2026.

Grok is the AI assistant made by xAI, now SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI), on grok.com, iOS, Android and X. It is free with limits; since Oct 12, 2026 the paid plans are The X Subscription, from $8 a month (Plus) to $200 (Ultra), bundled with X Premium and Cursor.

Kimi is Moonshot AI's chat assistant and family of open-weight models. The newest, Kimi K3.1 Pro (Nov 2, 2026), is a 2.8-trillion-parameter agentic model with a 1-million-token context, free to download under a license that adds terms only for large model-as-a-service companies.

Le Chat was Mistral AI's chat assistant; on May 28, 2026 Mistral renamed it Vibe, one agent for everyday work and coding. It is free with limits, and Vibe Pro costs $14.99 a month, as of Nov 6, 2026.

Meta AI is Meta's free assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads, the Meta AI app, meta.ai and Meta's AI glasses. Since Apr 2026 it runs on Meta's Muse Spark model instead of Llama; Meta's separate Muse agent app has paid plans.

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant app for Windows, the web and phones. It is free with lower limits, and higher use comes with Microsoft 365 Personal ($9.99 a month), Family ($12.99) or Premium ($19.99), as of Nov 6, 2026.

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources. It is free with limits; Pro costs $17 a month billed yearly and Max $167 a month billed yearly ($200 month to month), as of Nov 6, 2026.

Poe is Quora's app for chatting with many AI models in one place, including GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7. It is free with daily points; subscriptions give more points, priced by Poe at about $30 per million points.

Qwen is Alibaba's family of AI models and its free chat app at chat.qwen.ai. The newest generation, Qwen3.8 (Aug 2026), includes the open-weight Qwen3.8-Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and an Apache 2.0 Qwen3.8-27B that runs on one large GPU.

Bolt (bolt.new) is StackBlitz's AI builder that makes websites, full-stack web apps, mobile apps and slides from a chat prompt, in the browser, with hosting and databases built in; it is free with 1 million tokens a month, and Pro costs $25 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal, VS Code, JetBrains, a desktop app and the web. It comes with Claude Pro ($20 a month), Max ($100), Ultra ($200), Team and Enterprise, or is billed per token through the Claude API; the free Claude plan does not include it.

Cline is a free, open-source AI coding agent (Apache 2.0) for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, the command line and a desktop app; you bring your own API key or use Cline's provider and pay only for the model, and it works in Plan and Act modes.

Codex is OpenAI's coding agent, in the ChatGPT desktop app, the open-source Codex CLI, an IDE extension and the cloud. It is included in every ChatGPT plan from Free ($0) through Plus ($20), Pro (from $100) and Business, and runs GPT-6.1 Sol by default.

Cursor is an AI code editor made by Anysphere, which SpaceX bought in Aug 2026. It has a free plan; paid plans run from $8 to $200 a month, and OpenAI has said it will stop supplying its models to Cursor on Nov 12, 2026.

Devin is Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer, which takes a task and works on it in the cloud until it opens a pull request; it has a free plan, Pro at $20 a month and Max at $200 a month as of Nov 6, 2026, and Cognition also makes Devin Desktop, the former Windsurf editor.

Gemini CLI is Google's open-source terminal coding agent, but since Jun 18, 2026 it no longer serves free or Google AI Pro and Ultra accounts; individuals now use Antigravity CLI, and Gemini CLI stays for Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise customers and paid API keys.

GitHub Copilot is GitHub's AI coding assistant. It has a free plan with 2,000 completions a month; Pro costs $10, Pro+ $39 and Max $100 a month, Business $19 and Enterprise $39 a seat, and since Jun 1, 2026 usage is billed in GitHub AI Credits.

Google Antigravity is Google's agent-first coding platform (desktop app, IDE, CLI and SDK), launched with Gemini 3 in Nov 2025 and rebuilt as Antigravity 2.0 in May 2026; it is free for individuals with weekly limits, with higher limits through Google AI Pro and Ultra.

JetBrains AI is the AI built into IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and other JetBrains IDEs: AI Assistant for chat and code completion, and Junie, JetBrains' coding agent. AI Free gives 3 credits a month; AI Pro costs $10 a month for individuals and AI Ultimate $30, as of Nov 6, 2026.

Jules is Google's asynchronous coding agent for GitHub repositories, and Google is shutting it down: sessions must finish by Nov 11, 2026, it is read-only after that, and it winds down on Dec 31, 2026, with Google pointing to Google Antigravity.

Kiro is Amazon Web Services' spec-driven AI coding tool (IDE, CLI and web), which turns a prompt into requirements, a design and a task list before writing code; it is free with 50 credits a month, and paid plans run from $20 to $200 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Lovable is an AI app builder that turns a chat prompt into a working web app with a built-in backend (Lovable Cloud); it is free with 5 build credits a day, and Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 credits as of Nov 6, 2026.

Replit is a browser-based platform where Replit Agent builds, hosts and publishes apps from a plain-language prompt; the Starter plan is free, Core costs $20 a month and Pro $100 a month as of Nov 6, 2026, and the current agent is Agent 4 (Mar 2026).

v0 is Vercel's AI agent for building websites and full-stack apps in Next.js, Tailwind and shadcn/ui and deploying them to Vercel in one click; it is free with 7 messages a day, and Plus costs $30 a user a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Windsurf, the AI code editor, has been called Devin Desktop since Jun 2, 2026, when its owner Cognition renamed it. windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai; the plans are Free, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $200, and Teams at $80 a month plus $40 a seat.

Alexa+ is Amazon's generative AI version of Alexa, free with Amazon Prime or $19.99 a month without it in the US, on Echo devices, Fire TV, the Alexa app and Alexa.com. It is available to everyone in the US and Canada and has launched in the UK, much of Europe, Mexico, Brazil, India, Australia and Japan.

Apple Intelligence is the free AI built into recent iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watch and Vision Pro; since iOS 27 (Sep 14, 2026) it includes Siri AI, Apple's long-delayed personal Siri, in beta. It runs on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 and later, and M1 or later iPads and Macs.

Galaxy AI is Samsung's set of AI features on Galaxy phones from the S24 series on, plus newer tablets, watches and earbuds, such as Photo Assist, Interpreter, Call Screening and Now Brief. Samsung says its basic features are free, while future enhanced features may be paid, and Google's Gemini works alongside it.

AI leaderboards rank models by human votes (LMArena), by a mix of tests (Artificial Analysis), or by single tasks such as coding (SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench) and hard exam questions (Humanity's Last Exam). On Nov 6, 2026, Google's Gemini 4 Carbon led both LMArena Text and the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and Claude Opus 5.5 led coding.

As of Nov 6, 2026, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral's Vibe, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek can train on consumer chats unless you opt out, Gemini trains only while Keep Activity is on, and Claude trains only if you allow it; business plans from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Perplexity do not train on your data.

As of Nov 6, 2026 the main AI assistants cost about $20 a month for their standard paid plan (ChatGPT Plus $20, Claude Pro $20, Google AI Pro $19.99) and about $200 for the top plan (ChatGPT Pro 200, Claude Ultra, Google AI Ultra 20x, Grok Ultra), with cheaper tiers from $4.99 (Google AI Plus) and $8 (ChatGPT Go, X Subscription Plus).

The best AI browser for most people in Nov 2026 is the one they already use with AI added, Gemini in Chrome, or Perplexity's free Comet for a browser built around an assistant. ChatGPT Atlas shut down on Aug 9, 2026, and every agentic browser carries a prompt injection risk.

As of Nov 6, 2026, ChatGPT is the best all-round AI chatbot and the best free one, Claude is best for coding and agent work, and Gemini tops the general text leaderboard and is the best value for Google users.

As of Nov 6, 2026, Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5 scores highest on Terminal-Bench 4.0, Codex with GPT-6.1 Sol comes close at a fraction of the cost and is included in every ChatGPT plan, and Cursor and GitHub Copilot are the leading editor-based choices.

The best AI image generator in Nov 2026, by both LMArena and Artificial Analysis votes, is OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 in ChatGPT, with Google's Nano Banana 2.1, Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 and SpaceXAI's Grok Imagine close behind. Adobe Firefly is the pick for commercially safe work and Flux for open weights.

The best AI music generator in Nov 2026 is Suno: Suno v6 ranked first on Artificial Analysis's vocal and instrumental music leaderboards on Nov 6, 2026, and its paid plans include downloads and commercial rights. ElevenLabs' Eleven Music is the safer choice for licensed background music, and Udio has kept downloads off since Oct 29, 2025.

The best AI video generator in Nov 2026 on LMArena's votes is Google's Gemini Omni Flash, and on Artificial Analysis's it is Alibaba's Wan 3.0; ByteDance's Seedance and MiniMax's Hailuo models rank near the top of both. OpenAI closed the Sora app in 2026, and Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 now rank 13th and 14th on LMArena.

The best AI voice generator in Nov 2026 is ElevenLabs, whose Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo were first and second on Artificial Analysis's text to speech leaderboard on Nov 6, 2026; Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Alibaba's Qwen models are far cheaper per character, and Descript is best for fixing your own recordings.

The most useful free AI tools as of Nov 6, 2026 are ChatGPT (unlimited everyday text chats on GPT-6), Gemini and Claude for chat, NotebookLM for research, GitHub Copilot Free for coding, Google Flow for video (50 credits a day), ElevenLabs for voice and Suno for music, each with limits listed here and linked to the maker's pricing page.

To run AI on your own computer, install Ollama or LM Studio (both free) and download an open model sized to your memory, such as Gemma 4, Qwen 3.5 or 3.8, or gpt-oss 20b. With 8 to 16 GB a small model runs well; a 24 GB graphics card or a 32 GB Mac runs 27B to 31B models.

A guide to every important AI product as of Nov 6, 2026, one page each, with dated prices, limits and rankings. For most people the starting points are ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, each free to try with main paid plans around $20 a month.

Adobe Firefly is Adobe's AI app for images, video and audio, with its own Firefly models (trained, Adobe says, on licensed and public domain content) and partner models from Google, OpenAI and others. It has free daily generations, and paid plans start at $9.99 a month.

Flux is the family of image (and now video) models from Black Forest Labs, some with open weights you can run yourself. The newest open image model, Flux 3 Image Klein (Oct 15, 2026), is free for commercial use under $5 million in revenue, and the API starts at $0.009 an image.

GPT Image is OpenAI's image generation model family, used in ChatGPT (as ChatGPT Images) and in the API. The latest, ChatGPT Images 2.6, arrived on Nov 4, 2026; it is free to try in ChatGPT with limits, and the API version costs $30 per million image output tokens.

Ideogram is an AI image generator built for graphic design and text inside images. It is free with 30 credits a week, Plus costs $20 a month, and its newest model, Ideogram 4.5, focuses on precise multi-step editing.

Imagen is Google's older line of text-to-image models, last Imagen 4 (2025). Google now calls it legacy: the Gemini API shut its Imagen models down from Aug 17, 2026 and points developers to Nano Banana instead.

Krea is an AI creative app that generates images in real time as you type or draw, runs its own Krea 3 editing model and many partner image and video models, and upscales images. It is free with 100 compute units a day, and paid plans cost $9 to $200 a month.

Leonardo AI (Leonardo.Ai) is a Canva-owned creative app for AI images and video that offers its own Lucid models plus 80 or more partner models such as Nano Banana, GPT Image and Flux. It is free with 150 tokens a day, and paid plans cost $12 to $60 a month.

Midjourney is a paid AI image and video generator from the independent lab Midjourney, Inc. Plans run from $10 to $120 a month with no free tier, and its default model since Jul 24, 2026 is V8.2.

Nano Banana is Google's name for its Gemini image generation and editing models. The newest, Nano Banana 2.1, came out on Oct 6, 2026; it is free to use with limits in the Gemini app and costs about $0.034 per 1K image in the Gemini API.

Recraft is an AI design tool known for generating real vector (SVG) graphics, logos and brand-consistent images with its own V4.1 models, alongside partner models such as Nano Banana and GPT Image. It has a free plan for personal use, and paid plans start at $12 a month.

Seedream is ByteDance's family of image generation and editing models, made by its Seed team. The newest, Seedream 5.0 Pro, adds reasoning, infographics and layer separation, and costs $0.045 an image through BytePlus ModelArk.

Stable Diffusion is Stability AI's family of open image models (SD 1.5, SDXL, SD 3.5) that anyone can download and run on their own computer. SD 3.5 is free to use commercially for those under $1 million in annual revenue, and Stability's API charges from $0.025 an image.

Gemma is Google's family of free open-weight models, built from the same research as Gemini. The current generation, Gemma 4 (Apr 2026), comes in E2B, E4B, 12B, 26B and 31B sizes under the Apache 2.0 license and runs on phones, laptops and single GPUs.

gpt-oss is OpenAI's pair of open-weight reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, released on Aug 5, 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. The 20b runs in 16 GB of memory and the 120b on a single 80 GB GPU.

Hugging Face is the main hub for open AI, hosting more than 2 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million Spaces apps; it is free to use, with PRO at $9 a month. It also runs Inference Providers, one API for hosted open models, and the HuggingChat assistant.

Llama is Meta's family of open-weight AI models; the latest, Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, came out on Apr 5, 2025 under the Llama 4 Community License. Since 2026 Meta's new models carry the Muse name instead, and Meta AI no longer runs on Llama.

LM Studio is a free desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that finds, downloads and runs open AI models such as Gemma, Qwen and gpt-oss on your own computer, free for work use since Jul 2025. Its newer agent app, Bionic, adds paid US-hosted models from $20 a month.

Mistral AI is a Paris company that makes open-weight and commercial AI models; its flagship, Mistral Large 4, is a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model released in Oct 2026. It also makes the Vibe assistant (formerly Le Chat) and raised €3 billion in Sep 2026.

Ollama is a free, open-source tool for downloading and running open AI models such as Gemma, Qwen, gpt-oss and DeepSeek on your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer. Its optional cloud models are pay per token, with Pro at $20 a month and Max at $100, as of Nov 6, 2026.

OpenRouter is one API and one bill for more than 600 AI models from 80+ providers, including GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Qwen, at the providers' own token prices plus a 5.5% fee on credit purchases, as of Nov 6, 2026. Its public rankings show which models get the most use.

Grammarly is an AI writing assistant that checks and rewrites text across apps; since Oct 29, 2025 it is a product of the company Superhuman, which also makes Superhuman Mail, Docs and the Go assistant. Grammarly is free with 100 AI prompts a month, and Pro costs $12 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Granola is an AI notepad for meetings that transcribes from your own computer's audio, so no bot joins the call, and turns your rough notes into full ones. It is free with 30 days of history, and Business costs $14 a user a month as of Nov 6, 2026, on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft's AI for work inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, grounded in your company's email, files and meetings; it costs $30 a user a month billed yearly for enterprises and $21 for small businesses (discounted to $18 through Dec 31, 2026), while Copilot Chat comes free with Microsoft 365 work accounts, as of Nov 6, 2026.

NotebookLM, renamed Gemini Notebook by Google on Jul 16, 2026, is a free research notebook that answers only from the sources you upload and turns them into Audio and Video Overviews, slide decks, quizzes and flashcards. The free plan allows 100 notebooks of 50 sources each, and Google AI Plus ($4.99), Pro ($19.99) and Ultra raise the limits as of Nov 6, 2026.

Notion AI is the AI built into Notion, led by Notion Agent, which plans and carries out multi-step work across your pages, databases and connected apps. It comes in full with the Business plan at $20 a member a month; Free and Plus get only a trial, as of Nov 6, 2026.

Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls to transcribe them, write summaries and answer questions about them. It is free for 300 minutes a month (30 minutes a meeting), and Pro costs $8.33 a month billed yearly or $16.99 monthly as of Nov 6, 2026.

Google Flow is Google's AI filmmaking app at flow.google.com, built on the Gemini Omni Flash and Veo video models and Nano Banana for images. Everyone 18 or older in a supported country gets 50 free credits a day; Google AI Pro adds 1,000 credits a month and Ultra 10,000 or 25,000, as of Nov 6, 2026.

Hailuo is MiniMax's AI video app at hailuoai.video; its current model, MiniMax H3 (Jul 31, 2026), makes 4 to 15 second videos with stereo sound at up to 2K and has open weights. H3 ranks 11th on Arena's text-to-video leaderboard as of Nov 6, 2026.

HeyGen is an AI video app for talking avatars and video translation; its Avatar V model makes a digital twin of you from about 15 seconds of phone video, and it translates videos into 175 or more languages with lip sync. It has a free plan with 3 watermarked videos a month, and paid plans start at $29 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Kling is the AI video generator from Kuaishou's Kling AI unit; its newest model, Kling 4.0, launched Oct 15, 2026 and makes clips of up to 30 seconds in one pass. The Kling 3.0 API costs from $0.084 a second, and Kling also runs inside Runway, Luma and Pika, as of Nov 6, 2026.

Luma Dream Machine, Luma AI's video app, now lives on as Luma, a creative-agent app built on Luma's Ray3.2 video model plus outside models such as Veo 3.1, Kling 4.0 and Seedance. Plans cost $30, $90 or $300 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Pika is an AI video app from Pika Labs whose newest model, Pika H3 Flex (Oct 29, 2026), makes up to 15 seconds of video with stereo sound and has open weights. Pika has a free plan that runs on bought credits, and paid plans cost $10, $35 or from $95 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Runway is an AI video company whose app makes and edits video with its own Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 models plus outside models such as Kling 4.0 and Seedance. It has a free trial with 125 credits, and paid plans cost $15, $35 or $95 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Seedance is ByteDance's family of AI video models; Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 rank 6th and 7th on Arena's text-to-video leaderboard as of Nov 6, 2026, and 2.5 makes up to 30 seconds with sound in one pass. You can use it in ByteDance's Dola and Dreamina, through the BytePlus API, or inside Runway, Luma, Pika and HeyGen.

Sora, OpenAI's video app and Sora 2 model, is no longer available. OpenAI closed the Sora app and website on Apr 26, 2026 and removed Sora 2 from its API on Sep 24, 2026, so anyone who wants an AI video generator today has to use a rival such as Google's Gemini Omni and Veo, Kling or Seedance.

Synthesia is a London AI video company whose app turns a script into a video read by an AI avatar, in 140 or more languages, for business training and communication. It has a free plan with 10 minutes of video and a watermark, and paid plans cost $19 or $89 a month ($14 or $59 billed yearly) as of Nov 6, 2026.

Veo is Google DeepMind's video model family; the latest, Veo 3.1, makes 4 to 8 second clips with sound at up to 4K. As of Nov 6, 2026 it costs $0.05 to $0.60 a second on Google Cloud, and in Google Flow only the cheap Veo 3.1 Lite stays after Dec 5, 2026, as Google moves its apps to the newer Gemini Omni.

Wan is Alibaba's family of AI video models; Wan 2.1 and Wan 2.2 are free open models under the Apache 2.0 license that run on a home graphics card, while the newer Wan 2.5 to 2.7 and Wan 3.0 are offered only through Alibaba's apps and API as of Nov 6, 2026.

Descript is an audio and video editor where you edit by editing the transcript, with an AI co-editor called Underlord and voice clones that fix spoken words. It has a free plan with 1 hour of media, and paid plans start at $16 a month billed yearly ($24 monthly) as of Nov 6, 2026.

ElevenLabs is an AI voice company whose text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, music and voice agents run on its own models, led since Sep 28, 2026 by Eleven v4. It has a free plan with 10,000 credits a month, and paid plans start at $6 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Suno is an AI music generator that writes full songs with vocals from a text prompt; its current model is Suno v6 (Sep 9, 2026). It is free with 50 credits a day, no downloads and no commercial rights, and Pro costs $10 a month as of Nov 6, 2026.

Udio is an AI music generator that partnered with Universal Music Group (Oct 29, 2025) and settled with Warner Music Group (Nov 19, 2025); since Oct 29, 2025 songs can no longer be downloaded while it builds a licensed platform. It still has a free tier and Standard and Pro subscriptions as of Nov 6, 2026.