AI & LLM Tools

Model providers, coding assistants, agent frameworks, and self-hostable AI — links to the source.

Model providers

• OpenAI Platform — GPT model APIs & console.
• Anthropic — Claude models & API.
• Google AI Studio — Gemini models & API keys.
• Mistral AI — Open + commercial model stack.
• Cohere — Enterprise LLMs & retrieval.
• xAI — Grok models & API.
• DeepSeek — Cost-efficient open reasoning models.
• Groq — Ultra-low-latency inference.
• Together AI — Inference & fine-tuning for open models.
• Fireworks AI — Fast open-model inference.
• OpenRouter — One API across dozens of models.

Chat assistants

• ChatGPT — OpenAI's chat assistant.
• Claude — Anthropic's chat assistant.
• Gemini — Google's chat assistant.
• Microsoft Copilot — Microsoft's AI assistant.
• Perplexity — AI search with citations.
• Poe — Many models in one place.
• Meta AI — Llama-powered assistant.

Coding assistants

• GitHub Copilot — In-editor code completion.
• Cursor — AI-first code editor.
• Windsurf — Agentic AI IDE.
• Tabnine — Privacy-first completion.
• Sourcegraph Cody — Codebase-aware assistant.
• Aider — Pair programming in your terminal.
• Continue — Open-source IDE assistant.
• Replit — AI dev environment in the browser.

Agent frameworks

• LangChain — Orchestration framework for LLM apps.
• LlamaIndex — Data + RAG framework.
• CrewAI — Multi-agent orchestration.
• AutoGen — Microsoft's multi-agent framework.
• Haystack — Production RAG pipelines.
• Semantic Kernel — Microsoft's orchestration SDK.
• Langflow — Visual builder for AI flows.
• Dify — LLMOps app platform.

Observability & eval

• LangSmith — Tracing & eval for LLM apps.
• Langfuse — Open-source LLM observability.
• Helicone — LLM request monitoring & caching.
• Weights & Biases — Experiment tracking & eval.
• Arize Phoenix — Open-source LLM tracing.
• Braintrust — AI eval & prompt management.

Self-host & inference

• Ollama — Run open models locally, one command.
• LM Studio — Desktop workbench for local models.
• vLLM — High-throughput inference engine.
• Hugging Face — Models, datasets & inference hosting.
• llama.cpp — Efficient local inference in C/C++.
• Jan — Open-source offline ChatGPT alt.
• GPT4All — Private local chat.
• LocalAI — OpenAI-compatible local API.

Image generation

• Midjourney — High-quality AI image art.
• Stability AI — Stable Diffusion open models.
• Leonardo AI — Image generation for creators.
• Ideogram — Text-in-image generation.
• Adobe Firefly — Adobe's generative imaging.
• Black Forest Labs (Flux) — FLUX open image models.
• Recraft — Vector & brand-style generation.

Video & audio AI

• Runway — Generative video toolkit.
• Pika — Text & image to video.
• Luma AI — Dream Machine video gen.
• Synthesia — AI avatar videos.
• HeyGen — Avatar & voiceover videos.
• ElevenLabs — Realistic AI voices.
• Suno — Generate songs from a prompt.
• Descript — Edit audio/video like a doc.

Writing & productivity

• Jasper — Marketing content generation.
• Copy.ai — AI copy & GTM workflows.
• Grammarly — Writing checks & polish.
• QuillBot — Paraphrase, summarize, grammar.

Search & research

• Phind — AI search for developers.
• Consensus — Answers grounded in papers.
• Elicit — AI literature review.
• Exa — Search API built for AI.
• Tavily — Search API for agents.

Deploy & fine-tune

• Replicate — Run & deploy models via API.
• Modal — Serverless GPU compute.
• Baseten — Model inference deployment.
• RunPod — On-demand GPU cloud.
• Lambda — GPU cloud & workstations.
• Predibase — Fine-tune & serve small models.

Prompting & SDKs

• Vercel AI SDK — Toolkit to build AI UIs.
• PromptLayer — Prompt versioning & monitoring.
• Promptfoo — Test prompts & models.
• LMArena — Crowd model leaderboard.