Run open models locally with one command, exposing an OpenAI-compatible API
Local Model Runtime
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Local run free; Pro USD 20/mo (USD 60 credits); Max USD 100/mo (USD 300 credits); Team USD 500/mo; Enterprise custom.
Good for
Privacy settings where data cannot leave the network Driving token cost to zero at high call volume Offline or unreliable-network environments 4 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool AI-native Office CLI: read and edit .docx / .xlsx / .pptx with no Office install
Decks & Documents
Open source Price verified 2026-10-10 Open source (Apache-2.0), free single binary; no Microsoft Office or Python dependency required.
Good for
Letting AI agents read and write Word/Excel/PowerPoint cell by cell Atomic batch edits with a replayable dump/batch round-trip Looking up properties via schema-driven help instead of guessing Open-source LLMOps platform for visually orchestrating RAG and agent workflows
Agent Orchestration
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Sandbox Free (200 credits/mo); Professional USD 59/mo; Team USD 159/mo; Enterprise custom.
Good for
Building maintainable RAG / agents without writing code Enterprises needing private deployment Centrally managing models, knowledge bases, and tools 5 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Skill-catalogue-driven AI design output: decks, sites, dashboards, and finance documents
Decks & Documents Tested by us
Open source See official pricing Skills and design systems are open to use; cost comes from your model API. This site catalogues 118 skills and 146 design systems.
Good for
Consistent visual language across many output types Automating finance documents (DCF, pitch books) Codifying design standards into repeatable skills 6 site articles 3 scenarios Official site View tool Answers only from the sources you upload — it barely fabricates
AI Search & Research
Freemium See official pricing Usable free; a Plus variant ships with higher quota inside Google's paid AI plans. See the official page for current numbers.
Good for
Turning a pile of PDFs / annual reports into a queryable knowledge base Generating audio overviews Requiring every answer to cite the source passage 6 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Workflow automation billed per execution, with nodes that can run your own code
Agent Orchestration
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Free (50 exec/mo); Starter €24/mo; Pro €60-145/mo; Business €800-5245/mo (self-hosted); Enterprise custom.
Good for
Wiring existing SaaS together (hundreds of built-in nodes) Automation needing schedules, retries, and failure alerts Inserting LLM nodes for intelligent decisions mid-flow 10 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Open-source, skills-driven agent framework — extensively benchmarked on this site
Agent Orchestration Tested by us
Open source Price verified 2026-10-01 Self-hosted completely free; Cloud Managed USD 49/mo or USD 39/mo (annual).
Good for
Codifying repetitive work into triggerable skills Building your own multi-layer agent architecture Full control over prompts and the tool chain 16 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool GUI to download, manage, and run local models; supports GGUF and MLX
Local Model Runtime
Freemium See official pricing Free for personal use; commercial use requires a licence. See the official site for current terms.
Good for
Local models without touching a terminal MLX acceleration on Apple Silicon Comparing real performance across quantisations 4 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool High-throughput LLM inference server — the default choice for self-hosted production
Local Model Runtime
Open source Price verified 2026-09-29 Open source and free (Apache-2.0); cost is GPU hardware or cloud rental. This site publishes deployment tests and performance numbers.
Good for
Self-hosted inference shared by many users Continuous batching to maximise GPU utilisation An OpenAI-compatible endpoint for existing code 4 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Node-based local image-generation workflow, fully offline and customisable
Image & Video
Open source Price verified 2026-09-29 Open source and free; cost is hardware (16GB+ VRAM or Apple Silicon unified memory recommended).
Good for
Reproducible, version-controllable image pipelines High volume at near-zero marginal cost Advanced control via LoRA training and ControlNet 1 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool Open-source OCR — we use it to turn HK annual reports into analysable structured text
Finance & Research
Open source Price verified 2026-09-29 Open source and free; cost is hardware plus your LLM API. This site has measured results on Traditional Chinese reports and tables.
Good for
Batch parsing annual reports and financial PDFs Traditional Chinese documents with mixed tables Self-hostable, offline-capable OCR pipelines 8 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool Public database of HK shareholdings and directorships — a mandatory cross-check source in due diligence
Finance & Research
Free Price verified 2026-09-29 Free public lookup. Data compiled from official sources such as HKEX disclosures; this site documents usage and cross-verification method.
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Looking up major and related shareholdings Cross-directorship relationships Cross-verifying HKEX filings during due diligence 4 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Open-source multi-channel agent: one gateway process serves 20+ messaging platforms, with built-in self-improving learning
Agent Orchestration From official docs · not tested
Open source See official pricing The framework is open source and free; your cost is the model API you connect. Nous Research also sells a Portal subscription covering many models plus a Tool Gateway (web search, image generation, TTS, cloud browser), which removes per-tool key juggling.
Good for
One agent reachable from WeChat, WeCom, Feishu/Lark, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, email and more A long-running background service (systemd / launchd / Task Scheduler) rather than an open terminal Per-channel model and system-prompt overrides — one gateway, different persona per channel 8 site articles 3 scenarios Official site View tool InDesign-grade layout engine with a CLI (designcraft-cli): headless rendering, IDML import, MCP-ready
Decks & Documents
Freemium Price verified 2026-10-10 designcraft-cli is free to use; desktop app layout features may be tiered — see the official site.
Good for
Headless multi-page layout with PDF/per-page PNG output Importing IDML and .designcraft to interoperate with traditional publishing Driving layout directly from an agent via MCP The largest general assistant by user base, with the most complete ecosystem
General Assistants
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Free; Plus USD 20/mo; Pro USD 200/mo; Team USD 25/user/mo; Enterprise custom.
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Everyday writing, translation, summarisation Mature ecosystem and third-party integrations Power-user data analysis and image work 9 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Strong long-document comprehension and writing quality; Projects can hold a knowledge base
General Assistants
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Free; Pro USD 20/mo; Max USD 200/mo; Team USD 25/user/mo; Enterprise custom.
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Long-document reading and structured summarisation Writing where tone and craft matter Project-scoped knowledge-base Q&A 20 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Search API for AI applications, returning pre-digested, citable content
AI Search & Research
Usage-based Price verified 2026-10-01 Researcher Free (1K credits/mo); Project USD 30/mo (4K credits); Bootstrap USD 100/mo (15K credits).
Good for
Web search for RAG and agents Getting citable summaries directly Fast integration without building your own scraping A pure C/C++ inference engine — the layer most local solutions build on
Local Model Runtime
Open source See official pricing Entirely free and open source; your only cost is hardware.
Good for
Running models on constrained or unusual hardware Understanding low-level quantisation and performance The foundation for a self-built inference service DeepSeek's official open-source agent harness, built around "everything is a plugin"
Agent Orchestration From official docs · not tested
Open source Price verified 2026-10-01 Completely free open source (MIT); pay for model API usage.
Good for
A ready-made runtime that already bundles sessions, tools, workspaces, sandboxing, plugins and the agent loop Needing both a terminal and a web interface to the same agent Extending via plugins, or authoring your own agent presets 7 site articles 3 scenarios Official site View tool AI-native code editor, strongest at multi-file changes
AI Coding
Subscription Price verified 2026-09-29 Hobby is free with limited agent requests; Individual starts at USD 20/mo (Pro / Pro+ / Ultra); Teams USD 40/user/mo; Enterprise custom. Usage-based billing beyond included allowance.
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Editing an existing large codebase Cross-file refactoring Asking questions about code as you write 4 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool Terminal-based coding agent that can point at any OpenAI-compatible backend
AI Coding
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Pro USD 20/mo; Max 5x USD 100/mo; Max 20x USD 200/mo; Team Premium USD 100/seat/mo; Enterprise custom.
Good for
Terminal workflows and Git operations Whole-repo comprehension and batch edits Codifying team process via skills / slash commands 14 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Very long context and deep Google Workspace integration
General Assistants
Usage-based Price verified 2026-10-01 Free limited access; Paid usage-based (Flash USD 0.30-2.50/1M tokens; Pro USD 1.25-10/1M tokens); Enterprise custom.
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Teams already on Gmail / Docs / Drive Feeding extremely long documents in one go Multimodal input (image, video, audio) 1 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool Low-cost high-capability model, a good default backend for agents
General Assistants
Usage-based Price verified 2026-10-01 Web version free; API pay-as-you-go (Flash USD 0.003-1.20/1M; V4-Pro USD 0.022-3.96/1M).
Good for
High-volume agent backends Cost optimisation for code and reasoning workloads Open-weight self-hosted deployments 17 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool AI search engine whose answers carry inline source citations
AI Search & Research
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Free; Pro USD 20/mo; Enterprise custom.
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Fact-checking with traceable sources Fast orientation in an unfamiliar field Competitor and market scanning 2 site articles 2 scenarios Official site View tool Search API designed for LLMs and agents, returning structured results
AI Search & Research
Usage-based See official pricing Usage-based API billing with a free allowance; see the official site.
Good for
Agents needing programmatic search Structured results that can be stored directly Semantic rather than keyword matching Search API on an independent index — privacy-oriented and programmatically callable
AI Search & Research
Usage-based Price verified 2026-10-01 Auto $5 credits/month; then USD 5 per 10K requests.
Good for
An independent index not tied to the big search ecosystems Settings with higher privacy requirements One leg of a multi-engine cross-verification setup Orchestration library that describes agent flows as state graphs, supporting interrupts and resumption
Agent Orchestration
Open source See official pricing The library is open source and free; a hosted platform bills by usage — see the official site.
Good for
Controllable, interruptible, resumable agent flows Human-in-the-loop designs Orchestrating complex branching and loops Tencent Cloud's AI-agent office workbench, part of the CodeBuddy family
Agent Orchestration From official docs · not tested
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Free (100 credits/mo); Pro USD 10/mo; Team USD 40/seat/mo; Enterprise in CNY.
Good for
Delivering office output (docs, decks, sheets) from natural language without coding Complex tasks that benefit from several agents working in parallel Multimodal input: images, PDFs, spreadsheets 3 site articles 3 scenarios Official site View tool ByteDance's office agent: drives a virtual desktop, integrates deeply with Feishu, and takes tasks dispatched from your phone
Agent Orchestration From official docs · not tested
Subscription See official pricing Per-seat subscription with separate personal and enterprise lines; new users get a trial period after downloading and signing in. See the official pricing page for amounts and quotas.
Good for
An agent that actually operates the machine via a virtual desktop, not one that only replies with text Teams already on Feishu that want enterprise knowledge (meeting notes, group chats, docs) as context Dispatching tasks from a phone and letting a desktop carry them out 3 site articles 3 scenarios Official site View tool Build bots with no code and publish to multiple chat platforms in one click
Agent Orchestration
Freemium See official pricing Free quota plus paid plans; the China edition (扣子) and the global edition (Coze) differ in features and billing. See the official page for current numbers.
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Building a first bot with zero programming background Support bots published to messaging platforms Fast pilots and idea validation 1 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool Generates React + Tailwind interfaces from natural language, deployable directly
Site & App Generation
Freemium See official pricing Free quota plus Premium / Team / Enterprise tiers measured in credits. See the official page for current numbers.
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Fast, showable web prototypes Starting point for landing pages and dashboard UI Output drops straight into a Next.js project 1 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool Conversational full-stack app generation, including database and auth
Site & App Generation
Freemium See official pricing Free quota plus Pro / Teams / Enterprise tiers measured in credits. See the official page for current numbers.
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Non-engineers shipping a working full-stack app MVPs with auth and a database Rapid product idea validation 1 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool Generates, runs and deploys full-stack apps in the browser with no local environment
Site & App Generation
Freemium See official pricing Free allowance, then credit- and subscription-based; see the official site.
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Building an app without a local dev environment Prototypes that run and can be shared immediately Rapid product idea validation macOS desktop AI-generation app for images and multimodal assets, pairing with DesignCraft/OfficeCLI
Image & Video
Usage-based Price verified 2026-10-10 Generation runs through a cloud API and is billed; a cost endpoint lets you check before generating. See the official site.
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Generating images and multimodal assets via GUI Checking cost before generating Handing off assets to DesignCraft/OfficeCLI via files The highest-aesthetic text-to-image model, with fine style control
Image & Video
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Basic USD 10/mo; Standard USD 30/mo; Pro USD 60/mo; Mega USD 120/mo.
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Brand imagery, concept art, posters Marketing assets with high aesthetic demands Visually consistent series 2 site articles 1 scenarios Official site View tool OpenAI's coding agent, able to run tasks in parallel in the cloud and return diffs
AI Coding
Subscription See official pricing Included with paid ChatGPT plans, plus usage-based API billing; see the official site.
Good for
Offloading parallelisable tasks to the cloud Reviewable output in diff form Teams already in the OpenAI ecosystem ByteDance's AI IDE with a built-in agent mode and multi-model choice
AI Coding
Freemium See official pricing Free tier available plus paid plans; see the official site.
Good for
Wanting an AI IDE with a free tier Low migration cost from VS Code Needing a Chinese-language interface Market-intelligence search platform for financial and corporate research, covering broker research and expert calls
Finance & Research
Subscription See official pricing Enterprise subscription, priced on request; see the official site or sales.
Good for
Searching large volumes of broker research and expert calls at once Institutional research teams Searching specific wording and figures across documents Tencent Cloud's enterprise agent development platform: knowledge base, workflow, multi-agent, connectors and skills
Agent Orchestration From official docs · not tested
Usage-based See official pricing The official blog refers to purchasing designated packages and to "PU" credits, which indicates a package-plus-credit usage model. This site has NOT manually verified amounts or whether a free tier exists, so no figures are listed; check the official pricing page.
Good for
Teams delivering agents into real enterprise operations and connecting to existing data and systems Needing connectors, sandboxing, a knowledge base and workflows at the platform layer instead of assembling them from scratch Delivery organisations that need a credential to show clients (the vendor also offers the FDE certification) An open stack for generalist computer-use agents that turns GUI work into code
Agent Orchestration Tested by us
Open source See official pricing Apache-2.0 open source with no licence fee for self-hosting; no managed service offered.
Good for
Operating desktop apps that have no CLI Turning GUI work into reusable code Studying computer-use agent implementations The financial data terminal most used by Chinese institutions, covering prices, financials and macro data
Finance & Research
Subscription See official pricing Institutional subscription, priced on request; see official sales.
Good for
Complete data coverage institutional research requires Wanting support and service guarantees Needing an Excel plug-in and data API Open-source desktop app for local LLMs, emphasising offline use and privacy
Local Model Runtime
Open source See official pricing Entirely free and open source; your only cost is hardware.
Good for
Fully offline, data never leaves the machine Preferring open source you can inspect Wanting a simple desktop interface Open-source speech recognition model, self-hostable with stable multilingual performance
Voice & Music
Open source See official pricing The model is open source, free and self-hostable; a hosted API bills by usage — see the official site.
Good for
Transcribing meetings and calls Needing self-hosting so data never leaves Multilingual and accented audio Open-source drag-and-drop LLM flow builder that you can self-host
Agent Orchestration
Open source See official pricing Open source and self-hostable (free); a cloud offering also exists — see the official site.
Good for
Assembling RAG and agents visually Needing private deployment Rapid prototyping to validate an idea The most widespread in-editor AI completion, deeply integrated with GitHub
AI Coding
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Individual USD 10/mo; Business USD 19/user/mo; Enterprise USD 39/user/mo.
Good for
Inline completion and the gentlest onboarding Teams already living in GitHub PR review assistance ByteDance's consumer assistant with strong Chinese-language and multimodal support
General Assistants
Freemium See official pricing Personal use is largely free; enterprise and API usage billed separately — see the official site.
Good for
Chinese-language Q&A and writing Voice interaction and multimodal input Integration inside the mainland China ecosystem Chat product for Alibaba's Qwen family, whose open weights can be self-hosted
General Assistants
Freemium See official pricing Web app free; API usage-based. Open-weight model releases can be self-hosted.
Good for
Teams wanting open weights and self-hosting Balanced Chinese and multilingual ability A base model you can fine-tune Open-source agent extension for VS Code that lets you point at any model backend
AI Coding
Open source See official pricing The extension is open source and free; your cost is the model API you connect.
Good for
Full control over the model backend and API keys Avoiding lock-in to one vendor Agentic edits inside your existing editor Open-source CLI pair programmer that turns every change into a git commit
AI Coding
Open source See official pricing Open source and free; your cost is the model API you connect.
Good for
Version control and revertability matter Terminal-first workflows Cutting cost with open models One click from outline or document to web-based presentation-ready slides
Decks & Documents
Freemium See official pricing Free tier with limited quota; Plus / Pro plans unlock more output and remove watermarks. See the official page for current numbers.
Good for
You already have a text outline and need slides fast No templates, no manual layout Turning a long document into presentable slides Chinese assistant known for very long context — feed it whole document sets at once
General Assistants
Freemium See official pricing Free quota plus paid plans; see the official site.
Good for
Handling many long documents at once Chinese long-document summarisation and Q&A Skipping chunking by feeding whole books Chinese AI search engine whose answers carry an outline and sources; an academic mode searches literature
AI Search & Research
Freemium See official pricing Primarily free, with a membership tier; see the official site.
Good for
Deep search over Chinese-language information Structured, outline-style answers Chinese academic and industry material Framework that organises multi-agent work by role, with a relatively gentle learning curve
Agent Orchestration
Open source See official pricing The framework is open source and free; an enterprise platform also exists — see the official site.
Good for
Thinking about multi-agent work as role division Faster onboarding than a low-level orchestration library Tasks that split naturally into a few roles AI editor built around the Cascade agentic flow
AI Coding
Subscription Price verified 2026-10-01 Free with light quotas; Pro USD 20/mo; Max USD 200/mo; Teams USD 80/mo + USD 40/seat; Enterprise custom.
Good for
Agentic multi-step tasks inside the editor Painless migration from VS Code AI search focused on multilingual research and deck output
AI Search & Research
Subscription See official pricing Free quota plus paid plans; can output decks and mind maps. See the official page for current numbers.
Good for
Cross-language (CN/JP/EN) research Turning research directly into a deck Mind-map style synthesis Turns paragraphs into diagrams and flow visuals ready to drop into a deck
Decks & Documents
Freemium See official pricing Free tier available; paid plans unlock more output and commercial licensing. See the official page for current numbers.
Good for
Needing one diagram to explain an abstract concept Fast architecture, flow, and comparison visuals Not wanting to learn diagramming software Lifelike text-to-speech and voice cloning with broad multilingual support
Voice & Music
Usage-based Price verified 2026-10-01 Free (10K chars/mo); Starter USD 5/mo; Creator USD 22/mo; Pro USD 99/mo; Scale custom.
Good for
Audiobooks, narration, podcast production Multilingual dubbing (good Traditional Chinese support) Marketing assets needing a consistent brand voice Search engine that answers from academic papers, with evidence strength attached
AI Search & Research
Freemium See official pricing Free tier available; paid plans unlock more; see the official site.
Good for
Answering questions from academic evidence Seeing where studies agree and disagree A fast scan before writing a literature review The most widespread SaaS automation platform, now with AI and agent capabilities
Agent Orchestration
Freemium See official pricing Free allowance plus several subscription tiers billed by task volume; see the official site.
Good for
Wiring existing SaaS together quickly Avoiding technical detail entirely Needing a large library of ready integrations Generates complete songs from a text prompt, including vocals and lyrics
Voice & Music
Freemium See official pricing Free allowance; paid plans unlock commercial use and more output — see the official site.
Good for
Needing music for marketing and events Fast full-song prototyping Avoiding music-production software Builds an app inside Replit from a description and deploys it, including database and hosting
Site & App Generation
Freemium See official pricing Free allowance; paid plans unlock more capability and deployment — see the official site.
Good for
One-stop development and deployment Not wanting to manage servers and databases Teaching and rapid prototyping Natural-language conditional stock screening for China A-shares
Finance & Research
Freemium See official pricing Basic queries free; advanced features come with paid plans — see the official site.
Good for
Describing screening conditions in plain Chinese Fast A-share screening and peer comparison Anyone unwilling to learn a query language Assistant deeply integrated with the X platform, focused on real-time information
General Assistants
Subscription See official pricing Bundled with paid X plans, also sold standalone and via API; see the official site.
Good for
Needing real-time social information Users already inside the X ecosystem Conversation with fewer content restrictions Assists systematic literature review, extracting fields across papers in bulk
AI Search & Research
Freemium See official pricing Free allowance plus paid plans; see the official site.
Good for
Running a systematic literature review Extracting consistent fields across dozens of papers Tracing every conclusion back to its paper General-purpose autonomous agent product: give it a task and it plans and performs multi-step work
Agent Orchestration
Freemium See official pricing Credit-based billing with a free allowance; see the official site.
Good for
Handing over a complete task as one package Not wanting to assemble tools and flows yourself Research tasks requiring cross-site operation AI that works inside your Notion workspace and can read your existing pages and databases
Decks & Documents
Subscription See official pricing Offered as an add-on or within higher tiers; see the official site.
Good for
Team knowledge already lives in Notion Asking and rewriting right next to your documents Avoiding yet another tool Presentation tool constrained by design rules, with AI handling content and layout
Decks & Documents
Subscription See official pricing Subscription with individual and team plans; see the official site.
Good for
Producing visually consistent decks fast Not wanting to do layout yourself Teams needing unified templates OpenAI's text-to-video and image-to-video model, strong at longer shots and consistency
Image & Video
Subscription See official pricing Available with higher ChatGPT tiers, plus an API; see the official site.
Good for
Longer, coherent video clips Generating video directly from text or an image Fast output for marketing and concept videos Kuaishou's video generation model, noted for its Chinese ecosystem and human motion
Image & Video
Freemium See official pricing Free allowance, then credit-based; see the official site.
Good for
Video generation from Chinese prompts Human motion and dynamic scenes Working inside the Chinese-language ecosystem Generative video tool aimed at film and video work, with finer editing and control
Image & Video
Freemium See official pricing Free allowance, then credit- and subscription-based; see the official site.
Good for
Fine-grained shot editing and control Film-grade workflows Stylising existing footage Positioned as an autonomous software engineer: hand it a task and it plans and executes
AI Coding
Subscription See official pricing Subscription plus usage-based billing across tiers; see the official site.
Good for
Handing off a well-specified, self-contained task Asynchronous execution that does not occupy your time Highly repetitive engineering chores