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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.

430M visits/mo
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Jan.ai
✓ verifiedFree

Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.

378K visits/mo609 saves
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Design Arena
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Free crowdsourced benchmark that pits top AI models head-to-head on design tasks and ranks them by public votes.

1.5M visits/mo
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Coze
✓ verifiedFreemium

ByteDance's Coze (Kouzi): an all-in-one AI office assistant for writing, slides, sheets, design, podcasts and images.

7.2M visits/mo
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Manus
✓ verifiedFreemium

General-purpose autonomous AI agent that plans and runs multi-step tasks such as building sites, slides and research in the cloud.

28M visits/mo89K saves
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Core features
  • Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
  • Open API platform
  • V-series and R-series reasoning models
  • DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
  • OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
  • Extensive published model lineup
  • Run open-source LLMs locally
  • Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
  • Private, offline-capable AI chat
  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Model library via Hugging Face
  • Cross-platform desktop app
  • Side-by-side model output comparison
  • Public voting on results
  • Leaderboards ranking AI models by 'taste'
  • Coverage of websites, games, 3D, UI, images, logos, SVG, video and slides
  • AI writing
  • AI presentation/PPT generation
  • AI spreadsheets and tables
  • AI design
  • AI podcast generation
  • AI image generation
  • Autonomous multi-step task execution
  • Website and app building
  • AI slides, design and image generation
  • Manus browser operator
  • Wide Research mode
  • Cross-platform web, desktop and mobile apps
Use cases
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Private local AI chat
  • Using multiple models in one app
  • Avoiding cloud data sharing
  • Experimenting with open models
  • Compare which AI model produces the best design output
  • Track AI design model rankings
  • Discover models for a specific creative task
  • Drafting documents
  • Building presentations
  • Generating spreadsheets
  • Creating designs and images
  • Producing podcasts
  • Automate end-to-end digital tasks
  • Produce websites and presentations
  • Conduct broad research
  • Hand off browser tasks to an agent
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