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Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
22M visits/mo231K saves
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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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Dify.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source platform to build, deploy and monitor agentic AI workflows and RAG apps, with cloud, self-host and enterprise options.
1.1M visits/mo
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Paperclip - ing
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source, self-hosted app to manage teams of AI agents like a company - org chart, goals, budgets and per-agent approvals.
942K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales
No public pricing
Sandbox: Free (200 message credits)
Professional: $590/workspace/year
Team: $1,590/workspace/year
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦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
- ✦Visual workflow studio for agents
- ✦RAG knowledge pipelines
- ✦Agent runtime with tools and memory
- ✦Marketplace of models and plugins
- ✦Publish as app, API or MCP tool
- ✦Logging, analytics and monitoring
- ✦Manage teams of AI agents
- ✦Bring-your-own-agent (any runtime/provider)
- ✦Org chart with roles and reporting lines
- ✦Goal alignment for tasks
- ✦Per-agent budget and cost controls
- ✦Ticket system with full audit trail
Use cases
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Automate end-to-end digital tasks
- →Produce websites and presentations
- →Conduct broad research
- →Hand off browser tasks to an agent
- →Building AI agents and chatbots
- →Creating RAG-based knowledge apps
- →Deploying LLM apps at enterprise scale
- →Orchestrating agents across business functions
- →Running dev, marketing and research agents
- →Building autonomous-business workflows
- →Governing and budgeting agent work
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