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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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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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MiniMax
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
4.6M visits/mo
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Kiro AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Kiro is a spec-driven agentic coding tool for IDE, CLI and web that turns prompts into specs and catches bugs with property-based tests.
3.8M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Max Token Plan: 119 CNY/mo (frontier models, up to ~7.1B tokens/mo)
Free: $0/mo (50 credits)
Pro: $20/user/mo (1,000 credits)
Pro+: $40/user/mo (2,000 credits)
Pro Max: $100/user/mo (5,000 credits)
Power: $200/user/mo (10,000 credits)
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦AI writing
- ✦AI presentation/PPT generation
- ✦AI spreadsheets and tables
- ✦AI design
- ✦AI podcast generation
- ✦AI image generation
- ✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
- ✦Hailuo AI video generation
- ✦Speech and music generation models
- ✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
- ✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
- ✦Open API and Token Plan for developers
- ✦Spec-driven development (requirements, design, tasks)
- ✦Parallel agents, local or cloud
- ✦Property-based and correctness testing
- ✦Works in IDE, CLI, web and mobile
- ✦Multiple models (Claude, open-weight, Auto)
- ✦Headless CLI for CI/CD
- ✦Context from tools like Figma and Terraform
Use cases
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Drafting documents
- →Building presentations
- →Generating spreadsheets
- →Creating designs and images
- →Producing podcasts
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Turning prompts into maintainable, spec-matched code
- →Catching bugs unit tests miss
- →Reviewing PRs and fixing bugs in CI/CD
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