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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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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
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PicoClaw
✓ verifiedFree

Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted open-source AI assistant in Go that runs on sub-$10 hardware like Raspberry Pi with under 10MB RAM.

81K visits/mo
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Design Arena
✓ verifiedFree

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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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
Pricing

No public pricing

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)

No public pricing

No public pricing

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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
  • 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
  • Single self-contained binary requiring under 10MB RAM
  • Sub-1-second startup even on low-power processors
  • Support for 16+ chat channels including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WeCom
  • Compatibility with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, etc.)
  • Runs on Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64, Android, and Docker
  • Self-hosted design keeping data and configuration local
  • Gateway/API mode for connecting to chat platforms via MCP protocol
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Turning prompts into maintainable, spec-matched code
  • Catching bugs unit tests miss
  • Reviewing PRs and fixing bugs in CI/CD
  • Running a private AI assistant on minimal or embedded hardware
  • Local code assistance that keeps proprietary code off the cloud
  • Home automation and personal task scheduling via chat bots
  • Privacy-conscious users wanting self-hosted AI on low-cost devices
  • Compare which AI model produces the best design output
  • Track AI design model rankings
  • Discover models for a specific creative task
  • Private local AI chat
  • Using multiple models in one app
  • Avoiding cloud data sharing
  • Experimenting with open models
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