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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

BoltAI

✓ verifiedPaid

Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.

81K visits/mo33K saves

HEROZ

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A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.

1.9M visits/mo

Claude

✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves

Kimi Chat

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Kimi is Moonshot AI's conversational assistant known for long-context chat, coding help, and agentic tasks.

103K visits/mo

Pricing

No public pricing

Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)

Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)

Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year

Free trial available

No public 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

Core features

✦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

✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
✦MCP tools and code execution
✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys

✦Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
✦HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
✦BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
✦BLOOMWORKS product
✦Industry AI deployment case studies

✦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

✦Conversational AI assistant
✦Long-context document understanding
✦Coding assistance
✦Agent and plugin capabilities
✦Web and mobile app access

Use cases

→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

→Using multiple AI providers in one place
→Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
→Building reusable task-specific agents
→Analyzing documents and screenshots privately

→Deploying generative AI in enterprises
→Applying ML to industry-specific problems
→AI-driven business transformation (DX)

→Drafting and refining written content
→Building and debugging software
→Analyzing datasets for insights
→Research and learning support
→Team and enterprise automation

→Answering questions and research
→Summarizing long documents
→Writing and editing help
→Coding support

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