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AnythingLLM
✓ verifiedFree
Free all-in-one desktop AI app to chat with your documents and run RAG and AI agents fully local and private.
682K visits/mo
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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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Convex
✓ verifiedFreemium
TypeScript backend-as-a-service with a reactive database, server functions, auth and file storage for full-stack and AI apps.
692K visits/mo20K saves
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fal
✓ verifiedPaid
Serverless platform for running and fine-tuning image, video, audio and 3D generative models via one fast API.
2.3M visits/mo
Pricing
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Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
H100 GPU: from $1.89/hr
B200 GPU: from $3.49/hr
Video (Wan 2.5): $0.05/second
Image (Seedream V4): $0.03/image
Core features
- ✦Chat with your documents (RAG)
- ✦Runs locally and offline for privacy
- ✦Supports any LLM (local or cloud)
- ✦Built-in AI agents
- ✦Handles PDFs, Word, CSV, codebases
- ✦No-code setup
- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦AI Chatbot powered by ChatGPT, GPT-4o & Gemini
- ✦Available on multiple platforms (Web, iPhone, Apple Watch, macOS, Android)
- ✦Humanlike responses
- ✦Homework assistance
- ✦Proofreading
- ✦AI Writing Assistant
- ✦Reactive real-time database
- ✦TypeScript server functions (queries/mutations/actions)
- ✦Built-in authentication
- ✦Cron jobs and backend workflows
- ✦File storage, text and vector search
- ✦ACID transactions; open-source/self-host
- ✦1,000+ generative model APIs
- ✦Serverless GPU inference engine
- ✦On-demand and dedicated GPU clusters
- ✦Model fine-tuning and custom deployments
- ✦Bring-your-own-weights and private endpoints
- ✦SOC 2 compliance and enterprise features
Use cases
- →Privately querying your own documents
- →Running local AI without the cloud
- →Building AI agents over your data
- →Using multiple LLM providers in one app
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Get help with homework, from essays and compositions to math questions.
- →Proofread written work to create professional-grade documents.
- →Get personalized help with any writing project, from essays to social media posts.
- →Act as a travel agent.
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Adding image/video generation to an app
- →Running fast diffusion-model inference at scale
- →Training or fine-tuning custom generative models
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