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Side-by-side: what they do, what they cost, what Kai actually thinks. Pass up to 4 tools via ?tools=claude,chatgpt,gemini.
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Cursor S | Fireflies A | Ideogram S | Lex A | |
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| Tagline | VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work. | Sales-focused meeting AI with CRM integration. | The one that actually gets text in images right. | Google Docs with an AI collaborator baked in. |
| Category | Coding | Meetings | Image | Writing |
| Pricing | Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business | Free + $10-$19/user/mo | Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo | Free + $12/mo |
| Best for | Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code. | Sales teams, customer success, anyone running many discovery calls. | Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks. | Essays, long-form drafts, thinking on the page. |
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| Kai's verdict | S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day. | A-tier for sales teams. B-tier for solo users. | S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art. | A-tier. Beautiful UX. The writing app I'd pick if I only wrote long-form. |
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