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Chatbots

+ Claude + ChatGPT + Gemini + Grok + DeepSeek + Qwen + Le Chat (Mistral)

Research

+ Perplexity + NotebookLM ✓ Elicit + Genspark

Coding

+ Cursor + Claude Code + Windsurf + GitHub Copilot + Aider + Cline + Bolt.new (StackBlitz)+ Replit Agent

Image

+ Midjourney + Ideogram + Flux (Black Forest Labs)+ DALL-E 3 + Recraft + Leonardo.ai + Adobe Firefly

Video

+ Runway + Kling + Sora + Pika + Luma Dream Machine + Google Veo + HeyGen + Synthesia + Descript

Voice

+ ElevenLabs + OpenAI Voice / Realtime + Cartesia + Play.ht + Hume AI

Meetings

+ Granola + Otter.ai + Fireflies + Fathom

Design

+ v0 + Lovable + Figma AI + Framer + Galileo AI

Productivity

+ Gamma + Raycast AI + Reflect + Taskade

Audio

+ Suno + Udio + Stable Audio

Writing

+ Sudowrite + Lex + Grammarly

Agents

+ Manus + Devin + ChatGPT Operator + Claude Agent SDK

Dev Platform

✓ OpenRouter + Replicate + Groq + Hugging Face + Ollama

Data

+ Julius + Rows + Hex

Marketing

+ Jasper + Copy.ai + Writesonic

Education

+ Khanmigo + Duolingo Max + MagicSchool

	Elicit S	OpenRouter S
Tagline	AI research assistant for academic literature.	One API, every model. Pay-as-you-go, no subscriptions.
Category	Research	Dev Platform
Pricing	Free + $12-$42/mo	Pay per token — model-dependent
Best for	Grad students, researchers, anyone doing literature reviews.	Developers experimenting across models. Apps that want fallback logic.
Strengths	Searches 125M+ papers Extracts + synthesizes findings across papers Systematic review workflow	300+ models from one endpoint Automatic fallbacks between providers No subscription — just pay what you use
Weaknesses	Academic-only Can hallucinate citations — verify everything	Slight markup over direct API Some provider features not exposed
Kai's verdict	S-tier for academic research. Nothing else comes close for systematic reviews.	S-tier for model-shopping. I use this for every prototype before committing.
Link	Open →	Open →