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Flux (Black Forest Labs) A | ChatGPT Operator B | Perplexity S | Devin A | |
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| Tagline | Open weights + strong photorealism. The open-source answer. | OpenAI's browser agent. Clicks and types on websites for you. | AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater. | Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer. |
| Category | Image | Agents | Research | Agents |
| Pricing | API + open weights (Schnell is Apache 2.0) | Included with ChatGPT Pro $200/mo | Free + $20/mo Pro | $500/mo |
| Best for | Developers + power users who want control and privacy. | Power users willing to pay $200/mo for a browser bot. | Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds. | Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work. |
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| Kai's verdict | A-tier. S-tier if you self-host. The reason open-source image gen matters. | B-tier. Still early. Manus is more flexible for less money. | S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week. | A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license. |
| Link | Open → | Open → | Open → | Open → |