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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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Granola S | Replicate S | Ideogram S | |
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| Tagline | Meeting notes that don't suck. Runs locally, no bot joins. | Run any open-source AI model with an API call. | The one that actually gets text in images right. |
| Category | Meetings | Dev Platform | Image |
| Pricing | Free + $18/mo | Pay per second of compute | Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo |
| Best for | Founders, execs, consultants who live in calls. | Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc). | Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks. |
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| Kai's verdict | S-tier. Category-defining UX. If you take notes in meetings, switch this week. | S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space. | S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art. |
| Link | Open → | Open → | Open → |