Compare AI tools

	Ideogram S	Cursor S	Perplexity S	Devin A
Tagline	The one that actually gets text in images right.	VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.	Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.
Category	image	coding	research	agents
Pricing	Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo	Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business	Free + $20/mo Pro	$500/mo
Best for	Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks.	Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.	Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.
Strengths	Best text rendering in the game Strong free tier Good for logos, posters, thumbnails	Tab completion feels like mind-reading Composer for multi-file edits Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context	Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs Handles multi-hour engineering work Reports back with what it did
Weaknesses	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney Less style variety	Can feel overwhelming for non-coders Expensive at scale	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics	Expensive Best for well-scoped tasks Not for solo hobbyists
Kai's verdict	S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.	S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.	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.
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