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Lex A | Flux (Black Forest Labs) A | Cursor S | |
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| Tagline | Google Docs with an AI collaborator baked in. | Open weights + strong photorealism. The open-source answer. | VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work. |
| Category | Writing | Image | Coding |
| Pricing | Free + $12/mo | API + open weights (Schnell is Apache 2.0) | Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business |
| Best for | Essays, long-form drafts, thinking on the page. | Developers + power users who want control and privacy. | Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code. |
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| Kai's verdict | A-tier. Beautiful UX. The writing app I'd pick if I only wrote long-form. | A-tier. S-tier if you self-host. The reason open-source image gen matters. | S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day. |
| Link | Open → | Open → | Open → |