AI models and AI tools, compared on real prices

Pick the wrong AI model or AI tool and you pay for tokens and credits that don't stretch as far as the pricing page implied. toolist.ai turns each price list into what a month of real use costs, links every number to its source, and sums up what published hands-on tests found.

Researched so far: 84 AI tools (38 more listed) and 12 AI models. How we research.

Best of, by category

avatar video

Presenter videos from a script.

AIVideosUGC, Arcads, Colossyan, Creatify, Hedra, HeyGen, Synthesia, Tavus, Vidnoz

9 tools

text to video

Clips generated from a prompt.

AI Trend Video, Hailuo AI, Higgsfield, Kling, Luma AI, Pika, PixVerse, Runway, Seedance, Tellcut, Veo, Vidu

12 tools

editors

Edit video by editing text.

Arsaze, CapCut, Captions, Clipchamp, Descript, Filmora, Final Cut Pro, Kapwing, Publishub, Riverside, VEED

11 tools

clips

Short vertical clips from long video.

Klap, Opus Clip, Submagic, Vizard

4 tools

script to video

Stock footage cut to a script.

Animaker, Fliki, Fluxcut, InVideo, Lumen5, Pictory, Powtoon, Vyond

8 tools

voice

Voiceover and text to speech.

Airy Studio, Audimind, Book2Speech, Cartesia, Crulon, ElevenLabs, ElevenReader, Fish Audio, KlangKI, Murf, NaturalReader, NovelHive AI, PDF TO MP3, ROAL, SFXMint, Speechify, Typecast, WellSaid

18 tools

image

Images and designs from a prompt.

Adobe Firefly, beaniebrand, Chitra Studio, Clarpex, Dola AI, EveryGen AI, Grafista, Ideogram, Krea, Leonardo.Ai, Magnific (formerly Freepik), Midjourney, Nano Banana, OpenArt, Photoroom, Picsart, Pixelcut, Recraft, WhimKid

19 tools

writing

Drafting, editing and rewriting text.

Article Forge, Authrot, Copy.ai, EarnDraft, Grammarly, Jasper, Koala AI, Novelcrafter, ProWritingAid, QuillBot, Rytr, Sudowrite, Surfer, Wordtune, Writesonic

15 tools

coding

Code editors, assistants and app builders.

Google Antigravity, Base44, Bolt.new, Claude Code, Cline, Codex, Cursor, Devin, Emergent, Figma Make, GitHub Copilot, Griyd, Juiced, Kiro, Lovable, mcptask, Memdoor, OpenCode, QualityLayer, Reason, Replit, Skep, Smalt, v0, Zed, Zydra

26 tools

How we research

The same four rules on every page, so you can check any number yourself.

Read the full method
  1. 1

    Prices from the source

    We read each vendor's own pricing page and record the day we checked it.

  2. 2

    Costs you can compare

    We turn price lists into what a month of real use costs, so a cheap token or credit price can't hide a big bill.

  3. 3

    Tests from named testers

    For AI tools we summarize published hands-on tests and link each one. We never claim a test we didn't run.

  4. 4

    Benchmarks with credit

    Model benchmarks come only from the provider or Artificial Analysis, with the settings they were run at.

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