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OpenAI · AI assistants & chat

OpenAI's consumer and workplace assistant, available on the web, desktop and mobile, with projects, plugins, browsing, voice and the Codex coding agent

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Claude

Anthropic · AI assistants & chat

Anthropic's consumer and team assistant on web, desktop and mobile, with projects, artifacts, memory, connectors and web search, sold on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Claude Code

Anthropic · Coding agents & AI IDEs

In-depth entry

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app, the web and CI, with MCP, hooks, skills and subagents

ProprietaryPaidUsage-basedLocalNov 2, 2026

ComfyUI

Comfy Org · Voice, vision & multimodal AI

Open-source node-based interface and inference engine for diffusion and other generative models (image, video, audio, 3D), runnable locally with desktop apps or as a hosted cloud

GPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Create ML

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

Apple's app and Swift framework for training image, text, sound, tabular and activity models on a Mac without writing training code, exporting directly to Core ML

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Cursor

Anysphere · Coding agents & AI IDEs

AI-native code editor from Anysphere, forked from VS Code, with inline edits, codebase-aware chat and agent mode that can run multi-step changes

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

exo

Exo Labs · Distributed & parallel computing

Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI · Coding agents & AI IDEs

OpenAI's coding agent: an open-source Rust terminal CLI plus IDE extension, desktop app and cloud agent, signed in with a ChatGPT plan or an API key

Apache-2.0PaidUsage-basedLocalNov 2, 2026

Unsloth

Unsloth AI · Training & fine-tuning

Open-source framework for fine-tuning and running LLMs with reduced memory, covering LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning and RL, GGUF export, Dynamic quantizations and a local Studio/Desktop UI

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Visual Studio Code

Microsoft · IDEs & editors

In-depth entry

Free, extensible code editor from Microsoft with a large extension marketplace, integrated terminal, debugging, remote development and built-in AI assistance

MITFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Warp

Warp (Denver Technologies) · Terminals & shells

Commercial terminal built in Rust that groups output into blocks, adds an IDE-style input editor and integrates AI agents for command generation and debugging

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Zed

Zed Industries · IDEs & editors

Native, GPU-rendered code editor written in Rust by Zed Industries, with built-in collaboration, language servers and optional AI assistance

GPL-3.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

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