AI tools with an API
AI tools that offer an API you can integrate into your own product — chat, image, voice, video and more, ranked by rating.
Ranked by our editorial rating · Updated 2026 · 58 tools
Ollama
Dev platform
Run open-source LLMs locally with one command — 160k+ GitHub stars, a rich model catalog and cross-platform builds; there's now an official hosted cloud API too (Pro from $20/mo).
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Hugging Face
Dev platform
The open-source community platform for AI models and datasets — the GitHub of machine learning.
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ChatGPT
Chat assistant
OpenAI's flagship conversational AI — versatile and a great fit for most users.
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Claude
Chat assistant
Anthropic's AI assistant, known for safety and long-context handling.
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ElevenLabs
Audio tool
The benchmark for AI voice synthesis, leading in voice cloning and multilingual coverage — widely used for dubbing and spoken-word content.
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Veo
Video tool
Google's flagship AI video model with native audio and 4K — leading quality and consistency.
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Claude Code
Coding tool
Anthropic's official terminal coding agent, great at large-codebase refactors.
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Whisper
Audio tool
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model — accurate multilingual transcription, self-hostable.
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DeepSeek
Chat assistant
Open-source, high-value Chinese LLMs. The V4 family brings much stronger agent skills, and API pricing remains the cheapest in class.
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Perplexity
Chat assistant
An AI-powered search engine that gives real-time answers with cited sources.
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Gemini
Chat assistant
Google's multimodal AI assistant (latest Gemini 3.8 Flash), deeply integrated with Search and Workspace.
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Dify
Dev platform
An open-source LLM app platform with visual orchestration for agents, RAG and workflows.
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Flux
Image generation
Black Forest Labs' image model with strong prompt adherence and realism; partly open source.
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Synthesia
Video tool
An enterprise AI avatar video platform with 140+ languages, great for training and marketing.
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Glean
Enterprise AI
Enterprise AI search and assistant that connects internal company data for workplace Q&A and agents.
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GPT-6 Astra
Chat assistant
OpenAI's current flagship multimodal model — now generally released, with public API pricing ($10 input / $50 output per million tokens); advanced cybersecurity capability is still limited to a small tester set.
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通义千问
Chat assistant
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 large language model family — fully open-source, with strong reasoning, multilingual and multimodal abilities.
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Stable Diffusion
Image generation
Open-source image generation model — self-hostable and highly customizable.
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可灵
Video tool
Kuaishou's AI video generation model with excellent motion and quality, strong at Chinese prompts and value.
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豆包
Chat assistant
ByteDance's AI assistant — #1 in China and #2 globally by MAU, multimodal and free.
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HeyGen
Video tool
An AI avatar video platform for talking-head, training and marketing videos.
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Recraft
Image generation
An AI image tool for designers, great at vectors, icons and on-brand consistency.
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Photoroom
Design tool
An AI image editing tool great at cutouts, background removal and e-commerce product shots.
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Harvey
Enterprise AI
Enterprise AI for legal and professional services, strong at contracts, research and drafting.
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Sierra
Enterprise AI
Bret Taylor's enterprise AI customer-service agent platform, adopted by many leading companies.
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Meshy
3D generation
A leading AI 3D model generator supporting text/image-to-3D with automatic texturing.
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DeepL
Writing tool
Widely considered the most natural machine translation, plus DeepL Write polishing.
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Deepgram
Audio tool
Production-grade speech recognition (ASR) API — low-latency real-time transcription, multilingual and highly accurate.
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Grok
Chat assistant
SpaceXAI's (formerly xAI) conversational AI with real-time access to X, in a direct style; the newest model live on the service is Grok 4.6 (August 12, 2026), and no official Grok 4.7 exists as of September 20, 2026.
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Leonardo AI
Image generation
An AI image platform for game and commercial assets with strong control.
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Mistral
Chat assistant
France's Mistral AI assistant Le Chat — open models, privacy- and EU-compliance-focused.
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Manus
AI agent
A general AI agent that autonomously plans and completes multi-step tasks end to end.
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LangChain
Dev platform
An open-source framework for building LLM apps, connecting models, tools and data.
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Luma
Video tool
Luma AI's Dream Machine, great at smooth camera motion and realistic video.
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海螺
Video tool
MiniMax's AI video model with large motion range and strong instruction following.
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Murf
Audio tool
An AI voiceover tool offering natural, multilingual and multi-style speech synthesis.
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Coze
Dev platform
ByteDance's AI agent development platform to build and publish bots and workflows with no code.
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Tripo
3D generation
VAST's AI 3D generator that creates usable 3D models from text or images in seconds.
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Muse Spark
Chat assistant
Meta's flagship reasoning model (latest Muse Spark 1.3) for coding and long-horizon agents, via Muse Code and the Model API.
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OpenRouter
Dev platform
Every major LLM behind one API: unified billing, auto-routing and failover.
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Rodin
3D generation
Hyper3D's AI 3D generator with a unique 'pay by result' model — preview for free, pay credits only when you confirm.
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文心助手（原文心一言）
Chat assistant
Baidu's Chinese LLM assistant, strong at Chinese and local services.
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Jasper
Writing tool
An AI writing and brand-content platform built for marketing teams.
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Devin
Coding tool
Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer that handles engineering tasks in parallel.
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智谱清言
Chat assistant
Zhipu AI's assistant built on the GLM model series, balanced at Chinese and reasoning.
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Replicate
Dev platform
Run thousands of open models with one line of code — image, video and speech, billed by the second.
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Groq
Dev platform
Blazing-fast inference on custom LPU chips: open models at hundreds of tokens per second.
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Intercom Fin
Enterprise AI
Intercom's AI support agent — pay per resolution, with category-leading resolve rates.
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MiniMax
Chat assistant
MiniMax's flagship model family: M3 leads with top-tier coding and a 1M-token context, plus multimodal models for video, speech and music.
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Hunyuan3D
3D generation
Tencent's open-source 3D generation model — text/image to 3D, with a globally available Tencent Cloud API.
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Copy.ai
Writing tool
An AI writing and GTM workflow platform for marketing and sales teams.
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Writer
Enterprise AI
The enterprise generative-AI platform: Palmyra models plus brand and compliance controls.
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Resemble
Audio tool
AI voice platform — voice cloning, text-to-speech and deepfake detection in one; per-second billing as brand-voice infrastructure.
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讯飞星火
Chat assistant
iFlytek's LLM assistant — strong voice interaction and education/office scenarios, completely free.
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Vidu
Video tool
Shengshu's AI video model — excels at subject consistency and anime styles.
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PlayAI
Audio tool
Formerly Play.ht — low-latency voice synthesis and conversational voice agents.
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Stable Video
Video tool
Stability's open-source video generation models (SVD) — image-to-video; the 2026 SD4 API adds native text-to-video.
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Writesonic
Writing tool
An SEO-focused AI writing platform: keyword research to published article in one flow.
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FAQ
What are the best AI tools with an API?
Our top-rated picks are Ollama, Hugging Face, ChatGPT, Claude, ElevenLabs. Each tool is reviewed above with its pros, cons, pricing and an overall rating.
How are these AI tools with an API ranked?
Every tool gets one editorial score from 0 to 5, and the list is ordered by that score. The score is our own judgement — not a user rating, and not an average of separately measured dimensions. Features and prices are checked against each vendor's own pages.