200 AI Tools — The Executive’s Field Guide
215 AI tools across 31 categories, mapped across four pillars: LLMs, GenAI, agents and infrastructure. Curated by Fred Pelard, fredpelard.com/ai200. Updated August 2026.
Core LLMs
ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna), Gemini 3.5 Pro / 3.6 Flash, Claude (Opus 5 / Sonnet 5 / Fable 5), Grok 4.5, Copilot, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Z.ai (GLM-5.2), Meta Muse Spark 1.1, Mistral, Minimax, Microsoft MAI, Thinking Machines (Inkling)
Open-Weight Models
Llama 4 Scout/Maverick, Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.8, GLM-5.2, Mistral Small 4, Kimi K3, Inkling (Thinking Machines)
LLM Access & Utilities
Perplexity, ChatHub, OpenRouter, Global GPT, Ithy, Yupp, PromptFolder, PromptDrive, Poe
Image
FLUX 2, Midjourney V8.1, Nano Banana 2 / Pro, Imagen 4, GPT Image 2, Ideogram v3, Stable Diffusion 3.5, Leonardo, Playground, Krea, Freepik, Recraft, Reve, Seedream
Video
Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.5, Runway Gen-4.5, Pika 2.5, Hailuo, Luma Ray3.14, Wan 2.6, LTX-2, Higgsfield, Vidu Q3, Loom
Slides / Documents
Gamma, Canva, Tome, Beautiful.ai, Pitch, Decktopus, Express
Diagrams
Napkin, Visme, Fluig, Whimsical, Excalidraw AI
Voice
ElevenLabs, WhisperFlow, Speechify, Typeless, MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Transcribe-1
Music
Suno, Udio, Mureka, MusicFX
Avatars
HeyGen, Synthesia, Character
Design / Vibe Design
Google Stitch, Figma Make, Adobe Firefly, v0
Answer Agents
Oboe, NotebookLM, Elicit, Consensus, Perplexity Labs
Autonomous Task Agents
Manus, Genspark, Flowith, AutoGPT, AgentGPT.io, Devin 2.2, OpenClaw, Genspark Claw, ChatGPT Agent, Operator
Personal Productivity Agents
Lindy, Granola, Fireflies, Read, Limitless, Moveworks, Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Work
Conversational Agents
Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems, Claude Skills, Claude Projects
Spreadsheet Agents
Shortcut, Paradigm, Compound, Claude in Excel
Agent Marketplaces
Agents.ai, Enso, Poe, GPT Store, MCP Registry
Agent Builders (No/Low Code)
Flowise, VectorShift, Wordware, OpenAI AgentKit, Vertex AI Agent Builder, MS Copilot Studio, Lindy, Taskade Genesis
Agent Orchestration
Make, Zapier AI, n8n, Peltarion, MS Agent 365
Agent Frameworks
CrewAI, Antigravity, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Google ADK, OpenAI AGENTS.md, Anthropic MCP, Block Goose
Agentic Browsers
ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia, Fellou, Opera Neon, Edge Copilot, Chrome Auto Browse, Genspark, Sigma
Computer-Use Agents
Claude Computer Use, OpenAI Operator, Project Mariner, Microsoft Copilot Vision
App Builders (Vibecoders)
Lovable, Bolt.new, Base44, Emergent, Rocket, Bubble, Retool, MS Power Apps, Replit, Tempo, Hostinger Horizons
App Development Environments
Cursor 3.11, Devin Desktop (Windsurf), Bolt.new, Codeium, Trae, Kiro, Firebase Studio
Coding Agents (CLI / IDE)
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Aider, Cline, Roo Code, SWE-agent
Agent Observability & Evals
Langfuse, LangSmith, Helicone, W&B, Braintrust, AgentMon
Browser Infrastructure for Agents
Browserbase, Steel, Stagehand, Firecrawl, Apify
Enterprise Search & Knowledge
Glean, Coveo, Elastic, Cohere, Contextual.ai
Vector Databases
Pinecone, Weaviate, Vectara, Milvus, Turbopuffer
App Back-ends
MotherDuck, Supabase, Hex, PlanetScale, Airtable, Lovable Cloud, Bolt Cloud
Code Review & Security
CodeRabbit, Greptile, Snyk AI, Semgrep AI
