The software BVA actually runs on, plus what we keep an eye on for client projects. No scores and no ranking — what each entry gives you is checkable: the starting price as the vendor publishes it, whether a genuinely free plan exists, and the platforms it runs on.
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AI coding
Editors, agents and CLIs that write, review and refactor code with you.
Claude Code: Anthropic's coding agent: terminal, IDE, web and mobile — $20/mo (Claude Pro; $17/mo billed annually) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Cursor: AI code editor with agents, for macOS, Windows and Linux — Free (Hobby) · Individual from $20/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
GitHub Copilot: AI assistant inside VS Code, JetBrains, Xcode and GitHub — Free · Pro $10/user/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Devin Desktop (ex-Windsurf): The Windsurf IDE, renamed: one place to run local and cloud agents — Free · Pro $20/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Cline: Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal — Free (open source) — pay only for AI inference · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Aider: Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal, with git commits — Free (open source) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Zed: Fast open-source editor built for coding with agents — Free (Personal) · Pro $10/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Replit: Build and host a full app from a prompt, in the browser — Free (Starter) · Core $18/mo billed annually ($20/mo monthly) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
v0: Vercel's tool to generate and deploy web UI from a prompt — Free ($5 credits/mo) · Plus $30/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Bolt: Prompt-to-app builder from StackBlitz, with hosting included — Free · Pro $25/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Lovable: Chat-built web apps from an AI software engineer — Free · Pro from $25/mo ($21/mo billed annually) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Warp: Terminal with built-in coding agents, for macOS, Windows and Linux — Free · Build from $20/mo ($18/mo billed annually) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
AI chat & models
Assistants you talk to, and the APIs behind them.
Claude: Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding and analysis, on web, desktop and mobile — Free; Pro $20/mo ($17/mo billed annually) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
ChatGPT: OpenAI's assistant, with desktop and mobile apps and a pay-per-token API — Free; Plus $20/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Google Gemini: Google's assistant, free with a Google account, tied into Gmail, Docs and Android — Free; Google AI Pro $19.99/mo (US) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Perplexity: Answer engine that cites its sources, plus a search API for developers — Free; Pro $20/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Mistral Vibe (ex-Le Chat): Mistral's assistant and coding agent, made in France; Le Chat is now Vibe — Free; Pro $14.99/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Grok: xAI's assistant with a free tier, and Grok models on a pay-per-token API — Free; SuperGrok $30/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
DeepSeek: Chinese open-weight models with 1M-token context and very low API prices — API from $0.15 / 1M input tokens (off-peak) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Groq (GroqCloud): Very fast inference for open models via an OpenAI-compatible API, free tier — Free; Developer pay-as-you-go · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Together AI: Serverless API, dedicated endpoints and GPUs for open models and fine-tuning — From $0.0015 / 1M tokens; $5 minimum credit purchase · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
OpenRouter: One API key for hundreds of models, with routing, fallbacks and cost tracking — Free (25+ free models); 5.5% platform fee on Standard · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
ChatLLM Teams (Abacus.AI): One $10/month subscription bundling 100+ models, apps, slides and AI bots — $10/mo (first month $7) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
TypingMind: Chat interface bought once, used with your own API keys, no monthly fee — $39 one-time (Standard licence) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Image & video
Generating, editing and upscaling visuals, stills and moving.
Ideogram: AI image generator that renders legible text and editable text layers — Free; paid from $15/mo billed annually ($20/mo month-to-month) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Recraft: AI images plus real vector/SVG output and reusable brand styles — Free; paid from $10/mo billed annually ($12/mo month-to-month) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Krea: One workspace for image, video and 3D generation across many models — Free (100 units/day); paid from $21/mo billed annually ($35/mo month-to-month) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Magnific (formerly Freepik): Stock library plus most leading AI image, video and audio models in one place — From €10.50/month billed annually (€15/month month-to-month), VAT excluded · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Runway: AI video generation and editing, with image, voice and sound tools — Free (125 one-time credits); paid from $12/mo billed annually ($15/mo month-to-month) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Luma AI: AI video and image generation with agents that run the whole workflow — From $30/month ($300 billed yearly) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
HeyGen: AI avatar videos and translation, no camera or crew — Free (3 videos/month); paid from $29/month · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
CapCut: Free video and photo editor for social formats, on every device — Free; CapCut Pro price not published (varies by region and device) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Photoroom: Product and portrait photos: cutouts, backgrounds, batch export — From $12/month billed yearly · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Topaz Labs: Upscale, denoise and restore photos and video, on desktop or web — From $109/year (Topaz for Web — Image); desktop apps from $149/year · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Audio & voice
Speech synthesis, transcription, music and podcast production.
ElevenLabs: Text-to-speech, dubbing and voice agents in 70+ languages — Free; paid from $6/mo (Starter, monthly billing) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Murf AI: AI voiceovers, dubbing and a real-time text-to-speech API — Free trial; API pay-as-you-go from $0.03 per 1,000 characters · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Cartesia: Low-latency speech and transcription API for live voice apps — Free; paid from $5/mo (Pro) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
AssemblyAI: Speech-to-text API with streaming, speaker labels and redaction — $50 free credits, then from $0.15/hour of audio · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Deepgram: Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs, billed per minute — $200 free credit, then from $0.0048/min (streaming speech-to-text) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Suno: Generate original songs from a prompt, with commercial rights on paid plans — Free; Pro from $8/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Adobe Podcast: Browser tool that strips noise and echo out of voice recordings — Free · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Descript: Edit audio and video by editing the transcript, like a document — Free; paid from $16/mo billed annually ($24 monthly) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Krisp: AI noise cancellation, transcription and notes for any call — From $8/user/mo billed annually ($16 monthly); 7-day free trial · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Cleanvoice: Removes filler words, silences and mouth sounds from recordings — 30 minutes free, then from $11/mo (10 hours of audio) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
LALAL.AI: Splits any track into vocals, drums, bass and other stems — Free (Starter); paid from $7.50/mo (Lite) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Riverside: Remote audio and video recording in studio quality, then editing — Free; Pro from $24/mo billed annually ($29 monthly) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Design & no-code
Interface design, prototyping, motion and no-code site builders.
Figma: Collaborative interface design, prototyping and dev handoff in the browser — Free · Professional from $16/mo per Full seat · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Framer: Design a site on a canvas and publish it with hosting, CMS and SEO built in — Free · Basic $10/mo per site (yearly billing), Pro $30/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Webflow: Visual site builder with a real CMS, hosting and clean production code — Free · Basic $15/mo per site, Premium $25/mo (billed yearly) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping tool you can also host yourself — Free (Professional $0/user/mo) · Unlimited $7/editor/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Spline: Build interactive 3D scenes in the browser and embed them on a web page — Free · Hobby $12/mo billed annually ($15 monthly), Pro $25/mo annually · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Rive: Design interactive animations once and ship them to apps, web and games — Free · Cadet $9/seat/mo, Voyager $32/seat/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Sketch: Native Mac design app paired with a web workspace for review and handoff — From $12/mo per editor (billed yearly) · one-time Mac licence $120 · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Relume: AI sitemaps and wireframes plus component libraries for Webflow and Figma — Free · Pro from $14/mo (AI Site Builder from $18/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
ProtoPie: High-fidelity interactive prototypes tested on the real phone, no code — Free · Basic $25/mo, Pro $47/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Envato Elements: Unlimited downloads of stock assets and templates with a commercial licence — From $8.99/mo (Core, annual billing) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Whimsical: Fast flowcharts, wireframes and mind maps for the thinking stage of a project — Free · Pro $10/editor/mo, Business $20/editor/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Affinity: Professional vector, photo and layout studio, free for individuals — Free for individuals · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Hosting & infrastructure
Where the code actually runs: hosting, databases, CDN, edge.
Cloudflare: CDN, DNS and edge compute: run code and store data on a global network — Free (Workers Paid from $5/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Vercel: Deploy front-end apps and serverless functions straight from Git — Free (Pro $20/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Netlify: Git-based hosting for sites, with build pipeline, functions and global CDN — Free (Personal $9/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Hostinger: Low-cost shared and cloud web hosting with domain and SSL included — $2.99/mo (48-month term, renews at $10.99/mo) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Railway: Deploy apps, databases and workers billed per second of actual usage — Free (Hobby $5/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Render: Managed hosting for web services, static sites, workers and Postgres — Free (Pro $25/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Fly.io: Run containers and Postgres as VMs close to users, billed by the second — From $1.94/mo (shared-CPU machine, usage-based) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
DigitalOcean: Simple Linux cloud servers (Droplets) at flat, predictable monthly prices — $4/mo (Basic Droplet, 512 MiB RAM) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Supabase: Postgres database with auth, storage and realtime APIs, as a service — Free (Pro $25/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Neon: Serverless Postgres with Git-style branching and scale-to-zero compute — Free (Launch: pay-as-you-go, $0.106/CU-hour) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
bunny.net: Pay-as-you-go CDN, storage, video and DNS with no per-request charges — $0.01/GB (CDN, EU/NA), $1/mo minimum · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Mobile & apps
Building, shipping and monitoring iOS and Android apps.
Expo (EAS): The React Native framework, plus cloud builds, submissions and OTA updates. — Free (EAS Starter from $19/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
React Native: Open-source framework to build native iOS and Android apps with React. — Free · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Flutter: Open-source framework for natively compiled apps from a single codebase. — Free · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Unity: Real-time 2D/3D engine that publishes one project to 25+ platforms. — Free (Personal); Pro $2,310/yr per seat or $210/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Sentry: Crash, error and performance monitoring for mobile apps and backends. — Free (Developer); Team $26/mo billed annually · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Codemagic: Mobile-first CI/CD that builds, tests and ships iOS and Android apps. — Free (500 macOS M2 build minutes/mo); then $0.045-$0.114/min · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Apple Developer Program: The paid membership required to ship on the App Store, TestFlight included. — $99/yr (Enterprise Program $299/yr) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Google Play Console: Google's console to publish, test and monetise Android apps on Play. — US$25 one-time registration fee · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Google AdMob: Google's in-app advertising platform for monetising mobile apps. — Free to join (Google takes a share of ad revenue) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
OneSignal: Push, in-app, email and SMS messaging for mobile and web apps. — Free; Growth from $19/mo plus usage · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Automation & agents
Connecting tools together and running workflows without a human in the loop.
n8n: Visual workflow automation and AI agents, self-hostable, with real code steps — From €20/mo (Starter, annual billing) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Make: Visual no-code automation and AI agents across 3,000+ apps — Free; paid from $9/mo (Core) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Zapier: The default connector: automate 9,000+ apps without writing code — Free; Professional from $19.99/mo (annual billing) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Activepieces: Open-source (MIT) automation and AI agents you can self-host in one command — Free; Plus from $20/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Dify: Build agentic workflows and RAG pipelines on one visual workspace — Free (Sandbox); Professional $590/year · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
LangSmith: Tracing, evaluation and deployment for AI agents, any framework — Free (Developer, 1 seat); Plus $39/seat/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
CrewAI: Open-source Python framework for teams of collaborating AI agents — Free (Basic plan); Enterprise on quote · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Trigger.dev: Durable background jobs and AI agents in TypeScript, no timeouts — Free ($0/mo, $5 monthly credits); Hobby $10/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Inngest: Durable execution for workflows and AI agents inside your existing app — Free (Hobby $0/mo); Pro from $99/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Windmill: Code-first platform for scripts, workflows, internal apps and data pipelines — Free and open-source from $0/mo; Enterprise from $120/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Lindy: An AI teammate in Slack that drafts, updates your CRM and runs routines — $29.99/mo per user (Plus) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Gumloop: No-code AI agent builder connected to 100+ business apps — Pro starts at $37/month · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Marketing, SEO & analytics
Being found, being measured, and reaching an inbox.
Ahrefs: Backlink, keyword and site-audit data for SEO — Free, then $29/mo (Starter) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Semrush: All-in-one SEO, content and competitor research suite — Free (limited account), then $117.33/mo billed annually ($139/mo SEO plan) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Google Search Console: Google's own free view of how your site performs in Search — Free · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Plausible Analytics: Cookie-free web analytics, EU-hosted, no consent banner — $9/mo (10k pageviews) or $108/yr · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Fathom Analytics: Privacy-first site analytics with flat per-pageview pricing — $15/mo (100k pageviews) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Cloudflare Web Analytics: Free, cookie-free traffic analytics from a JS beacon or the edge — Free · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Brevo: Email marketing, automation and CRM for small businesses — Free (300 emails/day), then $9/mo (Starter) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Resend: Transactional and marketing email built for developers — Free (3,000 emails/mo), then $20/mo (Pro) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Buffer: Plan, schedule and measure social posts across channels — Free, then $5/mo per channel (billed yearly) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Screaming Frog SEO Spider: Desktop crawler that audits a site's technical SEO — Free up to 500 URLs, then GBP 199/year per licence · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
MailerLite: Email marketing with landing pages and automations — Free (250 subscribers, 2,500 emails/mo), then $12/mo · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Appfigures: App store analytics, ASO keywords and competitor data — Free (Starter), then $9.99/mo (Connect) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Payments & business
Taking money, billing subscriptions and running the company's books.
Stripe: Payment and billing infrastructure for online businesses worldwide. — 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (US cards), no monthly fee · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Paddle: Merchant of record for SaaS and apps: payments, billing and global sales tax. — 5% + $0.50 per transaction, no monthly fee · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Lemon Squeezy: Merchant of record for digital products and SaaS, now owned by Stripe. — 5% + $0.50 per transaction, $0/month · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Polar: Developer-first merchant of record for subscriptions and usage billing. — Free — 5% + $0.50 per transaction · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
RevenueCat: Subscription backend for in-app purchases on iOS, Android and web. — Free up to $2,500 monthly tracked revenue, then 1% · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Adapty: In-app purchase backend with no-code paywalls and A/B testing. — Free under $5,000/month revenue, then 1% · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Chargebee: Subscription billing, quoting and revenue recognition on top of your gateway. — $0 + 0.8% of billing (Flow plan) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Shopify: Hosted store to sell online, in person and on social channels. — $19/mo billed yearly (Basic) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Mollie: European payment provider: 38 payment methods through one integration. — From EUR 0.25 per transaction, no monthly fee · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Qonto: European business account with cards, invoicing and bookkeeping. — EUR 9/mo excl. VAT (Basic, billed annually at EUR 108) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Pennylane: French accounting, e-invoicing and business account in one platform. — Free (0 EUR/mo excl. VAT); paid plans from 7 EUR/mo excl. VAT · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Wise Business: Multi-currency business account for paying and getting paid abroad. — $31 USD one-time account opening fee, no monthly fee · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Productivity
Notes, tasks, writing and the daily plumbing of getting work done.
Notion: All-in-one workspace: docs, wikis, projects and databases in one place. — Free (paid from $10/member/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Obsidian: Local-first Markdown notes kept as plain files on your own machine. — Free (Sync from $4/mo, Commercial licence $50/user/yr) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Linear: Issue tracking and project planning built for software product teams. — Free (paid from $10/user/mo, billed yearly) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Raycast: Keyboard launcher for apps, clipboard, scripts, snippets and AI. — Free (Pro $10/mo or $96/yr) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Grammarly: Writing assistant for grammar, clarity and tone across every app. — Free (Pro $12/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
DeepL: Machine translation for text, documents and speech, with a developer API. — Free (Individual from EUR 7.49/mo, billed yearly) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Superhuman: Fast, keyboard-first email client for Gmail and Outlook, with AI triage. — From $25/member/mo (billed annually) · no free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Todoist: Task manager with natural-language input, shared projects and reminders. — Free (Pro $5/mo billed yearly, or $7/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Loom: Screen and camera recording turned into a shareable link, with transcripts. — Free (Business $18/user/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Granola: AI meeting notepad that listens without sending a bot into the call. — Free (Business $14/user/mo) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19
Airtable: Spreadsheet-database hybrid with forms, automations and custom interfaces. — Free (Team $20/user/mo, billed annually) · free plan · checked 2026-09-19