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AI assistantsAI coding IDEsAI image generatorsAI video generatorsAI search & researchLocal model runnersKnowledge base / RAG platformsTerminal coding agentsAgent memory layers
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AI assistantsOpen in comparer →
The most-used general AI assistants, global and Chinese: licence, pricing model and platforms.
| ChatGPT | Claude | Google Gemini | DeepSeek | 豆包 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | AI apps & chat clients | AI apps & chat clients | AI apps & chat clients | AI apps & chat clients | AI apps & chat clients |
| Open / closed | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial |
| Licence | 闭源 | 闭源 | — | — | — |
| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Free |
| GitHub stars | — | — | — | — | — |
| Latest version | 26.1007.21159（Homebrew 当前） | 2.31226.1（Homebrew 当前） | — | — | — |
| Last commit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | — | — | — | — | — |
| Platforms | Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows | Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows | Web · iOS · Android | Web · iOS · Android · API | Web · iOS · Android · Windows · macOS |
| Links | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ |
AI coding IDEsOpen in comparer →
AI code editors and extensions with agents.
| Cursor | GitHub Copilot | Windsurf | Trae | Kiro | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs |
| Open / closed | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial |
| Licence | 闭源（基于 VS Code 开源部分） | 闭源（VS Code Copilot Chat 扩展已开源 MIT） | 闭源 | 闭源 | 闭源 |
| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| GitHub stars | — | — | — | — | — |
| Latest version | 3.24.9（Homebrew 当前） | copilot-chat 0.48.1 · 2026-05-15 | Devin 3.10.48 | 2.3.61406（Homebrew 当前） | 1.2.56（Homebrew 当前） |
| Last commit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | — | — | — | — | — |
| Platforms | macOS · Windows · Linux · CLI · Web | VS Code · JetBrains · CLI · Web | macOS · Windows · Linux | macOS · Windows | macOS · Windows · Linux · CLI |
| Links | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ |
AI image generatorsOpen in comparer →
Text-to-image tools: artistic style, text rendering and vector design each have a leader.
| Midjourney | Ideogram | Recraft | Leonardo.Ai | Krea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | AI image & video | AI image & video | AI image & video | AI image & video | AI image & video |
| Open / closed | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial |
| Licence | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pricing model | Paid | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| GitHub stars | — | — | — | — | — |
| Latest version | — | — | — | — | — |
| Last commit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | — | — | — | — | — |
| Platforms | Web · Discord | Web · iOS | Web | Web · iOS · API | Web |
| Links | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ |
AI video generatorsOpen in comparer →
Leading text/image-to-video products.
| Sora (OpenAI) | 可灵 Kling | Runway | Google Flow | 海螺 Hailuo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | AI image & video | AI image & video | AI image & video | AI image & video | AI image & video |
| Open / closed | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial |
| Licence | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pricing model | Pricing unverified | Freemium | Freemium | Pricing unverified | Freemium |
| GitHub stars | — | — | — | — | — |
| Latest version | — | — | — | — | — |
| Last commit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | — | — | — | — | — |
| Platforms | Web · iOS · Android | Web · iOS · Android · API | Web · iOS · API | Web | Web · iOS · Android |
| Links | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ |
AI search & researchOpen in comparer →
AI search with citations, and academic AI that searches papers only.
| Perplexity | 秘塔 AI 搜索 | Felo | Consensus | Elicit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | AI apps & chat clients | AI search & research | AI search & research | AI search & research | AI search & research |
| Open / closed | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial | Closed / commercial |
| Licence | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| GitHub stars | — | — | — | — | — |
| Latest version | — | — | — | — | — |
| Last commit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | — | — | — | — | — |
| Platforms | Web · iOS · Android · macOS · Windows | Web · iOS · Android | Web · iOS · Android | Web | Web |
| Links | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ |
Local model runnersOpen in comparer →
Run open-weight models on your own machine or server: one-click desktop apps vs high-throughput servers.
| Ollama | llama.cpp | LM Studio | vllm | jan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Local inference & serving | Local inference & serving | Local inference & serving | Local inference & serving | AI apps & chat clients |
| Open / closed | Open source | Open source | Closed / commercial | Open source | Open source |
| Licence | 开源（MIT） | — | 闭源（SDK/CLI 部分开源） | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Pricing model | Open source | Open source | Free | Open source | Open source |
| GitHub stars | 184,216 (2026-10-22) | 131,952 (2026-10-22) | — | 94,910 (2026-10-22) | 45,034 (2026-10-22) |
| Latest version | v0.40.8 · 2026-10-22 | b11804 · 2026-10-22 | 0.4.26（Homebrew 当前） | v0.31.0 · 2026-10-05 | v0.8.6 · 2026-10-09 |
| Last commit | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-22 | — | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-21 |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | CLI · API | — | — | API · CLI | App · API |
| Platforms | — | — | macOS · Windows · Linux | — | — |
| Links | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ |
Knowledge base / RAG platformsOpen in comparer →
Turn documents into a Q&A knowledge base: ready chat front-ends vs workflow platforms vs deep document parsing.
| anything-llm | ragflow | open-webui | dify | khoj | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | AI apps & chat clients | Document parsing & web scraping | AI apps & chat clients | Workflow & agent platforms | AI apps & chat clients |
| Open / closed | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 | Open WebUI License（BSD-3 加品牌保留条款） | Dify Open Source License（修改版 Apache-2.0） | AGPL-3.0 |
| Pricing model | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| GitHub stars | 67,411 (2026-10-22) | 92,617 (2026-10-22) | 156,383 (2026-10-22) | 159,166 (2026-10-22) | 37,780 (2026-10-22) |
| Latest version | v1.17.0 · 2026-10-01 | nightly · 2026-10-21 | v0.11.4 · 2026-09-21 | 1.17.1 · 2026-09-10 | 2.0.0-beta.28 · 2026-03-26 |
| Last commit | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-22 | 2026-08-02 |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | API | API | API | API | API |
| Platforms | — | — | — | — | — |
| Links | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ |
Terminal coding agentsOpen in comparer →
Coding agents that read and edit your repo and run commands from the terminal.
| Claude Code | OpenAI Codex | OpenCode | Gemini CLI | aider | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs | Coding agents & AI IDEs |
| Open / closed | Closed / commercial | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| Licence | 闭源（npm 分发的专有二进制；GitHub 仓库仅含 issue/插件/CHANGELOG） | apache-2.0 | mit | — | — |
| Pricing model | Paid | Freemium | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| GitHub stars | 152,762 (2026-10-22) | 130,325 (2026-10-22) | 219,733 (2026-10-22) | 107,492 (2026-10-22) | 49,689 (2026-10-22) |
| Latest version | v2.1.307 · 2026-10-22 | rust-v0.164.0-alpha.10 · 2026-10-22 | v2.0.26 · 2026-10-08 | v0.65.0 · 2026-10-21 | — |
| Last commit | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-22 | 2026-10-21 | 2026-05-22 |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | CLI | CLI | CLI | — | — |
| Platforms | CLI · macOS · Windows · Linux · Web · VS Code | CLI · Web · IDE · macOS | CLI · IDE · desktop | — | — |
| Links | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ | Website ↗ |
Agent memory layersOpen in comparer →
Let agents remember users and facts across sessions: hosted services vs self-hosted frameworks vs temporal knowledge graphs.
| mem0 | letta | zep | graphiti | cognee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Memory & context | Memory & context | Memory & context | Memory & context | Memory & context |
| Open / closed | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Pricing model | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| GitHub stars | 67,602 (2026-10-22) | 25,220 (2026-10-22) | 4,966 (2026-10-22) | 32,117 (2026-10-22) | 32,637 (2026-10-22) |
| Latest version | v2.2.1 · 2026-09-25 | 0.16.8 · 2026-05-14 | v0.1.0 · 2026-07-10 | v0.30.2 · 2026-09-08 | v1.6.3 · 2026-10-07 |
| Last commit | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-18 | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-16 |
| Maintenance | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained | Maintained |
| Interfaces | SDK · API · MCP | SDK · API | API | SDK · MCP | SDK |
| Platforms | — | — | — | — | — |
| Links | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ | Website ↗ · GitHub ↗ |
Catalogue updated 2026-10-22. Machine-readable index for this tool: /api/v1/software-compare.json