Top 100 of 257 · recomputed nightly
AI tool ranking
Every tool scored from public signals only. Nobody can buy a position here — the formula is below and the raw numbers are on every tool page.
| # | Tool | Score | Stars | HN 30d | Feed 30d | Days idle | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Claude ▲ 7 | 96 | 0 | 883 | 21 | 0 | Free tier |
| 2 |  Whisper ▲ 52 | 84 | 110,580 | 15 | 1 | 0 | Open source |
| 3 |  ChatGPT ▲ 27 | 83 | 0 | 245 | 14 | 0 | Free tier |
| 4 |  Create ▲ 31 | 80 | 0 | 258 | 3 | 0 | Free tier |
| 5 |  Claude Code ▼ 2 | 80 | 0 | 365 | 10 | 0 | Paid |
| 6 |  Gemini ▲ 33 | 77 | 0 | 145 | 3 | 0 | Free tier |
| 7 |  vLLM ▲ 106 | 76 | 93,867 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Open source |
| 8 |  Zed ▲ 107 | 72 | 91,776 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Open source |
| 9 |  Stagehand ▲ 16 | 71 | 25,687 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Open source |
| 10 |  Cursor ▲ 35 | 70 | 0 | 77 | 1 | 0 | Free tier |
| 11 |  Upscayl ▲ 16 | 70 | 50,614 | 0 | 0 | 9 | Open source |
| 12 |  smolagents ▲ 21 | 67 | 29,864 | 0 | 0 | 8 | Open source |
| 13 |  Vercel AI SDK ▲ 103 | 66 | 27,336 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Open source |
| 14 |  Hugging Face ▼ 10 | 66 | 0 | 52 | 5 | 0 | Free tier |
| 15 |  Ollama ▼ 14 | 66 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | Open source |
| 16 |  llama.cpp ▼ 14 | 65 | 0 | 27 | 6 | 0 | Open source |
| 17 |  Stable Diffusion WebUI (AUTOMATIC1111) ▲ 24 | 59 | 165,057 | 0 | 0 | 227 | Open source |
| 18 |  GitHub Copilot ▲ 37 | 58 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 0 | Free tier |
| 19 |  Perplexity ▲ 37 | 58 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 0 | Free tier |
| 20 |  Browser Use ▼ 13 | 54 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | Open source |
| 21 |  Continue ▼ 15 | 53 | 0 | 43 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 22 |  Speak ▲ 38 | 52 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 0 | Paid |
| 23 |  Meta AI ▲ 38 | 51 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | Free |
| 24 |  Wan (Wan2.x) ▲ 90 | 50 | 17,212 | 0 | 0 | 224 | Open source |
| 25 |  OpenRouter ▲ 27 | 49 | 0 | 49 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 26 |  Consensus ▲ 38 | 49 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | Free tier |
| 27 |  ComfyUI ▼ 17 | 47 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | Open source |
| 28 |  LM Studio ▲ 38 | 47 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | Free |
| 29 |  Make ▲ 43 | 46 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | Free tier |
| 30 |  Obsidian ▲ 27 | 41 | 0 | 18 | 0 | – | Free |
| 31 |  Scenario ▲ 27 | 41 | 0 | 22 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 32 |  Stitch ▲ 48 | 40 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | Free |
| 33 | EElevenLabs ▲ 26 | 39 | 0 | 14 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 34 |  Higgsfield ▲ 53 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | Free tier |
| 35 |  OpenAI Codex ▼ 30 | 39 | 0 | 9 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 36 |  Grok ▲ 60 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | Free tier |
| 37 | GGoose ▼ 24 | 35 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 38 |  Runway ▲ 24 | 35 | 0 | 10 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 39 |  Lovable ▲ 24 | 34 | 0 | 12 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 40 |  LiteLLM ▼ 26 | 34 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 41 |  LangGraph ▼ 25 | 33 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 42 |  Instantly ▲ 23 | 32 | 0 | 20 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 43 |  Anima ▲ 66 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Free tier |
| 44 |  Gemini CLI ▼ 35 | 32 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 45 |  LangChain ▼ 34 | 32 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 46 |  AssemblyAI ▲ 21 | 31 | 0 | 8 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 47 |  Devin ▲ 22 | 30 | 0 | 16 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 48 |  Granola ▲ 22 | 30 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 49 |  Captions ▲ 22 | 30 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 50 |  CodeRabbit ▲ 23 | 29 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 51 |  Krea ▲ 159 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | Free tier |
| 52 |  Claude Agent SDK ▼ 21 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 53 |  Open WebUI ▼ 41 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 54 |  Playwright MCP ▼ 35 | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 55 |  Replicate ▲ 19 | 26 | 0 | 9 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 56 |  Reflect ▲ 19 | 26 | 0 | 8 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 57 |  DeepL ▲ 19 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 58 |  Grammarly ▲ 19 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 59 |  Microsoft Copilot ▲ 19 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 60 |  Gamma ▲ 19 | 25 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 61 |  Cline ▼ 43 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 62 |  Fathom ▲ 20 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 63 |  LlamaIndex ▼ 42 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 64 |  Tavus ▲ 19 | 23 | 0 | 7 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 65 |  Browserbase ▲ 19 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 66 |  Graphite ▲ 19 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 67 |  Synthesia ▲ 19 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 68 |  Shortwave ▲ 20 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 69 |  Aider ▼ 26 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 70 |  tldraw Make Real ▲ 19 | 22 | 5,420 | 0 | 0 | 239 | Open source |
| 71 |  Ideogram ▲ 19 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 72 |  Kilo Code ▼ 46 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 73 |  Skyvern ▼ 45 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 74 |  Superhuman ▲ 17 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 75 |  CrewAI ▼ 51 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 76 |  Claude API ▼ 28 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 77 |  Deepgram ▲ 15 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 78 |  Greptile ▲ 15 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 79 |  CapCut ▲ 15 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 80 |  Google Translate ▲ 15 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free |
| 81 |  Speechify ▲ 16 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 82 |  Sierra ▲ 16 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 83 |  HeyGen ▲ 16 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 84 |  Khanmigo ▲ 16 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 85 |  Krisp ▲ 16 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 86 |  NotebookLM ▲ 16 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 87 |  Sourcery ▲ 16 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 88 |  Chatbase ▲ 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 89 |  Lavender ▲ 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 90 |  Meshy ▲ 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 91 |  Stable Audio ▲ 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 92 |  Plus AI ▲ 16 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | Paid |
| 93 |  Base44 ▲ 17 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 94 |  Kapwing ▲ 17 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 95 |  Lindy ▲ 17 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 96 |  Langflow ▼ 79 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 97 |  n8n ▼ 82 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Free tier |
| 98 |  OpenHands ▼ 76 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 99 |  Real-ESRGAN ▼ 53 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Open source |
| 100 |  screenshot-to-code ▼ 77 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Open source |
The formula
score (0-100) = 45 × popularity max( log-norm(GitHub stars), log-norm(Hacker News stories mentioning it, 30d) ) + 25 × momentum log-norm( HN 30d + mentions in our release feed 30d + GitHub stars gained 7d ) + 15 × freshness 1.0 if active in the last 30 days, 0.5 if within 90, else 0 + 15 × access free tier 7 + open source 4 + up to 4 for platform breadth log-norm(x) = log(1+x) / log(1+max over the catalog) · archived repos score ×0.5
Known noise: Hacker News counts for short or common names are inflated (we query "name AI" for names under 5 letters and show the raw count on each tool page). Closed-source tools have no star signal, so their popularity rests on HN alone. Both are real limits of public evidence; we show them rather than hide them.