AI Tools Directory
ResourcesSearch a curated directory of developer-focused AI tools
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer built into VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Neovim; autocompletes code and answers questions in a chat panel.
Cursor
An AI-native fork of VS Code with built-in multi-file editing, chat, and an agent mode for larger codebase changes.
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic CLI and IDE-integrated coding assistant that can read, edit, and run code across a whole repository.
Windsurf
An AI-native code editor with an agentic "Cascade" mode for multi-step coding tasks, plus free autocomplete.
Sourcegraph Cody
Codebase-aware AI assistant that uses Sourcegraph's code search to ground answers and edits in your actual repository.
Tabnine
AI code completion tool with an emphasis on private, on-prem, or VPC-hosted models for enterprise codebases.
Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI coding assistant with autocomplete, chat, and automated code transformations like Java version upgrades.
Anthropic API (Claude)
Messages API access to the Claude model family, with tool use, extended thinking, and prompt caching.
OpenAI API
API access to GPT models plus embeddings, image generation, and the Assistants/Responses APIs.
Google Gemini API
API access to Google's Gemini models via AI Studio or Vertex AI, with a generous free tier.
Mistral AI
European AI lab offering open-weight and hosted Mistral models via API, including strong small, efficient models.
Cohere
Enterprise-focused LLM API with a strong emphasis on retrieval, rerank, and embeddings for search and RAG use cases.
Perplexity API (Sonar)
API access to Perplexity's search-augmented Sonar models, which return real-time web answers with citations.
LangChain
Popular framework for chaining LLM calls, tools, and memory into applications and agents, in Python and JavaScript.
LlamaIndex
Data framework focused on connecting LLMs to your own documents and data sources for retrieval-augmented generation.
CrewAI
Framework for orchestrating role-based teams of autonomous AI agents that collaborate on a task.
Microsoft AutoGen
Microsoft's framework for building multi-agent conversational AI applications with customizable agent roles.
Semantic Kernel
Microsoft's lightweight SDK for integrating LLMs into C#, Python, and Java apps with plugins and planners.
Vercel AI SDK
TypeScript toolkit for building AI-powered UIs and agents with streaming and tool calling across React, Vue, and Svelte.
Pinecone
Fully managed vector database purpose-built for high-scale similarity search and RAG applications.
Weaviate
Open-source vector database with built-in hybrid search and native support for multi-modal embeddings.
Qdrant
Rust-based open-source vector database and search engine, available self-hosted or as a managed cloud.
Chroma
Lightweight, developer-friendly open-source embedding database designed to be easy to run locally for prototyping.
Hugging Face
The largest hub for open-source models, datasets, and spaces, plus hosted inference endpoints.
Replicate
Run open-source machine learning models — image, audio, video, and LLMs — via a simple API, billed per second of compute.
Together AI
Fast, cost-efficient inference and fine-tuning for open-source LLMs, with an OpenAI-compatible API.
Groq
Custom LPU hardware delivering extremely fast inference for open-source LLMs via API, often accessible on a free tier.
Ollama
Run open-source LLMs locally on your own machine with a simple CLI and REST API — no cloud required.
LangSmith
Tracing, debugging, and evaluation platform for LLM applications, tightly integrated with LangChain.
Langfuse
Open-source LLM observability platform for tracing, prompt management, and evaluation.
Weights & Biases (Weave)
ML experiment tracking platform with Weave for tracing and evaluating LLM applications.
Helicone
Drop-in proxy for logging, monitoring, and caching LLM API requests with one line of code.
Anthropic Console
Web-based playground for testing prompts against Claude models, comparing outputs, and generating API code.
OpenAI Playground
Web-based playground for experimenting with GPT models, system prompts, and function calling before writing code.
Braintrust
Platform for evaluating, testing, and comparing prompts and models side by side with scoring pipelines.
About the AI Tools Directory
A curated, searchable directory of AI tools built for developers — coding assistants, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, vector databases, inference hosts, and observability platforms. Search by name, description, or tag, and filter by category or pricing model to find what you need.
The AI tooling space moves fast and is crowded with overlapping products; this is a working shortlist rather than an exhaustive index, aimed at helping you find a starting point in a specific category — say, vector databases or agent frameworks — without wading through a full marketplace listing.
How to Use the AI Tools Directory
Search by tool name, description, or tag.
Filter by category and/or pricing model.
Click through to a tool's own website for details.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a list of every AI tool, or a curated selection?
It's curated — a working set of AI tools developers actually reach for: coding assistants, model APIs, agent frameworks, vector databases, inference hosts, and observability platforms. It's not exhaustive, and it's not a paid placement list.
Does searching or browsing send anything to a server?
No. The list and the search/filter logic are all local — everything runs in your browser against a static list. Clicking through to a tool, of course, takes you to that tool’s own website.
How do the pricing tags work?
Free, Freemium, Paid, or Open-source, reflecting each tool’s primary access model at a glance. Most vendors adjust pricing over time, so treat it as a starting point and confirm current terms on the tool’s own site.
Can I filter by category and price at the same time?
Yes — the category and pricing filters combine with the search box, so you can narrow to, say, only open-source vector databases, or only free playgrounds.