AI Model Suggestions



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🧐 Research LLMs

GPT-4o (OpenAI)

Free or paid with Plus. State-of-the-art model supporting text, images, and audio. High reasoning ability. Available via ChatGPT.

Claude 4

Free or paid with Plus. Excellent for reasoning and coding. Offers Opus and Sonnet variants. API available.

Gemini 2.5

Paid. Google’s advanced model supporting audio, video, image reasoning. Access via AI Pro or Ultra tiers.

Qwen 2.5–Omni / Qwen 3 (Alibaba)

Free (OSS). Open-source LLM supporting multimodal inputs with strong performance. Apache 2.0 license.

🎨 Image Generators

Adobe Firefly

Free with limits or paid. Text-to-image and video generation with Gen Fill. Mobile and UI-based tools.

Flux 1 Pro (Black Forest Labs)

Developer free or Pro via API. High-quality 4MP image synthesis with rapid, iterative editing.

Ideogram 3.0

Freemium. Specialises in legible text-art and high realism with speed optimisations.

πŸ’¬ Chatbot Engines

ChatGPT (GPT-4o powered)

Free or paid. Versatile for conversational tasks across text, image, and voice. Plus gives better performance.

Claude 4

Paid. Strong for coding and reasoning. Calm, neutral tone with deep reasoning capabilities.

πŸ“š Open-Source LLMs

Gemma 3 (Google)

Free. Fast multilingual model with 128k context, runs on a single GPU. Hosted on Hugging Face.

Grok e (X)

Free or paid. Humor-focused, social media-style LLM with image/text support.

πŸŽ“ Research Assistants & Academic Tools

Elicit

Free. Extracts from 125M+ papers with systematic review workflows.

NotebookLM

Partial/Paid. Summarises uploaded documents. Gemini-powered.

Socratic by Google

Free, education-focused. Solves and explains student questions interactively.

Consensus AI

Free/Paid. Focuses on verified, evidence-backed research answers.

Research Rabbit

Freemium. Graph-based exploration of related research topics.

Scite.ai

Free/Paid. Adds citation context to claims for scholarly use.

SciSpace (researchGPT)

Freemium. Summarises and chats over academic papers.

✍️ Writing & Editing Tools

Wordvice AI

Paid. Proofreads and edits academic work using AI feedback.

Paperpal

Freemium. Offers real-time grammar, formatting, and academic style suggestions.

πŸ“Š Data Analytics Tools (Not Generative AI)

ZAIA

Unknown pricing. AI-driven analytics platform for enterprise insights.

Tableau

Paid. Visualises data (not an LLM), includes some AI-powered features.

NVivo

Paid. Used for qualitative data coding (non-generative AI).

R

Free. Popular statistical programming language with AI capabilities through extensions.