Hayz Labs Reviews

Gemini 4 Argon: Use it (#6 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Google's top model, first in Arena's text votes, now in Google AI Plus from $4.99/month; votes are still early.

Google's newest frontier Gemini model, announced 30 Sep 2026, now in the Gemini app on paid plans and on the paid Gemini API.

Scores: Score 99 in writing (likely 93–100), Our score; Score 95 in research (likely 88–98), Our score; Score 64 in coding (likely 61–68), Our score; #6 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score.

Price: $4.99 a month

DeepSeek app: Wait (First look)

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free, on a new model that Arena's open data doesn't rank yet. Your data is stored in China.

DeepSeek's free AI chat assistant on the web and as a phone app, from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. It now runs the V4.1-Flash-1017 model.

Price: Free

Grok: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

xAI's assistant in its own app and on X, free or from $8/month. No score yet: xAI doesn't say which model runs.

xAI's AI assistant, in the Grok app, on grok.com and inside X, with chat, voice, image and video tools and real-time search.

Price: Free

Meta AI: Wait (First look)

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free assistant in Meta's apps; your chats can shape your ads. No score yet: Meta doesn't say which model runs now.

Meta's free AI assistant in the Meta AI app, on meta.ai and in WhatsApp, for chat, images and video; Meta One plans add more image and video creation.

Price: Free

Microsoft Copilot: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free Microsoft assistant; 365 plans add it to Word and Excel. No score yet: Microsoft doesn't name its models.

Microsoft's AI assistant app for web, desktop and phone. Paid Microsoft 365 plans also put it inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Price: Free

Perplexity: Worth trying (Score 70 in research)

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Good for cited web answers on Pro with GPT-6.1 Sol; skip it if you want free help, where Claude scores higher.

An AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources. Pro lets you pick models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others for each search.

Scores: Score 70 in research, Our checklist.

Price: $17 a month

ChatGPT (GPT-6): Depends (Score 70 in agents)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Good for agent work and coding on Plus with GPT-6 Astra. For writing, Gemini AI Pro and Claude Pro score higher.

OpenAI's assistant app. Since 7 Oct 2026 chat runs on GPT-6 Sol for paying users and GPT-6 Luna on Free and Go.

Scores: Score 70 in agents, Our checklist; Score 70 in coding, Our checklist; Score 60 in research, Our checklist; Score 50 in writing, Our checklist.

Price: $20 a month

Claude: Worth trying (Score 80 in coding)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free runs Sonnet 5.5, near the top for coding and hard questions. Pay for Pro for agents and for writing with Opus 5.5.

Anthropic's assistant app on web, desktop and mobile. Free runs Sonnet 5.5; Pro adds Opus 5.5, Claude Code and Cowork features.

Scores: Score 80 in coding, Our checklist; Score 80 in research, Our checklist; Score 70 in agents, Our checklist; Score 70 in writing, Our checklist.

Price: Free

Claude Code: Worth trying (Score 70 in coding)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Highest published score on a coding-agent test, from $20/month; OpenAI's Codex scores close for far less per task.

Anthropic's coding agent: it reads your repository, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDE, desktop app or browser.

Scores: Score 70 in coding, Our checklist.

Price: $20 a month

Claude Fable 5.1: Skip (#3 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Very strong, but Opus 5.5 ranks higher on most boards for 40% of the price; keep Fable for cases Opus misses.

Anthropic's largest generally available model, released 1 Sep 2026, built for long, hard reasoning and agent work.

Scores: #3 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 87 in coding (likely 76–90), Our score; Score 88 in research (likely 82–94), Our score.

Price: $100 a month

Claude Haiku 5.5: Worth trying (Score 44 in coding)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Very cheap small model for summaries, sorting and coding subagents; use Sonnet 5.5 for hard coding work.

Anthropic's small, cheap model, released 7 Oct 2026, on the Claude API and on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, with an adjustable effort setting.

Scores: Score 44 in coding (likely 42–46), Our score.

Claude Mythos 5.1: Wait (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Anthropic's top cyber and biology model, open only to vetted groups. Most people should use Opus 5.5.

Anthropic's most capable model for security and biology research, offered only to vetted organizations through its Cyber and Life Sciences Verification Programs and Project Glasswing.

Claude Opus 5.5: Use it (#1 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top public pick for coding, agents and hard questions at a mid price; skip it for bulk work where Sonnet 5.5 is enough.

Anthropic's main large model, released 22 Sep 2026, used in the Claude apps, Claude Code and the API.

Scores: Score 100 in coding (likely 89–100), Our score; #1 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 94 in research (likely 88–99), Our score; Score 100 in writing (likely 96–100), Our score.

Price: $20 a month

Claude Sonnet 5.5: Use it (#5 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Near-top coding, agents and research for half Opus 5.5's token price; for writing, pick Opus 5.5 or Gemini 3.8 Flash.

Anthropic's mid-size model, released 28 Sep 2026, in the Claude apps, Claude Code and the API.

Scores: Score 89 in coding (likely 85–92), Our score; #5 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 90 in research (likely 83–94), Our score; Score 85 in writing (likely 80–89), Our score.

Price: Free

Cline: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free open-source coding agent; you pick the model and pay the provider. Quality depends on the model you choose.

An open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal and a desktop app that works with the model of your choice.

Price: Free

Cohere Embed 5 Pro: Wait (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Cohere's new search embedding model for text, images and PDFs. No independent scores yet; wait for MTEB results.

An embedding model: it turns text, images and PDF pages into vectors so search and AI assistants can find the right documents. Available on Cohere's API, Microsoft Foundry and Amazon SageMaker.

ComfyUI: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Widely used free app for running open image and video models on your own computer; expect a learning curve.

A free, open-source app for running image, video, audio and 3D models on your own computer, built around a graph of connected steps (nodes).

Price: Free

Cursor: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

AI code editor with a cheap in-house model; default model unstated and trains on code unless Privacy Mode is on.

A VS Code based AI code editor with chat, local and cloud agents, and PR review bots. Cursor became part of SpaceX on 14 Aug 2026.

Price: $8 a month

Eleven v4: Worth trying (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top-rated expressive voice for audiobooks and characters. Eleven v4 Turbo ties it in blind tests at half the price.

ElevenLabs' newest text to speech model, aimed at expressive long-form speech such as audiobooks and character voices, in 90+ languages.

Price: Free

Eleven v4 Turbo: Use it (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top-rated natural voice in blind tests at half Eleven v4's price, fast enough for live agents. Not the cheapest.

ElevenLabs' fast text to speech model, the real-time version of Eleven v4. It turns text into natural speech in 90+ languages through the ElevenLabs app and API.

Price: Free

EmbeddingGemma 2: Wait (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free, tiny Google search model for text, images, audio and video; scores are Google's own, so wait for outside results.

An embedding model from Google: it turns text, code, images, video and audio into vectors so apps can search across them. Free weights, small enough to run on a phone.

Price: Free

Firecrawl: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Popular tool that turns web pages into clean text for AI apps; free to self-host, 1,000 free API pages a month.

An open-source tool and paid API that crawls websites and turns the pages into clean Markdown or JSON for AI models.

Price: Free

FLUX 3 Image: Worth trying (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top 10 image model that takes up to ten reference images, about 5 cents each. Plain prompts: Nano Banana 2.1 is cheaper.

Black Forest Labs' newest image model for making and editing pictures from text and up to ten reference images, sold through its API.

FLUX 3 Video: Worth trying (Score 93 in video)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Strong new video model with sound and cheap drafts, but pricier than equals. MiniMax H3 gives more per dollar.

Black Forest Labs' first video model, from the makers of the FLUX image models. It makes clips with sound from text, images or video through BFL's API.

Scores: Score 93 in video (likely 88–98), Our score.

Gemini 3.8 Flash: Worth trying (Score 91 in writing)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Low-cost Google model near the top for writing and maths; rankings are preliminary and API prices double in January.

Google's main fast Gemini model, released 2 Sep 2026, in the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, AI Studio and the Gemini API.

Scores: Score 91 in writing (likely 89–93), Our score; Score 85 in data (likely 80–88), Our score; Score 88 in research (likely 84–92), Our score; Score 43 in coding (likely 42–45), Our score.

Price: $19.99 a month

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Use it (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Near-top AI voices for less than half the price of ElevenLabs, with a free tier. Prices double on 1 Jan 2027.

Google's text to speech model in the Gemini API. It turns text into natural speech in over 130 languages, with style control and two-speaker dialogue.

Price: Free

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Use it (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top-ten text to speech for a third less than Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, with a free tier; pick Eleven v4 for the best voices.

Google's cheaper text to speech model in the Gemini API. It turns text into spoken audio and replaces the Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS preview.

Price: Free

Gemini 3.8 Live: Use it (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Among the best-liked voice agent models, free to start and the cheapest of the top group. Weak at hard support tasks.

Google's real-time voice model for apps that talk with people: it listens to speech and answers in speech, through the Gemini Live API. A thinking variant handles harder requests.

Price: Free

Gemini app: Depends (Score 70 in writing)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Good for writing on AI Pro with 3.8 Flash; weak at coding and hard questions, where Claude and ChatGPT score higher.

Google's assistant app on web, Android, iPhone, Mac and Windows. Free lists Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite; AI Pro adds 3.8 Flash and 3.1 Pro.

Scores: Score 70 in writing, Our checklist; Score 50 in research, Our checklist; Score 50 in coding, Our checklist; Score 50 in agents, Our checklist.

Price: $19.99 a month

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM): Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free tool that answers from the files you upload, with up to 50 sources a notebook. Skip it for open web research.

Google's free app where you upload documents, links and notes, then ask questions, get summaries and study guides grounded in those sources.

Price: Free

Gemini Omni Flash 1.1: Use it (Score 100 in video)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top-rated text to video on arena.ai, from $4.99/month in Google Flow. Skip it if price per clip matters most.

Google's video model that makes clips from any mix of text, images, video and voice, and lets you change them by chatting. In the Gemini app, Google Flow and the Gemini API.

Scores: Score 100 in video (likely 96–100), Our score.

Price: $4.99 a month

GitHub Copilot (including Copilot CLI and cloud agent): Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Cheapest paid coding agent at $10/month, CLI on the free plan; no independent test, and personal plans train by default.

GitHub's AI coding assistant: code completion and chat in your editor, a terminal agent (Copilot CLI) and a cloud agent that turns an issue into a pull request.

Price: $10 a month

GLM-5.3-Flash: Worth trying (Score 79 in data)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Very cheap MIT model, 13th on arena.ai Math; for coding and agents MiMo-V2.6-Pro ranks higher for less per task.

A 320B-parameter mixture-of-experts model from Z.ai (18B active), MIT licensed, that reads text and images.

Scores: Score 79 in data (likely 73–84), Our score; Score 74 in research (likely 70–77), Our score; Score 48 in coding (likely 47–49), Our score.

Price: Free

Google Antigravity: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free coding agent app on Gemini Flash; Claude 5.5 needs AI Pro at $19.99/month. Change the data setting first.

Google's free desktop app and CLI for running AI coding agents, with Gemini and some Claude models to choose from.

Price: Free

Google Antigravity CLI: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Google's free terminal coding agent, replacing Gemini CLI; turn off data use in settings if code privacy matters.

A terminal coding agent from Google, part of the Antigravity platform. It replaced Gemini CLI for personal Google accounts on 18 June 2026.

Price: Free

GPT Image 2.5 Flare: Depends (Score 92 in images)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Second on every image board, at Sunburst's price; OpenAI says it is faster. If waits are fine, Sunburst scores higher.

OpenAI's faster image model for making and editing pictures, launched alongside Sunburst in September 2026.

Scores: Score 92 in images (likely 90–94), Our score.

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst: Worth trying (Score 100 in images)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top image model for quality and precise edits, about 21 cents a max-quality image. On a budget, use Nano Banana 2.1.

OpenAI's highest quality image model for making and editing pictures, sold through the API since September 2026.

Scores: Score 100 in images (likely 98–100), Our score.

GPT-6 Astra: Depends (#2 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Second on WebDev and Agent boards, but GPT-6.1 Sol is close for a fifth of the price; middling at creative writing.

OpenAI's most capable model, launched 3 Sep 2026, in ChatGPT Plus and Pro, Codex and the API.

Scores: Score 78 in coding (likely 65–92), Our score; #2 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 93 in research (likely 88–96), Our score; Score 80 in writing (likely 77–84), Our score.

Price: $20 a month

GPT-6.1 Sol: Use it (#4 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Near-top coding and agent work at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra's price; pick Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemini for creative writing.

OpenAI's mid-priced model, announced at DevDay on 29 Sep 2026, used in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.

Scores: #4 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 85 in coding (likely 81–88), Our score; Score 94 in research (likely 87–99), Our score; Score 83 in writing (likely 78–87), Our score.

Price: $20 a month

GPT-Live 1: Worth trying (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top scores on hard voice agent tasks, but blind listeners prefer Gemini 3.8 Live, which also costs less.

OpenAI's real-time voice model: it listens and talks at the same time, handles interruptions, and passes hard requests to a backend model. It powers ChatGPT voice and is in the API.

Grok 4.7: Skip (#16 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Decent agent and web-app work, weak at writing; GPT-6.1 Sol ranks higher for less per task.

xAI's flagship model for coding and knowledge work, released 21 Sep 2026, in Grok, Cursor and the xAI API.

Scores: #16 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 55 in coding (likely 52–57), Our score; Score 73 in writing (likely 70–77), Our score.

Price: $30 a month

Hermes Agent: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free personal agent that remembers your work and runs from the terminal or chat apps; sandbox it before real use.

A free, open-source AI agent from Nous Research that runs in your terminal or chat apps, remembers your projects and writes reusable skills as it works. You pick the model.

Price: Free

LM Studio (with Bionic agent): Worth trying (Score 80 in coding)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free desktop app for running open coding models privately, now with a local agent; skip it if you need frontier quality.

A free desktop app for finding, downloading and running open AI models on your own computer; its Bionic agent (July 2026) can work on your files.

Scores: Score 80 in coding, Our checklist.

Price: Free

MAI-Transcribe-2: Worth trying (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Among the most accurate transcription models at $0.10 an hour. Still a preview with no SLA, so not for production yet.

Microsoft's speech to text model. It turns recorded audio into text in 60 languages through Microsoft Foundry, at a low introductory price.

Midjourney V8.2: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Paid image tool for a distinctive look; no blind leaderboard ranks it, and images are public below the $60 Pro plan.

Midjourney's current default image model, used through its website and Discord on a monthly subscription.

Price: $10 a month

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Worth trying (#13 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis index, at cents per task; closed leaders still rank well above it.

Xiaomi's flagship open model: a 1.02T-parameter mixture-of-experts model (42B active), MIT licensed, with 1M context.

Scores: Score 52 in coding (likely 50–54), Our score; #13 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 94 in research (likely 86–100), Our score.

Price: Free

MiniMax H3: Use it (Score 84 in video)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Best value in video: top-rated image to video with sound at about $5 a minute. Weights barred in US, EU, UK.

MiniMax's video model that makes clips with sound from text or images. You can use it through MiniMax's API or the Hailuo web app; base weights are downloadable in some countries.

Scores: Score 84 in video (likely 82–86), Our score.

Mistral Large 4: Wait (#39 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Mistral's 1T preview scores no higher than 72 in any job; weights due 31 Oct. Use GLM-5.3 or Kimi K3 now.

Mistral's new flagship model, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model that reads text and images, in public preview on Mistral's API since 6 Oct 2026.

Scores: Score 36 in coding (likely 34–38), Our score; #39 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 62 in research (likely 56–67), Our score; Score 59 in writing (likely 55–63), Our score.

Muse Image: Use it (Score 59 in images)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top 10 image quality for about a cent an image, free in Meta AI. Pick Nano Banana 2.1 if you want the higher rank.

Meta's image model for making and editing pictures, built into Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, and offered to developers at about a cent an image.

Scores: Score 59 in images (likely 58–60), Our score.

Price: Free

Muse Spark 1.3: Worth trying (#15 in agents on Arena's Agent board)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Solid coding and agent model at a low token price; GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude rank higher if quality matters most.

Meta's closed Muse Spark model, version 1.3 released 2 Sep 2026, on the Meta Model API, OpenRouter and the Muse Code coding agent.

Scores: Score 60 in coding (likely 58–62), Our score; #15 in agents on Arena's Agent board, Our score; Score 68 in research (likely 61–75), Our score; Score 83 in writing (likely 81–86), Our score.

Price: $5 a month

n8n: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Widely used tool for building AI automations and agents; free to self-host, cloud from 20 euros a month.

A visual workflow tool that connects hundreds of apps and AI models into automations and agents, self-hosted for free or in n8n's cloud.

Price: Free

Nano Banana 2.1: Use it (Score 73 in images)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Near-top image quality for about 3 cents an image, free to try in Gemini. Skip only if you need the very best edits.

Google's fast image model for making and editing pictures, in the Gemini app and the Gemini API since October 2026.

Scores: Score 73 in images (likely 71–75), Our score.

Price: Free

Ollama: Worth trying (Score 80 in coding)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free, private way to run open coding models like Qwen3.8 27B on your own computer; skip it if you need frontier quality.

A free, open-source tool that downloads open AI models and runs them on your own computer, with optional paid cloud models.

Scores: Score 80 in coding, Our checklist.

Price: Free

OpenAI Codex CLI: Worth trying (Score 70 in coding)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Close to the top coding-agent score at a fraction of the cost per task; needs ChatGPT Plus or an API key.

OpenAI's open-source coding agent for the terminal. Sign in with a ChatGPT plan or use an API key; latest stable release 0.162.1 (9 Oct 2026).

Scores: Score 70 in coding, Our checklist.

Price: $20 a month

OpenAI Codex Cloud: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Codex tasks that keep running in OpenAI's cloud, on Plus and up; no independent test of the cloud side yet.

Runs Codex coding tasks in reusable cloud environments, so work continues while your laptop is closed. Announced at OpenAI DevDay on 29 Sep 2026.

Price: $20 a month

OpenClaw: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Popular free personal agent you run on your own computer; powerful but risky, so set up sandboxing before you use it.

A free, open-source personal AI agent that runs on your own computer and acts for you through chat apps, your files and the web.

Price: Free

OpenCode: Worth trying (Score 80 in coding)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Free open-source coding agent for 75+ model providers; scored 54 with GLM-5.3. Skip it for one flat monthly plan.

An open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, a desktop app and editor extensions that works with almost any model provider.

Scores: Score 80 in coding, Our checklist.

Price: Free

Qwen-Image-2.1: Depends (Score 48 in images)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Best scoring image model you can download and run yourself, but its license bars commercial use. Fine for research.

Alibaba's downloadable image model for making and editing pictures on your own computer, released September 2026.

Scores: Score 48 in images (likely 46–49), Our score.

Price: Free

Scribe v2: Worth trying (No score yet)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Very accurate transcription with speaker labels and a free plan. Heavy API users pay less with MAI-Transcribe-2.

ElevenLabs' speech to text model. It turns recordings into text with speaker labels and timestamps in 90+ languages, in the ElevenLabs app or API.

Price: Free

Seedance 2.5: Worth trying (Score 88 in video)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top-tier video with 30 second clips, but about 7x MiniMax H3's price per minute. Most people should start with H3.

ByteDance's video model that makes clips with sound from text, images, video and audio references, up to 30 seconds at a time.

Scores: Score 88 in video (likely 85–90), Our score.

Suno v6: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Suno's new song models; v6-mini is free, but free songs can't be downloaded and your uploads can train it.

An AI music model that writes and sings whole songs from a text prompt. v6 comes in three versions: v6, v6-wild and the free v6-mini.

Price: $8 a month

Wan 3.0: Use it (Score 89 in video)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Top-tier video from text or images, clips up to 30 seconds, at half Veo 3.1's price. MiniMax H3 costs less.

Alibaba's newest video model. It turns text, images, audio or video into clips up to 30 seconds long at up to 1080p, through Alibaba Cloud's API.

Scores: Score 89 in video (likely 85–92), Our score.

Wispr Flow: Worth trying (First look)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Popular voice dictation that types cleaned-up text in any app; free for 2,000 words a week, Pro $15/month.

A dictation app that turns what you say into clean, punctuated text in whatever app you are typing in.

Price: Free