AI tools for modern work

AI Tools by Role

A catalog of practical AI tools you can filter by use case, difficulty, price, and free plan.

General AI Chat Beginner

ChatGPT

OpenAI's conversational AI. A versatile first pick for writing, summarizing, ideation, and analysis.

Free / Go $8 / Plus $20 / Pro from $100 per month Free plan
General AI Chat Beginner

Claude

Anthropic's conversational AI. Strong at long-context reading, writing quality, and coding — a reliable work companion.

Free / Pro $20 / Max from $100 per month Free plan
AI Coding Intermediate

Claude Code

An agentic coding AI in your terminal that plans, implements, and fixes autonomously. Built for developers.

Included with Claude Pro $20 / Max from $100 / Team $25 per seat Paid only
AI Coding Intermediate

Cursor

An AI-powered code editor. Completion, chat, and auto-edits dramatically speed up coding.

Free / Pro $20 / Pro+ $60 / Ultra $200 per month Free plan
AI Coding Beginner

GitHub Copilot

An AI pair programmer that autocompletes code in your editor. Easy to adopt and a proven entry point.

Free / Pro $10 / Pro+ $39 / Max $100 per month Free plan
Image Generation Intermediate

Midjourney

Generates high-quality images. Speeds up visual production, drafts, and concept art.

Basic $10 / Standard $30 / Pro $60 / Mega $120 per month Paid only
Docs & Productivity Beginner

Notion AI

Writes, summarizes, and organizes notes inside Notion. Information management and writing in one place.

Free / Plus $10 / Business $20 (full AI) per seat/mo, billed yearly Paid only
Presentations Beginner

Gamma

Turns text into slides and decks in seconds. Slashes the time to build proposals and pitches.

Free / Plus $10 / Pro $20 / Ultra $100 per seat/mo; less yearly Free plan
Translation Beginner

DeepL

A translation AI known for natural output. Strong for business documents and email across languages.

Free / Individual $10.49 / Team $34.49 / Business $68.99 monthly Free plan
Automation & RPA Intermediate

Power Automate

Microsoft's RPA and workflow tool for automating routine work. Directly targets manual back-office tasks.

Free (work account) / Premium $15 user / Process $150 bot per month Free plan
Spreadsheets & Analysis Beginner

Microsoft Copilot (Excel)

Generate formulas, analyze, and visualize in Excel using natural language. Lifts data-work productivity.

Included with Microsoft 365 Copilot ($30 per user/month add-on) Paid only
Design Beginner

Canva AI (Magic Studio)

An AI design tool even beginners can use. Templates plus AI generation speed up social and deck design.

Free / Pro from $15 / Business from $21 per user per month Free plan
Customer Support AI Intermediate

Intercom (Fin AI)

An AI support agent that resolves customer questions automatically. Automates front-line support at scale.

$0.99 per outcome (resolution); Intercom seats from $29/user/mo Paid only
Legal AI Intermediate

Harvey

A legal-domain AI for research, drafting, and contract review. Built for law firms and legal teams.

Not public — enterprise contracts, annual seat minimums Paid only
General AI Chat Beginner

Google Gemini

Google's multimodal AI assistant for writing, research, analysis, and images — deeply tied into Google Workspace.

Free / AI Plus $5 / AI Pro $20 / AI Ultra from $100 per month Free plan
Docs & Productivity Beginner

Microsoft 365 Copilot

AI woven into Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams — drafts, summarizes, and analyzes inside the apps you already use.

$30 per user/month add-on; $21 for orgs under 300 seats Paid only
AI Search & Research Beginner

Perplexity

An answer engine that searches the live web and cites its sources — fast, verifiable research without the link-hunting.

Free / Pro $20 / Max $200 per month Free plan
Writing Assistant Beginner

Grammarly

An AI writing assistant that fixes grammar, tone, and clarity across your apps — and now drafts and rewrites on request.

Free / Pro $12 per month billed annually ($30 monthly) Free plan
Automation & RPA Intermediate

Zapier

No-code automation that connects thousands of apps — build 'when this, do that' workflows and let routine tasks run themselves.

Free / Professional from $19.99 / Team from $69 per month Free plan
AI Video Beginner

Synthesia

Turns a script into a studio-quality video with an AI presenter and voiceover — no camera, crew, or editing suite required.

Free / Starter $29 / Creator $89 per month / Enterprise custom Free plan
AI Voice Beginner

ElevenLabs

Lifelike AI voice generation and voice cloning in many languages — for narration, dubbing, podcasts, and product demos.

Free / Starter $6 / Creator $22 per month Free plan
AI Video Intermediate

Runway

Generative video and VFX — create and edit footage from text or images, with tools built for real creative production.

Free / Standard $15 / Pro $35 / Max $95 per month Free plan
Image Generation Beginner

Adobe Firefly

Commercially-safe image and design generation built into Photoshop and the Adobe suite — generate, edit, and expand visuals.

Free / Standard $9.99 / Pro $19.99 per month, plus higher tiers Free plan
Data & Analytics Intermediate

Tableau

Industry-standard data visualization with built-in AI (Tableau Pulse) that surfaces insights and answers questions in plain language.

Desktop Free / Cloud Viewer $15 / Explorer $42 / Creator $75 per mo Free plan
AI Coding Intermediate

Devin (Cognition)

An AI software engineer that works both in your editor and in the cloud — completing code as you type, and taking whole tickets through to a pull request you review.

Free / Pro $20 / Max $200 / Teams $80 + $40 per seat Free plan
Automation & RPA Intermediate

n8n

An open-source workflow automation and AI-agent builder — chain tools, APIs, and models into orchestrated, repeatable processes.

Self-host free / Cloud from ~$23/mo (n8n lists prices in EUR) Free plan
Meetings & Notes Beginner

Otter.ai

AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls into notes and action items automatically.

Free / Pro $16.99 / Business $30 per user/mo; less billed yearly Free plan
Career & Job Search Beginner

Teal

An AI resume builder and job-application tracker that tailors your resume to each role and organizes your whole search.

Free / Teal+ $13 per week, $29 per month, $79 per quarter Free plan
Learning & Tutoring Beginner

Khanmigo

Khan Academy's AI tutor and teaching assistant — guides learners with Socratic questioning and helps educators plan and assess.

Free for teachers / $4 per month or $44 per year for learners Free plan
Data & Analytics Beginner

Julius AI

Chat with your data — upload spreadsheets and let AI analyze, visualize, and explain the results in plain language.

Free / Plus $20 / Pro $45 / Max $200 / Business $450 per month Free plan