Build gaps
Paid AI tools that still don't have a great free, open-source replacement. Looking for something to build? Start at the top.
4 wide open · 13 thin · 22 crowded
Wide open
No free option that's still maintained.
- remove.bg Remove image backgroundsWide open
- No maintained free option
- HeyGen AI avatar and talking-head videosWide open
- No maintained free option
- Best-known one quiet for 7 months
- Descript Edit video and audio by editing textWide open
- No maintained free option
- Krisp AI noise cancellationWide open
- No maintained free option
Thin
A few free options, but each falls short somewhere.
- Topaz Gigapixel AI image and video upscalingThin
- 1 maintained option
- Photoroom AI product photo editingThin
- 1 maintained option
- None easy to set up
- Sora AI video generationThin
- 1 maintained option
- None easy to set up
- Best-known one quiet for 7 months
- ChatPDF Chat with your documentsThin
- 1 maintained option
- Grammarly AI writing and grammar checksThin
- 1 maintained option
- Character.AI Chat with AI charactersThin
- 1 maintained option
- None easy to set up
- Gamma AI slide decks and presentationsThin
- 1 maintained option
- Synthesia AI presenter videosThin
- 2 maintained options
- Opus Clip Turn long videos into short clipsThin
- 2 maintained options
- Suno AI music generationThin
- 2 maintained options
- None easy to set up
- Best-known one quiet for 8 months
- TinyFish Web infrastructure for AI agentsThin
- 2 maintained options
- cloro Search and AI answers APIThin
- 2 maintained options
- None easy to set up
- MrScraper AI web scraping to structured dataThin
- 4 maintained options
- None easy to set up
Crowded
Plenty of good free options already. Hard to stand out here.
- GitHub Copilot AI code completionCrowded
- 18 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Notion AI AI notes and knowledge baseCrowded
- 17 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- ElevenLabs AI voice generation and cloningCrowded
- 14 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Zapier Workflow automationCrowded
- 14 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Cursor AI code editorCrowded
- 13 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Wispr Flow Voice dictation anywhereCrowded
- 10 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- ChatGPT AI chat assistantCrowded
- 9 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Pinecone Managed vector database for AI search and RAGCrowded
- 9 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Otter.ai Meeting transcription and notesCrowded
- 8 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Lovable Build web apps from a promptCrowded
- 8 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- AnyAPI One API for hundreds of AI modelsCrowded
- 8 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- DALL·E AI image generationCrowded
- 7 maintained options
- Best-known one quiet for 8 months
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Midjourney AI image generationCrowded
- 6 maintained options
- Best-known one quiet for 8 months
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Manus General AI agent that does tasksCrowded
- 6 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Runway AI video generation and editingCrowded
- 5 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Perplexity AI answer engine with web searchCrowded
- 4 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Firecrawl Web data API for AI agentsCrowded
- 4 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Claude AI chat assistantCrowded
- 3 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Devin Autonomous AI software engineerCrowded
- 3 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- DeepL AI translationCrowded
- 3 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Context.dev Web data API for AI agentsCrowded
- 3 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with
- Exa Search API for AI agentsCrowded
- 3 maintained options
- Easy setup exists
- OK to sell with