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How we rate AI tools.
Stars help compare documented capabilities. They do not represent user counts, traffic or community opinion.
Where the score comes from
A directory rating is an editorial assessment of a tool’s purpose, capabilities and operating conditions. We check descriptions against official material and show scores from 1.00 to 5.00 with two decimal places. Scores help compare options but do not replace testing for your own task.
Where an entry includes a detailed breakdown, it uses four criteria. Their arithmetic mean is rounded to two decimal places. Entries without a breakdown show an overall score. This is editorial judgement, not a laboratory test.
Features
How fully the documentation covers the product's core tasks, available modes and output controls.
Workflows
Which steps the tool covers: from the prompt and source materials to editing and the finished output.
Ecosystem
Whether official integrations, an API and ways to fit the tool into an existing workflow are available. An API is not essential for a tool to be highly useful for a particular task.
Documentation
Whether the developer's public materials clearly explain the purpose, limitations, access and usage terms.
How to interpret the scores
5.00 — a broad, thoroughly documented set of capabilities for the criterion; 4.00 — a strong foundation with notable limits; 3.00 — narrower coverage; 2.00 — limited functionality or little public information; 1.00 — minimal documented coverage. Intermediate values refine the editorial assessment between these levels.
What the score does not promise
A higher score does not mean a service is the best fit for you. We do not measure answer quality using one shared task set or present descriptions based on documentation as personal testing. Check regional restrictions, pricing, licences and actual availability with the developer.
Card order
Higher-scoring entries appear first. For equal ratings, newer entries appear higher; remaining ties are sorted by name. Alphabetical and random order are separate choices.
Why are these tools in the catalog?
The directory centres on original products and models with official sources. It also includes selected platforms for accessing third-party models, Telegram interfaces and reference communities. Entries state their roles, capabilities and limits directly. An access service is not presented as the foundation-model developer, nor a community as a generative model. A community’s rating concerns its available material and organisation. The 75-tool list is an editorial selection, not a statistical popularity ranking.