Guides

The best model for each job

Each guide leads with three picks from live data, then shows how we tested, what it costs at your volume and who should pick something else.

support.md

Best AI model for customer support repliesWhich AI model to use for support emails and chat replies, what 1,000 replies cost on each, and when to pick something else.

writing.md

Best AI model for writing marketing and blog copyThe AI model that writes the best marketing copy and blog drafts today, the cheapest one that still writes well, and what each costs.

coding.md

Best AI model for coding help if you’re not a developerWhich AI model to ask for scripts, spreadsheet macros and small website fixes when you don’t write code for a living.

summaries.md

Cheapest AI API for summarising documentsThe cheapest AI model that still writes a good summary, what 1,000 summaries cost on each model, and when to pay more.

research.md

Best AI model for research and long documentsWhich AI model to use for reports, contracts and research across long documents, with context sizes and costs side by side.

spreadsheets.md

Best AI model for spreadsheets and formulasWhich AI model writes the right Excel and Google Sheets formulas, cleans up data, and what it costs per request.

extraction.md

Best AI model for pulling data out of documentsWhich AI model to use for invoices, receipts, forms and other documents you need turned into tidy fields, and what it costs at volume.

self-hosted.md

Best open-weights AI model to run yourselfThe best open-weights AI models you can host on your own servers, how they compare with closed models, and what hosted versions cost.

images.md

Best AI image generatorWhich AI image model makes the best pictures today, ranked by people’s blind votes, with what each one is good at.

video.md

Best AI video generatorWhich AI video model makes the best clips today, ranked by people’s blind votes, and what to check before you pay.