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Chat

ChatGPT

4.7/5
Checked Oct 23, 2026Code

Claude Code

4.7/5
Checked Oct 23, 2026Images

Midjourney

4.6/5
Checked Oct 23, 2026Audio

ElevenLabs

4.8/5
Checked Oct 26, 2026How we arrive at a verdict

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188Models reviewed+ 619 more listed
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10 lesser-known MCP projects worth a look

Memory for coding agents, a phone to test on, a map of your codebase, up-to-date dependency APIs, a local sound studio and a ruler for construction drawings: ten newer MCP projects and what each asks you to trust.

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agent-device

Coding-agent toolsTypeScript5.3k Stars

4.3/5

Callstack's CLI, MCP server and Node.js API that let coding agents drive mobile, TV, web and desktop apps they build.

deja-vu

Coding-agent toolsGo1.4k Stars

4.2/5

One Go binary that indexes the session logs your coding agents already keep and hands the relevant history back over MCP and hooks.

Voiceflow

Customer supportPay per use

4.1/5

A workshop where your own team builds, tests and runs AI support agents for chat and phone, with handoff to your human agents.

HY-World 2.0

Tencent (Hy, formerly Hunyuan)Game & world modelsOpen weights

4.1/5

Tencent's open pipeline that turns a sentence or photo into a persistent 3D world you can walk through and open in Unity.

Repowise

Coding-agent toolsPython8.1k Stars

4.1/5

A local index of your code, git history and decisions that coding agents query over MCP instead of grepping file by file.

Momentic

CodingFree plan

4.0/5

Write end-to-end tests for web and mobile apps in plain English; an AI runs them in CI and repairs them when the UI changes.

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ElevenLabs

Audio & voiceFree plan

4.8/5

AI voice platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, music and voice agents, now on its Eleven v4 models.

ChatGPT

Chat assistantsFree plan

4.7/5

OpenAI's general-purpose assistant, now on GPT-6, with chat, deep research, ChatGPT Work and Codex in one app.

Claude Code

CodingPaid

4.7/5

Anthropic's coding agent that reads your repo, edits files and runs commands, in the terminal, IDE, desktop app or browser.

Hugging Face

Model APIs & hostingFree plan

4.7/5

The main hub for open AI models and datasets, with app hosting, a multi-provider inference API and dedicated endpoints.

Intercom Fin

Customer supportPay per use

4.7/5

AI customer agent that answers and resolves support, sales and ecommerce conversations, billed $0.99 per outcome.

Canva

Design & slidesFree plan

4.6/5

Drag-and-drop design platform for social posts, presentations, video and docs, with Canva AI 2.0, Magic Layers and free Affinity.

Models, ranked

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Top-rated AI models
ModelMade byRating
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic4.7/5
Eleven v4 and v4 TurboElevenLabs4.7/5
GPT Image 2.5 (Flare and Sunburst)OpenAI4.7/5
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic4.6/5
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI4.6/5
Nano Banana 2.1Google4.6/5
Voyage rerank-3Voyage AI (MongoDB)4.6/5
Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic4.5/5

MCP servers worth installing

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MCP servers let assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach into other apps and data. These are the ones that earn a place in your setup, and the permissions each one asks for.

GitHub MCP Server

GitHubVersion control

4.7/5

GitHub's own MCP server: 93 tools for code, issues, pull requests, Actions and security alerts, hosted or self-run.

Playwright MCP

MicrosoftBrowser & web

4.7/5

Microsoft's browser server: drives Chromium, Firefox or WebKit from accessibility snapshots, so agents act without vision.

Chrome DevTools MCP

Google (Chrome DevTools team)Browser & web

4.6/5

Google's server that hands agents a live Chrome plus DevTools: performance traces, network, console, heap snapshots.

Figma MCP Server

FigmaDesign & media

4.6/5

Figma's hosted MCP server: design context for coding agents, plus write tools that build frames, components and diagrams.

Stripe MCP

StripePayments & commerce

4.6/5

Stripe's hosted MCP server: four generic API tools reach most of Stripe, with OAuth per account and human sign-off on refunds.

Supabase MCP Server

SupabaseData & databases

4.6/5

Supabase's hosted MCP server: schema, SQL, migrations, Edge Functions, logs and branches, with project scoping and read-only mode.

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PyTorch

Training & fine-tuningPython105k Stars

4.9/5

The dominant deep learning framework: Python tensors and neural networks with strong GPU acceleration.

Hugging Face Transformers

Training & fine-tuningPython168k Stars

4.8/5

The standard Python library for defining, loading, training and running open models for text, vision and audio.

llama.cpp

Run models locallyC++132k Stars

4.8/5

C/C++ engine for running LLMs locally on CPUs, Apple silicon and most GPUs, home of the GGUF model format.

ComfyUI

Image & videoPython142k Stars

4.7/5

Node-based interface and backend for running image, video and audio diffusion models locally.

LLMs from Scratch

Learning resourcesJupyter Notebook107k Stars

4.7/5

Code for Sebastian Raschka's book on building a GPT-style LLM in PyTorch, step by step.

Qdrant

RAG & dataRust35k Stars

4.7/5

Rust vector database with fast filtered search, hybrid sparse-dense retrieval and quantization, self-hosted or managed.

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