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Arena

Arena Intelligence, Inc.

Platform where you compare two anonymous AI models on the same prompt, and your votes feed public leaderboards.

For developers
Open source

AutoGen

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft's open-source framework for building teams of cooperating AI agents in Python or .NET; it now gets maintenance only, no new features.

For developers
Open source

CrewAI

CrewAI, Inc.

MIT-licensed Python framework that lets several AI agents with defined roles work on tasks together as a team.

For developers
Freemium

E2B

FoundryLabs, Inc.

Cloud platform where AI agents run model-generated code in isolated Linux sandboxes, controlled through Python or JavaScript SDKs.

For developers
Paid

Eden AI

Eden AI SAS

French API platform that gives access to more than 500 AI models for text, speech, OCR and image analysis through a single interface.

For developers
RecommendedFreemium

Google AI Studio

Google LLC

Free Google web workspace for testing Gemini models, creating API keys and building small AI apps from a prompt.

For developers
RecommendedFreemium

Hugging Face

Hugging Face, Inc.

Central platform for open AI models and datasets, with demo hosting, an inference API and its own libraries for developers.

For developers
Open source

LangChain

LangChain, Inc.

Open-source framework for Python and JavaScript that lets you build AI agents and LLM applications from models, tools and data sources.

For developers
Open source

Langflow

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)

Open-source visual builder from IBM for assembling AI agents and RAG applications by drag and drop and serving them as an API.

For developers
Open source

LangGraph

LangChain, Inc.

Open-source framework from LangChain for building AI agents as a graph of individual steps, with saved state and human approvals.

For developers
RecommendedOpen source

LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex, Inc.

Open-source framework for Python and TypeScript for building AI apps on your own documents, plus the LlamaParse cloud service for parsing.

For developers
RecommendedFreemium

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc.

Desktop app for running open language models locally on Mac, Windows or Linux and serving them to other tools through a local API.

For developers
Open source

Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Corporation

Open-source Microsoft framework for AI agents and multi-agent workflows in Python, .NET and Go, the successor to AutoGen and Semantic Kernel.

For developers
RecommendedOpen source

Ollama

Ollama Inc.

Open-source tool for running open language models locally on Mac, Windows or Linux, optionally extended with cloud-hosted models.

For developers
RecommendedFreemium

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

US platform that gives you access to hundreds of AI models from different providers through one OpenAI-compatible API and a single credit balance.

For developers
Paid

Snowflake Cortex AI

Snowflake Inc.

AI features built into the Snowflake data platform: language models via SQL, plain-language questions about your data, and agents.

For developers
Open source

TextGen

oobabooga (Open-Source-Projekt)

Open-source browser interface for running language models offline on your own computer, including an API and LoRA training.

For developers

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These are building blocks rather than finished applications: check the licence, how actively the project is maintained and how lively the community is before you build on it. It also matters where models and data run (your own server or the cloud), how costs per request develop and whether you can switch providers later. For client projects, a small prototype is worth it before you commit.

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