A small directory that stays small.

Our mission is simple: curate a small, trustworthy directory of AI tools chosen for clarity and usefulness. We review each resource by hand, check the details, and keep the list focused so you can decide faster — without ads, sponsors, or noise.

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Resources are chosen, not scraped

Handpicked by editors. No automated scraping. Quality over quantity.

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Key facts are checked and dated

Dates and details verified against the provider's own pages. Updated regularly. Clear sources cited.

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One clear way through

Simple comparisons. Clear guidance. No confusion, just what matters.

Who runs it

One person, working alone, with no company behind the site. There is no commercial relationship with any provider listed here, with a single disclosed exception — one listing carries a referral link, described in full under editorial independence below. Every entry is chosen, written, checked, and published by that same person. The judgement on this site is therefore one person's judgement — and so is any mistake on it.

That is the honest trade-off of a hand-made directory: it is accountable, but it is not exhaustive. There is no editorial team, no research department, and no support queue. The email address on the contact page reaches the owner directly, and messages sent there are the main way errors on this site get found.

How a resource gets listed

Every listing goes through the same five steps before it is published. None of them are automated.

  1. Used first, written second. The resource is used for real work rather than skimmed. If it cannot be got working, or it does not do the thing its own homepage says it does, it is not written up at all — a misleading listing is worse than a missing one.
  2. The provider is identified. Who actually operates the service, and whether the product is live and open to ordinary users rather than a waitlist, a demo video, or an announcement.
  3. Facts are read off the source. Pricing, plan names, free-tier limits, and the real access address come from the provider's own pages — never from another directory, a news article, or a marketing email.
  4. The access link is checked. It has to be a plain https:// address on the provider's own domain, with no redirect chains and no tracking wrappers. The site refuses to publish a destination that is not an ordinary web address. The one listing that uses a referral link says so on its face — see editorial independence below.
  5. The description is written from scratch. In the site's own words, including the parts that are not flattering — usage caps, missing features, things you should confirm yourself. Anything that carries a date (prices, plan names, model names) goes into the listing's Important information block along with the month it was checked.

Only then does it go live, carrying a verification status and the date it was listed.

What gets checked

Concretely, these are the things confirmed before a listing is published, and re-confirmed whenever it is looked at again.

  • Who the provider is — the company or team that actually operates the service, not a reseller, a wrapper, or a clone with a similar name.
  • That it is live — usable today by an ordinary person, not a waitlist, a closed beta, an abandoned project, or a landing page for something unreleased.
  • What it costs — plan names, prices, what the free tier actually allows, and whether a credit card is needed to begin.
  • Where the access link goes — the provider's own domain over https://, with no tracking wrappers. Referral links are the one exception and are disclosed on the listing that uses them.
  • Category and pricing type — assigned from a fixed, short list rather than invented per listing, so entries stay comparable with one another.
  • Whether the claims are checkable — if the only evidence for what a tool does is its own marketing copy, that gets said in the listing rather than repeated as fact.
  • Obvious red flags — no working privacy policy, no identifiable operator, vague or missing terms, or aggressive data collection for what the tool does.

What the four statuses mean

Every listing carries one of four labels. They describe how much first-hand checking is behind the entry — nothing about how good the resource is.

  • Verified — used first-hand, and its provider, access link, and pricing were read off the provider's own pages in the month named in the listing's Important information block.
  • Listed — confirmed to exist and to work as described, but something in it could not be fully checked first-hand: an enterprise-only tier, a region-locked feature, a plan nobody here has paid for.
  • Pending review — published, and currently being re-checked because something may have moved: pricing, a plan name, a feature, or the access link.
  • Unverified — the entry exists but its claims have not been confirmed. Treat everything in it as the provider's word rather than this site's.

How often listings are re-checked

Every listing shows the date it was listed, and every fact with a shelf life sits in its Important information block next to the month it was last confirmed. Those two dates are there so you can judge for yourself how fresh an entry is instead of assuming everything on a directory is current.

Beyond that, a listing gets looked at again in three situations: a few times a year as routine maintenance, immediately when a provider announces a pricing or plan change, and immediately when someone writes in to say something is wrong. Reader reports are the fastest of the three by a wide margin, which is why the contact page exists.

The honest limit: this is one person checking by hand, not a monitoring service. Nothing here polls provider pages for changes, so a price that moved last week may still be wrong here today. That is exactly why every listing tells you to confirm current details with the provider before paying for anything.

Corrections and removals

A listing gets corrected when the resource is still worth listing but a detail has moved: a price changed, a plan was renamed or retired, the free tier got smaller, a feature appeared or disappeared, or the access address changed. The wording is fixed, and the checked month in the Important information block moves to the month of the re-check.

A listing is removed outright when it can no longer honestly stay: the product shut down, the access link no longer resolves to the provider, the thing on the other end no longer matches the description, or its basic facts can no longer be confirmed at all. Removal is not a verdict on quality — plenty of good tools would come off this site simply because nobody here can still vouch for the details.

Two dates, two meanings, and it is worth being precise about them: the date on a listing is when it first went live, and the month inside Important information is when its facts were last confirmed. This site does not publish a per-listing change log, so those two dates are the whole of what it claims about freshness.

If something here is wrong, saying so is genuinely useful — send it to the address on the contact page. A link to the provider page that shows the current fact turns a correction from an afternoon of checking into a five-minute fix.

Why this is not a scraped list

There is no submission form on this site, no bulk import, and no script pulling somebody else's catalogue into this database. Nothing arrives here automatically. Every row exists because one person opened the tool, read the provider's pages, and typed the entry out.

The difference is one of incentives. A directory assembled by scraping is rewarded for volume: more entries mean more pages, more search surface, and more places to put an affiliate link, and since nobody opened the tools, nobody has to stand behind what the entries say. A hand-checked directory is capped by something much less flattering — how much one person can actually verify — which is why this site is short and will stay short.

What you get for that trade is a directory where the phrase “we checked this” means the specific list of things described further up this page, and where a listing that could not be checked says so on its face.

Editorial independence and funding

  • No listing is ranked or chosen because of money. Nothing on this site is a paid placement. No listing has been bought, and nobody can pay to be listed, to rank higher, to be featured, or to be described more kindly than the checks support. That is the rule that does not bend.
  • One listing carries a disclosed referral (affiliate) link. Almost every Get Access button points at the provider's own address with no referral or tracking parameters, and this site earns nothing when you click those. The exception is the JustWoker API listing: its Get Access link is a referral link that may earn this site a small commission if you sign up. It was listed on the same editorial merits as everything else — its place in the directory and the wording of its listing were not bought — and the referral relationship is stated plainly on the listing itself. There are no sponsored listings and no guest posts.
  • There is no advertising on the site at the moment. No ad network, no analytics trackers, no social pixels — see the privacy policy for what that means for you.
  • How it sustains itself: mostly it doesn't. The site runs at its owner's own expense — hosting, domain, and the subscriptions bought to test the tools. The one referral link above may occasionally return a small commission, but it comes nowhere near covering those costs and never decides what gets listed or how it is described. This is a personal project, not a business.
  • If anything changes, it will say so here. Advertising, any new referral arrangement, or any other way of funding the site would be described on this page, and anything that could affect what gets listed or how it is described would be disclosed on the affected listings too — just as the one referral link is today. The one rule that will not change: money will not buy a listing or move its position.

Common questions

What is AI Finder Hub?

It is a small, independent, hand-checked directory of AI tools — a free AI tools directory covering AI assistants, models, APIs, and platforms. Every listing is used and verified by one person against the provider's own pages, rather than scraped from other lists.

Are the AI tools listed here free?

Every listing is either genuinely free or clearly labelled freemium, with the free-tier limits spelled out. Each card shows a pricing type, so you can scan the free AI tools list and see at a glance what a tool costs and how much of it is free before you commit any time.

How is this different from other "best free AI tools" lists?

Most "best AI tools" pages are several hundred entries nobody has opened, assembled by scraping other lists and ordered by whoever pays the most per click. This directory takes the opposite trade: far fewer entries, each one used first-hand, described honestly, and linked straight to the source — a short list you can get through in a few minutes.

Can I use it to compare AI assistants or find a free ChatGPT alternative?

Yes. The directory lists AI assistants side by side with their pricing, free-tier limits, and verification status, which makes a quick AI assistant comparison easy. Several listings are free ChatGPT alternatives, and you can browse AI tools by category to narrow down to the kind of tool you need.

Is this a paid or affiliate directory?

No listing is ranked or chosen because of money, and nothing is a paid placement. One listing carries a clearly disclosed referral link that may earn the site a small commission; it was listed on the same editorial merits as everything else. The full funding and independence disclosure is set out above.

How often are listings re-checked?

Every listing shows the date it was listed and the month its facts were last confirmed. Listings are re-checked a few times a year as routine maintenance, immediately when a provider announces a pricing or plan change, and immediately when a reader writes in to report something out of date.

Where to go next

The resources directory is the whole site: every listing, newest first, each one with its status, its category, what it costs, and a link straight to the provider. It is short on purpose — if you reach the end of it in a minute, that is the point rather than a bug.

If a listing is out of date, if something here is simply wrong, or if there is a resource worth checking, the contact page says what is useful to send and what to expect back. The privacy policy covers the short version of what is collected when you browse (almost nothing), and the terms of use cover the rest.