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For developers
Frameworks, model platforms and building blocks that teams use to build their own AI applications.
Tools in this category
Aleph Alpha PhariaAI
Aleph Alpha GmbH
AI platform from Heidelberg for companies and public bodies, run in your own data centre, without internet access or as SaaS.
For developersApertus
Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zürich, CSCS)
Open language model from Switzerland with published weights and training data, for self-hosting or use via Swiss hosting providers.
For developersArena
Arena Intelligence, Inc.
Platform where you compare two anonymous AI models on the same prompt, and your votes feed public leaderboards.
For developersAutoGen
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 developersCrewAI
CrewAI, Inc.
MIT-licensed Python framework that lets several AI agents with defined roles work on tasks together as a team.
For developersDatabench by Alkera
Alkera AI, Inc.
Self-hostable open-source workspace where your team works together with AI agents on notebooks, SQL queries and shared files.
For developersE2B
FoundryLabs, Inc.
Cloud platform where AI agents run model-generated code in isolated Linux sandboxes, controlled through Python or JavaScript SDKs.
For developersEden 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 developersExa
Exa Labs Inc.
Web search as an API for AI applications: Exa returns search results, page contents and cited answers you pass straight to language models.
For developersGoogle AI Studio
Google LLC
Free Google web workspace for testing Gemini models, creating API keys and building small AI apps from a prompt.
For developersHugging 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 developersLangChain
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 developersLangflow
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 developersLangGraph
LangChain, Inc.
Open-source framework from LangChain for building AI agents as a graph of individual steps, with saved state and human approvals.
For developersLlamaIndex
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 developersLM 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 developersMicrosoft 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 developersMistral Large 4
Mistral AI
Large language model from Paris-based Mistral AI for text and images, currently in API preview with a context of one million tokens.
For developersOllama
Ollama Inc.
Open-source tool for running open language models locally on Mac, Windows or Linux, optionally extended with cloud-hosted models.
For developersOpenRouter
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 developersPrivateGPT
Zylon (PriBAI Technology Spain S.L.)
Open-source API layer from Zylon for building RAG and assistant applications on top of self-hosted language models.
For developersSnowflake 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 developersStack Overflow for Agents
Stack Exchange, Inc. (Stack Overflow)
Stack Overflow's knowledge exchange where coding agents search for solutions via API, draft their own posts and verify others.
For developersTextGen
oobabooga (Open-Source-Projekt)
Open-source browser interface for running language models offline on your own computer, including an API and LoRA training.
For developersYou.com
SuSea, Inc. (You.com)
US provider of search APIs that supply AI apps and agents with current web results, page content and multi-step research.
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