Find the right AI tool for your work in about two minutes.
Tell Smart Match what you do. It asks a few short questions and recommends three tools that fit, each with a plain reason. Free, with no sign-up to start.
Describe your work One or two sentences about what you do and what is getting in the way.
Answer a few questions Short follow-ups about budget, team and the tools you already use. Ten at most.
Get three tools Each pick comes with the reason it fits and a link to its full record.
An actual Smart Match session: a six-person marketing team on roughly $300 a month, already using ChatGPT and Notion, whose brand voice drifts by the second draft. Smart Match returned WRITER at 93% fit, Cassidy at 82% and Notion at 74%, each with the reason it made the list. Your own session will ask different questions and reach a different answer.
Top rated on Hokai
Editorial rating out of 5, with four sub-scores out of 10.
Every rating is an editorial score from 1 to 5. It is set after reading the vendor's own pricing, documentation and terms, and it comes with four sub-scores out of 10: ease of use, features, value for money and support.
Vendors can pay for a listing, and that never changes a rating, a ranking or a pick.
Questions people ask
What is the best AI tool for writing?
On Hokai's editorial ratings, the highest-rated writing tool right now is QuillBot (4.3 out of 5), followed by DeepL (4.2) and JetWriter AI (3.8). The right pick still depends on your work: Smart Match asks a few questions about it and recommends three tools that fit.
What is the best AI tool for coding?
On Hokai's editorial ratings, the highest-rated coding tool right now is Claude Code (4.6 out of 5), followed by Devin (4.6) and Cursor (4.4).
Is Hokai free to use?
Yes. Searching the directory, reading records and guides, comparing tools side by side and running Smart Match cost nothing, and you can start without an account.
How many AI tools does Hokai list?
Hokai lists 679 AI tools, 88 AI agents, 182 AI models, 32 skills, 22 services and 81 AI companies, plus 258 guides. Every record has its own page with pricing, strengths and weaknesses.
How often is the information checked?
Records are re-checked against the vendor's own pages, and each one shows the date of its last check. The Top rated and Most read lists on this page refresh every week.
Does paying more get you a better tool?
The 40 highest-rated tools whose cheapest paid plan is $100 a month or less, in US dollars, against their Hokai rating.
Also has a free plan (32). Paid plans only (8). Select a dot to open that tool.
Give buyers a clearer way to find your work.
People arrive at Hokai already describing the problem they need solved. A listing puts your product in front of that, with the facts teams actually ask for: what it does, what it costs, and what it does with their data.