56 Frontier Labs AI tools
AI services in the Frontier Labs field. Click a name to see its description, pricing and alternatives.
Frontier Labs: free vs paid at a glance
20 tools with official pricing data. 18 have a free plan, 8 offer a Korean UI. Cheapest paid plan: xAI ($8/mo).
| Tool | Free | Cheapest monthly | Korean | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.AI | No | — | No | — |
| AI21 Labs | Yes | — | No | API |
| Anthropic | Yes | $17/mo | Yes | Web, iOS, Android |
| Black Forest Labs | Yes | — | No | Web, API |
| Cohere | Yes | — | Yes | API |
| Databricks Mosaic | Yes | — | Yes | — |
| Google DeepMind | Yes | — | Yes | API |
| Hugging Face | Yes | $20/mo | — | Web, API, CLI |
| IBM Research | Yes | — | Yes | Web |
| Inception Labs | Yes | — | No | API |
| LAION | Yes | — | No | — |
| Liquid AI | Yes | — | No | iOS, Android, Mac |
| MiniMax | No | $10.5/mo | Yes | API |
| Mistral AI | Yes | $14.99/mo | No | Web, iOS, Android |
| moondream | Yes | $350/mo | No | Web, Mac, Windows |
| OpenAI | Yes | 13,000원/mo | Yes | Web, iOS, Android |
| Perplexity AI | Yes | $17/mo | Yes | API |
| Prime Intellect | Yes | — | No | Web, CLI, API |
| StepFun | Yes | — | — | Web, API |
| xAI | Yes | $8/mo | — | Web, iOS, Android |
From each tool's official pricing page (checked by 2026-10-14). '—' means not stated. Prices change, so check before paying.
How to choose
- Try a tool with a free plan first and check the limit before paying.
- If you need Korean menus, filter by the Korean column.
- Annual plans are often cheaper; the table shows monthly prices.
01.AI
Chinese AI company behind the Yi model family and AI-first applications
Read the guide →Free + paidAI21 Labs
Developer of large language models and long-context NLP tooling
Read the guide →Free + paidAlibaba DAMO Academy
Alibaba's advanced R&D institute focused on large models, cloud AI, and applied research
Read the guide →FreeAlibaba Tongyi
Alibaba's AI model division behind the Qwen and Tongyi model families
Read the guide →FreeAllen Institute for AI
Non-profit AI research institute, creators of OLMo and Dolma
Read the guide →Free + paidAnthropic
AI safety company behind the Claude model family
Read the guide →Free + paidBlack Forest Labs
Frontier AI lab building image generation models and visual AI infrastructure
Read the guide →Free + paidCMU LTI
Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute
Read the guide →Free + paidCohere
Enterprise NLP and embedding model provider
Read the guide →FreeDatabricks Mosaic
Databricks research group focused on efficient training, open models, and large model infrastructure
Read the guide →FreeDeepSeek
Chinese lab behind high-performance reasoning and open-weight language models
Read the guide →FreeEleutherAI
Decentralized AI research collective focused on open models, datasets, and interpretability
Read the guide →FreeEssential AI
AI lab building open-source models and tools to make frontier AI more accessible
Read the guide →Free + paidGoogle DeepMind
Google's AI research lab behind Gemini and AlphaFold
Read the guide →FreeHugging Face
Community AI platform and open model hub for models, datasets, and machine learning tooling
Read the guide →FreeIBM Research
Enterprise AI research organization working on open models, data tools, and trustworthy AI systems
Read the guide →Free + paidInception Labs
AI lab building Mercury, a diffusion-based language model family for fast reasoning and coding
Read the guide →FreeKyutai
Paris-based open-science AI lab building and democratizing advanced AI systems
Read the guide →FreeLAION
Non-profit organization building open datasets, tools, and models for machine learning research
Read the guide →FreeLiquid AI
MIT spin-off building efficient Liquid Foundation Models for every scale
Read the guide →FreeMeta AI
Meta's AI division — FAIR and Superintelligence Labs; creators of the Llama model family
Read the guide →Free + paidMicrosoft Research
Corporate research organization powering Copilot, Azure AI, and foundational AI research
Read the guide →Free + paidMILA
Quebec AI Institute focused on machine learning research and scientific AI advancement
Read the guide →Free + paidMiniMax
Global foundation model company developing text, speech, video, image, and music models
Read the guide →FreeMistral AI
European AI lab known for efficient open and closed language models
Read the guide →Free + paidmoondream
Open vision-language models small enough to run anywhere in production
Read the guide →Free + paidMoonshot AI
Chinese AI startup behind Kimi, focused on long-context assistants and frontier model development
Read the guide →FreeNous Research
Open-source AI research collective behind the Hermes and NousCoder model families
Read the guide →Free + paidNVIDIA Research
Research organization advancing GPU-driven systems, model architectures, and large-scale AI infrastructure
Read the guide →Free + paidOpenAI
AI research and deployment company building frontier reasoning and multimodal systems
Read the guide →Free + paidPerplexity AI
AI research lab and answer engine company publishing frontier research and language models
Read the guide →FreePleIAs
AI lab building energy-efficient open-data foundation models for regulated industries
Read the guide →Free + paidPoolside
AI lab building foundation models for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks
Read the guide →FreePrime Intellect
Open stack for training, deploying, and improving agentic AI models
Read the guide →FreeReflection AI
AI lab building frontier open intelligence and open-weight models accessible to all
Read the guide →Free + paidSakana AI
Japan-based AI lab building nature-inspired and frontier AI systems
Read the guide →Free + paidSamsung Research
Samsung's research hubs focused on generative AI, multimodal systems, and on-device models
Read the guide →FreeStability AI
Open AI company behind Stable Diffusion, SDXL, and generative media models
Read the guide →Free + paidStanford HAI
Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute
Read the guide →Free + paidStepFun
Chinese AI company developing Step-series language and reasoning models
Read the guide →FreeTII
Technology Innovation Institute, creators of the Falcon language model family
Read the guide →Free + paidVector Institute
Canadian AI research institute advancing machine learning research and AI adoption
Read the guide →Free + paidxAI
AI company building Grok and frontier reasoning systems
Read the guide →Free + paidZ.ai
Zhipu AI — creator of the GLM model family and large-scale Chinese foundation models
Read the guide →Free + paidBaidu Research
Baidu's research arm developing ERNIE and large-scale multimodal models
View on the 3D map →Free + paidBerkeley BAIR
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab
View on the 3D map →FreeBigScience
Open collaborative research initiative focused on large language models and responsible AI
View on the 3D map →FreeDeep Cogito
AI lab building open-source systems for advanced reasoning and general intelligence research
View on the 3D map →Free + paidHuawei Noah's Ark Lab
Huawei's foundational AI research group on NLP, vision, and multimodal systems
View on the 3D map →Free + paidInflection AI
AI studio behind Pi, a personal and empathetic conversational assistant
View on the 3D map →Free + paidMagic
AI lab building long-context models and a superhuman coding agent
View on the 3D map →FreeOpenMMLab
Open-source AI research ecosystem for computer vision, multimodal learning, and model toolkits
View on the 3D map →Free + paidSafe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)
Safety-focused AI lab dedicated to building safe superintelligence
View on the 3D map →Free + paidTencent AI Lab
Tencent's AI research lab developing large models, multimodal AI, and applied AI systems
View on the 3D map →Free + paidThinking Machines Lab
AI research and product company building more understandable and customizable AI systems
View on the 3D map →Free + paidYandex Research
Yandex's research teams working on large models, search AI, and machine learning systems
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