AI Tool Pick

Open Data

Open data from AI Tool Pick: 10 structured anti-recommendations, 13 trade-offs, 11 pricing rows across 11 AI tools, and 0 dated vendor changes. JSON and CSV, CC BY 4.0.

4 files · JSON and CSV · free to reuse with attribution

Who each tool is not for

Reader personas each guide advises against, with the reason. Structured anti-recommendations — the part comparison sites leave out.

10 rows · JSON · CSV

Trade-offs on three axes

What each pick costs you on price, on capability, and on setup friction — separated, rather than collapsed into a star rating.

13 rows · JSON · CSV

Pricing and free-tier boundaries

Plan price and what the free tier actually allows, dated to the day the guide was last verified.

11 rows · JSON · CSV

Tracked vendor changes

Dated log of price rises, discontinued plans and repositionings caught while re-verifying guides.

0 rows · JSON · CSV

Index

Machine-readable table of contents listing every file and its row count.

/data/index.json

What you are getting, and what you are not

Every row carries handsOnTested. Right now 11 of 11 pricing rows are true. Where it is false, the figures were compiled from the vendor's own published pricing and documentation on the row's lastVerified date — not from using the product. That flag is in the data rather than in this paragraph so it survives being copied somewhere else.

Vendors change terms without notice, which is the entire reason the vendor-changes file exists. Re-check any row against the vendor before relying on it. Rows are per guide, so a tool appearing in several guides appears several times, each with its own verification date.

License

CC BY 4.0 — use it commercially, modify it, redistribute it. The one condition is credit: name AI Tool Pick and link to https://theaitoolpick.com/data.

How to cite

This dataset is archived on Zenodo with a DOI, so a citation keeps resolving even if these pages move. Cite the DOI rather than a URL on this site.

AI Tool Pick. 2026. AI Tool Pick AI tool dataset. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22044012 (CC BY 4.0).

@misc{aitoolpick_dataset,
  title     = {AI Tool Pick AI tool dataset},
  author    = {{AI Tool Pick}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.22044012},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22044012},
  note      = {CC BY 4.0}
}

Corrections

If a row is wrong, it is worth more to us fixed than defended — see tracked changes for every correction made so far, and about for how to reach us.