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Best AI in 2026

The tools defining this year.

Our highest-scoring tools right now — the ones we'd hand a newcomer without hesitation. Every entry clears a Solthar Score of 94, which means excellent output quality, active development, and a track record we trust.

  1. Claude: An AI assistant that is great at writing, reading long documents and helping with code. Solthar Score 99/100.
  2. ChatGPT: The best-known AI assistant. Chat with it to write, answer questions, explain things and help with code. Solthar Score 98/100.
  3. Cursor: A code editor with AI built in. It suggests and writes code as you work. Solthar Score 97/100.
  4. ElevenLabs: Turns text into speech that sounds real. It can also copy voices and translate audio into 70+ languages. Solthar Score 96/100.
  5. Gemini: Google's flagship multimodal assistant with deep Workspace and Search integration. Solthar Score 96/100.
  6. Midjourney: Makes beautiful, detailed pictures from a short description you type. Solthar Score 95/100.
  7. GitHub Copilot: The autocomplete that started the AI-coding era, now with chat and agents in your IDE. Solthar Score 95/100.
  8. Claude Code: Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent that edits files and runs commands directly. Solthar Score 95/100.
  9. Runway: Makes and edits videos with AI. Used by film studios, creators and hobbyists. Solthar Score 94/100.
  10. DeepSeek: Open, remarkably capable reasoning models that upended the cost of frontier AI. Solthar Score 94/100.
  11. Hugging Face: The open model hub. Hundreds of thousands of models, datasets and demos in one place. Solthar Score 94/100.