Catalog 01 · Sep 2026
Which AI tool still earns its seat.
Kiln is a dated directory of assistants, coding agents, image tools, and automations. Each entry has a skip-if line and a last-verified date. We send you to the vendor. Unrelated niches (jobs, gaming, coupons) live on other sites.
On the bench today
| # | Tool | Job | Price band | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Claude Anthropic | Long documents, careful edits, and coding work that needs a large context window | Pro around $20/mo; Max tiers for heavy agent use (Sep 2026) | 19 Sept 2026 |
| 02 | Perplexity Perplexity AI | Questions that need links, not a confident paragraph | Pro around $20/mo (Sep 2026) | 18 Sept 2026 |
| 03 | NotebookLM Google | Grounding answers in PDFs, notes, and sources you upload | Free with Google account; higher limits on paid Google AI (Sep 2026) | 18 Sept 2026 |
| 04 | Cursor AnySphere | Daily product work in an AI-native editor, especially multi-file edits | Hobby free; Pro around $20/mo; Ultra much higher (Sep 2026) | 19 Sept 2026 |
| 05 | Midjourney Midjourney | Art-directed stills when style matters more than Photoshop round-trip | Basic around $10/mo; no serious free plan (Sep 2026) | 18 Sept 2026 |
| 06 | n8n n8n | Developers who want Zapier-like workflows with less vendor lock and more code | Self-host free; cloud paid by executions (Sep 2026) | 18 Sept 2026 |
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