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Nine jobs · six tools each

The short list of AI tools, folded by the job.

AIToolStack ranks six tools for each kind of work. The order is a composite of public metrics. Every figure has a source and a date. If we could not verify a number, the cell says not available. A tool under 50% coverage is labeled Insufficient data and is not ranked.

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Each list is six tools, ordered by a composite score. Open a job to see the breakdown, the sources, and the blanks.

How the score works
  1. 01CodingEditors and coding agents, scored as products.
  2. 02WritingAssistants and editors for prose.
  3. 03ImagesText-to-image generators.
  4. 04VideoText-to-video generators.
  5. 05Voice & audioSpeech and music tools.
  6. 06AgentsProducts that can take a goal and use tools.
  7. 07ResearchTools that answer with sources you can check.
  8. 08ProductivityNotes, meetings, calendars, and task lists.
  9. 09DesignInterfaces, marketing visuals, and sites.

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  1. ByteDance Seedream 5.5

    ByteDance Seed introduced Seedream 5.5, an image model with more stable multi-turn editing across 100 rounds, native RGBA output including transparency, and more realistic images and text rendering. Evaluation scores on the post are vendor-reported.

    ByteDance Seed (opens in a new tab)

  2. Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small

    Thinking Machines introduced Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active, with image input and variable effort. It is available on Tinker with closed weights, and the lab says Apache 2.0 weights are planned after external safety testing. Benchmark scores on the post are vendor-reported.

    Thinking Machines (opens in a new tab)

  3. Ant Ling-3.2-flash

    Ant Ling's changelog for November 5, 2026 launched Ling-3.2-flash, a native multimodal model with 560 billion total parameters, 25 billion active, and a 1 million token context, taking image, text, and video input. It is available in the chat interface and through an API compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic protocols, and is free for the first 2 weeks.

    Ant Ling changelog (opens in a new tab)

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