Every week we publish what changed across the 1,682 AI tools we have scored, plus a handful worth your attention. This is the issue for Sep 22 - Sep 28, 2026, sent to subscribers and archived here in full.
What we published
AI Sales Tools in 2026: 5 of the 13 Google Names Will Not Print a Price, and a Seat on the 7 That Do Runs $84 to $6,600 a Year
Customer acquisition cost needs a spend figure, and 5 of the 13 AI sales tools Google names for this query publish no rate at all. We opened every pricing page on 14 September 2026 and recorded one bit each. Across the 7 that do publish, a paid seat runs $84 to $6,600 a year, a factor of 79. Plus the mandatory onboarding fee nobody prints, the vendor that publishes a full credit ladder with no price on it, and the pricing card whose price is a month and whose allowance is a year.
Best AI SEO Tools in 2026: One Tracked AI Prompt Costs $0.0312 a Month on One Tool and $25.80 on Another
Every AI SEO tool now publishes a prompt allowance beside a plan price, and nobody divides. Across 30 plans from 8 vendors, one tracked AI prompt runs from $0.0312 a month on Mangools to $25.80 on Ahrefs Lite, a factor of 827. Plus the two tools we wrongly cut for a 404 that was our own bad URL, the saving Mangools prints on monthly plans that monthly plans do not give, and the vendor that publishes the allowance and withholds the price.
Open Source Web Scrapers for Lead Lists in 2026: $0 a Month Against Firecrawl’s $99, and the 4 Licences That Decide If You Can Sell the Output
A self-hosted scraper is $0 in licence against $99 a month for 100,000 pages on Firecrawl Standard. We audited 19 scraper repositories through GitHub's API on 9 September 2026: 3 are AGPL-3.0, including the most starred one, and one more is SSPL. Plus Zyte's 268-times price range, Thunderbit's two different Starter plans, and the BeautifulSoup repository that has been archived since 2022.
New to the catalogue
- 5dive (AI Agents, scored 3.6)
- Curviate (AI Agents, scored 3.4)
- posthell (MCP Servers, scored 5.3)
- BrowserAct (MCP Servers, scored 5.7)
- Explorium (AI Agents, scored 3.4)
- Bright Data (MCP Servers, scored 7.9)
- Photoroom (AI Image, scored 6.2)
Five worth your time
| Tool | Category | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Notevibes | Voice Generation | 8.5/10 |
| Retool | AI Coding | 8.5/10 |
| Slack | AI Agents | 8.5/10 |
| Ask Your PDF | AI Assistant | 8.3/10 |
| ChatLabs | AI Design | 8.3/10 |
Notevibes. Free text to speech converter with natural voices in 20+ languages. Type your text, listen instantly, and download the MP3 - no signup required.
Retool. Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
Slack. Boost productivity and save time with Slack - the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Ask Your PDF. Add an AI chatbot to your website, trained on your content. Auto fill PDF forms with our AI form filler, and chat with any PDF. Start free.
ChatLabs. Writingmate puts GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Sora, and Veo in one $20/month app, with file uploads, web search, image and video generation, and custom agents.
The honest limit
We have scored 1,682 tools across 24 categories, and we have not tested every one to the same depth. Where a score leans on vendor documentation rather than hands-on use, the review says so on the page.
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