Every week we publish what changed across the 1,675 AI tools we have scored, plus a handful worth your attention. This is the issue for Sep 10 - Sep 16, 2026, sent to subscribers and archived here in full.
What we published
Self-Hosting an LLM in 2026: A Small Team Needs 675 Tokens a Second, Nonstop, Before a $244.80 GPU Beats a $0.14 API
A $244.80 a month RTX 4090 on Runpod Community Cloud only beats Together AI Llama 3 8B Instruct Lite above 1.75 billion tokens a month, which is 675 tokens a second sustained for 30 days. Against gpt-6-astra the same trade needs 18 a second. All rates read from vendor pricing pages on 4 September 2026, with the two that carry published expiry dates named on the page.
Open Source Alternatives to Paid AI Tools in 2026: $560.50 a Month Off a Small Team’s Bill, and the Three Licences That Decide If You Can
A small team on Zapier, Pinecone, Algolia, Datadog, 5 ChatGPT seats and ElevenLabs pays $560.50 a month, $6,726 a year, verified 3 September 2026. The self-hosted replacements cost $0 to licence. Of the 16 repositories behind them GitHub reports a real licence for 13 and "Other" for 3, and those 3 are exactly the ones whose terms restrict what a company may do.
Best GitHub Repos to Start a One-Person Business in 2026
Short answer: the repositories below are free, and each one removes a cost or creates a billable service for a business with no employees. This is not a list of impressive projects. It is a list of things that map to an invoice you can send or a subscription you can cancel. The honest framing.
Five worth your time
| Tool | Category | Score |
|---|---|---|
| AIChatOne | AI Writing | 8.5/10 |
| Aiter | Productivity | 8.5/10 |
| DailyBot | AI Agents | 8.5/10 |
| Dzine | AI Design | 8.5/10 |
| Exa | AI Coding | 8.5/10 |
AIChatOne. AIChatOne is an all-in-one AI assistant with the most advanced AI models (GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini, etc.) to help you Chat, Search, Write, Read and more
Aiter. Aiter is an AI marketing tool that turns any URL into a full campaign: ads, banners, social posts, blog, email, SEO and GEO. Research first, then assets. Free to start.
DailyBot. Dailybot 3 helps people and agents keep work visible without adding more meetings or tools.
Dzine. Transform design with Dzine: the most controllable AI design tool. Enjoy image generation and editing on our all-in-one online free platform.
Exa. The Exa Web search API retrieves the best, realtime data from the web for your AI
The honest limit
We have scored 1,675 tools across 23 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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