Plain-English explainers and free browser-based tools for people who want to get real work done with AI — without the hype, the rankings that expire in a month, or a sales pitch.
Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded or stored.
Work out what an AI model actually costs per month from your token usage, and compare the major models side by side.
Free toolPaste any text to estimate how many tokens it uses, and see what that text would cost to send to each major model.
Free toolCompare a flat monthly chat subscription against the equivalent API usage and find the break-even point where one overtakes the other.
Free toolFour questions about your task, budget and experience — then a recommendation and the guides to go with it.
How language models actually work, the vocabulary you need, and what the jargon really means.
2 guidesChoosing between the major chat assistants and getting better answers out of whichever one you use.
2 guidesWhere AI genuinely helps with drafting, editing and summarising — and where it quietly makes work.
2 guidesComparing image generators, prompting for composition and style, and the licensing basics.
2 guidesWhat coding assistants do well, what they do badly, and how to learn to code alongside them.
2 guidesPractical workflows for small teams, plus how AI pricing actually works so you can budget for it.
A plain-English tour of tokens, training, context and hallucination — what a language model is really doing when it answers you.
A practical framework for choosing between the major AI assistants based on your actual work, rather than on benchmark scores or marketing claims.
How token-based API billing actually works, how it differs from flat monthly plans, and a simple method for working out which one fits your usage.
A grounded look at where AI coding tools genuinely save time, where they quietly create work, and the review habits that keep the difference in your favour.
Seven prompting patterns that reliably improve AI assistant output, with before-and-after examples you can adapt to your own work.
A practical framework for comparing AI image tools by output style, control, workflow fit and licensing, rather than by whichever model launched most recently.
Most AI coverage goes stale within weeks. A model gets an upgrade, a price changes, an exclusive feature ships everywhere, and the article that told you exactly what to buy is quietly wrong.
So we write about the parts that hold: what these systems actually do, the dimensions tools genuinely differ on, and how to test a candidate against your own work in twenty minutes. Where we do publish numbers — API prices, mainly — we keep them in one maintained table, date-stamp it, and link the source so you can check us. That table was last verified on 20 July 2026; you can read it on the model pricing page.
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