Switching saves UK users up to £239/year

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Real prices · GBP

100 email-writing tasks / month

ChatGPT PlusWhat you pay
Flat subscription
£20.00
/month
GPT-4o
API — pay per use
£0.37
/month
Claude Haiku
API — pay per use
£0.14
/month
GPT-4o miniCheapest
API — pay per use
£0.02
/month

Switch to GPT-4o mini
and save up to:

£240/yr

£19.98/month

API prices require technical setup — CheyX explains how. Figures verified May 2026.

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20 AI tools, honestly reviewed

Text & Chat

Editor's picks marked ★
★ Pick
Text & Chat

ChatGPT

Free tier

The most widely used AI assistant

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £20/month

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★ Pick
Text & Chat

Claude

Free tier

Better at following complex instructions

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £18/month

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Text & Chat

Gemini

Free tier

Google's AI, built into Google Workspace

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★

From £17/month

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Writing & Marketing

Writing & Marketing

Jasper

Paid

AI writing for marketing teams

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★

From £39/month

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Writing & Marketing

Copy.ai

Free tier

Sales copy and cold email automation

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★

From £36/month

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Writing & Marketing

Writesonic

Free tier

Blog writing and SEO content at low cost

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★

From £16/month

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Coding

Editor's picks marked ★
Coding

GitHub Copilot

Paid

AI code completion inside your editor

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £8/month

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★ Pick
Coding

Cursor

Free tier

An AI code editor built from scratch

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★

From £16/month

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Image Generation

Editor's picks marked ★
★ Pick
Image Generation

Midjourney

Paid

The best AI image quality available

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £8/month

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Image Generation

DALL-E 3

Free tier

Photorealistic images via ChatGPT or API

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £20/month

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Image Generation

Adobe Firefly

Free tier

Commercially safe AI images, Adobe-integrated

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★
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Video

Video

Runway ML

Free tier

AI video creation and editing

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★

From £12/month

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Audio & Speech

Editor's picks marked ★
★ Pick
Audio & Speech

ElevenLabs

Free tier

Natural-sounding text-to-speech and voice cloning

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £5/month

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Research

Editor's picks marked ★
★ Pick
Research

Perplexity

Free tier

AI search that cites its sources

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £17/month

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Editing

Editor's picks marked ★
★ Pick
Editing

Grammarly

Free tier

AI editing and grammar checking

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £12/month

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Productivity

Productivity

Notion AI

Paid

AI writing and summarisation inside Notion

Quality: ★★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £8/month

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Design

Design

Canva AI

Free tier

Design tool with built-in AI features

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £10/month

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Transcription

Transcription

Otter.ai

Free tier

Automatic meeting transcription

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £8/month

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Video Avatars

Video Avatars

Synthesia

Paid

Training videos with AI avatars

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★★

From £18/month

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Video Avatars

HeyGen

Free tier

Personalised video with better avatar realism

Quality: ★★★★·Ease: ★★★★

From £24/month

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Darul Rahman, Founder of CheyX
Founder & CEO, CheyX
I founded CheyX to help you save money on all your AI needs. We'll show you how much you could save and which AI models offer best value for your needs. We're not sponsored by any AI company and we don't receive affiliate commissions. Just a truthful, unbiased way for you or your company to save money.

Darul Rahman

Founder & CEO, CheyX

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