I Reviewed 47 AI Tools and Here's What Nobody Tells You About This Space

This article was originally published on Medium . I'm cross-posting here for the Dev.to community. I spent the last few months doing something slightly obsessive. I signed up for every major AI tool I could find — writing tools, image generators, code editors, video makers, chatbots — and used each one for at least 20 minutes before writing a single word about it. Not skimming the features page. Not reading someone else’s review. Actually sitting down, creating an account, and trying to do real work with each one. That became RawPickAI , an independent review site I built because I couldn’t find one that did this basic thing. Here’s what I learned along the way. Some of it might save you money. Some of it might just confirm what you already suspected. “Free tier” is the most abused term in SaaS This drove me crazy during testing. Nearly every AI tool advertises a free tier. But the range of what “free” actually means is absurd. ChatGPT’s free tier gives you GPT-4o mini and limited acce