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35 models & apis tools, ranked by Stork's defensibility score — a human-reviewed verdict on which ones hold up as agents commoditize the rest.
- 1Claude 3.5 Sonnet Vision35
- 2Azure OpenAI Service30
- 3Amazon Transcribe28
- 4Cohere Embed v327
- 5Exa | Web Search API, AI Search Engine, & Website Crawler27
- 6xAI Grok API25
- 7Mistral Large API23
- 8GitHub - microsoft/VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI23
- 9Azure Speech Service22
- 10Deepgram Aura (assistant)20
- 11AI21 Jamba-Instruct20
- 12AssemblyAI Realtime20
- 13Jina Embeddings20
- 14AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text20
- 15Google Cloud Speech-to-Text20
- 16Jina Embeddings v220
- 17Anthropic Claude API15
- 18GPT-4o Vision14
- 19Gemini 1.5 Flash14
- 20Azure Speech Studio14
- 21Cohere Embed v314
- 22Nomic Embed14
- 23Google Gemini Pro Vision14
- 24Google Gemini 1.5 Pro14
- 25Nomic Embed V114
- 26Amazon Polly + Transcribe11
- 27Cohere Embed V311
- 28LM Studio11
- 29OpenAI Whisper v38
- 30OpenAI GPT-4o8
- 31OpenAI GPT-4o8
- 32Perplexity Vision API7
- 33Voyage Embeddings 37
- 34xAI Grok-1.5V7
- 35OpenAI Embeddings 35
Ranked by the Stork score — human-reviewed, recomputed as model capabilities ship.
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