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40 models & apis tools, ranked by Stork's defensibility score — a human-reviewed verdict on which ones hold up as agents commoditize the rest.

  1. 1Claude 3.5 Sonnet Vision35
  2. 2Hume AI31
  3. 3Azure OpenAI Service30
  4. 4Amazon Transcribe28
  5. 5Cohere Embed v327
  6. 6Exa27
  7. 7TranscriptFetch27
  8. 8SeedRouter26
  9. 9xAI Grok API25
  10. 10Kimi K2.625
  11. 11VibeVoice23
  12. 12Grok23
  13. 13Azure Speech Service22
  14. 14HPC-AI21
  15. 15GPT-5.621
  16. 16Deepgram Aura (assistant)20
  17. 17AI21 Jamba-Instruct20
  18. 18Jina Embeddings20
  19. 19AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text20
  20. 20Google Cloud Speech-to-Text20
  21. 21HiAPI20
  22. 22MiniMax18
  23. 23cloro18
  24. 24Anthropic Claude API15
  25. 25Claude Opus 4.615
  26. 26Seed15
  27. 27GPT-4o Vision14
  28. 28Gemini 1.5 Flash14
  29. 29Azure Speech Studio14
  30. 30Cohere Embed v314
  31. 31Nomic Embed14
  32. 32Google Gemini Pro Vision14
  33. 33Google Gemini 1.5 Pro14
  34. 34Nomic Embed V114
  35. 35Gemini Pro14
  36. 36Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen)14
  37. 37Soniox14
  38. 38GPT 5.513
  39. 39GPT-413
  40. 40Amazon Polly + Transcribe11

Ranked by the Stork score — human-reviewed, recomputed as model capabilities ship.

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