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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. 7xAI Grok API25
  8. 8Kimi K2.625
  9. 9VibeVoice23
  10. 10Grok23
  11. 11Azure Speech Service22
  12. 12HPC-AI21
  13. 13GPT-5.621
  14. 14Deepgram Aura (assistant)20
  15. 15AI21 Jamba-Instruct20
  16. 16Jina Embeddings20
  17. 17AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text20
  18. 18Google Cloud Speech-to-Text20
  19. 19HiAPI20
  20. 20MiniMax18
  21. 21cloro18
  22. 22Anthropic Claude API15
  23. 23Claude Opus 4.615
  24. 24Seed15
  25. 25GPT-4o Vision14
  26. 26Gemini 1.5 Flash14
  27. 27Azure Speech Studio14
  28. 28Cohere Embed v314
  29. 29Nomic Embed14
  30. 30Google Gemini Pro Vision14
  31. 31Google Gemini 1.5 Pro14
  32. 32Nomic Embed V114
  33. 33Gemini Pro14
  34. 34Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen)14
  35. 35Soniox14
  36. 36GPT 5.513
  37. 37GPT-413
  38. 38Amazon Polly + Transcribe11
  39. 39Cohere Embed V311
  40. 40LM Studio11

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

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