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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.

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

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

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