Top 5 AI Models

Frequently asked questions

• What is the #1 in AI models right now?

  Microsoft AI currently holds the #1 spot, with a ToolRank score of 60/100 — measured across real-world prominence, web traction, audience, authority and adoption.

• Is there a free AI model for making images and videos?

  Wan AI is the free-to-start option here, with a freemium plan. Wan AI handles text-to-image, image-to-image, text-to-video and image-to-video, plus image editing. It suits marketing content, social media graphics and digital art, and it has an API if you want to build it into your own app.

• Is Wan AI better than Ideogram 4.0?

  Wan AI edges out Ideogram 4.0 on this board, with a ToolRank of 46 against 44. Wan AI is the clearer choice for creative work, since it covers images, video and editing. Ideogram 4.0 is a multimodal model with an API and fine-tuning support, a better fit if you want to adapt a model to your own project.

• Which AI model can I self-host?

  Arcee AI is the self-hosting pick on this board. Arcee AI builds open-weight models, and its Trinity family comes in Large Thinking, Mini and Nano versions. You can run them yourself or use them through an API, which suits enterprise deployments, reasoning workloads and edge applications.

• What AI model do researchers use to study proteins?

  ESM Metagenomic Atlas is the protein research entry on this board. Built by Meta AI, the atlas gives open access to over 772 million predicted protein structures from metagenomic data. Researchers can search structures, explore protein folds and analyze sequences to study microbial biodiversity and protein function.

• Is there an AI model made for robot hands?

  RLDX-1 from RLWRLD is a foundation model built for dexterous robot hands. RLDX-1 handles pouring, in-hand rotation and reactive grasping by processing vision, motion and touch as separate streams. The model runs on single-arm, dual-arm and humanoid robots with high-DoF hands, and it keeps memory for multi-step tasks.

• How are these rankings calculated?

  Rankings are computed by ToolRank, ToolPotion’s proprietary engine. It evaluates hundreds of signals across the open web — traffic, audience, community, authority, adoption and engagement — processing millions of data points, with a model tailored to each AI type. Placement cannot be bought.

• What is ToolRank?

  ToolRank is a single 0–100 score that blends a tool’s real-world prominence — whether it’s a genuine, widely-used product — with its measured traction: web traffic, domain authority, social audience, developer adoption and engagement, each ranked against its peers. Every board is ordered by ToolRank, and placement cannot be bought.

• How often do the rankings update?

  ToolRank re-measures the market and refreshes every leaderboard monthly. Movement arrows show each tool’s change since the previous measurement.