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24 alternatives to Bagel

Unified model for multimodal understanding and generation

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    A new-generation image creation model from ByteDance

    2025 · seed.bytedance.com · its alternatives →

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    Monetizable open source AI

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    A faster, more holistic way to generate code

    2025 · seed.bytedance.com · its alternatives →

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    Advanced vision-language AI for reasoning & agent tasks

    2025 · seed.bytedance.com · its alternatives →

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    DALL-E▲623

    Creating images from text, from Open AI

    2021 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    The SOTA performance of simultaneous interpretation models

    2025 · seed.bytedance.com · its alternatives →

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    Snack it▲293

    Build AI moodboards from anything you see online 🍫

    2025 · snackprompt.com · its alternatives →

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    Let the code model curate data for itself

    2025 · bytedance-seed-coder.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Advanced AI video creation with precise narrative control

    Feb 2026 · seed.bytedance.com · its alternatives →

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    DALL·E 3▲868

    Easily translate ideas into exceptionally accurate images

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    I used to enjoy Translation Party, and over the weekend I realized that we can build the same feedback loop with DALLE-3 and GPT4-Vision. Start with a text prompt, let DALLE-3 generate an image, then GPT-4 Vision turns that image back into a text prompt, DALLE-3 creates another image, and so on. You need to bring your own OpenAI API key (costs about $0.10/run) Some prompts are very stable, others go wild. If you bias GPT4's prompting by telling it to "make it weird" you can get crazy results. Here's a few of my favorites: - Gnomes: https://dalle.party/?party=k4eeMQ6I -…

    2023 · dalle.party · its alternatives →

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    min(DALL·E) is a fast, minimal port of DALL·E Mini to PyTorch - kuprel/min-dalle

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Noodle Seedfree tier, from $30/mo▲432

    Hi HN! I’m Uzair, Founding Engineer of Noodle Seed. We enable businesses to deploy native apps inside ChatGPT conversations when users need recommendations. What we built: A multi-tenant no-code platform that helps businesses create custom ChatGPT Apps. When someone asks “find me a legal firm in Austin,” businesses using our platform appear with their own branded app - complete with UI components, interactive elements, and real-time information. Not random results from old training data, but actual custom experiences with each business’s branding. Try it: We’re in limited beta with founding…

    Jan 2026 · noodleseed.com · its alternatives →

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    eSelf▲413

    Create realistic AI tutors, agents, friends & more

    2025 · corp.kaltura.com · its alternatives →

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    A new way to edit, transform and generate video

    2025 · runway.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I recently made 3d style Bagel web font (with some more styles) from scratch, and wanted to share the process in case anyone's interested in experimenting or giving feedback. You can play around by typing https://www.bake-ai.com/fonts [Backstory] I was experimenting with Stable Diffusion + ControlNet to generate icons. To my surprise, generating letters this way was actually better than using traditional 3D tools like Blender for this purpose. That led to the idea: what if I could turn into an actual real working font? I found a few tools, but most were either paid or…

    2025 · bake-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple text animation tool that runs in your browser.

    2020 · snackthis.co · its alternatives →

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    Free AI image editor. 2K visuals in seconds.

    2025 · seedream4ai.co · its alternatives →

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    A multi-modal AI system for video

    2023 · runway.com · its alternatives →

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    Animation through the power of generative AI

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    AI product intelligence for product and GTM teams

    May 2026 · bagel.ai · its alternatives →

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    Holistic & expressive human animation with custom controls

    2025 · grisoon.github.io · its alternatives →

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    SEED▲74

    A pixelated puzzle game with minimalistic controls

    2016 · sputnikgames.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Pay-as-you-go Dalle-2 image generator powered by Bitcoin

    2022 · micropay.ai · its alternatives →

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