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What is AgentExample?

AgentExample is a curated directory of AI model vendors and industry AI tooling — built for developers, indie makers, and small teams who want to choose the right model without reading 20 marketing pages.

Aug 8, 2026AgentExample TeamAgentExample Team

AgentExample started as a personal scratchpad: I kept needing to answer "which AI model should I use for X?" and the answer was always "it depends — here are 5 trade-offs, here are 20 pricing pages, good luck."

So I built a directory.

What we do

We track AI model vendors and put them in three columns:

  1. Coding Plan (subscription) — Zhipu, Qwen, Minimax, ZenMux, et al. Fixed monthly fee, great for stable high-volume Coding Agent workloads.
  2. Token Pack (pre-paid) — LongCat (Meituan), SiliconFlow, et al. Top up, pay per Token, no idle subscription bleed. Good for PoC and spiky usage.
  3. Pay-as-you-go — DeepSeek, et al. Pure usage billing.

Plus an Industries section (coming) that will curate AI tools and agents by vertical — e-commerce, legal, marketing, customer support.

What we don't do

  • ❌ We don't sell API access — every click takes you to the vendor's official site.
  • ❌ We don't take anonymous affiliate cuts — every referral link is user-supplied (see our affiliate disclosure).
  • ❌ We don't auto-crawl vendor pages for prices — vendor pages change too fast and our directory would be wrong by the time you read it.

Who this is for

  • Solo developers evaluating which LLM to wire up first
  • Indie founders building AI products and comparing vendor lock-in
  • Small teams picking a Coding Plan that won't bankrupt them
  • Analysts tracking the AI vendor landscape in 2026

What's next

The Industries section is being built now. If you have a vendor you want covered, or a vertical that should be first, open a ticket or DM us.

Until then, the /models directory has 21 vendors live and counting.