Tools directory
AI tools directory for organizations
Popular tools from an Iranian organization’s point of view: can it be used from Iran, where does data go, what is the licence and what to watch out for. Every claim links to an official source.
ChatGPT
OpenAI
The most widely used conversational AI assistant, for writing, translation, summaries, analysis and coding. Free, personal and business plans.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
Claude
Anthropic
Anthropic’s AI assistant, for writing, analysing long documents and coding. Personal, team and enterprise plans, plus an API.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
Gemini
Google’s AI assistant and models: the Gemini app, inside Google services, and through an API.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
A Chinese company offering an online chat service and API, and publishing weights of some models (such as DeepSeek-R1) under the MIT licence.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
Qwen
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba’s family of language models. Qwen3 open models in several sizes are released under Apache 2.0 and can run on your own servers.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
Llama
Meta
Meta’s language models with downloadable weights, under the custom Llama Community License that allows commercial use with conditions.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
Mistral
Mistral AI
A French company with a cloud service that has also released models such as Mistral 7B under Apache 2.0.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
Ollama
Ollama
Open-source software (MIT) to run open models such as Qwen, Llama and DeepSeek on your own computer or server, with a local API.
Reviewed: 6 October 2026
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