Generative AI Explorer
An interactive guide to the generative AI landscape, bringing companies, model capabilities, pricing and benchmark results together for comparison.
Sole developer · May–August 2025Visit project (opens in a new tab)Published version uses an August 2025 dataset.
What it does
- Explore companies and models across text, image, video and audio generation.
- Compare up to four models side by side, including their capabilities, pricing and available benchmark results.
- Browse benchmarks by the capabilities they test, with explanations and links to the original sources.
- Explore company profiles connecting models with products, features and subscriptions.
The challenge
I wanted to make the generative AI landscape easier to understand and compare. I built the Explorer myself, from the data structure to the interface. The difficult part was deciding how to organise it: a company can offer several models, the same model can support different products, and capabilities overlap across categories. The structure needed to make those relationships understandable while preserving the differences that matter when comparing options.
What I learned
Organising the landscape became as much of the work as building the interface. Companies, models, products and capabilities do not fit neatly into separate boxes, and those boundaries keep shifting. Each decision about grouping or comparison shapes how someone understands the market. Building the Explorer made me more conscious of what a simple overview helps people see, and what it can hide.
Built with
- React 19
- Next.js 15.3
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS