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AI tools you can use for free.

62 of the 91 tools we track have a standing free plan. Trials and demos are left out; tools that are free only if you self-host, or that give one-time credits, are listed separately below. Each entry says what the free plan includes and where it stops, read from the vendor's pricing page where we could read it. The 22 entries marked secondary come from third-party trackers instead, because the vendor page could not be read directly.

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Chat & Assistants

5 of 5 free · Chat & Assistants pricing

  • Claude

    Chat on web, iOS, Android, and desktop, plus code generation, content creation, web search, memory, file creation, and connector integration, with a limited session-based message allowance

    Paid from $20/mo · Claude pricing · Try Claude free →

  • ChatGPT

    Unlimited everyday text chats (abuse safeguards apply); GPT-5 access capped around 10 messages per 5 hours, then falls back to a mini modelsecondary

    Paid from $20/mo · ChatGPT pricing · Try ChatGPT free →

  • Gemini

    Gemini 3.6 Flash model, roughly 32K context window, undocumented daily message caps, no video generation accesssecondary

    Paid from $4.99/mo · Gemini pricing · Try Gemini free →

  • Grok

    Free access on X and grok.com; exact daily or message caps not published in any source checkedsecondary

    Paid from $10/mo · Grok pricing · Try Grok free →

  • DeepSeek

    The consumer chat web app and mobile app are free to use; the API has no free tier and bills pay-as-you-go from the first token

    Free web/app · API pay-as-you-go, token-metered · Try DeepSeek free →

Writing & Copy

1 of 5 free · Writing & Copy pricing

Image & Design

6 of 10 free · Image & Design pricing

Video

7 of 10 free · Video pricing

Audio & Voice

3 of 5 free · Audio & Voice pricing

Coding & Dev

5 of 7 free · Coding & Dev pricing

Research

5 of 5 free · Research pricing

  • Perplexity

    Limited daily searches (roughly 3 Pro Searches/day plus a small number of Deep Research queries), basic model access, capped file uploads (~40MB per file, 30-day retention)secondary

    Paid from $20/mo · Perplexity pricing · Try Perplexity free →

  • Gemini Notebook

    No account purchase needed. 100 notebooks, up to 50 sources/notebook (each up to ~500,000 words), 50 chat queries/day, 3 Audio Overviews/day, 3 Video Overviews/day, 10 reports/day, 10 Deep Research sessions/monthsecondary

    Free · Plus with Google One AI · Try Gemini Notebook free →

  • Elicit

    Unlimited search across 138M+ papers, unlimited summaries, unlimited chat with papers; limited Research Agent/Research Reports usage

    Paid from $49/user/mo · Elicit pricing · Try Elicit free →

  • Consensus

    Unlimited basic search; AI features capped, roughly 10 Pro Analyses/month, 10 Study Snapshots/month, up to 3 Deep Reviews/monthsecondary

    Paid from $9/mo · Consensus pricing · Try Consensus free →

  • SciSpace

    Basic, $0, capped usage - roughly 5 lit-review searches, 5 PDF chats, 10 writer actions, 20 citations/month

    Paid from $12/mo · SciSpace pricing · Try SciSpace free →

Productivity

5 of 6 free · Productivity pricing

  • Granola

    Basic, $0/user/month: AI meeting notes, AI chat, shared folders, templates, multi-language support; meeting-history access is described as 'limited' with no numeric cap published

    Paid from $14/user/mo · Granola pricing · Try Granola free →

  • Otter.ai

    Basic plan, $0/mo: 300 transcription minutes/month, 30-minute cap per conversation, live transcription, AI Chat, speaker identification, Zoom/Teams/Meet integrations, and a lifetime limit of 3 imported audio/video files

    Paid from $17/mo · Otter.ai pricing · Try Otter.ai free →

  • Fireflies.ai

    800 min recording storage per seat, 20 AI credits/month for advanced features, unlimited basic transcription and structured summaries, but no transcript downloads, no topic tracking, and no conversation intelligence

    Paid from $10/mo · Fireflies.ai pricing · Try Fireflies.ai free →

  • Raycast

    50 total AI messages as a one-time lifetime allowance (not renewing monthly), across AI Chat, Quick AI and AI Commands, with access to any 'Pro' model tier

    Paid from $8/mo · Raycast pricing · Try Raycast free →

  • Mem

    25 notes/month, 25 Mem Agent messages/month, 25 PDF pages/month of search and chat; ongoing free plan, no stated trial expiry

    Paid from $12/mo · Mem pricing · Try Mem free →

Presentations

2 of 5 free · Presentations pricing

Marketing & SEO

2 of 6 free · Marketing & SEO pricing

Site Builders & Deploy

10 of 12 free · Site Builders & Deploy pricing

Agents & Automation

2 of 5 free · Agents & Automation pricing

  • Make

    1,000 credits/mo, full visual workflow builder, capped at 2 active scenarios

    Paid from $9/mo · Make pricing · Try Make free →

  • CrewAI

    Basic, $0/month: 50 workflow executions/month, visual editor and AI copilot, GitHub integration. Separately, the underlying CrewAI framework is MIT-licensed and free to self-host with no execution cap, at the cost of only your own LLM API spend.

    Free · enterprise pricing on request · Try CrewAI free →

Design & UI

4 of 5 free · Design & UI pricing

Data & Analysis

5 of 5 free · Data & Analysis pricing

Free only if you self-host

2 tools, not counted as free plans

Open code or open weights you can run on your own hardware for no vendor fee. The hosted product is paid.

  • n8n

    Community Edition: free, self-hosted (Sustainable Use fair-code license, not OSI open source). Unlimited workflows, executions, steps and users, limited only by your own server hardware.

    Hosted from €24/mo · n8n pricing · Visit n8n →

  • Flux

    Free if self-hosted (open-weight model, no vendor fee, your own compute)

    Hosted from $10/mo · Flux pricing · Visit Flux →

One-time free credits

3 tools, not counted as free plans

A starting grant of credits that does not renew. Useful for a test run, but not a standing free plan.

Limited free access

7 tools, not counted as free plans

Some free use, capped or reached through another product's free tier, without a free plan of its own.