Free AI tools
84 AI tools with a free plan you can use without paying. For each one we read the official pricing page in November 2026 and wrote down what the free plan actually gives you, so you can tell a usable free tier from a teaser.
Free plans change often. Each tool's page shows the date we last checked it and links to the pricing page we used.
Free AI tools for writing
Grammarly
Free plan: Spelling and grammar checks, tone feedback and 100 AI prompts per month.
Best for: Students and professionals proofreading everyday writing. Paid plans from €12/month.
QuillBot
Free plan: Free paraphrases up to 125 words at a time in two modes, summarizes up to 1,200 words, and gives limited humanizer and AI chat use.
Best for: Students rewording and checking essays. Paid plans from €19,95/month.
DeepL
Free plan: Free covers 50,000 characters a month, one 5 MB file translation a month and one small glossary.
Best for: Translating business documents while keeping formatting. Paid plans from €7.49/month per user.
Wordtune
Free plan: 10 rewrites and AI suggestions per day, 3 summaries per month, unlimited spelling and grammar checks.
Best for: Rephrasing emails and messages. Paid plans from $6.99/month.
Jenni
Free plan: 10 AI autocompletes per day, 10 PDF uploads, 5 AI chat messages, 3 AI edits and unlimited citations.
Best for: Graduate students writing theses and papers. Paid plans from $12/month.
ProWritingAid
Free plan: Grammar and spelling checks, plus line-editing reports on 500 words twice a day and 10 rephrases per day.
Best for: Novelists editing a manuscript. Paid plans from €30/month.
Hemingway Editor
Free plan: Free online tools include a readability checker, grammar checker, paraphrasing tool and proofreader; the AI editor needs a Plus plan.
Best for: Bloggers and marketers aiming for plain, readable copy. Paid plans from $8.33/month.
GPTZero
Free plan: You can scan up to 10,000 characters without paying; longer scans need a free account, and advanced features need a paid plan.
Best for: Teachers checking student essays for AI writing. Paid plans from 18,99 €/month.
Originality.ai
Free plan: A free account gets a limited number of scan credits; the pricing page lists both 100 one-time credits and 60 daily credits (3 scans a day), so the exact allowance is unclear.
Best for: Publishers and agencies reviewing freelance writing. Paid plans from $14.95/month.
Undetectable AI
Free plan: You can try the core tools free; the free trial for humanizing is limited to 250 words.
Best for: Writers rewriting AI drafts to sound more natural. Paid plans from $9.99/month.
Free AI tools for image and design
Canva
Free plan: Free editor with 1.6M+ templates, 1 brand kit and limited access to Standard and Premium AI.
Best for: Non-designers making social posts and presentations. Paid plans from US$18/month.
Leonardo AI
Free plan: 150 fast tokens per day, automatic model choice only, and public creations.
Best for: Hobbyists generating AI art daily. Paid plans from $12/month.
Ideogram
Free plan: Eligible free accounts get weekly credits when signing in with Google, Apple or Microsoft; the amount varies and images are public by default.
Best for: Designers making posters, logos and ads with text. Paid plans from $20/month.
Adobe Firefly
Free plan: Firefly Free gives a limited number of daily generations across standard and premium features with select image, video and audio models.
Best for: Designers and marketers who need commercially safe images. Paid plans from US$9.99/month.
remove.bg
Free plan: Background removal is free to try; the pricing page now points to Canva for HD use.
Best for: Online sellers needing white-background product photos.
Krea
Free plan: Free gives 100 compute units a day, refilled daily, with no credit card, one image job at a time and upscaling up to 2K.
Best for: Designers sketching ideas with realtime image generation. Paid plans from $9/month.
Recraft
Free plan: Limited free credits for personal use: 3 generations per style per day, up to 2 images each, Recraft models only, and all images are public with no commercial use.
Best for: Designers who need editable vector illustrations and icons. Paid plans from $12/month.
Stable Diffusion
Free plan: The Community License lets individuals, researchers and businesses under $1M annual revenue use the models for free; new API accounts get 25 free credits.
Best for: Developers building image generation into their own products. Paid plans from $10 per 1,000 credits.
NightCafe
Free plan: Free daily credits and relax credits earned through activity, with no card required.
Best for: Hobbyists making AI art for fun. Paid plans from $12.49/month.
Bing Image Creator
Free plan: Free to use; signed-in users get 10 fast creations per day and unlimited standard-speed creations, while guests have a smaller daily cap.
Best for: Casual users who want free AI images without a subscription.
Clipdrop
Free plan: Free includes most tools with daily caps, such as 20 background removals, 20 cleanups and 2x upscales per 24 hours.
Best for: Quick background removal and object cleanup in the browser.
Upscayl
Free plan: The desktop app is free and open source; Upscayl Cloud has a free trial of 10 credits.
Best for: Enlarging old or low-resolution photos. Paid plans from $24.99.
Free AI tools for video
Runway
Free plan: 125 one-time credits to try a selection of models, plus 5 GB of storage.
Best for: Filmmakers and video creators testing AI shots. Paid plans from $15/month.
CapCut
Free plan: Free templates and basic editing tools.
Best for: Short-form social video editing. Paid plans from EUR 14.99/month per seat.
HeyGen
Free plan: 3 watermarked videos a month, up to 1 minute each, with one custom avatar and 30+ languages.
Best for: Marketers making spokesperson or product videos at scale. Paid plans from $29/month.
Synthesia
Free plan: Basic is free with 500 credits a month (about 10 minutes of video or dubbing), 9 stock avatars and a Synthesia watermark on videos.
Best for: Corporate training and onboarding videos. Paid plans from $19/month.
Descript
Free plan: Free gives 60 media minutes a month, 100 one-time AI credits, limited AI tools and 720p exports.
Best for: Podcasters editing interviews. Paid plans from $24/person/month.
Kling AI
Free plan: Basic plan at $0, without 1080p/4K video, watermark removal or commercial-use rights.
Best for: Creators making short cinematic clips. Paid plans from $8.80/month.
Pika
Free plan: Free includes no monthly credits and no commercial license, but you can buy credit packs and use all models without a watermark.
Best for: Social creators making short AI video clips. Paid plans from $10/month.
OpusClip
Free plan: Free lets you post one clip a day with no credit card, but exports expire after 3 days and animated caption templates carry a watermark.
Best for: Podcasters turning episodes into short clips. Paid plans from $15/month.
VEED
Free plan: You can start for free; removing the watermark and getting unlimited auto subtitles needs a paid plan.
Best for: Adding subtitles and captions to social videos. Paid plans from €22/user/month.
Captions
Free plan: Basic tools such as trimming and transitions, one caption template and no AI credits.
Best for: Creators filming talking-head videos. Paid plans from $24.99/month.
Riverside
Free plan: Free gives 2 hours of multi-track recording one time, unlimited single-track recording and editing, 720p video and a Riverside watermark.
Best for: Podcasters recording remote guests. Paid plans from $29/month.
Free AI tools for coding
Cursor
Free plan: Free plan with limited agent and chat requests.
Best for: Professional developers who want an AI-first editor. Paid plans from $8/month.
GitHub Copilot
Free plan: Free gives 2,000 code completions a month, limited chat and agent use, and entry-level models such as Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 mini.
Best for: Developers who want code suggestions inside their usual editor. Paid plans from $10/user/month.
v0
Free plan: Free access to v0 with deploys to Vercel, Design Mode and GitHub sync, limited to 7 messages a day.
Best for: Developers prototyping React and Next.js interfaces quickly. Paid plans from $30/user/month.
Bolt
Free plan: Free includes 1M tokens a month with a 300K daily cap, hosting with Bolt branding, and 10MB file uploads.
Best for: Non-developers building a first web app or landing page. Paid plans from $25/month.
Lovable
Free plan: 5 build credits per day (up to 30 a month), 20 Cloud credits a month and up to 5 lovable.app domains.
Best for: Founders building a first product without coding. Paid plans from €25/month.
Replit
Free plan: The Starter plan gives daily Agent credits up to a monthly cap, Lite builds, and one published app that goes down after 30 days with a Replit badge.
Best for: Founders building a first prototype. Paid plans from $20/month.
Devin
Free plan: A light agent quota with limited models, plus unlimited inline edits and Tab completions.
Best for: Engineering teams handing off routine tickets. Paid plans from $20/month.
Warp
Free plan: Free includes the terminal with limited cloud agents, Warp Drive, collaboration and cloud conversation storage; AI usage is pay-as-you-go.
Best for: Developers who want AI agents inside their terminal. Paid plans from $20/month.
Aider
Free plan: Aider itself is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license; you pay your model provider for usage.
Best for: Developers comfortable working in the terminal.
CodeRabbit
Free plan: The pricing page refers to a free plan for open-source projects; paid plans start with a 14-day trial.
Best for: Engineering teams that want a first-pass reviewer on every PR. Paid plans from $30/user/month.
Free AI tools for productivity
Notion AI
Free plan: Free and Plus plans include only a limited trial of Notion AI.
Best for: Teams that already keep their docs and projects in Notion. Paid plans from €9.50/month per member.
Gamma
Free plan: 400 credits at signup, up to 10 slides per prompt, with PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides export.
Best for: Quick pitch decks and class presentations. Paid plans from €10/seat/month.
Otter.ai
Free plan: Basic gives 300 transcription minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation, 3 lifetime file imports and 20 AI Chat queries a month.
Best for: Professionals who want automatic meeting notes. Paid plans from $16.99/month per user.
Fireflies.ai
Free plan: Free forever with transcription, limited AI summaries, 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits.
Best for: Sales and customer teams reviewing calls. Paid plans from $18/seat/month.
Rytr
Free plan: Free includes 10,000 characters a month, 1 connected source, 25 active relationships, 25 Engage actions a month, 3 person research runs and a daily briefing.
Best for: Freelancers and salespeople who lose track of follow-ups. Paid plans from $9/month.
Reclaim.ai
Free plan: Lite plan for 1 user with a 1-week scheduling range, 2 connected calendars and 1 scheduling link.
Best for: Busy professionals protecting focus time. Paid plans from $12/seat/month.
Fathom
Free plan: Free includes unlimited recordings, transcripts and instant AI summaries, with limited AI action items and Ask Fathom.
Best for: Individuals who want free unlimited meeting recordings. Paid plans from $19/user/month.
tl;dv
Free plan: Unlimited recordings and transcription, with AI notes for 10 meetings and 10 Ask AI queries.
Best for: Sales teams logging calls to their CRM automatically. Paid plans from €29/seat/month.
Napkin AI
Free plan: Free gives 500 AI credits a week with unlimited editing and PNG/PDF export, but visuals carry Napkin branding.
Best for: Turning reports and blog posts into diagrams. Paid plans from $9/person/month.
Mem
Free plan: Free includes 25 messages to Mem, 25 new notes a month, tracking of up to 15 open tasks and projects, and 3 hours of Voice Mode.
Best for: Founders and consultants juggling many projects. Paid plans from $9/month.
Free AI tools for audio and voice
ElevenLabs
Free plan: 10,000 credits per month for text to speech, speech to text, sound effects, voice design and music, with 3 Studio projects and no commercial license.
Best for: Narrating videos, audiobooks and podcasts. Paid plans from $6/month.
Suno
Free plan: Free gives 50 credits a day on the v6-mini model, with no monthly song downloads and no commercial use rights.
Best for: Hobbyists making songs without music training. Paid plans from $10/month.
Murf AI
Free plan: Free Studio gives 10 minutes of voice generation and 10 projects with no downloads or commercial rights; the API gives $10 of free calls.
Best for: E-learning and training video producers. Paid plans from $29/month.
Speechify
Free plan: 10 basic voices, listening at up to 1.5x speed, text-to-speech only.
Best for: Students listening to readings and PDFs. Paid plans from $29/month.
Udio
Free plan: 10 credits per day and 100 per month, with up to 3 full-length (2:10) songs per day.
Best for: Making personal songs for events or fun. Paid plans from $10/month.
LALAL.AI
Free plan: The free Starter plan gives 10 minutes of relaxed-queue processing with a 200MB file limit.
Best for: Making karaoke tracks and acapellas. Paid plans from €6.75/month billed annually.
Free AI tools for research
Perplexity
Free plan: Free gives practically unlimited basic searches, 3 Pro Searches a day and 1 Research query a month, with the model chosen for you.
Best for: Quick research questions that need sources. Paid plans from $17/month.
Semrush
Free plan: A free account gives 1 demo project and 10 reports a day across core tools, with no credit card.
Best for: SEO specialists researching keywords and backlinks. Paid plans from €134/month.
Elicit
Free plan: Basic includes unlimited paper search, summaries and chat with papers, plus limited Research Agent and Reports use.
Best for: Academics running systematic literature reviews. Paid plans from $49/user/month.
Consensus
Free plan: Basic paper search for free, plus 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews per month.
Best for: Students finding peer-reviewed sources for essays. Paid plans from $20/month.
ChatPDF
Free plan: Analyze up to 2 documents per day; an account adds saved history and multi-document chats.
Best for: Students reading papers and textbooks. Paid plans from €16.99/month.
Humata
Free plan: Free covers 1 user and up to 60 pages a month with basic features; the homepage also lists a cap of 10 answers.
Best for: Researchers and students reading long papers. Paid plans from $9.99/month.
ResearchRabbit
Free plan: Unlimited searches and collections, sharing, and up to 50 seed articles.
Best for: Graduate students starting a literature review. Paid plans from $12.50/month.
Free AI assistants
ChatGPT
Free plan: Free gives unlimited text chats (within abuse guardrails) plus limited uploads, image creation, voice, deep research, memory and Codex.
Best for: Everyday questions, writing and editing. Paid plans from $8/month.
Claude
Free plan: Chat on web, desktop and mobile with web search, file creation, memory and up to 5 projects, under limits that reset every 5 hours and weekly.
Best for: Professionals drafting documents, slides and spreadsheets. Paid plans from $20/month.
Google Gemini
Free plan: Free with a Google account: Flash-Lite model, image generation and editing, Deep Research, Gemini Live, Canvas, Gems and 15 GB storage, with usage limits that reset every five hours up to a weekly cap.
Best for: People who already live in Gmail, Docs and Chrome. Paid plans from $4.99/month.
Microsoft Copilot
Free plan: A limited free version with a signed-in Microsoft account, subject to capacity and usage limits.
Best for: People who already pay for Microsoft 365. Paid plans from $9.99/month.
DeepSeek
Free plan: The DeepSeek mobile app is listed as free on the App Store; API usage is billed separately from a prepaid balance.
Best for: Everyday chat and reasoning on web or phone. Paid plans from $0.30 per 1M input tokens.
Grok
Free plan: Grok is free to try on the web and in the mobile apps, with lower usage limits than paid plans.
Best for: People who follow news and trends on X. Paid plans from €8/month.
Meta AI
Free plan: Free for everyday use; Meta is testing daily or monthly limits on some compute-heavy features.
Best for: People who want an assistant inside WhatsApp or Instagram.
Mistral Vibe
Free plan: Free gives web and mobile access with limited messages, web searches and coding sessions, plus basic image generation and 100+ connectors.
Best for: Developers who want a terminal coding agent. Paid plans from $14.99/month.
Kimi
Free plan: Free use with 1 agent task at a time, 2 projects and 500MB of project storage.
Best for: Running long research and agent tasks. Paid plans from $19/month.
Genspark
Free plan: Free gives 100 credits a day until a lifetime cap is reached, 1 GB of AI Drive and limited model and agent access.
Best for: Making slide decks, docs and sheets from a prompt. Paid plans from $24.99/month.
Manus
Free plan: Free users get 300 daily refresh credits, 1 concurrent task and 2 scheduled automations.
Best for: Handing off multi-step research to an agent. Paid plans from $20/month.
Free AI tools for education
Photomath
Free plan: Basic tier at $0 with step-by-step explanations.
Best for: Students checking homework steps. Paid plans from $9.99 USD/month.
Khanmigo
Free plan: Khanmigo for Teachers is free for educators aged 18+ in supported countries.
Best for: K-12 students who need step-by-step help. Paid plans from $4/month.
Brainly
Free plan: You can sign up free and browse answers, with ads and limited access compared with paid plans.
Best for: Middle school to college students stuck on homework.
Free AI tools for data and analytics
Julius AI
Free plan: You can start for free; the pricing page does not list the free plan's limits.
Best for: Analyzing spreadsheets without writing code. Paid plans from $20/month.
Free AI tools for automation
Zapier
Free plan: Free gives 100 tasks a month with unlimited two-step Zaps, 15-minute checks, basic agents, 2 chatbots and Zapier MCP.
Best for: Small businesses automating repetitive admin work. Paid plans from $29.99/month.
Make
Free plan: 1,000 credits a month with the visual builder, 3,500+ apps, routers and filters, and a 15-minute minimum interval between runs.
Best for: Small businesses automating repetitive tasks between apps. Paid plans from $16/month.
n8n
Free plan: The self-hosted Community Edition is free; it lacks paid features such as SSO, projects, shared credentials and Git version control.
Best for: Technical teams automating internal processes. Paid plans from 20€/month billed annually.
Questions about free AI tools
Are these AI tools really free?
Each tool on this page has a free plan that we confirmed on its official pricing page in November 2026. Free plans have limits, such as a monthly cap or a watermark; the line under each tool says what the free plan gives you.
Do I need a credit card for the free plans?
Most free plans only need an account. A few ask for a card to start a trial instead; those are marked as trials on the tool page, not as free plans.
What is the best free AI tool?
It depends on the job. For general questions and writing, start with a free AI assistant. For images, video or voice, pick the category below and compare what each free plan includes.
How often is this list checked?
We re-check pricing pages regularly and show the date we last checked on each tool page. If a free plan has changed, use "Report a problem" on that tool page.