Free AI tiers
51 free tiers, safest first. Each one shows the limits, whether it needs a card, and how fresh the data is.
Free tierWhat you get freeRiskCardFreshness
GitHub · AI
2,000 code completions per month · 50 chat requests per month (including Copilot Edits) · Agent mode, CLI, and MCP servers included with limited usage
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Google Cloud · AI
Sessions run up to 12 hours, depending on availability · GPU/TPU access heavily restricted on the free tier · Exact resource limits are not published and vary over time
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Google Cloud · AI
Free input and output tokens on supported models · Limited access to certain models · 5,000 free Google Search grounding requests/month, shared across Gemini 3.x models
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Hugging Face · AI
Unlimited public repos (best-effort free storage) · 100GB private storage · Storage limits apply across models, datasets, and buckets
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Cloudflare · AI
10,000 Neurons per day (Neurons measure GPU work per request) · Limits reset daily at 00:00 UTC · Open models for text, embeddings, images, and speech
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
CrewAI · AI
No enforced limits for self-hosted open-source use · CrewAI Cloud Basic (free): 50 workflow executions/month · CrewAI Cloud Basic includes visual editor, AI copilot, and GitHub integration
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Anysphere · AI
Hobby plan: $0, no credit card · Limited Agent requests · Access to Composer (Cursor's own model)
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Firecrawl · AI
1,000 credits per month · About 1,000 scraped pages or 500 searches · Credits refresh monthly
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Google · AI
$0 for individual students, hobbyists, open-source, and freelance developers · VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Android Studio, Cloud Workstations · Gemini CLI included
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
OpenRouter · AI
20 requests/minute on free (":free") models · 50 requests/day with under 10 lifetime credits purchased · 1,000 requests/day once 10+ credits purchased
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Vercel · AI
$5 of included monthly credits · 7 messages/day limit · Deploy apps to Vercel
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Cloudflare · AI
Dashboard analytics, caching, and rate limiting free · 100,000 stored logs in total across all gateways (Workers Free) · DLP scanning free with two predefined profiles
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Jina AI · AI
Free without an API key, rate limited per IP · 10 million free tokens with each new API key · Rate limits by requests and tokens per minute
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Mistral AI · AI
$10 API credits/month · Usage and rate limits apply in Free mode · Limited Vibe chat, web searches, and coding sessions
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 2 Oct 2026
Cohere · AI
Free Trial API key on sign-up · Calls with a trial key are free · Rate limited per model
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Comet · AI
1 platform user · 100 GB data storage · Community Slack support
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Comet · AI
Open-source self-hosted version has unlimited spans and retention · Free Cloud: up to 10 team members · Free Cloud: 25,000 spans/month
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
DeepAR · AI
Free for development and testing, watermarked, no user cap · Up to 10 monthly active users free in production · Watermark on free tier output
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
E2B · AI
$100 one-time usage credit · Up to 20 concurrent sandboxes · Usage billed per second from the credit
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Exa Labs · AI
$10 credits per month · $10 one-time onboarding bonus · MCP server access
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Groq · AI
gpt-oss-120b / gpt-oss-20b: 30 requests/min, 1,000 requests/day, 8,000 tokens/min, 200,000 tokens/day · whisper-large-v3: 20 requests/min, 2,000 requests/day · Limits vary significantly by model
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
JSON2Video · AI
600 credits at signup, no credit card needed · 1 credit per second of rendered video (roughly 10 minutes of video) · Watermark on videos rendered on the free plan
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Amazon Web Services · AI
50 credits per month · Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models (Qwen3 Coder, DeepSeek, MiniMax) · Rate limits apply
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Metashot · AI
1,000 images/month · 2 API keys · 3 custom templates
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
OCR.Space · AI
Up to 25,000 requests/month · Max file size 1MB per request (PRO plans allow 5MB) · Max 3 pages per PDF
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Othor AI · AI
20 requests per day · 50,000 tokens per month · 2 analytical agents and 2 data sources
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Respan · AI
100,000 logs/month · 1,000 eval scores/month · 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Tavily · AI
1,000 API credits/month · Email support included
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Wolfram · AI
200 MB cloud storage · 5,000 cloud credits/month · Files, deployments, and APIs expire after 60 days
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Portkey · AI
10,000 recorded logs/month (requests are not blocked past this) · 3-day log retention, 30-day metric retention · 3 prompt templates
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
ReportGPT · AI
1 free demo document, one-time · Extra reports: $5-$25 one-time, no subscription · Word, LaTeX, or Markdown export formats
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Weights & Biases · AI
Up to 5 model seats · 5 GB/mo storage · 1 GB/mo Weave data ingestion
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Hugging Face · AI
$0.10 in monthly credit per free account · Access to 200+ models across multiple inference providers · Legacy hf-inference engine mostly covers CPU inference now
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Pollinations.AI · AI
Pay-as-you-go Pollen credits ($1 ≈ 1 Pollen) · Free Pollen earned via Quests and community contribution · No credit card required to start
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Supermaven · AI
Fast, high-quality code suggestions · Works with large codebases · 7-day data retention limit
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Lumenfall.ai · AI
$1 free credit at signup, no credit card required · Pay-as-you-go at provider rates after the credit · No monthly fee, no platform markup on top of provider cost
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Braintrust · AI
$10 model credits/month, then token rates · 1 GB processed data/month, then $4/GB · 10,000 scores/month, then $2.50/1,000
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Reducto · AI
$150 one-time free usage credit · $10 per 1,000 pages for Parse after the credit · $20 per 1,000 pages for Extract after the credit
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
5 audio hours/month real-time speech-to-text (standard + custom, batch excluded) · 0.5 million characters/month neural text-to-speech · 5 audio hours/month speech translation
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
5,000 transactions/month for Image Analysis (tagging, OCR, object detection, and more) · 20 transactions/minute rate limit
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
Unlimited messages on standard channels · 10,000 premium channel messages/month
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
2 projects per resource · 5,000 training images per project · 1 hour training per month
Billing risk: Low
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✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
500 pages/month, shared across Read, Layout, and prebuilt models (invoice, receipt, ID, tax forms, contract, and more) · Custom document classification and extraction included
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
30,000 transactions/month · 20 transactions/minute rate limit
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
5,000 text records/month, shared across sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, language detection, NER, and PII detection
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
2 million characters/month, shared across standard translation and custom translation model training
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
1 free search service per subscription · 3 indexes · 50 MB storage
Billing risk: Low
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✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
5,000 text records/month · 5,000 images/month
Billing risk: Low
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✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
F0 free tier: 15 requests/second (RPS) · For evaluation and development use, not production
Billing risk: Low
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✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · AI
No additional charge for most Open Datasets · Standard Azure storage and compute charges apply if datasets are processed or copied
Billing risk: Low
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✓ 28 Sep 2026