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Cerebras
Cerebras
Wafer-scale AI inference — famously fast token generation with a free development tier and a $5 starter credit.
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Free Replicate alternatives
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fal.ai
fal
Hosted inference for generative media models — video, image, audio, 3D — prepaid credits, GPUs from ~$2/hour.
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Together AI
Together AI
Fast serverless inference and fine-tuning for open models — usage-based from ~$0.15/1M tokens, with some models free.
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Flowise
Flowise
Visual builder for AI agents and LLM apps — open source to self-host, with a hosted cloud option.
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Langflow
Langflow (IBM/DataStax)
Open-source visual builder for AI agents and RAG apps — free cloud account, self-host anytime, 150k+ GitHub stars.
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Dify
Dify
Open-source platform for AI apps, agents, and RAG — free self-hosted Community edition, or Sandbox cloud with 200 message credits.
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Tavily
Tavily
Search and research API made for AI agents — 1,000 free credits every month, no card needed.
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Exa
Exa AI
Web search APIs built for AI apps — $10 of free credits monthly, no payment method required.
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Replit
Replit
Cloud IDE with AI agents that build and deploy apps from natural language — paid Core/Pro plans with limited free-mode usage.
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You.com
You.com
Web-search APIs and AI research endpoints for developers — 100 free MCP queries a day, no key or card for the free path.
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AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI
Speech-to-text and audio-intelligence APIs with $50 in free credits — no card required, five streams per minute on the free tier.
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Deepgram
Deepgram
Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice-agent APIs — $200 of free credit (never expires), no card required.
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HOL Plugins
HOL DAO
A public registry of AI coding-agent plugins — skills, MCP servers, and apps for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and more — each security-scanned and given a trust score. Free to browse, with install commands on every entry.
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Whisper
OpenAI
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text model — transcribe audio in dozens of languages on your own machine, free under the MIT licence with no API costs.
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GitHub Copilot
GitHub
The AI pair programmer inside your editor — code completions and chat, with a genuinely useful free tier for Visual Studio Code and other editors, Pro at $10/month for unlimited completions.
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Groq
Groq
A developer API for running open models at extreme speed — free tier covers every model with no credit card, gated by rate limits rather than credits.
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LM Studio
LM Studio
A polished desktop app for running open AI models on your own computer — point-and-click instead of a terminal, free for personal and work use, private and fully offline.
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OpenRouter
OpenRouter
A single API and dashboard that routes requests to hundreds of AI models from many providers — OpenAI-compatible, pay-as-you-go with no subscription, and with a selection of free models, at openrouter.ai.
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Google Colab
Google's free, browser-based Jupyter notebooks with free access to GPUs and TPUs — write and run Python for AI and data work at colab.research.google.com, with paid tiers for more compute.
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JustWoker API
JustWoker · Claude Opus 4.8
A third-party service that resells API access to AI models, including ones it labels as the Claude family, through a single key and a prepaid balance with an advertised signup credit. Listed with a disclosed referral link.
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Ollama
Ollama
A free, open-source tool that runs open AI models locally on your own computer — private, offline-capable, and with no per-use fees. Download it at ollama.com for macOS, Windows, or Linux and pull a model with a single command.
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Google AI Studio
Google's free web workspace for building with its Gemini models — prototype prompts, tune settings, work with text, images, and long documents, then export code and get an API key. Free to use at aistudio.google.com with a Google account.
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Hugging Face
Hugging Face
The open hub for machine learning — hundreds of thousands of free, downloadable AI models and datasets, in-browser demos, and the libraries much of the field is built on. Free to browse and use at huggingface.co, with paid plans for teams and hosted compute.
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