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Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, research, and analysis — free to start at claude.ai, with paid Pro and Max plans for heavier use.
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Best free AI tools for coding
Writing, explaining, and debugging code without paying up front. From chat assistants that are good at code to tools you can run locally, these all have a free way in.
5 tools worth trying
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek
A capable AI assistant for writing, reasoning, and coding, free to use at chat.deepseek.com — made by the Chinese company DeepSeek and hosted in China, which is a real data-handling consideration worth weighing before you sign up.
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ChatGPT
OpenAI
OpenAI's widely used AI assistant for writing, coding, and everyday questions — free to use at chatgpt.com with an account, with paid Go, Plus, and Pro plans for higher limits and stronger models.
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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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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.
Every tool here has a genuine free tier and was checked by hand — see how listings are checked, or browse the whole directory.