Suno
Suno
Generate full songs — vocals, lyrics, instruments — from a text prompt, free daily credits included; the most talked-about AI music maker, best for prototypes and personal projects.
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Every listing in the directory, newest first — an honest changelog of what has just been added. Nothing here is a paid slot or a ranking; the order is simply when each tool was published, after being used and checked by hand. How listings are checked.
Suno
Generate full songs — vocals, lyrics, instruments — from a text prompt, free daily credits included; the most talked-about AI music maker, best for prototypes and personal projects.
Canva
The design platform whose Magic Studio AI tools — image generation, writing help, and instant edits — are usable on the free plan, with generous templates and Pro for heavy use.
ElevenLabs
The leading AI voice generator — remarkably natural text-to-speech in dozens of languages, voice cloning, and dubbing, with a free monthly allowance good for real projects.
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.
LMArena
Chat with frontier AI models side by side and vote on the better answer — free, no account needed, from the project behind the influential LMSYS leaderboards.
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.
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.
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.
Hugging Face
An open-source chat interface that picks the best AI model for your question automatically — over a hundred models from many providers, free at huggingface.co/chat.
Mistral AI
The European AI assistant from Paris-based Mistral — fast answers, web search, and image generation, free to use with a Pro plan at $14.99/month for heavier use.
Menlo Research
A free, open-source desktop app that runs AI models fully offline on your own computer — a private, self-hosted ChatGPT alternative that can also connect to cloud models, from jan.ai.
Alibaba Cloud · Qwen3
Alibaba Cloud's free AI assistant, running the open-weight Qwen3 model family — chat, reasoning, and multilingual tasks in the browser at chat.qwen.ai, and a capable free ChatGPT alternative.
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.
A free platform for data science and machine learning — public datasets, browser notebooks with free GPUs/TPUs, competitions, a model hub, and hands-on courses, at kaggle.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Google's AI research and note-taking tool that answers from the sources you upload — documents, PDFs, slides, links — and cites them. Free at notebooklm.google with a Google account, it can even turn your sources into a spoken audio overview.
Meta
Meta's free AI assistant for questions, writing help, and image generation — at meta.ai and built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook. Built on Meta's Llama models, and made by a company whose business is advertising.
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.
Perplexity AI
An answer engine that responds to questions in plain language and cites its sources — free to use at perplexity.ai, with a paid Pro plan for more powerful models and higher limits on its deeper research modes.
Microsoft
Microsoft's AI assistant for writing, everyday questions, and image generation — free at copilot.microsoft.com with a Microsoft account, built on OpenAI models and woven into Windows and Edge, with paid Copilot plans for more.
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.
Google's AI assistant for writing, research, and image-aware tasks — free to use at gemini.google.com with a Google account, with paid Google AI plans for higher limits and stronger models.
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.