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ReviewsEvery ai listing, ranked by how free it really is
15 verified · 2 truly free · sorted by Free Score.
Ollama
You getRun open-weight models locally with one command
SAVES $20/monthStable Diffusion
You getOpen-weights image generation you run on your own machine
SAVES $10Hugging Face
You getBrowse a vast hub of open AI models and datasets
DeepSeek
You getFree chat with a frontier-class model, web and app
$20/month valuePerplexity
You getUnlimited standard AI searches with cited sources
$20/month valueNotebookLM
You getUpload your documents and query them with citations
$20/month valueClaude
You getEveryday chat, writing, analysis, and coding help
$20/month valueMicrosoft Copilot
You getThe mainstream assistant free in Windows, Edge, Bing and the app
$240/year valueChatGPT
You getReal conversations with capable current models
$20/month valueGoogle Gemini
You getChat with a capable model, tied to your Google account
$20/month valueCharacter.AI
You getUnlimited character chat on the free tier
~$120/year valueGrok
You getA capped free allowance of chat and image generation
Suno
You getFull song generation — vocals, lyrics, arrangement — on daily credits
~$10 valueElevenLabs
You getBest-in-class text-to-speech on a monthly quota
$5/month valueMidjourney
You getNothing on midjourney.com or Discord
$0 valueCompare the free tiers
Every ai listing, answering the same questions. Values are deliberately qualitative — exact allowances change too often to publish honestly.
| Service | Card required | Usage ceiling | Model quality | File uploads | Image generation | Web access | Commercial use | Runs offline | Trains on your input |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ollama | No | Your hardware | Open weights | Yes | Limited | No | Your own terms | Yes | No |
| Stable Diffusion | No | Your hardware | Open weights | Yes | Only this | No | Your own terms | Yes | No |
| Hugging Face | No | Rationed at peak | Open weights | Yes | Yes | No | Your own terms | Yes | No |
| DeepSeek | No | Unlimited | Current flagship | Yes | No | Yes | Allowed | Yes | Yes |
| Perplexity | No | Unlimited — basic search | Current, rationed | Limited | Limited | Yes | Allowed | No | Setting |
| NotebookLM | No | Daily cap | Current, rationed | Yes | No | Limited | Allowed | No | No |
| Claude | No | Daily cap | Current flagship | Yes | No | Yes | Allowed | No | Setting |
| Microsoft Copilot | No | Rationed at peak | Current, rationed | Limited | Yes | Yes | Allowed | No | Setting |
| ChatGPT | No | Rationed at peak | Current, rationed | Limited | Limited | Yes | Allowed | No | Setting |
| Google Gemini | No | Daily cap | Current, rationed | Yes | Limited | Yes | Allowed | No | Setting |
| Character.AI | No | Unlimited | Mid-tier | No | Limited | No | Not allowed | No | Yes |
| Grok | No | Rationed at peak | Current, rationed | Limited | Limited | Yes | Allowed | No | Yes |
| Suno | No | Daily cap | Current, rationed | No | No | No | Not allowed | No | Yes |
| ElevenLabs | No | Monthly quota | Current flagship | Limited | No | No | Attribution required | No | Yes |
| Midjourney | Yes | None — paid only | Paid only | No | Only this | No | Not allowed | No | Yes |