AI tools for freelancers (112)

A one-person business runs on free tiers. These are the ones that cover client comms, delivery and admin without a monthly bill.

112tools listed
112free or freemium
34with no paid plan at all
6sub-categories covered

Best AI Tools for Freelancers — straight answers

What are the best free AI tools for freelancers?

Flocci AI Tools lists 112 of them, ordered free tiers first: Bing Image Creator, Flowise, Goblin Tools, Google Opal and Google Pomelli. Every one of them is free or has a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.

Which of these are completely free?

34 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Bing Image Creator, Flowise, Goblin Tools, Google Opal and Google Pomelli. The remaining 78 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.

How were these AI tools for freelancers chosen?

They are every catalog entry in 6 sub-categories that map to what freelancers actually do: write client-ready copy, produce assets, capture call notes, chase admin, send a proposal. Paid-only tools are excluded from this page on purpose. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement anywhere in the ordering.

Best AI Tools for Freelancers — quick picks

Which Best AI Tools for Freelancers work in a browser with no install?

Bing Image Creator, Flowise, Goblin Tools, Google Opal and Google Pomelli all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 86 of the 112 free Best AI Tools for Freelancers listed here are browser-based.

Which Best AI Tools for Freelancers let you sign in with Google?

Google Opal, Google Pomelli, Google TextFX, Qwen-Image and Sim support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 49 of the 112 free Best AI Tools for Freelancers on this page.

Which Best AI Tools for Freelancers have a mobile app?

Goblin Tools, PicLumen, Google Dreambeans, Adobe Express and Adobe Firefly have an iOS or Android app. 24 of the 112 free Best AI Tools for Freelancers here can run on your phone.

Which Best AI Tools for Freelancers can you self-host or run offline?

Anarlog (Hyprnote), BISHENG, ComfyUI, Coze Studio and FLUX.2 [klein] can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 19 of the 112 free Best AI Tools for Freelancers here run offline.

All 112 tools, free tiers first

Best AI Tools for Freelancers: pricing tier, category and the capability each tool is listed for.
ToolPricingTypeListed for
Bing Image CreatorFreeAI Image GenerationFree text-to-image with Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Flash and MAI-Image-2e
FlowiseFreeWorkflow AutomationDrag-and-drop builder for chatbots, agents and RAG flows
Goblin ToolsFreeEmail, Scheduling & TasksMagic ToDo breaks a task into tiny steps with adjustable spiciness
Google OpalFreeWorkflow AutomationDescribe an app in plain language and Opal builds a shareable multi-step AI workflow
Google PomelliFreePresentations & DesignScans your website to build a Business DNA brand profile (tone, fonts, palette, imagery)
Google TextFXFreeCopywriting & WritingTen AI writing tools for wordplay, similes, chains and rhymes
LangBotFreeWorkflow AutomationBuilds AI bots for WeChat, QQ, Discord, Slack, Telegram and other chat platforms
LangflowFreeWorkflow AutomationOpen source with 138k GitHub stars, free desktop app and free cloud account
PenpotFreePresentations & DesignOpen-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
PicLumenFreeAI Image GenerationGenuinely free image generation
PresentonFreePresentations & DesignOpen-source (Apache-2.0) AI presentation generator with desktop app and Docker deployment
Qwen-ImageFreeAI Image GenerationImage model family with strong in-image text rendering; Qwen-Image-2512 and Qwen-Image-2.1 (Sep 2026, 7B, transparent RGBA output)
SimFreeWorkflow AutomationVisual canvas for building, deploying and monitoring AI agents and workflows
WindmillFreeWorkflow AutomationOpen-source, self-hostable with unlimited executions on the free tier
ZeroFreeEmail, Scheduling & TasksFully open-source (MIT license), self-hostable AI email client
Anarlog (Hyprnote)FreeMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionOn-device meeting transcription and AI summaries without a bot joining the call
BISHENGFreeWorkflow AutomationOpen-source platform for building LLM workflows, RAG and multi-agent apps
ComfyUIFreeAI Image GenerationNode-graph interface for building image, video, audio and 3D generation workflows without code
Coze StudioFreeWorkflow AutomationOpen-source version of ByteDance's Coze agent builder with visual workflows
FLUX.2 [klein]FreeAI Image Generation4B-parameter Apache-2.0 FLUX.2 variant for text-to-image and editing, released Jan 2026
FooocusFreeAI Image GenerationMidjourney-like prompt-only UI on top of SDXL with built-in prompt expansion
Google DreambeansFreeEmail, Scheduling & TasksProactively builds 10-14 personalized story collections per day
HiDream-I1FreeAI Image Generation17B-parameter MIT-licensed image model with Full, Dev and Fast variants
HiDream-O1-ImageFreeAI Image GenerationMIT-licensed unified model for text-to-image, image editing and subject personalization up to 2048x2048
Hunyuan Image (Tencent)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-sourced 80B-parameter MoE text-to-image model (weights on Hugging Face)
HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-weights native multimodal image generation model
InvokeAIFreeAI Image GenerationOpen-source web UI with unified canvas for generation, inpainting and outpainting
LongCat-Image (Meituan)FreeAI Image Generation6B Apache-2.0 bilingual (Chinese-English) text-to-image and image editing model
Ming-Image (Ant Group)FreePresentations & DesignMIT-licensed 6B model that generates UI screens, infographics and posters with readable text
NVIDIA BroadcastFreeMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionFree AI noise and echo removal for mics and speakers
SANA (NVIDIA)FreeAI Image GenerationApache-2.0 linear-diffusion family for text-to-image up to 4K, with SANA-Sprint one-step generation
Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-source, run locally for unlimited free use
VibeFreeMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionDesktop app that transcribes audio and video offline using Whisper
Z-ImageFreeAI Image Generation6B-parameter Apache-2.0 model family: Z-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, editing variant
ActivepiecesFreemiumWorkflow AutomationMIT-licensed, free-forever self-hosted Community Edition with unlimited runs/users/flows
Adobe ExpressFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree web and mobile design app with Firefly-powered generate image, text effects and presentations
Adobe FireflyFreemiumAI Image GenerationCommercially safe, trained on licensed data
BluedotFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionBot-free recording (no visible meeting participant) for privacy
BotpressFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree pay-as-you-go plan with a monthly message quota and AI credit
Canva Magic StudioFreemiumPresentations & DesignAI design across the whole Canva suite
ChatbaseFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree plan: 50 message credits/month, 1 AI agent, 1 workspace member
CivitaiFreemiumAI Image GenerationLargest open Stable Diffusion/FLUX model, LoRA and checkpoint sharing hub
DifyFreemiumWorkflow AutomationOpen-source Community Edition, free self-deploy via Docker
Eraser AIFreemiumPresentations & DesignGenerates architecture/system diagrams directly from a text prompt
Excalidraw+FreemiumPresentations & DesignCore editor is fully free, open-source and runs locally in-browser with no signup
FathomFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionUnlimited recording & summaries on the free plan
Figma (Starter AI)FreemiumPresentations & DesignFree Starter plan includes AI credits (150 per day, up to 500 per month per pricing page)
Fireflies.aiFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionNotetaker across Zoom, Meet and Teams
FLUX (Black Forest Labs)FreemiumAI Image GenerationOpen-weight models you can run locally for free
Framer AIFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree plan includes 500 AI 'Agent' credits (site localization, content tasks) to try before paying
Freepik AI (Magnific)FreemiumAI Image Generation30+ AI image/video/audio models unified behind one credit system
GammaFreemiumPresentations & DesignPolished decks from a prompt in under a minute
GrainFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionFree viewer seats can access shared meetings and try AI notes at no cost
GrammarlyFreemiumCopywriting & WritingGrammar, clarity and tone everywhere you type
GumloopFreemiumWorkflow AutomationNo-code canvas for AI workflows
IdeogramFreemiumAI Image GenerationBest-in-class legible text in images
Inbox ZeroFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksOpen-source codebase (9k GitHub stars), self-hostable for free
JamieFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionBot-free meeting capture (does not join as a visible participant)
Jenni AIFreemiumCopywriting & WritingAI Autocomplete tuned for academic/essay writing with in-line citations
KreaFreemiumAI Image GenerationReal-time generation as you draw
LanguageToolFreemiumCopywriting & WritingGrammar/style checking across 30+ languages, strongest multilingual coverage in category
LaxisFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionFree tier with 300 transcription minutes/month
Leonardo AIFreemiumAI Image GenerationFine-grained control and custom models
LexFreemiumCopywriting & WritingMinimalist Google-Docs-style editor built AI-first for long-form writing
Mage.spaceFreemiumAI Image GenerationMulti-model access (SD, FLUX, Krea 2, Z-Image) in one browser tool
MakeFreemiumWorkflow AutomationVisual drag-and-drop automation
MeetGeekFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionFree-forever plan with 3 hrs/mo transcription and unlimited AI summaries
Microsoft DesignerFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree AI image generation (DALL-E/Copilot-powered) bundled into templated social/poster/flyer design
n8nFreemiumWorkflow AutomationOpen-source, self-hostable automation
Nano Banana (Google)FreemiumAI Image GenerationFree 4K generation via Gemini (watermarked)
Napkin AIFreemiumPresentations & DesignTurns your text into diagrams and visuals
NightCafeFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits across many models (FLUX, DALL-E 3, Ideogram) with no card required
NottaFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionTranscription and summaries in many languages
OpenArtFreemiumAI Image GenerationSingle dashboard aggregating 100+ image/video/audio models (FLUX, Seedance, etc.)
Otter.aiFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionPioneer of live meeting transcription
PipedreamFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree tier: 300 credits/month, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts, no card required
Playground AIFreemiumAI Image Generation10 free image generations per rolling 3-hour window, no card required
ProWritingAidFreemiumCopywriting & WritingSparks AI tool rewrites/expands/continues text (free daily allowance)
QuillBotFreemiumCopywriting & WritingBest-in-class paraphrasing and rewriting
Read AIFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionFree tier gives 5 meeting transcripts/month with summaries and search
Reclaim.aiFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksAuto-schedules tasks, habits and breaks
RecraftFreemiumAI Image GenerationGenerates true SVG vectors, not just raster
RelumeFreemiumPresentations & DesignAI Site Builder generates full sitemaps and wireframes from a prompt
RytrFreemiumCopywriting & WritingLow-cost, fast content generation
SeaArt AIFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits, no card required
Seedream (ByteDance)FreemiumAI Image GenerationHigh-end photorealism (Seedream 4.0)
ShortwaveFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksAI email assistant for Gmail
SpinachFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionPurpose-built for agile/engineering standups and sprint rituals
Stack AIFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree plan: 500 monthly runs, 2 projects, 1 seat, community Discord support
SupernormalFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionFree Starter plan: unlimited meetings, 1,000 min storage/member, no card required
TactiqFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionChrome extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom and Teams without a bot
TaskadeFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksAI agents that run projects and tasks
Tensor.ArtFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits across a large community model library
tl;dvFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionRecord, transcribe and clip meetings
Trigger.devFreemiumWorkflow AutomationOpen source (Apache 2.0) with a genuine free tier and unlimited tasks
TrinkaFreemiumCopywriting & WritingGrammar/style checker tuned specifically for scientific and technical writing
TurboScribeFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionTranscribes audio and video files in 98+ languages
Type.aiFreemiumCopywriting & WritingAI book writing and editing workspace
UizardFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree tier: 2 projects, 10 templates, 3 AI generations/month via Autodesigner
VellumFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree builder tier with hosted agent apps, no card required
ViduFreemiumAI Image GenerationReference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output
VisilyFreemiumPresentations & DesignFree Starter plan with 300 AI design credits/month
VoiceflowFreemiumWorkflow AutomationVisual design canvas for building both voice and chat AI agents from one flow
WordtuneFreemiumCopywriting & WritingFree tier includes unlimited grammar/spelling checks plus 10 daily rewrites
ZapierFreemiumWorkflow AutomationConnect 8,000+ apps with AI agents
BardeenFreemiumWorkflow AutomationChrome-based AI automation for scraping, filling forms and moving data between apps
CozeFreemiumWorkflow AutomationNo-code drag-and-drop bot/agent builder from ByteDance, distinct from Doubao's consumer chat app
DreaminaFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits for Seedream 5.0 Pro/Lite image generation
GranolaFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionCaptures audio locally — no bot joins the call
LiblibAIFreemiumAI Image GenerationChina's largest Stable Diffusion/FLUX model-sharing community (Civitai equivalent)
MeetilyFreemiumMeeting Assistants & TranscriptionFully local real-time transcription with Whisper or Parakeet
Tongyi WanxiangFreemiumAI Image GenerationWan 2.7 Standard/Pro tiers: 1K/2K unified text-to-image and multi-image editing, native 4K on Pro

Bing Image Creator

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Free text-to-image with Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Flash and MAI-Image-2e
  • 15 fast creations a day, then unlimited slower generations, up to 200 prompts per 24 hours
  • Image upload and edit mode on the 2.5-Flash model
  • Requires a personal Microsoft account
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Flowise

Workflow Automation
freeNew
  • Drag-and-drop builder for chatbots, agents and RAG flows
  • Self-host free with Docker or npm, with many model and vector store integrations
  • Agentflow for multi-agent orchestration
  • Embeddable chat widget and API output
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Goblin Tools

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freeNew
  • Magic ToDo breaks a task into tiny steps with adjustable spiciness
  • Formalizer rewrites tone, Estimator guesses time, Compiler organizes brain dumps
  • Free, kept going by sponsors
  • Android and iOS apps; optional Pro for history and sync
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Google Opal

Workflow Automation
freeNew
  • Describe an app in plain language and Opal builds a shareable multi-step AI workflow
  • Agent step for autonomous multi-step workflows and automated runs
  • Chains prompts, Gemini/Veo/Imagen models and tools visually
  • Available in 160+ countries, also inside the Gemini app as Gems
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Google Pomelli

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • Scans your website to build a Business DNA brand profile (tone, fonts, palette, imagery)
  • Generates on-brand campaign ideas, social posts and ads
  • Photoshoot turns product images into studio-quality shots with Nano Banana
  • Brand books and one-click website design
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Google TextFX

Copywriting & Writing
freeNew
  • Ten AI writing tools for wordplay, similes, chains and rhymes
  • Built with rapper Lupe Fiasco and Google Creative Lab
  • Free with a Google account
  • English only
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LangBot

Workflow Automation
freeNew
  • Builds AI bots for WeChat, QQ, Discord, Slack, Telegram and other chat platforms
  • Plugs into Dify, n8n, Coze and other workflow back ends
  • Plugin system and web admin panel
  • Free and open source, self-hosted
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Langflow

Workflow Automation
free
  • Open source with 138k GitHub stars, free desktop app and free cloud account
  • Drag-and-drop visual builder for agents and RAG pipelines on top of LangChain primitives
  • Deep integrations across major LLMs, vector DBs and Google Cloud/Slack/MongoDB
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Penpot

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • Open-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
  • Built-in MCP server and plugin API for AI design-to-code workflows
  • Free cloud or self-hosted; design tokens support
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PicLumen

AI Image Generation
free
  • Genuinely free image generation
  • No watermarks on outputs
  • Multiple art and realism models
  • Simple, fast interface
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Presenton

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • Open-source (Apache-2.0) AI presentation generator with desktop app and Docker deployment
  • Editable PPTX and PDF export from prompts, documents or your own template
  • Works with local models via Ollama/LM Studio or your own API keys; built-in MCP server
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Qwen-Image

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Image model family with strong in-image text rendering; Qwen-Image-2512 and Qwen-Image-2.1 (Sep 2026, 7B, transparent RGBA output)
  • Qwen-Image-Edit does instruction-based editing; 2509 and 2511 versions add multi-image and consistency
  • Free to use in the web app at chat.qwen.ai (Image Generation / Editing) or self-host weights
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Sim

Workflow Automation
freeNew
  • Visual canvas for building, deploying and monitoring AI agents and workflows
  • Open source and self-hostable
  • Copilot that helps assemble workflows from natural language
  • Integrations with common tools and knowledge bases
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Windmill

Workflow Automation
free
  • Open-source, self-hostable with unlimited executions on the free tier
  • Turns scripts (Python/TS/Go/Bash/SQL) into flows and full internal apps
  • Kubernetes/Docker/Fargate deployable with a hybrid seat+compute enterprise pricing model
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Zero

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
free
  • Fully open-source (MIT license), self-hostable AI email client
  • AI agents/LLMs built into the mail workflow, not bolted on
  • 10.7k+ GitHub stars, active 2025-2026 development
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Anarlog (Hyprnote)

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freeNew
  • On-device meeting transcription and AI summaries without a bot joining the call
  • Local models supported, so audio stays on your machine
  • Free and open source; optional paid cloud sync
  • Desktop apps plus mobile betas
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BISHENG

Workflow Automation
freeNew
  • Open-source platform for building LLM workflows, RAG and multi-agent apps
  • Strong document parsing with OCR, tables and layout analysis
  • Loops, parallelism and human-in-the-loop steps
  • Apache 2.0, self-hosted
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ComfyUI

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Node-graph interface for building image, video, audio and 3D generation workflows without code
  • Free open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux; runs models locally
  • Supports FLUX, Qwen-Image, Wan and LTX models via community and official nodes
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Coze Studio

Workflow Automation
freeNew
  • Open-source version of ByteDance's Coze agent builder with visual workflows
  • Plugins, knowledge bases, databases and memory for agents
  • Apache 2.0 licensed, self-hosted with Docker
  • Connects to OpenAI and other model providers
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FLUX.2 [klein]

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 4B-parameter Apache-2.0 FLUX.2 variant for text-to-image and editing, released Jan 2026
  • Runs on consumer GPUs; 9B klein variant also ranks on open-weights editing leaderboard
  • FLUX.2 [dev] (Nov 2025) is free for non-commercial use
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Fooocus

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Midjourney-like prompt-only UI on top of SDXL with built-in prompt expansion
  • Inpaint, outpaint, image prompt and upscale tools
  • Free GPL-3.0; runs on 4GB VRAM+
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Google Dreambeans

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freeNew
  • Proactively builds 10-14 personalized story collections per day
  • Uses Personal Intelligence across Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube and Search (opt-in)
  • Android and iOS apps
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HiDream-I1

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 17B-parameter MIT-licensed image model with Full, Dev and Fast variants
  • Runs via Diffusers, ComfyUI and Gradio demo
  • Free weights on Hugging Face
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HiDream-O1-Image

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • MIT-licensed unified model for text-to-image, image editing and subject personalization up to 2048x2048
  • Pixel-space transformer with no separate VAE or text encoder
  • Free Hugging Face Spaces demos; native ComfyUI support; Dev-2604 variant for text-to-image
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Hunyuan Image (Tencent)

AI Image Generation
free
  • Open-sourced 80B-parameter MoE text-to-image model (weights on Hugging Face)
  • Watermark-free output with long-prompt support and strong world-knowledge grounding
  • Released/open-sourced Jan 2026, actively maintained by Tencent
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HunyuanImage 3.0 (Tencent)

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Open-weights native multimodal image generation model
  • Strong text rendering and prompt following
  • Weights on Hugging Face
  • Self-host on multi-GPU or use hosted demos
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InvokeAI

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Open-source web UI with unified canvas for generation, inpainting and outpainting
  • Node-based workflows; supports SD, SDXL and FLUX models
  • Free community edition, runs locally
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LongCat-Image (Meituan)

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 6B Apache-2.0 bilingual (Chinese-English) text-to-image and image editing model
  • Strong Chinese character rendering
  • Full training toolchain released; weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope
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Ming-Image (Ant Group)

Presentations & Design
freeNew
  • MIT-licensed 6B model that generates UI screens, infographics and posters with readable text
  • Ming-Image-0.1-Design-Layer splits flattened designs into editable transparent layers
  • Free Hugging Face Spaces demos; RGBA output
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NVIDIA Broadcast

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freeNew
  • Free AI noise and echo removal for mics and speakers
  • Webcam background removal, auto frame and eye contact
  • Creates virtual devices usable in Zoom, Teams, OBS, Discord
  • Requires an NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU on Windows
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SANA (NVIDIA)

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • Apache-2.0 linear-diffusion family for text-to-image up to 4K, with SANA-Sprint one-step generation
  • SANA-Video 2.0 (5B/14B) for 720p text-to-video (Aug 2026)
  • Free public demo at nv-sana.mit.edu and Hugging Face Spaces
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free
  • Open-source, run locally for unlimited free use
  • Huge ecosystem of models and LoRAs
  • ControlNet for precise composition
  • Foundation of countless AI art tools
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Vibe

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freeNew
  • Desktop app that transcribes audio and video offline using Whisper
  • Speaker diarization and multiple export formats
  • Free and open source, cross-platform
  • No account and no uploads
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Z-Image

AI Image Generation
freeNew
  • 6B-parameter Apache-2.0 model family: Z-Image, Z-Image-Turbo, editing variant
  • Turbo variant reported #1 open-source on Artificial Analysis text-to-image leaderboard
  • Runs on 16GB consumer GPUs; free demos on Hugging Face Spaces and ModelScope
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Activepieces

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • MIT-licensed, free-forever self-hosted Community Edition with unlimited runs/users/flows
  • 700+ integrations plus AI-agent building blocks
  • Cloud Free plan needs no credit card, includes unlimited flows with daily credit resets
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Adobe Express

Presentations & Design
freemiumNew
  • Free web and mobile design app with Firefly-powered generate image, text effects and presentations
  • Some AI features (text effects, generate presentation, clip maker) consume no credits
  • Free plan includes monthly generative credits and templates
  • Video translation and captions on free plan with limits
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Adobe Firefly

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Commercially safe, trained on licensed data
  • Generative fill inside Photoshop
  • Image, video and vector models
  • Free monthly generative credits
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Bluedot

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Bot-free recording (no visible meeting participant) for privacy
  • Free plan gives 5 lifetime meetings, 1-hour cap each
  • Popular Chrome Web Store note-taker extension
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Botpress

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Free pay-as-you-go plan with a monthly message quota and AI credit
  • Visual conversation-flow studio purpose-built for LLM-powered support/sales bots
  • May 2026 pricing update added unlimited bots and free AI spend on new workspaces
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Canva Magic Studio

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • AI design across the whole Canva suite
  • Magic Write, Design, Edit and Media
  • Brand kits and templates
  • Free plan available
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Chatbase

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Free plan: 50 message credits/month, 1 AI agent, 1 workspace member
  • Omnichannel deployment across chat, email, voice, WhatsApp and Slack from one trained agent
  • Serves 10,000+ businesses for customer-support agent deployment
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Civitai

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Largest open Stable Diffusion/FLUX model, LoRA and checkpoint sharing hub
  • Free on-platform generation funded by daily-earned 'Blue Buzz' credits
  • Creator monetization program for model authors
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Dify

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Open-source Community Edition, free self-deploy via Docker
  • Cloud Sandbox plan: free with 200 message credits, 5 apps, 50 knowledge docs
  • Visual builder combining agentic workflows with built-in RAG knowledge bases
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Eraser AI

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Generates architecture/system diagrams directly from a text prompt
  • Perpetual free plan (3 files, 3 AI diagrams, 7-day history)
  • Diagram-as-code editing plus GitHub/Notion/Confluence/VS Code integrations
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Excalidraw+

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Core editor is fully free, open-source and runs locally in-browser with no signup
  • AI Wireframe-to-Code turns a hand-drawn wireframe into working HTML/CSS
  • Paid Excalidraw+ adds cloud sync, unlimited scenes and the extended AI set
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Fathom

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Unlimited recording & summaries on the free plan
  • Auto-generated action items
  • Syncs to CRM and Slack
  • Highlights and clips
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Figma (Starter AI)

Presentations & Design
freemiumNew
  • Free Starter plan includes AI credits (150 per day, up to 500 per month per pricing page)
  • AI image tools, layer renaming and first-draft generation inside the design editor
  • Figma Make prompt-to-app is not on the free plan
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Fireflies.ai

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Notetaker across Zoom, Meet and Teams
  • Searchable conversation intelligence
  • Automations and CRM sync
  • Free tier available
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FLUX (Black Forest Labs)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Open-weight models you can run locally for free
  • Near-photographic quality in seconds
  • FLUX Kontext for precise editing
  • Powers many third-party apps
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Framer AI

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free plan includes 500 AI 'Agent' credits (site localization, content tasks) to try before paying
  • AI website generation from a text prompt built directly into the no-code site builder
  • Publishing, hosting and CMS bundled with the design tool
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Freepik AI (Magnific)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • 30+ AI image/video/audio models unified behind one credit system
  • Bundles the Magnific upscaler/relight tools with 250M+ stock library
  • Mockup, icon and designer tools alongside generation
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Gamma

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Polished decks from a prompt in under a minute
  • Also makes docs, websites and social posts
  • No design skills needed
  • Free tier with credits
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Grain

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Free viewer seats can access shared meetings and try AI notes at no cost
  • Bot-free AI notes and recaps across Zoom/Meet/Teams/Webex
  • AI coaching and custom follow-up emails on Business tier
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Grammarly

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Grammar, clarity and tone everywhere you type
  • Generative AI drafting and rewrites
  • Works across apps and browsers
  • Free core plan
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Gumloop

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • No-code canvas for AI workflows
  • Web scraping, extraction and enrichment
  • Shareable automation templates
  • Free plan to start
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Ideogram

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Best-in-class legible text in images
  • Great for posters, logos and mockups
  • Magic Prompt and style controls
  • Free weekly credits
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Inbox Zero

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freemium
  • Open-source codebase (9k GitHub stars), self-hostable for free
  • Plain-English custom rules engine for inbox automation
  • Cold-email blocking and bulk unsubscribe built in
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Jamie

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Bot-free meeting capture (does not join as a visible participant)
  • Free tier: 10 meetings/month, 30 minutes each
  • Team workspace and shared summaries on paid tiers
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Jenni AI

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • AI Autocomplete tuned for academic/essay writing with in-line citations
  • 10,000+ citation styles with unlimited free citation use
  • PDF upload and AI-chat-with-sources for research writing
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Krea

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Real-time generation as you draw
  • Runs many top models in one canvas
  • Upscale and enhance tools
  • Free tier available
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LanguageTool

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Grammar/style checking across 30+ languages, strongest multilingual coverage in category
  • AI paraphrasing (3 free/day, unlimited on Premium)
  • Open-source core engine with commercial Premium layer
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Laxis

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Free tier with 300 transcription minutes/month
  • AI Writer with 40+ pro templates built on meeting context
  • Voice Keyboard AI-agent mode for instant content generation
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Leonardo AI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Fine-grained control and custom models
  • Great for game and product assets
  • Canvas editing and upscaling
  • Free daily tokens
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Lex

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Minimalist Google-Docs-style editor built AI-first for long-form writing
  • "Ask Lex" and multi-model access (paid) alongside basic free editing
  • Used by 300,000+ writers including major newsroom and university staff
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Mage.space

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Multi-model access (SD, FLUX, Krea 2, Z-Image) in one browser tool
  • 300-Gem signup bonus with ongoing free-tier access, no forced subscription
  • Built-in face swap, inpainting and video-editing apps alongside generation
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Make

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Visual drag-and-drop automation
  • AI modules and agent scenarios
  • 1,000+ app integrations
  • Generous free tier
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MeetGeek

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Free-forever plan with 3 hrs/mo transcription and unlimited AI summaries
  • AI voice agents and workflow automation on Business tier
  • Global cross-meeting search plus team analytics
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Microsoft Designer

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free AI image generation (DALL-E/Copilot-powered) bundled into templated social/poster/flyer design
  • Deep Microsoft 365/Copilot ecosystem integration
  • One-click resize across social platform formats
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n8n

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Open-source, self-hostable automation
  • Visual AI-agent and LLM nodes
  • Full code when you need it
  • Free to run yourself
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Nano Banana (Google)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free 4K generation via Gemini (watermarked)
  • Physics-aware, photorealistic rendering
  • Best-in-class in-image text
  • Conversational, multi-turn editing
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Napkin AI

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Turns your text into diagrams and visuals
  • Great for docs, decks and posts
  • Editable, on-brand graphics
  • Free while in growth
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NightCafe

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits across many models (FLUX, DALL-E 3, Ideogram) with no card required
  • 30M+ user community with daily themed art challenges and chat rooms
  • Consistent-character tools alongside standard text-to-image
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Notta

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemiumNew
  • Transcription and summaries in many languages
  • Free plan gives a monthly allowance of transcription minutes
  • Bot-free recording and meeting bot options
  • Japanese-founded, popular across Asia
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OpenArt

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Single dashboard aggregating 100+ image/video/audio models (FLUX, Seedance, etc.)
  • One-click Story Creation for multi-shot narrative sequences
  • 40 free trial credits at signup plus daily free generations on basic models
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Otter.ai

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Pioneer of live meeting transcription
  • AI chat and automated summaries
  • Meeting agents that answer live
  • Free monthly minutes
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Pipedream

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Free tier: 300 credits/month, 3 active workflows, 3 connected accounts, no card required
  • Mixes visual workflow building with full custom code steps (Node/Python)
  • 2,000+ pre-built API integrations with fast event-driven triggers
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Playground AI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • 10 free image generations per rolling 3-hour window, no card required
  • Canvas-based design workspace layering generation with manual editing
  • Unlimited free design files alongside metered generations
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ProWritingAid

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Sparks AI tool rewrites/expands/continues text (free daily allowance)
  • Virtual Beta Reader analyzes full manuscripts from a reader's perspective
  • Chapter Critique generates comprehensive story critiques for fiction writers
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QuillBot

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Best-in-class paraphrasing and rewriting
  • Grammar checker and summarizer
  • Citation and plagiarism tools
  • Generous free tier
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Read AI

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Free tier gives 5 meeting transcripts/month with summaries and search
  • "Ask Read" cross-searches meetings, email, and messaging
  • Personalized meeting-coaching performance metrics
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Reclaim.ai

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freemium
  • Auto-schedules tasks, habits and breaks
  • Defends focus time on your calendar
  • Smart meeting and 1:1 scheduling
  • Free plan
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Recraft

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Generates true SVG vectors, not just raster
  • Ideal for logos, icons and brand kits
  • Consistent style sets
  • Free daily credits
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Relume

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • AI Site Builder generates full sitemaps and wireframes from a prompt
  • Free tier includes 30 components and a full wireframe page, no card required
  • Exports directly into Webflow, Figma or React component libraries
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Rytr

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Low-cost, fast content generation
  • 40+ use cases and tones
  • Chrome extension
  • Free monthly characters
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SeaArt AI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits, no card required
  • Large community model/LoRA library skewed toward anime and illustration styles
  • Private creation and commercial-use options on paid tiers
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Seedream (ByteDance)

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • High-end photorealism (Seedream 4.0)
  • Strong prompt adherence and editing
  • Bilingual text rendering
  • Free tier to try
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Shortwave

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freemium
  • AI email assistant for Gmail
  • Auto-summaries, drafting and search
  • AI agents and scheduling
  • Free tier
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Spinach

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Purpose-built for agile/engineering standups and sprint rituals
  • Auto-creates tickets in Jira/Linear and updates CRM from meeting content
  • Free-to-start tier across Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack
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Stack AI

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Free plan: 500 monthly runs, 2 projects, 1 seat, community Discord support
  • No-code drag-and-drop builder aimed at compliant/regulated enterprise deployments
  • SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR compliance options at the enterprise tier
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Supernormal

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Free Starter plan: unlimited meetings, 1,000 min storage/member, no card required
  • Credit-based usage system for AI task complexity
  • Repositioned in 2026 toward AI agents for client/agency work
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Tactiq

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemiumNew
  • Chrome extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom and Teams without a bot
  • Free plan has a monthly allowance of transcripts and AI credits
  • AI summaries and action items
  • Export and share transcripts
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Taskade

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freemium
  • AI agents that run projects and tasks
  • Notes, mind-maps and workflows in one
  • Team collaboration and automations
  • Free plan
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Tensor.Art

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits across a large community model library
  • Cloud model hosting so no local GPU needed to run checkpoints
  • Standalone credit packs with no forced subscription
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tl;dv

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Record, transcribe and clip meetings
  • Bot and bot-free options
  • Strong compliance controls
  • Free plan with unlimited recordings
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Trigger.dev

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Open source (Apache 2.0) with a genuine free tier and unlimited tasks
  • Purpose-built for long-running, failure-resilient tasks (ideal for multi-step AI agent jobs)
  • No server/timeout management — infra fully handled, pay per compute-second
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Trinka

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Grammar/style checker tuned specifically for scientific and technical writing
  • Bundled AI content detector plus plagiarism checker on Premium Plus
  • 30+ language translation on higher tiers for academic authors
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TurboScribe

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemiumNew
  • Transcribes audio and video files in 98+ languages
  • Free tier allows three files per day of up to 30 minutes each, no account needed
  • Speaker labels, exports to Word, PDF and SRT
  • Translation of transcripts
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Type.ai

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • AI book writing and editing workspace
  • Free plan includes a fixed set of AI credits that do not renew
  • Non-AI writing and organizing stay free
  • Paid plans add monthly AI usage
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Uizard

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free tier: 2 projects, 10 templates, 3 AI generations/month via Autodesigner
  • Scans hand-drawn wireframes or screenshots into editable mockups
  • Generates full UI designs from a text prompt (Autodesigner 2.0)
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Vellum

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Free builder tier with hosted agent apps, no card required
  • Prompt-engineering playground for side-by-side multi-model comparison
  • Built-in evaluations framework with test banks and custom metrics for LLM apps
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Vidu

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Reference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output
  • Free tier with 40 monthly credits, no card required
  • Alibaba-backed Chinese video-generation lab (Shengshu)
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Visily

Presentations & Design
freemium
  • Free Starter plan with 300 AI design credits/month
  • AI-powered wireframe/prototype generation from prompts or screenshots
  • Direct export to Figma and code, plus Notion/Jira/Slack integrations
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Voiceflow

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Visual design canvas for building both voice and chat AI agents from one flow
  • Multi-client/agency workspace mode with white-labeling for agencies
  • Deployable across channels with real-time analytics and team collaboration
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Wordtune

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Free tier includes unlimited grammar/spelling checks plus 10 daily rewrites
  • AI content humanization mode alongside rewriting
  • AI summarization for long text (3 free/month, more on paid)
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Zapier

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Connect 8,000+ apps with AI agents
  • Natural-language automation builder
  • AI steps, chatbots and tables
  • Free tier for basic Zaps
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Bardeen

Workflow Automation
freemiumNew
  • Chrome-based AI automation for scraping, filling forms and moving data between apps
  • Free plan includes a monthly credit allowance
  • Playbooks you can build in plain language
  • Integrates with Google Sheets, Notion and CRMs
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Coze

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • No-code drag-and-drop bot/agent builder from ByteDance, distinct from Doubao's consumer chat app
  • 60+ built-in plugins (search, travel, productivity) wired into published bots
  • One-click publish to Telegram, Discord, Slack or your own site
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Dreamina

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Free daily credits for Seedream 5.0 Pro/Lite image generation
  • Multi-layer canvas editor for restyle/remix/upscale
  • Built-in logo, poster and meme generator tools
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Granola

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemium
  • Captures audio locally — no bot joins the call
  • Enhances your own notes with the transcript
  • Structured summaries and actions
  • Free trial meetings
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LiblibAI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • China's largest Stable Diffusion/FLUX model-sharing community (Civitai equivalent)
  • Free daily generation credits on a refreshing quota
  • In-browser LoRA training and model hosting
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Meetily

Meeting Assistants & Transcription
freemiumNew
  • Fully local real-time transcription with Whisper or Parakeet
  • Summaries via Ollama or other providers, with speaker diarization
  • Community edition is permanently free
  • Optional paid Pro tier
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Tongyi Wanxiang

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Wan 2.7 Standard/Pro tiers: 1K/2K unified text-to-image and multi-image editing, native 4K on Pro
  • Free daily tier plus low-cost pay-as-you-go image pricing
  • Backs Alibaba's broader Wan open video/image model family
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