AI tools for small business owners (93)

Free-tier tools that replace an afternoon of admin: customer replies, marketing copy, scheduling and the automation that glues them together.

93tools listed
93free or freemium
18with no paid plan at all
6sub-categories covered

Best AI Tools for Small business owners — straight answers

What are the best free AI tools for small business owners?

Flocci AI Tools lists 93 of them, ordered free tiers first: Alibaba Quark AI Assistant, Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan), Falcon LLM Chat (TII) and HuggingChat. 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?

18 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Alibaba Quark AI Assistant, Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan), Falcon LLM Chat (TII) and HuggingChat. The remaining 75 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 small business owners chosen?

They are every catalog entry in 6 sub-categories that map to what small business owners actually do: answer customers, write the marketing, automate repeat work, keep the calendar sane. Paid-only tools are excluded from this page on purpose. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement anywhere in the ordering.

All 93 tools, free tiers first

Best AI Tools for Small business owners: pricing tier, category and the capability each tool is listed for.
ToolPricingTypeListed for
Alibaba Quark AI AssistantFreeGeneral Purpose Chatbots200M+ existing users of Quark's browser/search app now get a free Qwen3-powered chat assistant
Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应)FreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree consumer assistant from Baichuan, built on the Baichuan 4 base model
Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan)FreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsBaidu's flagship consumer chatbot built on its Ernie model family
Falcon LLM Chat (TII)FreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree public playground for Abu Dhabi TII's open-weight Falcon models
HuggingChatFreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsCompletely free and open-source
Hunyuan Image (Tencent)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-sourced 80B-parameter MoE text-to-image model (weights on Hugging Face)
Jais ChatFreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsBilingual Arabic/English chatbot built on Jais 30B/70B, the leading Arabic-trained LLM family
KimiFreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree access to Kimi K2-series agentic models
LangflowFreeWorkflow AutomationOpen source with 138k GitHub stars, free desktop app and free cloud account
Meta AIFreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree, powered by Llama 4
Pi (Inflection AI)FreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFully free personal-AI chatbot with no subscription tier at all — unlimited conversations, no paywall
PicLumenFreeAI Image GenerationGenuinely free image generation
Qwen ChatFreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree access to Qwen3-series models
Sakana ChatFreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree general-public chat service from Sakana AI, built on its own Namazu model
Sarvam IndusFreeGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree (beta) chat assistant natively handling all 22 official Indian languages plus Hinglish code-switching
Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)FreeAI Image GenerationOpen-source, run locally for unlimited free use
WindmillFreeWorkflow AutomationOpen-source, self-hostable with unlimited executions on the free tier
ZeroFreeEmail, Scheduling & TasksFully open-source (MIT license), self-hostable AI email client
ActivepiecesFreemiumWorkflow AutomationMIT-licensed, free-forever self-hosted Community Edition with unlimited runs/users/flows
Adobe FireflyFreemiumAI Image GenerationCommercially safe, trained on licensed data
Apollo.ioFreemiumSales & Customer IntelligenceFree Starter plan with unlimited contact emails (10,000 credits/mo fair-use)
BotpressFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree pay-as-you-go plan with a monthly message quota and AI credit
ChatbaseFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree plan: 50 message credits/month, 1 AI agent, 1 workspace member
ChatGPTFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree tier runs GPT-5-class models
CivitaiFreemiumAI Image GenerationLargest open Stable Diffusion/FLUX model, LoRA and checkpoint sharing hub
ClaudeFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree tier with the Claude family (Opus/Sonnet class)
ClayFreemiumSales & Customer IntelligenceAI-powered data enrichment and prospecting
Copy.aiFreemiumCopywriting & WritingCopy plus GTM automation workflows
CozeFreemiumWorkflow AutomationNo-code drag-and-drop bot/agent builder from ByteDance, distinct from Doubao's consumer chat app
DeepSeekFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree access to V3-series & R1 reasoning models
DifyFreemiumWorkflow AutomationOpen-source Community Edition, free self-deploy via Docker
DoubaoFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsByteDance's flagship consumer assistant, built on its own Seed models
DreaminaFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits for Seedream 5.0 Pro/Lite image generation
DuckDuckGo AI Chat (Duck.ai)FreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsAnonymous, no-account access to Claude, GPT, Mistral and open models with IP stripped before forwarding
FLUX (Black Forest Labs)FreemiumAI Image GenerationOpen-weight models you can run locally for free
Freepik AI (Magnific)FreemiumAI Image Generation30+ AI image/video/audio models unified behind one credit system
GeminiFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree tier with Gemini 3 models
GrammarlyFreemiumCopywriting & WritingGrammar, clarity and tone everywhere you type
GrokFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree tier with Grok 4-series models
GumloopFreemiumWorkflow AutomationNo-code canvas for AI workflows
HubSpot BreezeFreemiumSales & Customer IntelligenceSuite of AI agents (Customer, Prospecting, Content, Data) built into HubSpot CRM
IdeogramFreemiumAI Image GenerationBest-in-class legible text in images
iFlytek Spark (Xinghuo)FreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsVoice-first Chinese chatbot from iFlytek, China's dominant speech-tech vendor
Inbox ZeroFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksOpen-source codebase (9k GitHub stars), self-hostable for free
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
Leonardo AIFreemiumAI Image GenerationFine-grained control and custom models
LexFreemiumCopywriting & WritingMinimalist Google-Docs-style editor built AI-first for long-form writing
LiblibAIFreemiumAI Image GenerationChina's largest Stable Diffusion/FLUX model-sharing community (Civitai equivalent)
LindyFreemiumWorkflow AutomationBuild AI 'employees' from plain English
Mage.spaceFreemiumAI Image GenerationMulti-model access (SD, FLUX, Krea 2, Z-Image) in one browser tool
MakeFreemiumWorkflow AutomationVisual drag-and-drop automation
Microsoft CopilotFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree tier with frontier OpenAI models
MiniMax ChatFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsConsumer chat surface for MiniMax's own M3/M2.5 model family
Mistral Le ChatFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree tier from Europe's leading AI lab
n8nFreemiumWorkflow AutomationOpen-source, self-hostable automation
Nano Banana (Google)FreemiumAI Image GenerationFree 4K generation via Gemini (watermarked)
NightCafeFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits across many models (FLUX, DALL-E 3, Ideogram) with no card required
OpenArtFreemiumAI Image GenerationSingle dashboard aggregating 100+ image/video/audio models (FLUX, Seedance, etc.)
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
PoeFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsOne app for GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok & more
Proton LumoFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsZero-access encrypted chat from the makers of Proton Mail/VPN — no account needed to start chatting
ProWritingAidFreemiumCopywriting & WritingSparks AI tool rewrites/expands/continues text (free daily allowance)
QuillBotFreemiumCopywriting & WritingBest-in-class paraphrasing and rewriting
Reclaim.aiFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksAuto-schedules tasks, habits and breaks
RecraftFreemiumAI Image GenerationGenerates true SVG vectors, not just raster
ReveFreemiumAI Image GenerationLive-layer composition with direct object move/resize/recolor editing
RytrFreemiumCopywriting & WritingLow-cost, fast content generation
Salesforce AgentforceFreemiumSales & Customer IntelligenceBuild/deploy autonomous agents natively across Salesforce Sales/Service/Marketing Cloud
SeaArt AIFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits, no card required
Seedream (ByteDance)FreemiumAI Image GenerationHigh-end photorealism (Seedream 4.0)
Shakker AIFreemiumAI Image GenerationAccess to 50,000+ community Stable Diffusion/FLUX checkpoints and LoRAs
ShortwaveFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksAI email assistant for Gmail
Stack AIFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree plan: 500 monthly runs, 2 projects, 1 seat, community Discord support
TaskadeFreemiumEmail, Scheduling & TasksAI agents that run projects and tasks
Tencent YuanbaoFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree full-version DeepSeek-R1 access alongside Tencent's own Hunyuan/Hongyuan models
Tensor.ArtFreemiumAI Image GenerationFree daily credits across a large community model library
Tongyi WanxiangFreemiumAI Image GenerationWan 2.7 Standard/Pro tiers: 1K/2K unified text-to-image and multi-image editing, native 4K on Pro
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
Type.aiFreemiumCopywriting & WritingUnlimited free non-AI docs forever; AI features gated to Pro
UnifyFreemiumSales & Customer IntelligenceCredit-based AI GTM platform combining intent signals, enrichment and outreach
Upstage Solar ChatFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree hosted chat interface for South Korea's Solar Pro model family, no API key needed to try it
VellumFreemiumWorkflow AutomationFree builder tier with hosted agent apps, no card required
Venice AIFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsBrowser-side conversation storage — Venice's servers never see or keep chat history
ViduFreemiumAI Image GenerationReference-to-video: turns a set of reference images into consistent-character video/image output
WordtuneFreemiumCopywriting & WritingFree tier includes unlimited grammar/spelling checks plus 10 daily rewrites
You.comFreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsAI assistant with cited web answers
Z.ai (GLM Chat)FreemiumGeneral Purpose ChatbotsFree chat on flagship GLM-5.2 with no login required
ZapierFreemiumWorkflow AutomationConnect 8,000+ apps with AI agents
Zendesk AIFreemiumSales & Customer IntelligenceAI Agents resolve up to claimed 80% of complex service issues across channels

Alibaba Quark AI Assistant

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • 200M+ existing users of Quark's browser/search app now get a free Qwen3-powered chat assistant
  • Handles deep research, presentations, image generation and medical-info lookup in one app
  • Voice and text chatbot modes built into a mainstream consumer surface, not a standalone chat site
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Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应)

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free consumer assistant from Baichuan, built on the Baichuan 4 base model
  • Multi-turn AI search plus document/image upload and voice interaction
  • Distinct from Baichuan's 2026 pivot to medical LLMs (M3/M4) — this is the general consumer app
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Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan)

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Baidu's flagship consumer chatbot built on its Ernie model family
  • One-stop office/study assistant positioning (办公学习一站解决)
  • Tied into Baidu Search and Baidu ecosystem services
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Falcon LLM Chat (TII)

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free public playground for Abu Dhabi TII's open-weight Falcon models
  • Falcon-H1 Arabic leads the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard across model sizes
  • Fully open-source, permissively licensed models downloadable from Hugging Face
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HuggingChat

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Completely free and open-source
  • Switch between top open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek…)
  • Web search and tools enabled
  • Community assistants
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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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Jais Chat

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Bilingual Arabic/English chatbot built on Jais 30B/70B, the leading Arabic-trained LLM family
  • Trained on 475B+ Arabic tokens, culturally and linguistically tuned rather than translated
  • Free web and mobile app with model choice (fast 30B vs precise 70B vs K2-Diamond-Chat for math/code)
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Kimi

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free access to Kimi K2-series agentic models
  • Excellent long-document understanding
  • Open weights, strong on agentic tasks
  • Built-in research and browsing
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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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Meta AI

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free, powered by Llama 4
  • Built into WhatsApp, Instagram & Messenger
  • Image generation and editing in chat
  • Real-time web answers
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Pi (Inflection AI)

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Fully free personal-AI chatbot with no subscription tier at all — unlimited conversations, no paywall
  • Voice mode with 8 selectable voices, plus iOS/Android/web/Apple Messages clients
  • Tuned for supportive, conversational tone rather than task-completion, a distinct niche from utility chatbots
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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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Qwen Chat

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free access to Qwen3-series models
  • Strong multilingual and coding performance
  • Open weights you can also run locally
  • Vision, web search and artifacts
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Sakana Chat

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free general-public chat service from Sakana AI, built on its own Namazu model
  • Real-time web search integration and three selectable tones including a distinct 'Osaka' dialect style
  • Launched March 2026 as Sakana's pivot from pure R&D into consumer products alongside Marlin and Fugu
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Sarvam Indus

General Purpose Chatbots
free
  • Free (beta) chat assistant natively handling all 22 official Indian languages plus Hinglish code-switching
  • Built on Sarvam's own 105B parameter model, not a foreign-model wrapper
  • Voice, document upload and web research included at no cost during beta
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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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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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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 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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Apollo.io

Sales & Customer Intelligence
freemium
  • Free Starter plan with unlimited contact emails (10,000 credits/mo fair-use)
  • AI Research drafts personalized outbound messaging from signals
  • Combined lead database + engagement + conversation intelligence in one tool
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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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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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ChatGPT

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier runs GPT-5-class models
  • Voice, vision, image generation & web browsing
  • Agent mode for multi-step tasks
  • Custom GPTs and file uploads
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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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Claude

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with the Claude family (Opus/Sonnet class)
  • Best-in-class coding and long-form reasoning
  • Artifacts for live code & document previews
  • Projects, memory and MCP tool connectors
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Clay

Sales & Customer Intelligence
freemium
  • AI-powered data enrichment and prospecting
  • 100+ data providers in one table
  • Claygent researches accounts for you
  • Free plan
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Copy.ai

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Copy plus GTM automation workflows
  • Blog, ad and email generators
  • Sales and prospecting agents
  • Free plan available
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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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DeepSeek

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free access to V3-series & R1 reasoning models
  • Open-weight, MoE-efficient architecture
  • Strong math, coding and reasoning
  • Transparent chain-of-thought mode
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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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Doubao

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • ByteDance's flagship consumer assistant, built on its own Seed models
  • Deep integration with Douyin/TikTok-adjacent content workflows
  • Voice, image and document modes in one free app
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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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DuckDuckGo AI Chat (Duck.ai)

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Anonymous, no-account access to Claude, GPT, Mistral and open models with IP stripped before forwarding
  • Contractual guarantees that conversations aren't used for vendor model training, deleted within 30 days
  • Free voice mode with daily limits; paid Plus/Pro tiers add GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet/Opus access and higher limits
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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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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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Gemini

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with Gemini 3 models
  • Up to 2M-token context (largest of any flagship)
  • Deep Google Workspace + real-time Search integration
  • Native image (Nano Banana) & video (Veo) generation
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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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Grok

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with Grok 4-series models
  • Live data from X and the open web
  • Grok Imagine for image & video generation
  • Less-filtered, fast conversational style
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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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HubSpot Breeze

Sales & Customer Intelligence
freemium
  • Suite of AI agents (Customer, Prospecting, Content, Data) built into HubSpot CRM
  • Included credits on every plan tier (500-5,000/mo) plus outcome-based pricing
  • Customer Agent billed per resolved conversation since April 2026
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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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iFlytek Spark (Xinghuo)

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Voice-first Chinese chatbot from iFlytek, China's dominant speech-tech vendor
  • Permanently free Spark Lite API tier for developers
  • Claims support across 74 languages/dialects via Spark X1
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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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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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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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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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Lindy

Workflow Automation
freemium
  • Build AI 'employees' from plain English
  • Handles email, scheduling and CRM tasks
  • Trigger-based autonomous workflows
  • Free starter plan
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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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Microsoft Copilot

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier with frontier OpenAI models
  • Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
  • Voice, vision and image generation
  • Copilot Vision can see your screen
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MiniMax Chat

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Consumer chat surface for MiniMax's own M3/M2.5 model family
  • Combines AI search, vision and voice chat in one assistant
  • Distinct product from MiniMax's Hailuo video model (already listed) and Talkie companion app
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Mistral Le Chat

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier from Europe's leading AI lab
  • Very fast 'Flash Answers'
  • Code interpreter, web search & image gen
  • Privacy-focused, EU-hosted option
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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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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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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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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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Poe

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • One app for GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok & more
  • Create and share custom bots
  • Compare model answers side by side
  • Free daily points across models
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Proton Lumo

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Zero-access encrypted chat from the makers of Proton Mail/VPN — no account needed to start chatting
  • Open-source client, no conversation logging or training on user data, by design
  • Free tier includes web search and basic chat history, not just a stripped demo
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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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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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Reve

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Live-layer composition with direct object move/resize/recolor editing
  • Sketch-to-image and reference/style transfer in one canvas
  • Native 4K image model with pay-as-you-go API (no subscription required)
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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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Salesforce Agentforce

Sales & Customer Intelligence
freemium
  • Build/deploy autonomous agents natively across Salesforce Sales/Service/Marketing Cloud
  • Free "Foundations" tier: 200k Flex Credits + Agent Builder on Enterprise Edition+
  • Three parallel pricing models: per-conversation, flex credits, or per-user
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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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Shakker AI

AI Image Generation
freemium
  • Access to 50,000+ community Stable Diffusion/FLUX checkpoints and LoRAs
  • Free daily generation quota, no card required
  • Built-in online LoRA training tool
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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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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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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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Tencent Yuanbao

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free full-version DeepSeek-R1 access alongside Tencent's own Hunyuan/Hongyuan models
  • One-tap access from inside WeChat chats, groups and Mini Programs
  • Pulls in WeChat Official Account and Video Channel content as search sources
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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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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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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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Type.ai

Copywriting & Writing
freemium
  • Unlimited free non-AI docs forever; AI features gated to Pro
  • Access to both GPT-4 and Claude 3 models inside the same editor
  • Real-time multi-user collaboration on AI-assisted documents
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Unify

Sales & Customer Intelligence
freemium
  • Credit-based AI GTM platform combining intent signals, enrichment and outreach
  • Genuine free plan: 100 credits/seat/month, up to 3 seats
  • Read-only Salesforce/HubSpot sync on Pro tier
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Upstage Solar Chat

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free hosted chat interface for South Korea's Solar Pro model family, no API key needed to try it
  • Solar Pro 4 (Aug 2026) ships aggressively low promotional API pricing
  • Free access for schools, hospitals and nonprofits to the underlying model for up to a year
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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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Venice AI

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Browser-side conversation storage — Venice's servers never see or keep chat history
  • Requests routed through proxies to decentralized GPU providers, obscuring both identity and full history
  • Runs uncensored open-source models with no content-filter layer, a distinct positioning from mainstream chatbots
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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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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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You.com

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • AI assistant with cited web answers
  • Access to multiple frontier models
  • Research and agent modes
  • Custom sources and workspaces
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Z.ai (GLM Chat)

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free chat on flagship GLM-5.2 with no login required
  • Built-in full-stack app/website builder mode
  • Free GLM-4.5-Flash tier for API prototyping
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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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Zendesk AI

Sales & Customer Intelligence
freemium
  • AI Agents resolve up to claimed 80% of complex service issues across channels
  • Outcome-based pricing for automated resolutions, not just seats
  • Intelligent Triage auto-classifies tickets; Admin Copilot surfaces ops insights
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