# AI tools for teachers and educators

Free-tier tools for lesson planning, explanation, materials and marking support — nothing here needs a school purchase order to try.

## Stats

- 75 tools listed
- 75 free or freemium
- 25 with no paid plan at all
- 4 sub-categories covered

## FAQ

### What are the best free AI tools for teachers and educators?

Flocci AI Tools lists 75 of them, ordered free tiers first: Apertus Chat (Public AI), Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode, Google LearnLM 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?

25 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Apertus Chat (Public AI), Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode, Google LearnLM and Google Pomelli. The remaining 50 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 teachers and educators chosen?

They are every catalog entry in 4 sub-categories that map to what teachers and educators actually do: plan a lesson, explain a concept ten ways, build classroom materials, draft feedback. Paid-only tools are excluded from this page on purpose. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement anywhere in the ordering.

## Quick picks

### Which Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators work in a browser with no install?

Apertus Chat (Public AI), Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode, Google LearnLM and Google Pomelli all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 61 of the 75 free Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators listed here are browser-based.

### Which Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators let you sign in with Google?

Google AI Mode, Google Pomelli, Google TextFX, K2 Think and Kimi support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 23 of the 75 free Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators on this page.

### Which Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators have a mobile app?

Google AI Mode, Google LearnLM, Jais Chat, K2 Think and Kimi have an iOS or Android app. 42 of the 75 free Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators here can run on your phone.

### Which Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators can you self-host or run offline?

Ming-Image (Ant Group) can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 1 of the 75 free Best AI Tools for Teachers and educators here run offline.

## Tools

- [Apertus Chat (Public AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/apertus-chat-public-ai) — Free — Chat directly on Apertus 1.5, the fully open Swiss model from ETH, EPFL and CSCS (released 2026-07-24)
- [Falcon LLM Chat (TII)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/falcon-llm-chat-tii) — Free — Free public playground for Abu Dhabi TII's open-weight Falcon models
- [Google AI Mode](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-ai-mode) — Free — Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions
- [Google LearnLM](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-learnlm) — Free — Learning-tuned tutoring in Gemini
- [Google Pomelli](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-pomelli) — Free — Scans your website to build a Business DNA brand profile (tone, fonts, palette, imagery)
- [Google TextFX](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-textfx) — Free — Ten AI writing tools for wordplay, similes, chains and rhymes
- [HuggingChat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/huggingchat) — Free — Completely free and open-source
- [Jais Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/jais-chat) — Free — Bilingual Arabic/English chatbot built on Jais 30B/70B, the leading Arabic-trained LLM family
- [K2 Think](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/k2-think) — Free — MBZUAI/G42 chat app for the open Apache-2.0 K2 Think V2 reasoning model, served on Cerebras
- [Kimi](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/kimi) — Free — Free access to Moonshot's Kimi K3 and K2-series agentic models
- [Meta AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/meta-ai) — Free — Free assistant now powered by Meta's Muse Spark models
- [Penpot](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/penpot) — Free — Open-source (MPL-2.0) browser design and prototyping tool with real-time collaboration
- [Pi (Inflection AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/pi-inflection-ai) — Free — Fully free personal-AI chatbot with no subscription tier at all — unlimited conversations, no paywall
- [Presenton](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/presenton) — Free — Open-source (Apache-2.0) AI presentation generator with desktop app and Docker deployment
- [Qwen Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/qwen-chat) — Free — Free access to Alibaba's latest Qwen3.x models, including the Max tier
- [Sakana Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/sakana-chat) — Free — Free general-public chat service from Sakana AI, built on its own Namazu model
- [Xiaomi MiMo Studio](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/xiaomi-mimo-studio) — Free — Xiaomi's web chat for its open-source MiMo MoE models (MIT license) with classic, deep-reasoning and web-search modes
- [Alibaba Quark AI Assistant](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/alibaba-quark-ai-assistant) — Free — 200M+ existing users of Quark's browser/search app now get a free Qwen3-powered chat assistant
- [Amazon Nova](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/amazon-nova) — Free — Amazon's web playground to chat with Nova models (Nova 2 Lite and others) with a model dropdown
- [Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/baichuan-bai-xiao-ying) — Free — Free consumer assistant from Baichuan, built on the Baichuan 4 base model
- [Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/baidu-ernie-bot-wenxin-yiyan) — Free — Baidu's flagship consumer chatbot built on its Ernie model family
- [LongCat Chat (Meituan)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/longcat-chat-meituan) — Free — Web chat for Meituan's open-source LongCat-Flash models (MIT license, 560B MoE)
- [Ming-Image (Ant Group)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/ming-image-ant-group) — Free — MIT-licensed 6B model that generates UI screens, infographics and posters with readable text
- [Sarvam Indus](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/sarvam-indus) — Free — Free (beta) chat assistant natively handling all 22 official Indian languages plus Hinglish code-switching
- [Snapchat My AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/snapchat-my-ai) — Free — Free chatbot inside Snapchat for everyone since 2023
- [Adobe Express](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/adobe-express) — Freemium — Free web and mobile design app with Firefly-powered generate image, text effects and presentations
- [Canva Magic Studio](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/canva-magic-studio) — Freemium — AI design across the whole Canva suite
- [ChatGPT](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/chatgpt) — Freemium — Free tier on OpenAI's fast GPT-6/GPT-5.x 'Luna' models, with a Think button for harder questions
- [ChatGPT Study Mode](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/chatgpt-study-mode) — Freemium — Socratic step-by-step tutoring mode built into ChatGPT rather than direct answers
- [Claude](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/claude) — Freemium — Free tier on Anthropic's Claude 5 family (Sonnet-class model by default)
- [DeepSeek](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/deepseek) — Freemium — Free web and app chat on DeepSeek's V4-series models
- [Dola](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/dola) — Freemium — ByteDance's overseas assistant (renamed from Cici in Nov 2025) with free chat, translation, summarization and image generation
- [DuckDuckGo AI Chat (Duck.ai)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/duckduckgo-ai-chat-duck-ai) — Freemium — Anonymous, no-account access to Claude, GPT, Mistral and open models with IP stripped before forwarding
- [Eraser AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/eraser-ai) — Freemium — Generates architecture/system diagrams directly from a text prompt
- [Euria (Infomaniak)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/euria-infomaniak) — Freemium — Swiss-hosted AI assistant from Infomaniak with a free basic version
- [Excalidraw+](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/excalidraw) — Freemium — Core editor is fully free, open-source and runs locally in-browser with no signup
- [Figma (Starter AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/figma-starter-ai) — Freemium — Free Starter plan includes AI credits (150 per day, up to 500 per month per pricing page)
- [Framer AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/framer-ai) — Freemium — Free plan includes 500 AI 'Agent' credits (site localization, content tasks) to try before paying
- [Gamma](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/gamma) — Freemium — Polished decks from a prompt in under a minute
- [Gemini](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/gemini) — Freemium — Free tier on Gemini 3.x Flash models, with limited access to the top Pro model
- [Grammarly](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/grammarly) — Freemium — Grammar, clarity and tone everywhere you type
- [Grok](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/grok) — Freemium — Free, rate-limited access to xAI's latest Grok 4.x models
- [Jenni AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/jenni-ai) — Freemium — AI Autocomplete tuned for academic/essay writing with in-line citations
- [Knowt](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/knowt) — Freemium — Positions as the free Quizlet alternative, with unlimited learn mode/practice tests free
- [LanguageTool](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/languagetool) — Freemium — Grammar/style checking across 30+ languages, strongest multilingual coverage in category
- [Lex](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/lex) — Freemium — Minimalist Google-Docs-style editor built AI-first for long-form writing
- [Microsoft Copilot](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/microsoft-copilot) — Freemium — Free tier mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI models
- [Microsoft Designer](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/microsoft-designer) — Freemium — Free AI image generation (DALL-E/Copilot-powered) bundled into templated social/poster/flyer design
- [MiniMax Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/minimax-chat) — Freemium — Consumer chat surface for MiniMax's M3 model family
- [Mistral Le Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/mistral-le-chat) — Freemium — Free tier from Europe's leading AI lab (Mistral Medium/Large 3-series)
- ... and 25 more — see the full list on the page.
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Source: Flocci AI Tools — https://aitools.flocci.in/best/ai-tools-for-teachers

Facts last verified: October 2026