Free AI tools
81 tools on VibeShelf you can start with for $0: 12 are fully free (often open source), the rest have a free plan. Free plans change often, so check each tool's pricing page.
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Free coding tools (11)
Cursor
AI-first code editor with agentic edits, tab completion and codebase chat.
Free plan + paidGitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer for code completion, chat and agent mode in your IDE.
Free plan + paidDevin Desktop
Formerly Windsurf: AI IDE with an agent command center for managing local and cloud coding agents.
Free plan + paidZed
High-performance code editor with built-in AI assistance.
Free plan + paidCline
Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code.
FreeAider
Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal.
FreeGemini CLI
Google's open-source AI agent for the terminal.
FreeBeacon
Open-source (MIT), local-first memory layer for coding agents: captures sessions from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode and 20+ harnesses and turns proven fixes into reusable skills via MCP or Agent Skills.
FreeThinkRail
Free, open-source agentic IDE from JetBrains built around the pi coding agent, with isolated git-worktree workspaces and living SPEC.md files.
FreeEntire
Git forge built for coding agents: Trails replace pull requests with agent-scored evals, plus shared agent memory and fast distributed Git hosting.
Free plan + paidParadev
Workspace for running many coding agents in parallel (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and more), each in its own Git worktree, with diff review, scheduled automations, remote hosts and an iPhone app. Formerly Superset.
Free plan + paidFree app builders tools (7)
v0
Vercel's AI app and UI builder that generates React/Next.js.
Free plan + paidLovable
Build full-stack web apps by chatting with AI.
Free plan + paidBolt.new
Prompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack apps in the browser.
Free plan + paidReplit
Browser IDE with Replit Agent that builds and deploys apps.
Free plan + paidAttie
Bluesky's AI site builder for social vibe coding: polls, games, guestbooks and small apps with shareable attie.site links.
Free plan + paidFirebase Studio
Google's AI workspace for prototyping and building full-stack apps.
Free plan + paidBase44
No-code AI app builder with built-in backend.
Free plan + paidFree agents & frameworks tools (7)
Manus
General-purpose AI agent that executes multi-step tasks, now with Team and Enterprise plans.
Free plan + paidCrewAI
Framework and platform for orchestrating multi-agent systems.
Free plan + paidLangChain
Framework for building LLM apps and agents, plus LangGraph and LangSmith.
Free plan + paidAutoGen
Microsoft's open-source framework for multi-agent AI apps.
FreeOpenAI Agents SDK
Lightweight Python SDK for building agentic apps.
FreeBrowser Use
Open-source library that lets AI agents control a web browser.
Free plan + paidHugging Face
Hub for open models, datasets and Spaces demos.
Free plan + paidFree assistants tools (7)
ChatGPT
OpenAI's general AI assistant.
Free plan + paidClaude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and code.
Free plan + paidGemini
Google's AI assistant, now running Gemini 4 Argon for Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Free plan + paidGrok
xAI's AI assistant with real-time X data.
Free plan + paidMicrosoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI assistant across the web and Windows.
Free plan + paidLe Chat
Mistral AI's assistant.
Free plan + paidKimi
Moonshot AI's assistant and open-weight Kimi models, with a 1M-token context, Kimi Code for coding and a pay-as-you-go API.
Free plan + paidFree writing tools (4)
Free image & design tools (6)
Ideogram
AI image generator known for accurate text in images.
Free plan + paidLeonardo.Ai
AI image and video generation for creators.
Free plan + paidAdobe Firefly
Adobe's generative AI for images, video and design.
Free plan + paidKrea
Real-time AI image and video generation and enhancement.
Free plan + paidRecraft
AI design tool for vector art, icons and brand images.
Free plan + paidCanva
Design platform with Magic Studio AI tools.
Free plan + paidFree video tools (8)
Runway
AI video generation and editing (Gen-4).
Free plan + paidPika
AI video generator and effects.
Free plan + paidLuma Dream Machine
AI video generation from Luma AI.
Free plan + paidHeyGen
AI avatars, video translation and lip-sync.
Free plan + paidDescript
Edit video and podcasts by editing the transcript.
Free plan + paidCapCut
Video editor with AI captions and effects.
Free plan + paidKling AI
Text- and image-to-video generation from Kuaishou.
Free plan + paidHiggsfield
AI creative suite for video, image and voice, with an agent that automates longer video workflows.
Free plan + paidFree voice & audio tools (5)
ElevenLabs
Realistic AI voices, voice cloning and dubbing.
Free plan + paidSuno
Generate full songs with vocals from a prompt.
Free plan + paidUdio
AI music generation.
Free plan + paidOtter.ai
AI meeting notes and transcription.
Free plan + paidWispr Flow
Voice dictation that writes cleanly in any app.
Free plan + paidFree research tools (5)
Perplexity
AI answer engine with cited sources.
Free plan + paidGemini Notebook
Formerly NotebookLM: source-grounded research notebooks that answer from your documents and can run code.
FreeElicit
AI research assistant for academic papers.
Free plan + paidConsensus
AI search engine for scientific research.
Free plan + paidExa
Search API built for AI apps and agents.
Free plan + paidFree productivity tools (4)
Free automation tools (5)
Zapier
No-code automation with AI agents and workflows.
Free plan + paidMake
Visual automation platform with AI agents.
Free plan + paidn8n
Fair-code workflow automation with AI nodes.
Free plan + paidLindy
Build AI agents that automate business tasks.
Free plan + paidRelevance AI
Build and deploy AI agent teams.
Free plan + paidFree builder infra tools (12)
OpenRouter
One API for hundreds of LLMs.
Free plan + paidVercel AI SDK
TypeScript toolkit for building AI apps.
FreeSupabase
Postgres backend with auth, storage and vector search.
Free plan + paidOllama
Run open LLMs locally.
FreeLM Studio
Desktop app to run local LLMs.
FreePinecone
Managed vector database.
Free plan + paidModal
Serverless GPUs and compute for AI.
Free plan + paidGroq
Fast LLM inference on LPUs.
Free plan + paidFirecrawl
Turn websites into LLM-ready data.
Free plan + paidReflection
Open-weight Beam model (Apache 2.0) for coding, reasoning and long-running agents, via API or self-hosted.
Free plan + paidDeepSeek
Open-weight V4.1 models with a low-cost OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API, plus web Search and Fetch APIs for agents.
Free plan + paidFlint
Recursive's free open-weight (Apache 2.0) coding model for local agentic coding: 40B mixture-of-experts with 2.5B active, runs on a laptop via llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio or Recursive's rec engine.
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