Google's AI research tool, completely free. Up to 50 sources per notebook, auto-generates podcasts, video overviews, reports. Most underrated free AI tool of 2026.
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The most popular AI image generator, consistently setting quality and aesthetics standards. Limited free trial credits, but output quality is worth paying for. V7 is stunning.
ByteDance's AI video generation tool. The 2.0 full version went viral on Bilibili. 1080p resolution, unlimited free use, no watermark, no queue, supports face upload. One of the best free AI video generators available.
Open-source AI image generation model. Local deployment is completely free with unlimited use. The Qiuye integration pack makes installation easy for beginners. Supports various LoRA models and plugins. Quality and freedom surpass all online paid tools.
Coze
5ByteDance's agent development platform. Create AI agents with no code, publish to WeChat/Feishu/web. Completely free for personal use, unlimited agent creation, ~1000 calls/day.
Groq
5Groq uses custom LPU chips for inference, delivering speeds several times faster than standard GPUs. Free tier offers 1000 requests/day with Llama, Qwen, and other open-source models. If you need real-time response speed for chat or streaming, Groq is currently the fastest free inference service available.
NVIDIA's cloud inference platform, free for developers. Supports 121 models including DeepSeek V4, Llama, Qwen, and more. The largest model selection among free platforms, ideal for developers who need to compare multiple models.
Xiaomi MiMo Code
4.5Xiaomi's AI coding agent forked from OpenCode, open-sourced under MIT. The killer feature is the built-in MiMo Auto channel β zero config, free for 1 month, runs MiMo-V2.5 with 1M token context. Coding performance is on par with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on SWE-Bench, but 40-60% more token-efficient. Highlights: cross-session memory, voice input, auto knowledge distillation. After the free period, you need a Token Plan subscription.
AtomCode
4.5Huawei-backed open-source terminal AI coding assistant, competing with Claude Code. CodingPlan offers free 30-day access to GLM-5.1, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Qwen3 series and more, running on Ascend chips with 5-hour rolling window metering.
Cline
4.5Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI. Supports 200+ models including Claude, GPT, Gemini. Launched ClinePass in June 2026 with curated models like GLM 5.1 - no API key needed. Free to use with your own API key. 63K+ GitHub stars.
GitHub Copilot
4.5Microsoft's AI coding assistant, deeply integrated with VS Code and GitHub. Code completion, Chat, and Agent mode. Free for students and OSS maintainers, $10/month for individuals.
ChatGPT
4.5OpenAI's flagship product, the most widely used AI chatbot globally. Free tier uses GPT-4o mini, Plus users access GPT-4o and o3 reasoning models. Covers chat, image generation, coding, and data analysis.
Claude
4.5By Anthropic, known for safety and long-context processing. Free tier has daily message limits. Pro users access Claude Code for terminal-based coding. Top coding performance across multiple benchmarks.
Kling AI
4Kuaishou's flagship video generation model. Produces some of the most realistic AI videos. Kling 3.0 full version is now available with unlimited free 1080p watermark-free generation via specific channels.
Alibaba's model family, from lightweight 0.5B to flagship 235B. Qwen3 series is the all-rounder among open-source models. Free to use, cheap API. Supports multimodal (text, image, video, code).
Codeium
4Established AI coding assistant supporting 70+ languages with broad IDE plugin coverage. Personal tier is completely free with no usage limits. Enterprise tier adds more features.
Alibaba's AI coding assistant, deeply integrated with VS Code and JetBrains. Uses Qwen models, excellent Chinese coding experience. Free for individuals, enterprise by seat.
Windsurf
4AI coding IDE, formerly Codeium. Free plan at $0/month with Light usage. Cascade feature for multi-file editing. Pro at $20/mo.
Ideogram
4AI image generation tool with best text rendering. By ex-Google Brain team, Ideogram 3.0 released Feb 2026. Free tier ~25 images/day, no watermark.
LiblibAI
4China's largest online Stable Diffusion platform with massive model library. Free daily compute.
OpenAI's latest image generation model. Unlimited free use via free channels. Supports text-to-image, image editing, style transfer. Quality rivals Midjourney.
Agnes AI
4Sapiens AI's (Singapore) full-modality AI platform. Free Access tier: use frontier models for free. Text (Agnes 2.0 Flash, Claw-Eval #9 globally), Image (Agnes Image 2.0 Flash), Video (Agnes Video V2.0). Basic TPS limit, fair-use quota. Paid Token Plan for higher TPS and quotas.
Huawei CLI coding assistant with built-in Zhipu GLM-5.1 model, ready to use after login with no manual selection needed. Completely free with no usage limits, trained on Huawei Ascend chips, coding capability reaches 94.6% of Claude Opus 4.6. Rich theme options with dark/light mode switching, great looking interface.
Open-source tool: "Your browser is the API." CLI + MCP server for AI agents to control Chrome with your login state. No separate API keys needed β reuses your existing browser sessions. Perfect for developers who need AI to automate web tasks.
API aggregation platform β one endpoint to access them all. 27 free models, accessible from China without VPN. Switch between backends by just changing the model name. Free tier: 50 requests/day, unlock 1000/day with $10 top-up.
Cloudflare's edge AI inference service with 10,000 free Neurons/day. Global CDN edge nodes deliver ultra-low latency. Supports LLM, embeddings, image, and audio models. Accessible from China.
Official API platform from Europe's strongest open-source model provider. Free tier supports 1 req/s, 500K tokens/min. Mistral models excel in multilingual and code generation tasks.
MiniMax Hailuo
3.5By MiniMax, natural motion effects that don't look AI-generated. 300 free credits on signup, generous for its category.
By Luma, realistic physics and lighting. 30 free generations per month, enough to try it out.
Runway
3.5Pioneer in AI video generation. Gen-3 Alpha model delivers excellent quality. 125 free credits monthly, enough for a few high-quality short clips. Popular among professional creators.
Pika
3.5Pika excels at creative effects and style transfers. Free credits reset daily, good for short video content and social media material.
DeepSeek
3.5DeepSeek's flagship model, the cost-performance king of Chinese AI. V4 is free to use, API pricing is 1/10th of GPT-4o. Excellent at coding and math, competitive with closed-source models in benchmarks.
Kimi
3.5By Moonshot AI, Kimi K2.6 focuses on coding and agent capabilities. 13-hour non-stop coding, 300 sub-agents in parallel, SWE-Bench Pro score of 58.6. Free tier includes daily credits for chat and light coding tasks.
Tencent Marvis
3.5Operating system-level AI assistant by Tencent's App Store team. Fully launched May 21. 10M free tokens daily, powered by DeepSeek V4 and Hunyuan models. Windows, Mac, Android. Privacy mode (local model, zero upload) and efficiency mode (cloud-edge). 8 built-in agents for file search, system settings, remote control, document processing.
Cursor
3.5AI coding IDE, #1 market share at 31%. Free Hobby plan with no credit card required. Pro at $20/mo supports GPT-4o, Claude and more.
Perplexity
3.5AI search engine: search + read + summarize in one step. Free tier with limited daily Pro searches, unlimited basic search. Pro $20/mo. Best source transparency.
Freebuff
3.5Free AI coding agent that edits code via natural language in terminal. Based on paid Codebuff, ad-supported. Uses DeepSeek V4 Flash by default, supports Kimi K2.6, MiniMax M2.7 and other models.
Google Gemini
3.5Google's AI assistant with Search integration. Free tier introduced weekly percentage caps in May 2026. Paid from $19.99/month.
Tongyi Wanxiang
3.5Alibaba's AI image generation tool. 500 free images/month, diverse styles, strong Chinese prompt understanding.
Jimeng AI
3.5ByteDance's AI creation platform. International version offers larger free quotas with unlimited free image generation. Supports image gen 4.5, video 3.5pro/3.0pro.
Leonardo AI
3.5Popular overseas AI painting platform, 150 free tokens daily (~15 images). Multiple models, Alchemy HD, ControlNet.
Adobe Firefly
3.5Adobe's AI painting tool, safest for commercial use. 25 free credits/month, commercially safe images.
Poe
3.5AI aggregation platform by Quora, one interface for all major models. Free users get daily credits to use GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, Llama. $20/month for more usage and premium models.
Suno
3.5The world's most popular AI music generator. Type a prompt and get a complete song with lyrics, melody, and vocals. Free plan: 50 credits daily (10 songs).
V0.dev
3.5Vercel's AI UI generator. Describe or screenshot a UI and get React component code. Free plan: $5 monthly credits + 7 messages/day.
Gamma
3.5AI-powered presentation generator. Enter a topic and get auto-designed slides with layout, images, and content. Free plan: ~400 credits, no card required.
Grok
3.5xAI's (Elon Musk) large language model. Grok 4.2/4.3 went viral on Bilibili. Free to use with no restrictions on mobile and PC. After removing limits, the experience rivals paid alternatives.
Next-gen AI image generation model. Supports 4K direct output, no watermark, unlimited free use. Available directly via Lovart platform with no queue.
Tabbit
3.5An AI browser built from the ground up by Meituan's Light Years team β not a Chrome extension with a sidebar, but AI woven into every layer. Chat with AI while browsing, referencing pages, screenshots, or local files. Built-in Agent automates repetitive tasks like form filling and data collection. Create custom Skills for your workflows. Standard version is free forever with ~1000 AI chats/week, 50 images, and 10 Agent tasks.
Zhipu's AI coding subscription paired with ZCode IDE. Free models available (GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash). Paid tiers: Lite ~$10/mo, Pro ~$30/mo, Max ~$80/mo (quarterly billing). Compatible with 20+ coding tools. Subscribers get 1.5x quota in ZCode.
Cline.bot API
3.5Cline's official API platform. 3 free models (MiniMax-M3, Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5, DeepSeek-V4-Flash) all with 1M context. OpenAI compatible. $0.5 signup bonus, free models don't consume credits. Google/GitHub login, no credit card.
Alibaba Bailian
3.5Alibaba Cloud's LLM platform (DashScope) with 130+ models via unified API. New users get 1M free tokens per model, covering Qwen series, vision models, Tongyi Wanxiang image generation. All models share one API key, OpenAI compatible.
Tencent Yuanbao
3.5Tencent's AI assistant powered by Hunyuan HY2.0. Deeply integrated with WeChat ecosystem. Supports AI search, document analysis, image understanding and custom agent creation. 128M MAU.
CapCut AI
3.5ByteDance's video editor with AI features including smart subtitles, text-to-video, AI effects, and one-tap editing. Basic editing and common AI features are free.
Feishu Minutes
3.5AI meeting transcription tool in Feishu ecosystem. Auto audio/video transcription, multi-language, smart summary, keyword extraction. 300 free minutes/month for Feishu users.
Dify
3.5Open-source AI app development platform. Visual workflow orchestration, RAG engine, 100+ model integration. Community edition free and self-hostable, cloud free tier: 200 API calls/month.
SiliconFlow
3.5Chinese API aggregation platform unifying open-source models under one interface. Free tier: RPM 500, TPM 2M, supporting DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM and more. Saves the trouble of self-hosting open-source models, with fast domestic access.
GitHub Models
3.5GitHub's free AI model inference service, accessible with just a GitHub account. Supports GPT-4.1, GPT-4o and other OpenAI models for free β the lowest barrier to entry for GPT-series models.
The 'supermarket' of open-source models. Free serverless inference supports a massive selection of models (LLaMA, Mistral, Falcon, etc.). Unparalleled model variety for research and cross-architecture comparison. Free credits allocated monthly by account tier.
Sora
3OpenAI's video generation tool, Sora 2 is back online. Unlimited free 1080p watermark-free generation available through free channels. Quality is top-tier among similar tools.
Baidu's flagship AI assistant, one of the earliest Chinese LLM developers. ERNIE 4.5 has strong capabilities, excelling at deep search and document processing. Free tier is sufficient, deeply integrated with Baidu search.
Doubao
3ByteDance's AI assistant. Basic features are free, but recent controversy over charging has eroded user trust. Free tier still includes AI image generation.
Tencent's AI coding assistant, deeply integrated with Tencent Cloud. Supports code completion, chat, and code review. Free for individuals, enterprise plans available.
Baidu's AI painting platform based on ERNIE model. New user credits, fast generation.
MewXAI
3Chinese AI painting tool focused on anime styles. Free daily credits, great for avatars and wallpapers.
Free AI painting tool, 500 free images daily. Supports SDXL and PXL models, filters and editing.
Microsoft's free AI painting tool powered by DALLΒ·E. 100 free boosted generations daily, login with Microsoft account.
Zhipu AI's image generation model, available directly in ChatGLM. Free daily credits, strong Chinese prompt understanding.
Astron Coding Plan by iFlytek is a monthly AI coding subscription service for developers, integrating Spark X2, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, DeepSeek, Qwen and other popular open-source models. First purchase only Β₯3.9/month with unlimited requests.
Manus AI
3Leading autonomous AI agent that independently browses the web, writes code, conducts research, and builds applications
Google's free AI coding tool. Version 1.5 major upgrade: 60x limit increase, 10x speed boost. Completely free, supports code generation, debugging, refactoring. A free alternative to GitHub Copilot.
Lovart
3AI design platform integrating NanoPro, NanoBanana 2 and other image generation models. No watermark, unlimited free use, 4K direct output. One of the most comprehensive free AI design platforms.
iFlytek's one-stop LLM platform aggregating Spark, DeepSeek, Qwen models. Currently offering free unlimited access to Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B until end of June. Supports API calls via CC Switch for Claude Code, Codex integration.
SenseTime's LLM platform. Token Plan beta is completely free: 1500 calls per 5 hours. Supports native multimodal Flash-Lite (no vision-to-text conversion), U1-Fast, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash. OpenAI SDK compatible, no credit card needed.
Alibaba Cloud's largest open-source AI model community in China with 50K+ models. 2000 free API calls daily, OpenAI SDK compatible. Supports Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Baichuan and more. Requires Alibaba Cloud account binding.
AI API relay platform. $5 credits on registration, 1 month Pro on email verification. Self-developed FRE-5.4/5.5 models. OpenAI and Anthropic API compatible. Alipay/WeChat Pay supported. Referral: both get $10.
Free AI API gateway with 50+ models. One Discord account gets a key for GPT-5, Claude 4.5, DeepSeek R1, Gemini 3.0, Grok 4 and more. OpenAI compatible, no credit card, 30 req/min rate limit, no daily cap.
Quark
3Alibaba's intelligent search + AI assistant, integrated with Qwen 3.7. Multimodal search 38% faster, smart summary accuracy 97.8%. All-in-one search and creation tool.
Tencent's digital human video platform. Supports text-driven digital avatar narration, AI dubbing, and video editing. Free version available with watermark and length limits.
WPS AI
3AI assistant built into WPS Office. Smart writing, one-tap PPT generation, spreadsheet analysis, PDF reading. 7-day free trial, basic features free, from 198 CNY/year.
AI features built into Baidu Netdisk. Smart file search, image recognition, document summary, video classification, speech-to-text. 5GB free storage, some AI features free, 105M MAU.
ZenMux
3Enterprise LLM aggregation platform with unified API for 200+ models (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, etc.). Intelligent routing automatically selects the best model, with unique AI Model Insurance to eliminate hallucination risk. Compatible with OpenAI/Anthropic/Google protocols.
Cerebras uses custom WSE (Wafer-Scale Engine) for inference, matching Groq's speed. Free tier: 30 RPM, 60K tokens/min. Currently requires joining a waitlist.
Open-source model inference platform offering free inference for Meta-Llama and other popular open-source models. User-friendly interface, great for rapid prototyping.
High-concurrency inference platform with 1 free credit on registration. Known for high throughput and low latency, suitable for production environments needing high concurrency.
Israeli AI company offering Jamba series models. 10 free credits on registration, no credit card required. Jamba models have unique advantages in long-context processing and reasoning.
Cohere
3Enterprise AI platform with 20 RPM free tier. Command models excel in enterprise document processing, RAG, and search scenarios. Ideal for building enterprise AI applications.
French cloud provider's AI inference platform, currently in free beta. 100 RPM, 200K tokens/min β quite generous. European data centers, ideal for GDPR-compliant projects.
InternLM
3InternLM API from Shanghai AI Lab. Free tier: 10 RPM, API key valid for 6 months. InternVL3-78B is a multimodal model with strong image-text understanding. Domestic access, solid academic background.
DupDub
2.5Free watermark-free AI digital human video generator. Supports Chinese. Best free alternative to D-ID. Converts text to videos with realistic faces, perfect for talking-head videos and product introductions.
AI inference endpoints from French cloud veteran OVHcloud. Free tier: 12 RPM with multiple open-source models. European data centers for GDPR compliance.