Developer Tools — Free AI Tools

Coding assistants, AI APIs with free tiers, inference, and frameworks.

Developer Tools

Coding assistants, AI APIs with free tiers, inference, and frameworks.

45 tools
CODING ASSISTANTS17
GitHub Copilot Free
AI pair programmer with code completions and chat
GitHub (Microsoft)
Free: 2,000 completions + 50 chats/month; students & OSS maintainers get Pro free
Continue.devOSS
Open-source AI code assistant — bring your own model (local or cloud)
Continue Dev, Inc.
Free: Fully free; unlimited with local models via Ollama
Cursor
AI-first code editor with intelligent completions and refactoring
Anysphere
Free: Starter plan: basic completions free
Tabnine
AI code completions that never train on your code
Tabnine
Free: Unlimited single-line completions + basic AI chat
Amazon Q Developer
AWS AI assistant for code completion, chat, and security scanning
AWS
Free: Free tier: code completion, chat, security scanning
Gemini Code Assist
Google's Gemini-powered coding assistant for individuals
Google
Free: Free for individuals; daily request limits
AWS Kiro
AWS IDE with spec-driven development — generates requirements, design docs, and task plans before writing code
Amazon Web Services
Free: Free tier with generous usage limits during preview
UTIM AI - Code Without Limits
Autonomous AI coding agent for VS Code that plans architecture, writes production-ready code, and runs tests.
UTIM AI
Free: Access to 10+ free AI models and core features to get started.
Windsurf
AI-native editor with Cascade agent — free tier with GPT-4.1 and Claude access
Codeium
Free: Free tier with GPT-4.1 and Claude access; generous limits
ClineOSS
Autonomous VS Code AI agent — plan & act mode, MCP support
Community OSS
Free: Free extension; BYOK for any LLM provider
v0
Vercel's AI UI generator — React/Tailwind components from prompts
Vercel
Free: Free tier with monthly credits; export unlimited code
Supermaven
1M-token context code completions — fastest inline AI
Supermaven
Free: Free tier unlimited; Pro adds chat and top models
Roo CodeOSS
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code — fork of Cline with multi-provider support
Open-source community
Free: Fully free; works with any LLM including local models
Sourcegraph CodyOSS
AI code assistant with deep codebase search and context understanding
Sourcegraph
Free: Free tier: 500 chats + 1,500 completions/month
Codeium
Free AI code completions — unlimited, fast, 70+ languages
Codeium (Exafunction)
Free: Unlimited completions + chat; no credit card
Trae
ByteDance's free AI IDE — Claude + GPT models at no cost
ByteDance
Free: Free during launch — Claude + GPT models included
Qoder
Alibaba's AI IDE — multi-agent collaboration for full-stack development
Alibaba
Free: Free tier with daily usage limits
APIS & INFERENCE11
Google Gemini API
Most generous free tier — all models including 2.5 Pro/Flash, 1M context
Google
Free: Flash: 250 req/day; Pro: 100 req/day; no credit card
Groq
Ultra-fast inference (300+ tok/sec) — no credit card
Groq, Inc.
Free: ~14,400 req/day; 300+ tok/sec
Mistral AI APIOSS
European AI — 1B free tokens/month, open-weight models
Mistral AI (France)
Free: 1B tokens/month free; Codestral included
OpenRouter
Unified API gateway to 30+ free models
OpenRouter
Free: 30+ free models; OpenAI-compatible
Together AI
200+ open-source models on dedicated clusters
Together AI
Free: Up to $100 free credits
Fireworks AI
Enterprise-grade inference — HIPAA/SOC2
Fireworks AI
Free: Free tier + signup credits
Cloudflare Workers AI
Edge-deployed AI with free vector DB
Cloudflare
Free: 10,000 neurons/day; 5M vectors free
xAI Grok API
Largest sign-up bonus — $25 + $150/mo with data opt-in
xAI
Free: $25 + $150/mo (data sharing opt-in for $150)
Cerebras
Ultra-fast wafer-scale inference — free tier, no card
Cerebras Systems
Free: Unlimited (rate-limited); no credit card
DeepSeek APIOSS
GPT-4 class at $0.27/M tokens
DeepSeek
Free: Unlimited (rate-limited); $0.27/M tokens
AI21
Jamba models — $10 free credits
AI21 Labs
Free: $10 free; 3-month expiry
APP FRAMEWORKS14
Hugging FaceOSS
GitHub of ML — 500K+ models, free Spaces, ZeroGPU
Hugging Face
Free: Free Hub, inference credits, CPU Spaces, H200 ZeroGPU
Vercel AI SDKOSS
TypeScript SDK for AI-powered web apps
Vercel
Free: Fully free TypeScript SDK
GradioOSS
Build ML demos with Python in minutes
Hugging Face
Free: Fully free; HF Spaces hosting
StreamlitOSS
Python scripts → interactive data apps
Snowflake
Free: Free + unlimited public apps
BentoML / OpenLLMOSS
Deploy AI apps at scale
BentoML, Inc.
Free: Free OSS + cloud credits
AgnoOSS
529× faster agents than LangGraph, 50× lower memory
Agno (ex-Phidata)
Free: MIT; plug-and-play storage
Mem0OSS
Persistent AI memory — 26% better accuracy, 91% lower latency
Mem0 AI
Free: Apache 2.0; 21K stars
PydanticAIOSS
Type-safe AI agent framework
Pydantic
Free: MIT license
python-telegram-botOSS
28.7K-star Telegram bot library — built-in scheduler
Community OSS
Free: GPL-3.0; built-in JobQueue
Google Antigravity
Google's AI app builder — generates full-stack apps from natural language prompts with Firebase backend
Google
Free: Free during experimental phase; Firebase free tier
Bolt.new
StackBlitz AI app builder — generates, runs, and deploys full-stack apps entirely in the browser via WebContainers
StackBlitz
Free: Free tier with limited daily generations
Lovable
AI app builder focused on beautiful UI/UX — Supabase integration, GitHub sync, one-click deploy
Lovable
Free: Free tier with limited monthly generations
Noca AI
No-code AI app builder for non-technical users — drag-and-drop with AI logic blocks and API integrations
Noca AI
Free: Free tier with limited projects and AI calls
Context7OSS
MCP server that provides up-to-date library documentation to AI coding assistants — eliminates hallucinated APIs
Upstash
Free: Fully free and open source
AI DEVELOPMENT1
ClawithOSS
An open-source tool for AI development and data processing workflows.
DataElement
Free: Completely free open-source project under Apache license.
AI DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK1
AI Build AIOSS
An open-source framework for building AI tools using AI-assisted development.
AIBuildAI
Free: Completely free open-source framework available on GitHub.
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT1
OpenClawOSS
An open-source development workspace and environment for AI projects.
OpenClaw
Free: Completely free open-source workspace under Apache license.
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