Infrastructure — Free AI Tools

75+ free GPU hrs/week, TPU access, vector databases.

• Google Colab — Free T4/K80 GPU — 12-hour sessions, 15GB Drive
• Kaggle Notebooks — 30 hrs/week P100 + free TPU v3-8 — no credit card
• Lightning AI — ~35 hrs/month T4 + 24/7 CPU studio + 100GB storage
• Modal — Serverless GPU — $30/month ongoing credits, T4–H100
• HF ZeroGPU — Free H200 (70GB VRAM) dynamic allocation — $10M commitment
• AWS SageMaker Studio Lab — Free T4 GPU, 4hrs/session, 15GB storage — no AWS account needed
• Azure for Students — $100 free credits/year — no credit card, renewable annually
• Google TPU Research Cloud — 1,000+ TPUs free for researchers who publish findings
• ChromaDB — Simplest vector DB — in-process, zero setup, data stays local
• Pinecone — Managed vector DB — SOC 2/HIPAA
• Qdrant — Rust-based high-performance vector search
• Milvus — Billion-scale + GPU acceleration — 25K+ stars
• MCP Registry — Official Model Context Protocol server registry — discover and install MCP servers for any tool or data source
• Upstash — Serverless Redis + Kafka + QStash — per-request pricing, generous free tier, ideal for AI agent state and queues
• Graviton — Run 500B+ parameter LLMs locally on consumer hardware with streaming quantization.
• RunPod — Serverless GPU rental — $10 free credits, per-second billing
• Lambda Labs — Cheapest H100 rentals — $2.49/hr, no long-term commitment
• CoreWeave — GPU cloud built for AI — NVIDIA's preferred cloud partner