Best free AI tools

One free plan per job: chat assistant, images, voice, writing, meeting notes, slides and coding. Each note names the limit on the free plan, as listed on the vendor's own pages in October 2026.

1. 1

   ChatGPT

   OpenAI's AI chat assistant for text, voice, images, research and coding, on web, desktop and mobile.

   Free plan lists unlimited text chats, subject to abuse guardrails. Uploads, image creation, voice chats, deep research and memory are limited, and no numbers are published.

   • Freemium
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2. 2

   Ideogram

   AI image and video generator with text-in-image tools and an editor, on web and iOS.

   Free gives 30 credits a week, but only with a Google, Apple or Microsoft sign-in. Free images are public, and PNG downloads and upscaling need a paid plan.

   • Freemium
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3. 3

   ElevenLabs

   AI platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, music and conversational agents, with an API.

   Free gives 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of text to speech. Free use is non-commercial and needs attribution to ElevenLabs; commercial rights start on Starter.

   • Freemium
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4. 4

   Grammarly

   AI writing assistant that checks grammar and spelling and suggests rewrites and tone changes.

   Free covers spelling and grammar checks plus 100 AI prompts a month. Full-sentence rewrites, tone adjustment and plagiarism detection need Pro.

   • Freemium
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5. 5

   Fathom

   AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls.

   Free lists unlimited recordings and transcriptions with instant AI summaries for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams. Advanced summaries and Ask Fathom are limited.

   • Freemium
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6. 6

   Gamma

   AI tool that generates presentations, documents and web pages from a prompt or imported content.

   Free starts with 400 credits that do not refresh, up to 10 slides per prompt. PDF and PPTX exports carry a Made with Gamma badge.

   • Freemium
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7. 7

   GitHub Copilot

   GitHub's AI assistant for code completion, chat and agent tasks in editors, the terminal and github.com.

   Copilot Free is $0 with 2,000 inline completions a month and 50 chat requests. It leaves out the cloud agent; students can get Copilot Pro at no cost.

   • Freemium
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