Every paid AI tool, the free thing that replaces it, and where each one really stops. Including the free ones. Especially the free ones.
Tick what you pay for
Tick one and watch.
Tap any row. A free tool with a hidden wall is just a slower bill, so the real limit is written on every replacement too.
The free tier just got unlimited messages, but you are held to their weakest model. So the subscription now buys exactly one thing: a smarter brain.
No signup, no API key, no account. Download it once and it keeps working with the internet switched off.
The trial was removed in April 2023 and never came back. You can browse the gallery for free. You cannot make anything.
Apache 2.0, which means selling what you generate is genuinely permitted rather than merely tolerated.
Free gives you about 10 minutes a month, carries no commercial rights, and requires you to credit ElevenLabs on anything public.
An 82M parameter open voice model that generates faster than real time without a graphics card. Commercial use is explicitly allowed.
The free plan is 125 credits, once, that never renew. Gen-4 costs 12 credits a second. Not per month. That is the whole allowance.
A free open source node canvas that runs video, image, 3D and audio models, with no per render bill attached to any of it.
New accounts get 14 days of Pro. That is what people are actually reviewing. After it ends the free Hobby plan is limited completions and limited premium requests.
Both are open source editor extensions. Point either at a local model through Ollama and the entire loop costs nothing.
Simple models are sold per item and commissioning one is worse. For a prop that is on screen for two seconds, that adds up fast.
Tencent's image to 3D model, open sourced under Apache 2.0. It infers the hidden geometry, builds the mesh and bakes the materials.
Free gives you about ten songs a day with no commercial rights, and subscribing later does not retroactively license the ones you already made. People build a catalogue and find out afterwards.
A music generation model you run yourself, so nothing you make is ever waiting to be reclassified.
150 tokens a day, no rollover, and the part nobody mentions: free plan images are owned by Leonardo and every other user can view, copy and remix your work. The money price is zero. You pay in ownership.
The same open model as row 02, on your own machine, where nothing ever leaves the building.
Almost every transcription service charges a subscription for something that has been open sourced and given away for years.
No upload, no account, no minutes counter. The audio never leaves your machine.
AI avatar video and AI slide decks. Open alternatives exist but they are rough, and pretending otherwise would make everything else on this page worth less.
Synthesia gives you 3 minutes a month with a permanent watermark. HeyGen gives you 3 videos at 720p, also watermarked. Gamma gives you 400 credits that never refill. If you need these properly, you pay. That is the honest answer.
66 credits every day, and they actually reset. There is a watermark and a 5 second cap per clip, but it is a real free tier rather than a sample, and it is the only video tool here that behaves that way.
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I've been building things people pay for since I was 10. Online game servers first, then $250K+ earned in tech. Now I build with AI in public, and every free thing from my reels lands on a page like this.
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