OpenAI
No sign-up
ChatGPT
Everyday text chats with no fixed message cap (with abuse protection). File uploads, image creation, voice and deep research are limited, with no numbers published.
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AI chatbots
Google
Sign-up optional
Gemini
Standard usage limits refresh every 5 hours up to a weekly cap, with no usage numbers published. Context window of 32k tokens. Deep Research may be unavailable at peak demand.
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Anthropic
Account needed
Claude
A usage limit per session that resets every 5 hours; the exact number isn't published. Pro gives at least 5× more usage. No image generation.
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Microsoft
Account needed
Microsoft Copilot
A limited free version that depends on available capacity, with no numbers published. When you hit the limit, you wait or upgrade.
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Meta
Account needed
Meta AI
A free daily limit that resets, with no numbers published. Meta is testing limits on heavier features.
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xAI
Sign-up optional
Grok
A limited free quota for chat and for voice, each with its own reset. No numbers published.
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DeepSeek
Account needed
DeepSeek
Free to use with no published limits. Two modes, Expert and Instant. There is no paid plan.
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Perplexity AI
Sign-up optional
Perplexity
3 Pro Searches per day and 1 Research per month; file uploads are limited. No image generation or advanced models.
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Mistral AI
Account needed
Mistral Vibe
Messages, web search, images and documents are limited, with no numbers published. Pro gives up to 6× more messages and 40× more images.
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Alibaba
Sign-up optional
Qwen Chat
Free to use with no published limits. There is no paid plan.
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Moonshot AI
No sign-up
Kimi
There is a limit on conversations per period, with no numbers published.
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DuckDuckGo
No sign-up
Duck.ai
Free with a daily limit (no number published) and no account. You pick the model, including Claude Haiku and open models; PDFs up to 15 pages.
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Brave
No sign-up
Ask Brave (Brave Leo)
Free, with availability that depends on load and no numbers published. Ask Brave works in any browser without an account.
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Quora
Account needed
Poe
Free daily points to spend on many bots. The exact number isn't published and may vary by region.
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Character.AI
Account needed
Character.AI
Unlimited messages on every plan. The free plan has ads, a slow mode and few image generations.
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Opera
No sign-up
Opera AI
Free inside the Opera browser. There is no fixed limit, but heavy abuse can block access until the next day.
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Images, music and voice
Microsoft
Account needed
Bing Image Creator
15 fast generations per day, then slower ones; up to 200 requests in 24 hours. Images are kept for up to 90 days.
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Leonardo.ai
Account needed
Leonardo.ai
150 tokens per day for images and video; unused tokens don't roll over.
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Ideogram
Account needed
Ideogram
30 credits per week if you sign in with Google, Apple or Microsoft. Everything you create on the free plan is public.
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Suno
Account needed
Suno
50 credits per day for songs (resets at midnight UTC). No commercial rights on the free plan.
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ElevenLabs
Account needed
ElevenLabs
10,000 credits per month across all products, about 10 minutes of speech. No commercial license; published audio must credit elevenlabs.io.
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Writing, design and slides
Canva
Account needed
Canva
Up to 20 uses per month of Standard or Premium AI tools, reset on the 1st at 00:00 UTC. Ultra tools aren't included.
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Gamma
Account needed
Gamma
400 credits once at sign-up for presentations, docs and sites; they don't refill. Plus 200 for each friend you invite, up to 2,000.
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QuillBot
Sign-up optional
QuillBot
Paraphrasing up to 125 words and summaries up to 1,200 words in 2 modes. The AI chat allows up to 20 requests per day for new users.
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Grammarly
Account needed
Grammarly
100 AI prompts per month, spelling and grammar checks, and the ability to see your writing tone. The page no longer lists a daily limit on advanced suggestions.
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Code and apps
GitHub
Account needed
GitHub Copilot Free
2,000 code completions per month. Chat and agent use free GitHub AI Credits; the amount isn't stated.
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Anysphere
Account needed
Cursor
Limited free use, with no numbers published. Since October 2026 the free tier is part of a shared weekly limit with Grok.
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Lovable
Account needed
Lovable
5 credits per day to build apps, up to 30 per month. Published projects are visible only to people you invite.
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Study and translation
Google
Account needed
Gemini Notebook
Up to 100 notebooks with 50 sources each. Usage refreshes every 5 hours up to a weekly cap, with no numbers published.
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DeepL
Sign-up optional
DeepL
50,000 characters of text per month, 1 document per month (up to 5 MB) and image translation up to 1,500 characters per day.
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