290+ genuinely free AI tools across 46 categories – every entry documents the catch

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Salam, everyone 👋

I maintain Awesome Free AI Tools — 290+ tools across 46 categories, all with free tiers you can actually use.

Most "free AI tools" lists are full of 7-day trials and credit-card walls. So I set three rules: no card and no expiring trial, usable for real work, and every entry has to say what the catch is. That last one is really the whole point — each tool reads like:

Name – what it does. | Free: specific limits | Best for: who | Catch: the honest limitation

Free tiers also change constantly, so I keep a Removed section for everything that died and when. Phind shut down, GitHub Models got retired, Cerebras killed its free tier, plus Sora, Codeium and Tabnine. There's a Trending section at the top for whatever shifted most recently.

Covers chatbots, image and video gen, coding, APIs, local LLMs, RAG, agents, OCR and about 35 more.

🔗 https://github.com/mdruhulkuddus/awesome-free-ai-tools
🌐 https://mdruhulkuddus.github.io/awesome-free-ai-tools/

One thing I'm stuck on: re-checking 290 free tiers every quarter by hand isn't sustainable. I was thinking of a lastVerified date per tool so stale entries flag themselves, but that feels like a band-aid. Has anyone solved this properly?

Also happy to hear about tools I've missed 👀