By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories
Built for this. Sits inside Gmail, Docs and Drive, so it already has your context. Very large context windows and a generous free tier.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with generous limits
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%
Watch out: Which underlying model you get varies by tier, and quality varies with it. Plus and Pro were both showing introductory offers when checked — a fraction of the price for the first three months, or a discount on the first year — so the number on the page is not the standing price, and the rows here quote the standing one.
By IdeogramToronto, Canada1 product across 1 category
Built for this. The one that renders readable text inside an image, which almost nothing else does reliably. That makes it the choice for anything with words in it.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily generation allowance
Month to month
$20/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$15/mo
$180 a year, Plus plan −25%
Watch out: Narrower than the general generators once you move past typography. Its pricing page has refused or 404ed on three separate runs.
All plans (5)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier with a daily generation allowance
Plus
$20/mo · $15/mo yearly
1,000 credits a month, private generation, unlimited slow credits, priority top-ups at $4
Pro
$60/mo · $42/mo yearly
3,500 credits a month, batch generation, quality export
Team
$30/mo · $20/mo yearly
1,500 credits a user a month, central billing
Enterprise
Custom
private custom models and API volume discounts. API usage is priced separately
By CanvaSydney, Australia2 products across 2 categories
Built for this. Fine-grained control over style and consistency across a set, with a generous daily free allowance to work through.
Free plan
Yes
150 fast tokens a day
Month to month
$12/mo
Essential
Billed yearly
$10/mo
Essential plan −17%
Watch out: Owned by Canva since July 2024, so its future is tied to a design suite rather than to itself. Its pricing page refused automated reading three times.
All plans (6)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free plan, 150 fast tokens a day
Essential
$12/mo · $10/mo yearly
8,500 fast tokens a month
Premium
$30/mo · $24/mo yearly
25,000 fast tokens a month
Ultimate
$60/mo · $48/mo yearly
60,000 fast tokens a month
Team Starter
$24/mo
25,000 fast tokens a seat plus 75,000 shared
Team Growth
$48/mo
60,000 fast tokens a seat plus 180,000 shared. Custom team plans and an API tier are priced separately
By MagnificMalaga, Spain1 product across 1 category
Built for this. The upscaler that adds detail rather than smoothing it, and the one people use on a render that is right but too small.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a small daily credit allowance, which upscaling exhausts quickly
Month to month
$20/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$14.50/mo
Premium plan −28%
Watch out: Adding detail means inventing it, so faces and text change. One subscription now covers generation and upscaling from a shared credit balance that upscaling drains fast.
All plans (6)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier with a small daily credit allowance, which upscaling exhausts quickly
Premium
$20/mo · $14.50/mo yearly
20,000 credits a month (240,000 a year with rollover on annual), about 133 images or 21 videos a month, Spaces and 250M stock assets
Premium+
$45/mo · $33.75/mo yearly
unlimited generations, 45,000 credits a month (600,000 a year on annual), about 300 images or 47 videos a month
Pro
$110/mo · $82.50/mo yearly
112,500 credits a month (1.5M a year on annual), with a 300,000-credit option that adds Nano Banana Pro
Business
$69/mo · $55/mo yearly
90,000 credits a month shared across the team (1.08M a year on annual), no training on your data
By QuoraMountain View, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. One subscription across most of the major models, so you can put the same question to several and compare rather than committing to one lab.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily points allowance
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Subscription
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Points, not messages, and different models burn them at wildly different rates. Heavy use of a frontier model empties an allowance faster than the plan name suggests.
All plans (2)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier with a daily points allowance
Subscription
$4.99/mo
annual billing is ten times the monthly rate, from $49.99 to $2,499.99 a year
By You.comPalo Alto, United States1 product across 2 categories
Built for this. Answers a question from one live search pass and lists the pages it used beside the answer, so a claim can be checked without leaving it.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier of 100 web search queries a day, no API key required
Month to month
None
Not published
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: The company has moved toward developers: the pricing page now sells APIs by the thousand calls, and the consumer assistant has changed shape several times while that happened. Good for checking a fact, less safe to build a habit on.
All plans (6)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier of 100 web search queries a day, no API key required
Web Search API
$5 per 1,000 calls, 1 to 100 results a call, news included
$100 free credit
Contents API
$1 per 1,000 pages extracted as Markdown or HTML, several URLs a request
$100 free credit
Answer API
$5 per 1,000 calls for a cited, synthesised answer
$100 free credit
Research API
from $12 per 1,000 calls on Lite, rising through Standard, Deep, Exhaustive and Frontier tiers
$100 free credit
Finance Research API
from $110 per 1,000 calls on Deep, with an Exhaustive tier above
By ZapierRemote, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. Connects thousands of apps and now runs agents across them. The integration count is the moat — an agent is only as useful as what it can touch.
Free plan
Yes
Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps
Month to month
$29.99/mo
Professional
Billed yearly
$19.99/mo
Professional plan −33%
Watch out: Free tier caps task volume quickly. Debugging a broken multi-step automation is genuinely tedious.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free forever plan, 100 tasks a month; unlimited Zap workflows, Tables and Forms, two-step Zaps and Zapier Copilot
Professional
$29.99/mo · $19.99/mo yearly
multi-step Zaps, unlimited premium apps, webhooks, AI fields, conditional form logic
Team
$103.50/mo · $69/mo yearly
25 users, shared workflows and app connections, SAML SSO, priority support
Enterprise
Custom
unlimited users, advanced admin and app controls, annual task limits, observability, a technical account manager. Every paid tier is priced from a task volume you choose, so the price rises with the tasks
By StackBlitzSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Describe an app and it builds and runs it in the browser, with the code editable and deployable from there.
Free plan
Yes
300K tokens a day and 1M a month
Month to month
$25/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$18/mo
Pro plan −28%
Watch out: Credits burn quickly on iteration, and a generated app is a prototype until someone reads it. Pro is sold in token tiers from 10M a month up, so its price is the entry rate rather than the bill.
By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories
Strong fit. Best for iterating conversationally — describe a change in words rather than re-prompting from scratch.
Free plan
Yes
Included in the free ChatGPT tier with limited image creation
Month to month
$20/mo
ChatGPT Plus
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Free tier generation limits are tight, and the free tier is ad supported. There is no separate image plan: you pay for ChatGPT Plus or a Business seat.
All plans (3)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Included in the free ChatGPT tier with limited image creation
ChatGPT Plus
$20/mo
higher quality image creation is part of the plan, not sold separately
By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories
Strong fit. Generous free access and good instruction-following for edits to photos you already have.
Free plan
Yes
Included in the free Gemini tier with generous limits
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%
Watch out: Editing precision still trails purpose-built photo tools. There is no separate image plan: more usage comes with a Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra subscription.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Included in the free Gemini tier with generous limits
Google AI Plus
$4.99/mo
2x the usage limits and 400 GB of storage. Image generation is part of the plan, not sold separately
Google AI Pro
$19.99/mo
4x the usage limits, the Pro model and 5 TB of storage
Google AI Ultra
$99.99/mo
5x the Pro limits and 20 TB of storage. Introductory discounts on Plus and Pro were showing as this was checked
By KagiPalo Alto, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Sits on top of a search engine you pay for rather than one funded by advertising, so the results behind an answer are not ranked by who bought them.
Free plan
Yes
Trial tier, 100 searches with the Assistant included, no card needed
Month to month
$5/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$4.50/mo
$54 a year, Starter plan −10%
Watch out: The free tier is a 100-search trial. Beyond that you are buying the search subscription, and the assistant comes with it rather than being sold on its own; prices exclude sales tax.
All plans (8)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Trial tier, 100 searches with the Assistant included, no card needed
Starter
$5/mo · $4.50/mo yearly
300 searches a month and the Assistant in Quick mode
Professional
$10/mo · $9/mo yearly
unlimited searches and a larger Assistant allowance
Ultimate
$25/mo · $22.50/mo yearly
adds Research mode and flagship models
Duo
$14/mo · $12.60/mo yearly
two Professional accounts, each upgradable to Ultimate for $15 more
Family
$20/mo · $18/mo yearly
Professional for up to six people, each upgradable to Ultimate for $15 more
By Pixlr GroupStockholm, Sweden1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. A full photo editor in the browser with no install, now with generation and cleanup alongside the ordinary tools.
Free plan
Yes
Ad-supported
Month to month
$2.49/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$1.99/mo
Plus plan −20%
Watch out: Predates this category and the AI is an addition rather than the foundation. The free tier is ad-supported.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier, ad-supported
Plus
$2.49/mo · $1.99/mo yearly
ad-free, unlimited saves, 80 AI credits a month (960 a year on annual)
Premium
$9.99/mo · $7.99/mo yearly
all image, video and audio models, 4 concurrent generations, 1,000 AI credits a month (12,000 a year on annual), private mode
Ultra
$24.99/mo · $19.99/mo yearly
unlimited fast image generations, 8 concurrent generations, up to 10,000 AI credits a month (120,000 a year), priority queue. The $39.99 and $49.99 figures seen earlier are higher Ultra levels
By PodcastleBerkeley, United States1 product across 2 categories
Strong fit. Records, cleans and edits a podcast in the browser, with transcription and voice tools in the same place.
Free plan
Yes
Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Month to month
$19.99/mo
Essentials
Billed yearly
$11.99/mo
Essentials plan −40%
Watch out: Podcastle has rebranded as Async and now sells a credit-priced creative suite, so the price depends on how many credits you pick. Browser recording is only as good as the connection.
All plans (5)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free sign-up, with a free trial of the paid plans; Podcastle now sells as Async at async.com
Essentials
$19.99/mo · $11.99/mo yearly
450 credits a month at the base level, roughly 61 short videos or 900 images
Pro
$39.99/mo · $23.99/mo yearly
1,200 credits a month at the base level, all video, image and audio models
Teams
$84.99/mo · $49.99/mo yearly
3,000 credits a month per creator at the base level
By Venice AISan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Conversations stay in your browser rather than on its servers, and it runs open-weight models. The default choice if you want an assistant that keeps no history you cannot delete.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily prompt limit
Month to month
$18/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$15/mo
$180 a year, Pro plan −17%
Watch out: Open models trail the frontier ones on hard reasoning. The company also issues a crypto token, which is a business model worth understanding before you depend on it.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier with a daily prompt limit
Pro
$18/mo · $15/mo yearly
all models, unlimited text, 1,000 images a day, $1 in credits a month, API access
Pro+
$68/mo · $61.25/mo yearly
adds $75 in credits a month, 10% credit bonus, video generation and higher API limits
Max
$200/mo · $180/mo yearly
$225 in credits a month, 12.5% credit bonus, highest API limits and priority support
There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 39 rather than one. 21 of them are built for the job they are listed under. Start with a free one.
Which of these are free for beginners?
38 of the 39 have a genuine free plan: Canva Magic Studio, ChatGPT, Claude, Descript, ElevenLabs, Gamma, Gemini, Ideogram, Leonardo.ai, Lovable, Magnific, Notion, Opus Clip, Perplexity, Poe, Replit, Runway, Suno, You.com, Zapier, Bolt.new, Buffer, ChatGPT image generation, Clipdrop, DeepSeek, Gemini image generation, Grok, Kagi Assistant, Krea, Luma AI, Meta AI, Photoroom, Pixlr, Podcastle, Taskade, Venice AI, Character.AI, Grok Imagine. Free means a real free tier, not a trial.
How were these picked for beginners?
Every tool on this site is tagged with who it suits. This page is that filter, nothing more — no tool was added or promoted for being here, and placement is not for sale.
