Tool Freebie

Gemini Live's preview models are the only speech-to-speech API listed as free. OpenAI Realtime has none; Hume gives 5 min/month. Limits and code inside.

Five free PHP hosts still take signups in 2026: InfinityFree, ByetHost, AwardSpace, HelioHost and FreeHostia, compared on limits, cron, SSL and region.

LiveKit Agents (Apache 2.0) vs Pipecat (BSD-2): free tiers, runnable code, and which STT, LLM and TTS you can ship at $0 without a licence problem.

AwardSpace free hosting: 1 GB disk, 5 GB/month, PHP + a 30 MB MySQL database, your own domain and no ads - but no HTTPS and no outbound API calls.

A first-hand JustHost review: cheap NVMe VPS from about $3/mo with ~79 locations and build-your-own configs. Honest pros, the real trade-offs, and who should skip it.

Free PHP 8.3 and MySQL hosting with your own domain, no ads and no credit card. The real limits: 50,000 hits a day, no email, no cron, UK-only servers.

The official repo now maintains 7 MCP servers and archived 13, so most npx commands in listicles are dead. What's actually free, and where $0 stops.

OpenAI Moderation is still free: 5,000 checks/day, text and images. Plus Groq free safeguard models, and why Perspective API shuts down Dec 31, 2026.

Koyeb's free tier is closed to new users after Mistral AI's acquisition. Here's what's still always-on in 2026, with limits from each provider's docs.

Ragas, DeepEval and Promptfoo are all free and open source. Compare what each grades, and how to run every eval at $0 with a local or free-tier judge.