Tool Freebie

The Grok API has no permanent free tier, but xAI data sharing gives up to $150/month in free credits. How it works, pricing, and OpenAI-SDK setup.

Turso free plan verified against its pricing page in August 2026: 5GB storage and 100 databases, not the 9GB many write-ups claim. 500M reads but only 10M writes.

ZeroGPU gives free time-sliced GPU access with no credit card, but the hardware is no longer the A100 people still quote: it is an Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell, 48 GB VRAM at large and 96 GB at xlarge.

The exact MCP tool names for all three: brave_web_search and seven more, tavily-search with hyphens, web_search_exa with the provider last. Plus what each free tier gives you.

Langfuse is the free, open-source LLM observability platform: trace, debug, and evaluate AI apps. Self-host with no caps or use the free Cloud tier.

We measured Groq free TTS at 4.4x realtime with 6 voices and no card, plus two traps: the model needs manual terms acceptance, and its WAV header reports 24 hours for a 10-second clip.

Five free, production-ready AI coding assistants for VS Code and the terminal in 2026 — Cline, Aider, Continue.dev, Codeium, and Tabby. Side-by-side comparison…

Compare Qdrant, Pinecone, and Chroma free tiers for RAG: storage limits, hybrid search, self-host options, and a decision tree to pick the right free vector database.

We timed Groq free Whisper on real speech: 4 minutes of audio transcribed in 1.53 seconds, 160x realtime. Turbo was 21% faster than large-v3 with identical output.

Bolt.new is a free, browser-based AI app builder from StackBlitz. Type a prompt, and Bolt scaffolds the project, runs npm install, boots a dev server,...