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Aider is a free open-source AI pair programmer for the terminal. It still works, but we checked: last commit May 2026, last release Aug 2025, 1,838 open issues.

We ran four free models in a real agent runtime: the fastest debugger also reported a job done without moving a single file. Which backend to point Cline at, and the model IDs that no longer work.

Together AI new accounts are read-only until you deposit, and the -Free model suffix no longer exists. What we hit when benchmarking, the current per-token pricing, and the card-free alternatives.

Cohere is the most underrated free AI API for RAG developers. A single free trial key — no credit card, no expiry — unlocks Embed v3 (top-of-MTEB...

Free AI video generation finally works in 2026. Kling delivers cinematic image-to-video, Pika nails stylized text-to-video for social, and HeyGen owns...

Free disposable email is a load-bearing tool for modern QA: signup flows, magic links, OTP verification, and AI agents that need to receive mail on the...

Render free tier: 750 instance hours per workspace, unlimited static sites, a 30-day Postgres database and an in-memory Key Value store. No workers, no cron.

PlanetScale killed its free tier in 2024 — and developers have been scrambling for alternatives ever since. Supabase and Neon are the two best free...

CrewAI, AutoGPT, and LangGraph are the three dominant open-source AI agent frameworks in 2026 — all free, all actively maintained, but built on...

Groq, Cerebras, and Google Gemini all offer free AI APIs — but they’re fast in completely different ways. Cerebras hits 2,100 tokens/s on 8B models,...