Free infrastructure to start building with AI.
Free-tier limits for AI coding tools, app builders, hosting, databases, add-on services and open-source tools, checked against each service's official page. Limits change often, so check the service's pricing page before relying on them.
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AI coding
Need a free model API: Gemini API or OpenRouter. Want an in-editor assistant: Copilot Free, Cursor, Zed or Cline.
OpenCode
Limited time- A few models are free inside OpenCode
- Free for a limited time
Heads-up No request cap published; some models may use your data
Cline
Tool is free- Open-source extension, free for individuals
- Bring your own API key
Heads-up Models are still billed by your API provider
GitHub Copilot Free
Free plan- 2,000 code completions/month
- Chat on GitHub.com and GitHub Mobile
- Auto model selection only
Heads-up Individuals without Copilot through an organization only
Gemini API
Free plan- Many Gemini models free via Google AI Studio
- Includes Gemini 2.5 Pro and the Flash models
Heads-up Input and output may be used to improve Google products
OpenRouter
Free plan- Models ending in :free
- 20 requests/minute
- 50 requests/day, 1,000 once you have bought 10 credits
Heads-up A negative balance can cause errors even on free models
Cursor
Free plan- Free plan, $0
- Limited agent requests
Heads-up Third-party models are not included
Zed
Tool is free- Free editor
- Unlimited with your own API keys or external agents (Claude, Codex CLI…)
Heads-up Zed-hosted models are Pro only
App builders
Build an app from a prompt. Bolt meters tokens, Lovable and Base44 meter credits, v0 caps at 7 messages a day.
Lovable
Free plan- 5 build credits a day, 30 a month at most
- 20 Cloud credits/month
- 4 credits for AI features in your app
Heads-up The pricing page does not state project or custom-domain limits
Bolt
Free plan- 1M tokens/month, 300K/day at most
- Hosting and unlimited databases included
- No card needed
Heads-up Bolt branding on sites, no custom domains, tokens do not roll over
v0
Free plan- 7 messages per day
- Deploy to Vercel
- GitHub sync
Heads-up The pricing page does not state monthly credits
Base44
Free plan- 25 message credits/month
- 100 integration credits/month
- Up to 5 apps
Heads-up The pricing page does not mention custom domains on Free
Hosting
Static site: Pages or Netlify. Need server-side code: Workers, Deno Deploy or Vercel.
Cloudflare Pages
Free plan- 500 builds/month
- 100 projects
- 20,000 files per site
Heads-up One build at a time
Vercel Hobby
Free plan- 100 GB data transfer/month
- 1M CDN requests/month
- 100 deploys/day
Heads-up Personal, non-commercial use only
GitHub Pages
Free plan- Sites up to 1 GB
- 100 GB bandwidth/month (soft)
Heads-up Not meant for running an online business
Cloudflare Workers
Free plan- 100,000 requests/day
- 100 Workers per account
Heads-up 10 ms CPU per request
Netlify
Free plan- 300 credits/month
- Production deploy: 15 credits
- 1 GB bandwidth: 20 credits
Heads-up Hard limit, credits do not roll over
Deno Deploy
Free plan- 1M requests/month
- 20 GiB egress/month
- 10 apps, 1 GiB KV
Heads-up 15 builds per hour at most
Database
Postgres: Supabase, Neon or Prisma. SQLite: Turso or D1. NoSQL: MongoDB or Firebase. Cache: Upstash.
Supabase
Free plan- 500 MB Postgres per project
- 2 active projects
- 50,000 auth users/month
Heads-up Projects pause after 1 idle week, no backups
Neon
Free plan- Up to 100 projects
- 1 GB Postgres per project
- 100 CU-hours/project/month
Heads-up Compute suspends after 5 idle minutes
Cloudflare D1
Free plan- 5M rows read/day
- 100,000 rows written/day
- 5 GB total storage
Heads-up Limits are daily
Turso
Free plan- 100 databases, 5 GB storage
- 500M rows read/month
- 10M rows written/month
Heads-up Point-in-time restore for 1 day only
MongoDB Atlas
Free plan- 512 MB storage
- Shared RAM and CPU
- Up to 100 operations/second
Heads-up No backups
Upstash Redis
Free plan- 250 MB of data
- 500,000 commands/month
- 10 GB bandwidth/month
Heads-up One free database per account
Prisma Postgres
Free plan- 200,000 operations/month
- 2 GB storage
- Up to 50 databases
Heads-up The pricing page does not say what happens past the limit
Firebase
Free plan- Firestore 1 GiB storage
- 50,000 reads and 20,000 writes per day
- Auth 50,000 users/month
Heads-up The Spark plan has no Cloud Functions
Add-ons
Sign-in: Clerk. Email: Resend. File storage: R2. Error tracking: Sentry.
Cloudflare R2
Free plan- 10 GB storage/month
- 1M Class A and 10M Class B operations/month
- Free egress
Heads-up Standard storage class only
Clerk
Free plan- 50,000 monthly retained users (MRU)
- Custom domain included
- Organizations of up to 20 members
Heads-up No MFA and no SMS
Resend
Free plan- 3,000 emails/month
- 3 custom domains
- 30-day log retention
Heads-up 100 emails per day at most
Sentry
Free plan- 5,000 errors
- 5M spans (tracing)
- 50 session replays
Heads-up 1 user only, 30-day retention
Open source
Install and run it yourself. Your limits are your machine and your API, not a free plan's quota.
Aider
Open source- Pair-program with AI in your terminal
- Apache-2.0 license
Heads-up Latest release is from 2025-08-09
Continue
Open source- Open-source coding agent
- Apache-2.0 license
Heads-up Install and run it yourself
Kilo Code
Open source- Open-source coding agent
- MIT license
Heads-up Install and run it yourself
Goose
Open source- Extensible AI agent: install, run, edit and test with any LLM
- Apache-2.0 license
Heads-up Install it yourself, pick your own model
OpenHands
Open source- AI software-development platform, runs on your machine by default
- MIT license
Heads-up Cloud and Enterprise are separate services
Dyad
Open source- Local app builder, an open-source alternative to v0, Lovable, Replit and Bolt
- Apache-2.0 license
Heads-up The src/pro folder uses the FSL license, the rest is Apache-2.0
PocketBase
Open source- One-file backend: SQLite, realtime, auth, file management, admin UI
- MIT license
Heads-up Pre-v1.0; the GitHub repo is archived and moved to ganigeorgiev.com
Appwrite
Open source- Auth, databases, storage, functions, hosting, realtime
- BSD-3-Clause license
Heads-up Install and run it yourself
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