Free AI tools: what each one really gives October 2026

Credits, watermarks and cards, read on the pages of 37 AI video tools. Some "free" plans no longer make a single video, and Sora has closed.

Most free, every day

Google Flow

50 credits a day

About 4 short clips at 720p. It may stop from 2 to 5 PM UTC.

Free every week, no card

InVideo AI

Credits every week

They come back every Monday. No card needed.

Talking avatars

Synthesia

10 minutes a month

No card. Free videos have a watermark.

Free image to video

Free credits, watermarks and who may use the clip, read on the pages of 18 tools that turn a photo into a video. Runway, Pika, Luma and Grok list no free way to animate a photo.

Most free, every day

Google Flow

50 credits a day

About 4 clips of 8 seconds from your photo, at 720p. It may stop from 2 to 5 PM UTC.

No watermark

Adobe Firefly

No watermark

Free daily clips of about 5 seconds. Adobe says its models are safe for business.

Credits you can count

PixVerse

30 credits a day

Plus 60 to start. Up to 540p, with a watermark.

Free, and fine for business

InVideo AI

Credits every week

No card. invideo says free videos may be used commercially.

Free AI clip makers

Free minutes, watermarks, quality and how long you keep your clips, read on the pages of 18 tools that cut a long video into Shorts, Reels and TikToks. Some free plans stamp a logo, and some drop your clips after 3 days.

Most free minutes, every month

quso.ai

75 minutes a month

720p, with a watermark, kept 7 days, no card. Only in some countries; in others you buy credit packs.

No watermark, every month

2short.ai

30 minutes a month

1080p, from YouTube links that have captions. Its page also says 15 minutes.

No watermark, most minutes

WayinVideo

100 minutes, once

720p, from a link, no card. The free credits do not come back.

No limits, on your computer

OpenShorts

Free, open source

No watermark and no cap when you run it yourself. Needs Docker, 8 GB of memory or more, and your own AI key.

Get it free

Free faceless video

How many free videos, how long, how sharp and with a mark or not, read on the pages of 18 tools that turn a script or an idea into a video with stock footage, an AI voice and captions. Some make nothing until you pay.

Most free videos a month

Lumen5

5 videos a month

Up to 2 minutes each, 720p, licensed stock, with a Lumen5 outro at the end. No card.

No watermark, free

CapCut

No watermark

Its script to video picks stock footage for your script. Needs a sign-up; it does not say how many videos.

No plan limits

MoneyPrinterTurbo

Open source

Runs on your own computer, with free stock from Pexels and Pixabay and a free AI voice. Needs Python 3.11.

Get it on GitHub

Longest free trial

Pictory

14 days, 15 video minutes

Videos up to 5 minutes at 720p, with a watermark. No card.

Free AI captions

Free minutes, watermarks, animated styles and SRT files, read on the pages of 18 caption and subtitle tools. Some free plans stamp a watermark on every video, and some let you download nothing.

No watermark, no limit

Microsoft Clipchamp

Free, no length limit

Autocaptions free for all users, .srt download, over 100 languages. Needs a Microsoft account.

Animated captions

Descript

60 minutes a month

Animated word-highlight captions on every plan, no card. Free exports carry a watermark, at 720p.

For Reels, on your phone

Edits (Instagram)

Free, no watermark

Instagram's free app. Pick a caption style, then save the video or post it as a reel.

How to add captions

SRT file, monthly

Rev

45 minutes a month

AI captions as SRT, VTT and 12 other formats. English only on the free plan.

Free AI video editors

Watermarks, export quality and free captions, read on the pages of 19 video editors. Many free plans let you edit, then put a logo on the video or stop at 720p.

No watermark, no export limit

Microsoft Clipchamp

Up to 1080p

Export as many videos as you like. AI subtitles are free too. You need a personal Microsoft account.

4K on your phone, no account

Adobe Premiere

4K, no watermark

Unlimited exports, and no account needed to edit. iPhone and Android; auto captions on Android are coming soon.

Get the app

Unlimited free captions

Canva

Unlimited captions

With colors and animations. No watermark if you use only free elements, and exports up to 1080p.

Free clips for Shorts

OpusClip

60 minutes a month

Of long video, cut into short clips with AI captions. Free clips have a watermark, and you have 3 days to export them.

Free screen recorders

Watermarks, time limits, quality and sound, read on the pages of 18 screen recorders. Some are free for good, some stop at 5 minutes, and some stamp every video.

Free, no limits

OBS Studio

No watermark, no time limit

Open source, for Windows, Mac and Linux. Records your screen, webcam, mic and computer sound.

Download free

Already on Windows 11

Snipping Tool

Built in

Press Windows + Shift + R. No account. Saves an MP4 in your Videos folder.

How to record

Already on a Mac

Mac Screenshot app

Built in

Press Shift-Command-5. Saves a .mov file. Your Mac's own sound needs macOS 27 or later.

How to record

In your browser

Microsoft Clipchamp

30 minutes a recording

As many recordings as you like, no watermark, 1080p exports. Needs a Microsoft account.

Free AI images

Daily limits, watermarks and who owns the picture, read on the pages of 24 AI image tools. Some free plans keep your images public, and some keep the rights.

Most free images a day

Bing Image Creator

15 fast a day

Then slower, up to 200 prompts in 24 hours. Free with a Microsoft account.

Google's Nano Banana, free

Google Flow

No credits needed

Nano Banana 2 Lite costs nothing in Flow, and you get 50 credits a day for the rest.

No account at all

Raphael AI

Unlimited images

On its basic model. Free images have a watermark and are for personal use.

No watermark, yours to use

ChatGPT

Free, with limits

No visible watermark, and OpenAI says you own what you make.

Free AI chatbots

Limits, sign-up, images, files and age rules, read on the pages of 19 AI chatbots. All but HuggingChat are free to start, but they differ on privacy and on who may use them.

Most free chats

ChatGPT

Unlimited text chats

Limited images and file uploads too. You can start without an account, but not yet in most of Europe.

No account, more privacy

Duck.ai

No account needed

Free models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral, with a daily limit. DuckDuckGo says your chats do not train AI.

Answers with sources

Perplexity

Practically unlimited

Basic searches with citations, even without an account. Sign in to upload files.

Also inside WhatsApp

Meta AI

Chat and images

Free for everyday use, with a daily limit on images. Not in every country.

Free AI detectors

Word limits, sign-up and warnings, read on the pages of 12 AI detectors. Most check text free, and their own makers say a score can be wrong.

Most text in one free check

Copyleaks

25,000 characters

In one scan, with no login. It does not say how many free scans you get.

Free plan built for education

GPTZero

10,000 words a month

Up to 10,000 characters a scan, with no account needed for that.

Daily scans, no account

Originality.ai

3 scans a day

Up to 2,000 words each. It checks for AI only, not for copying.

Turnitin without a school

Turnitin

Not for individuals

Sold only to schools and organizations. Students: ask your school if it has it.

See how schools get it

Free paraphrasing and grammar

Word limits, sign-up and what you pay for, read on the pages of 16 paraphrasing tools, grammar checkers and AI writers. Every free paraphraser has a limit, but some need no account.

Most words per free paraphrase

Scribbr

125 words at a time

No account, and use it as often as you like. It runs on QuillBot.

Free grammar, no account

QuillBot

Unlimited checks

Its free paraphraser takes 100 words at a time, in 2 of its 9 modes.

Grammar plus free AI prompts

Grammarly

100 AI prompts a month

Spelling and grammar checks, up to 50,000 words a day. Needs a free account.

Free rewrites every day

Wordtune

10 rewrites a day

Plus unlimited spelling and grammar checks. Needs a free account.

Free AI music

Downloads, vocals and who owns the song, read on the pages of 16 AI music tools. Many free plans let you make a song but not keep it.

Free songs you can keep

ElevenMusic

5 downloads a day

Lossless files, 5 new tracks a day. You may use them for business if you credit ElevenMusic.

Most free songs a day

Suno

10 songs a day

With vocals. But the free plan has no monthly downloads, and songs are for personal use.

Free WAV files and stems

Google Flow Music

MP3, WAV, stems

Daily free credits, amount not stated. It used to be Riffusion. Google account, 18+.

Free worldwide, in an app

Gemini

MP3 or video

Songs with or without vocals, on the web and in the app. Google does not say how many.

Free AI voices

Free minutes, downloads and who may use the voice, checked on the sites of 19 AI voice tools. Many free plans let you hear a voice but not keep it, and few allow business use.

No account at all

Speechma

Free MP3s

No sign-up and no limit given, up to 2,000 characters at a time. Speechma says you may use the audio for business.

Free, no limit given

CapCut

MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC

With a free account. For ads or YouTube, pick voices marked Commercial License.

Free every month, with MP3

ElevenLabs

About 10 minutes

Personal use only, and you must credit ElevenLabs when you post.

Clone your voice free

Fish Audio

From one short clip

About 7 minutes a month, MP3 and WAV. Personal use only, and you must credit Fish Audio.

Free AI slides

Downloads, watermarks and limits, read on the pages of 17 AI presentation makers. Some free plans let you make slides but not download them, and none says it works without an account.

Free every month, with download

Slidesgo

3 a month

AI presentations you download as PowerPoint files. Free users must keep one credits slide.

Free to start, with download

Gamma

400 credits, once

Up to 10 slides each time, from text or a PDF. PDF and PPTX downloads carry a small badge.

For teachers

MagicSchool

20 uses a week

Shared by all its teacher tools. Download as PowerPoint or send to Google Slides.

Free in Canva

Canva

20 AI uses a month

Shared by all Canva AI tools, and big presentations use more. Download as PowerPoint or PDF.

Free AI for teachers

What 20 AI tools give teachers for free, read on each company's own pages: which you can use alone, which check that you teach, and which come only with your school's account.

No cap, no school plan

SchoolAI

Uncapped teacher chat

Tools and Assistants are free with no limits too. Students get only 5 Space sessions a year.

US K-12 teachers

ChatGPT for Teachers

Free to June 2028

Unlimited messages with GPT-5.1 Auto. You verify with your school or district email.

See the teacher offer

Free for your students too

Canva for Education

100% free

For K-12 teachers once Canva checks you, and the students you invite. Standard AI tools as much as you like.

See the teacher offer

Free AI grading

CoGrader

150 submissions a month

AI and plagiarism detection are paid. The Individual plan grades 350 a month: $15 a month billed yearly, or $19 monthly.

Free AI courses

Certificates, badges and exams, read on the pages of 20 AI courses. Most are free to learn from. The catch, when there is one, is the certificate.

Free certificate, nontechnical

LinkedIn Learning

Free through 2027

Career Essentials in Generative AI, by Microsoft and LinkedIn. About 4 hours. Pass the final exam to get the certificate.

Free certificate, for coders

Harvard CS50 AI

Free certificate

Needs a year of Python. Score at least 70% on every project. Finish by 30 June 2027.

In Hindi, Arabic and more

IBM SkillsBuild

12 languages

Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals, 10+ hours. You get a free digital badge through Credly, not a certificate.

Quick, with ChatGPT

OpenAI Academy

About 70 minutes

AI Foundations. Pass the test for a free badge. You sign in with your ChatGPT account.

Free Google courses

Which Google certificates cost nothing and which ones you pay for, read on Google's own pages. Many courses are free. Google's Career Certificates are not, but they cost less in India and Pakistan.

Free certificate, for marketing

Google Skillshop

Free, valid 1 year

Google Ads and Google Analytics certifications. You usually need 80% to pass. Works in a phone browser.

Free certificate, for students

Gemini Certified Student

Free, valid 3 years

A multiple choice exam on Gemini's free features, up to 2 hours. One version for ages 13 to 17, one for college students.

See the exam

Free certificate, for AI and code

Kaggle Learn

Free, for each course

Python, machine learning, SQL and AI ethics. A few hours each, in your browser. You can start with no coding at all.

Career Certificate, India and Pakistan

Google Career Certificates

$20 a month

It is $49 a month in the US. Financial aid on Coursera, or a Google scholarship, can make it free.

See the price

Free AI coding

Free limits, trials and student offers, read on the pages of 19 AI coding tools. About half of the free plans give real numbers, and some well-known ones have ended.

Free in your code editor

GitHub Copilot

2,000 completions a month

Plus limited AI credits for chat and agents, reset monthly. No card. Students get unlimited completions.

Most free agent tasks

Jules (Google)

15 tasks a day

Up to 3 at once. Still in beta, and you must be 18 or older.

Build an app from a prompt

Bolt.new

300K tokens a day

Up to 1M tokens a month. Free sites carry Bolt branding.

Free for students

Zed

Pro free for 1 year

For verified university students, with $10 a month in token credits.

Free AI photo editors

Background removal, object erasers and watermarks, read on the pages of 18 AI photo editors. Some that say free are really a trial, and some save a smaller photo.

Background removal, in HD

Clipdrop

20 per 24 hours

Downloaded in HD. Its eraser, Cleanup, also gives 20, but saves at 720 px.

Free eraser on Android

Google Photos

Magic Eraser

Free for all Google Photos users, on phones with 3 GB of RAM and Android 8.0 or newer.

See how it works

No sign-up, no watermark

Fotor

Free forever

Its background remover needs no sign-up, and free exports carry no watermark, except Pro items.

Free on a Windows PC

Microsoft Photos

No limit stated

Generative Erase and background removal run on your own PC, in the Photos app.

See how it works

Free background removers

Free downloads, size, watermark and sign-up, read on the pages of 18 background removers. Many free results are tiny, and remove.bg closes on 1 December.

Free in HD, every day

Clipdrop

20 per 24 hours

Downloaded in HD, says its home page. Uploads up to 5000 × 5000 pixels.

No sign-up, no watermark

Fotor

Free, in HD

No sign-up for the remover, no watermark on free exports. It gives no daily number.

No limit, if small is fine

Removal.ai

Unlimited at 0.25 MP

No account needed. Personal use only. Full size costs credits.

Many at once, free

Pixlr

Batch, saved as a zip

Its free remover takes several images in one go. No account needed.

Free AI upscalers

How many free upscales, how big, and with a watermark or not, read on the pages of 18 AI upscalers and photo enhancers. Some free plans only let you save a small picture.

No limit at all

Upscayl

Unlimited

Free and open source, on your own computer. Up to 16x. Needs a Vulkan graphics card.

Most free upscales online

Clipdrop

20 every 24 hours

At 2x. Its 16x upscaler is for Pro, $15 a month.

No login, no watermark

Pixelcut

3 a day

Up to 8x, files up to 50 MB. It says the free upscaler reaches 4K.

4K with a free account

Adobe Firefly

Up to 4K

2x or 4x from free daily generations, and you may use the results for business.

Free AI headshots

Free downloads, quality, refunds and how long they keep your selfies, read on the pages of 17 AI headshot generators. Some give a real headshot free. Others charge before you see one.

Free HD headshot, no sign-up

HeadshotPro

1 HD headshot

1024 x 1024, made from one selfie. No account, no email, no card. The other styles stay small previews.

Free with a Canva account

Canva

2 free credits

In the ProfilePhoto app, made by another company. More free credits after 24 hours. High-res JPG or PNG.

Free with an Aragon account

Aragon AI

1 free generation

Lower resolution than paid, from a few selfies. No card. Limited per day, and may have a waitlist when busy.

Most free headshots

BetterPic

10 in 4K

No card, but you sign in to get them. Free jobs wait 60 to 90 days, and free photos may be used for marketing.

Free AI note takers

Free minutes, meeting length and history, read on the pages of 19 AI note takers. Most free plans with no meeting limit still cap the AI notes, or show only your last 30 days.

Unlimited, kept forever

Fathom

Unlimited meetings

No length limit, and recordings stay until you delete them. Advanced AI summaries on 5 calls a month.

No bot in your call

Granola

Unlimited, no bot

It listens on your Mac or Windows computer. But the app shows only your last 30 days of notes.

Free for a whole team

Circleback

Unlimited members

And unlimited meetings with AI notes, free since 31 August 2026. You keep 30 days of history.

Already in Zoom

Zoom

3 summaries a month

For meetings you host. Free Zoom meetings stop at 40 minutes.

Free AI website builders

Free plans, ads, domains and real prices, read on the pages of 19 website builders. Most put a free site online on their own address, with their ads or badge. None lets you use your own domain free.

Free AI builder, public site

Wix

Free, no card

Build with AI, then publish on a wixsite.com address. Wix ads show on every page.

Free AI that comes back daily

Lovable

5 credits a day

Up to 30 a month. It builds apps and sites, published free on lovable.app with its badge.

Build it inside ChatGPT

Jimdo

Free, by chat

Jimdo's app in ChatGPT makes a whole site from a conversation. Free sites live on jimdosite.com.

Longest free trial, no card

Squarespace

14 days

No free plan. Pay yearly and your domain is free for the first year.

Start the free trial

Free AI logo makers

Free downloads, watermarks and business rights, read on the pages of 17 AI logo makers. Some let you design a logo free, then charge to download it.

Free SVG, fine for business

Wix Logo Maker

PNG, JPG and SVG

Free to download as often as you like, with a transparent background. Now runs on Wixel. Free account needed.

Never a watermark

Namecheap

PNG and SVG

It says it never adds watermarks. Design with no account; download with a free one.

AI logo from a prompt

Canva

PNG, JPG or PDF

Free with an account and up to 20 AI uses. Pro elements get a watermark, and template logos cannot be trademarks.

Free and yours to own

Shopify Logo Maker

100% free

Shopify says the logo is yours to own. It used to be Hatchful. File types are not listed.

Free resume builders

Free PDFs, watermarks and sign-ups, read on the pages of 19 resume builders. Some "free" builders let you make a resume, but not download it as a PDF.

Free PDF, no watermark

FlowCV

Unlimited PDFs

For one resume, with all templates. No card and no trial period.

No sign-up at all

OpenResume

No account

Your resume stays in your browser. Free and open source, made for US-style resumes.

Every feature free

Reactive Resume

No paid plan

17 templates, PDF and Word downloads, cover letters. Needs a free account.

Match it to a job post

Teal

Unlimited resumes

Free PDFs too, and it shows what your resume is missing for a job. No card.

Free AI for students

Which student offers are really free today, which are only cheaper, which go through your school, and which have ended. Twenty programs, each read on the company's own page.

Students outside the US

Google AI Plus

1 year free

In 140+ markets, not Canada. Redeem by December 31, 2026. A card is needed.

US college students

Google AI Pro

1 year free

Redeem by December 31, 2026. Then $19.99 a month unless you cancel.

For coding

GitHub Copilot Student

Free

Checked through GitHub Education, every month.

No card, free credits

Azure for Students

$100 of credits

For full-time students aged 18 or over.

ChatGPT Plus trial

Not one open to everyone. We read the pricing and help pages of eight AI chatbots to see what is free, what you can try before paying, and which promotions are live right now.

Free plan, no trial needed

ChatGPT

Free plan

Plus costs $20 a month and has no trial open to everyone.

Use the free plan

A paid plan you can try free

Microsoft 365 with Copilot

1 month free

Watch the Premium trial: it turns into $199.99 a year.

Start the free trial

US college students

Google AI Pro

1 free year

Redeem by December 31, 2026. A card is needed.

US college students

ChatGPT Plus

4 free months

Claim by October 31, 2026. A card is needed.