Over the last few days I was collecting free or low cost AI tools that are actually useful if you want to build stuff, not just try random demos.
Most lists I saw were either outdated, full of affiliate links, or just generic tools repeated everywhere, so I tried to make something more practical mainly focused on things developers can actually use.
It includes things like free LLM APIs like OpenRouter Groq Gemini etc, local models like Ollama Qwen Llama, coding tools like Cursor Gemini CLI Qwen Code, RAG stack tools like vector DBs embeddings frameworks, agent workflow tools, speech image video APIs, and also some example stack combinations depending on use case.
Right now its around 550+ tools and models in total.
Still updating it whenever new models or free tiers appear so some info might be outdated already. If there are good tools missing I would really appreciate suggestions, especially newer open weight models or useful infra tools.
Repo link
https://github.com/ShaikhWarsi/free-ai-tools
If you know something useful that should be included just let me know and I will add it.
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