Free AI alternatives, compared

Side-by-side comparisons of verified free AI options: free alternatives to Cursor, ChatGPT, Midjourney, ElevenLabs and Runway, plus free LLM APIs and GPUs.

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Free Cursor Alternatives

Cursor’s Hobby plan against Cline, Devin, Freebuff, and OpenCode Zen.

Free LLM APIs

Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, NVIDIA NIM, Mistral, Cohere, Z.AI, LLM7, Pollinations.

Free ChatGPT Alternatives

ChatGPT Free against Mistral, Venice AI, 1min.AI, and Coze.

Free Midjourney Alternatives

Bing Image Creator, Leonardo.Ai, Recraft, and Venice AI.

Free ElevenLabs Alternatives

ElevenLabs Free against Amazon Polly, Cartesia, Hume AI, and Deepgram.

Free Speech-to-Text APIs

Deepgram, Speechmatics, AssemblyAI, Gladia, Groq, Scaleway, Sarvam AI.

Free Runway Alternatives

Runway Free against Hailuo, Vidu, fal MiniMax, and Leonardo.Ai.

Free GPU Cloud

Kaggle, Hugging Face ZeroGPU, Lightning AI, Paperspace, Thunder Compute, AMD.

Free Cloud Credits

Oracle, Google Cloud, IBM, IONOS, UpCloud, Civo, Akamai, Exoscale, Tencent, Alibaba.

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