AI Web Chat (usually free for a while or forever)

• ChatGPT
• Duck.ai by DuckDuckGo free o3-mini and others
• Google Gemini
• Deepseek R1 or V3 chat
• Many different AI models, free credits that reset everyday, some models totally free
• Cerebras - Free chat and API with free tier/limits
• Phind
• Github Marketplace
• Le Chat - Mistral AI
• SambaNova Cloud
• Mercury Coder
• Claude 3.7 Sonnet

My fav API providers

All of these have some free usage, some have unlimited web chat

• OpenRouter (lots of completely free models)
• AIMLAPI.com
• Playground - GroqCloud
• Glama
• Together AI
• Requesty
• Fireworks
• Replicate

Deep Research, AI search & Agents

(make sure to click the button for deep research)

• Perplexity - the "O.G." AI search
• xAI's Grok, free deep research, works suprisingly pretty good, older Grok sucked bigtime
• Gemini Deep Research (make sure to select it)

Coding & Coding Agents

• Cline - Use it with Github Copilot for unlimited Claude Sonnet 3.5 for $10
• Roo Code, fork of Cline, also great! With CoPilot unlimited Claude Sonnet 3.5 for $10
• Google's Firebase Studio - Coding Agent in the browser
• Trae - unlimited free AI agent use
• VS Code Insiders, sometimes offers newer features vs the standard VS Code
• Bolt new - I haven't tried it much since I usually just use Cline for everything
• v0 - haven't used much yet
• Llama Coder - might be outdated, not sure
• GitHub Copilot - can get a lot of value when you use it with Cline & Sonnet 3.5

Art/Video

• Leonardo.ai - realtime drawing, converts painting to AI, really cool
• ChatGPT 4o native image gen, very very good but often overloaded
• Google Imagen 3
• Gemini 2.0 Flash with image creation/editing
• xAI Grok, create/editing images, somewhat uncensored, currently free on the web
• PiAPI

Other or multiple categories, variety, collections of links

• A huge list of links I found for free/cheap AI resources!
• Nvidia resources - Free API keys, free chat, art, speech generation