Top Free AI Tools
Zero budget, maximum power.
Everything here is genuinely usable without paying — either free outright or with a free tier substantial enough to do real work. Ranked by how much you get for nothing.
- Claude: An AI assistant that is great at writing, reading long documents and helping with code. Solthar Score 99/100.
- ChatGPT: The best-known AI assistant. Chat with it to write, answer questions, explain things and help with code. Solthar Score 98/100.
- Cursor: A code editor with AI built in. It suggests and writes code as you work. Solthar Score 97/100.
- ElevenLabs: Turns text into speech that sounds real. It can also copy voices and translate audio into 70+ languages. Solthar Score 96/100.
- Gemini: Google's flagship multimodal assistant with deep Workspace and Search integration. Solthar Score 96/100.
- GitHub Copilot: The autocomplete that started the AI-coding era, now with chat and agents in your IDE. Solthar Score 95/100.
- Runway: Makes and edits videos with AI. Used by film studios, creators and hobbyists. Solthar Score 94/100.
- DeepSeek: Open, remarkably capable reasoning models that upended the cost of frontier AI. Solthar Score 94/100.
- Hugging Face: The open model hub. Hundreds of thousands of models, datasets and demos in one place. Solthar Score 94/100.
- Perplexity: Answer engine that cites its sources. Research anything with real-time knowledge. Solthar Score 93/100.
- Devin Desktop: An AI code editor from Cognition, formerly called Windsurf and Codeium. Run and review coding agents from one place. Solthar Score 93/100.
- NotebookLM: Google's research companion that turns your sources into podcasts, briefs, and mind maps. Solthar Score 92/100.