Free plans compared
What the free plan of every AI tool we review actually includes: whether one exists, whether you can use the output commercially, watermarks, downloads and limits.
32 of 37 tools have a free plan, and 3 allow commercial use on it. Last checked .
Free plans change often. Each row comes from our review of that tool, so open the review for details and confirm on the tool's own website before you rely on a free plan. "Not applicable" means the question doesn't apply to that kind of tool.
🍎 AI Tools for Teachers
| Tool | Free plan | Commercial use | Watermark | Downloads | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brisk Teaching | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | 20+ tools with daily usage caps and a 14-day Premium trial |
| ChatGPT | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Usage limited and ads reported on lower tiers |
| Curipod | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Limited | Weekly teaching sessions and a 1000 character cap on student responses |
| Diffit | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Limited | Core differentiation with PDF export only and a 60-day Premium trial |
| Khanmigo for Teachers | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | Free teacher tools in most countries with a teacher account |
| MagicSchool AI | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | 80+ teacher tools with no published generation cap |
🎬 AI Video Generators
| Tool | Free plan | Commercial use | Watermark | Downloads | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descript | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Yes | Yes | 60 media minutes a month and 100 one-time AI credits at 720p |
| Fliki | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Yes | Yes | 5 minutes a month at 720p |
| HeyGen | ✅ Yes | ❓ Unclear | Yes | Yes | Up to 3 videos a month at 720p with a non-removable watermark |
| InVideo AI | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Yes | Limited | Small credit allowance and video generation reported as gated on paid plans |
| ngram | ✅ Yes | ❓ Unclear | Yes | Limited | Free credits with public sharing and embeds and MP4 downloads need a paid plan |
| Runway | ✅ Yes | ❓ Unclear | Yes | Yes | 125 one-time credits that never refresh |
| Synthesia | ✅ Yes | ❓ Unclear | Yes | Limited | Small monthly allowance and sources disagree on the size |
| Pictory | ❌ No (trial only) | Not applicable | Yes | Limited | 14-day trial with 3 projects and watermarked 720p exports |
🎙️ AI Voice Generators
| Tool | Free plan | Commercial use | Watermark | Downloads | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Not applicable | Yes | 10000 credits a month about 10 minutes with attribution required |
| Fish Audio | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Not applicable | Yes | About 7 minutes a month and 500 characters per generation |
| Murf | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Not applicable | No | 10 minutes of generation in total |
| Speechify | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Not applicable | Limited | Studio gives 600 credits about 10 minutes and MP3 download needs a paid plan |
| TTSMaker | ✅ Yes | ✅ Allowed | Not applicable | Yes | 20000 characters a week with ads and captchas |
| WellSaid | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Not applicable | Limited | 3 download minutes a month |
✍️ AI Writing Tools
| Tool | Free plan | Commercial use | Watermark | Downloads | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grammarly | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Core checks plus 100 AI prompts a month |
| QuillBot | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Paraphraser capped at 125 words per run and 2 modes |
| Jasper | ❌ No (trial only) | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | 7-day trial of Pro and no permanent free plan |
| Sudowrite | ❌ No (trial only) | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | One-time trial of about 10000 credits with no card |
| Writesonic | ❌ No (trial only) | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Small one-time trial with no card and the size varies by source |
📝 AI Note Takers
| Tool | Free plan | Commercial use | Watermark | Downloads | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fathom | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | Unlimited recording and transcription with advanced AI summaries on 5 calls a month |
| Fireflies.ai | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | Unlimited transcription with auto-join and about 400 minutes of team storage |
| Granola | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | Unlimited meetings with 30 days of visible history and Slack only |
| MeetGeek | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | 3 hours of transcription a month with unlimited AI summaries |
| Otter.ai | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Yes | 300 minutes a month with 30 minutes per conversation and 3 lifetime imports |
| tl;dv | ✅ Yes | Not applicable | Not applicable | Limited | Unlimited recording with AI notes on 10 meetings and recordings kept up to 3 months |
🎨 AI Image Generators
| Tool | Free plan | Commercial use | Watermark | Downloads | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Firefly | ✅ Yes | ❓ Unclear | Yes | Yes | Free generations with sources split between 25 credits a month and an unpublished daily cap |
| Canva AI | ✅ Yes | ✅ Allowed | No | Yes | Up to 20 shared AI uses a month on the Free plan |
| Ideogram | ✅ Yes | ✅ Allowed | No | Yes | 30 credits a week in a slow queue with public images |
| Leonardo AI | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | No | Yes | 150 tokens a day that reset daily with public images |
| Magnific | ✅ Yes | ❌ Not allowed | Not applicable | Limited | Free account with stock downloads and an AI allowance that sources disagree on |
| Midjourney | ❌ No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | No free plan or trial and the cheapest plan is $10 a month |
Looking for more detail? See our guides to free AI video generators,free AI voice generators andfree AI writing tools, or browse all tools with the free-plan filters.