Open data
AI tool pricing and free limits: an open dataset
Free plans and prices change faster than most articles are updated. This is the data behind our tool pages: 522 AI tools, each with its price model, a short summary of the free plan, the provider page we read it from and the date we last checked. It is free to reuse, including commercially, if you credit Genius Forges.
The numbers, as of Oct 29, 2026
- Tools in the dataset
- 522
- With a free plan or free tier
- 322 (62%)
- Paid only
- 200 (38%)
- Price on request
- 0 (0%)
- Read from the provider's own pricing page
- 438 (84%)
- Checked in the last 30 days
- 522 (100%)
- Say whether a card is needed for free use
- 94 (18%)
- Free use with no card, of those
- 90 (96%)
Read these as a snapshot of the tools in our directory, not of the whole market. We add tools we can verify, so the share with a free plan says something about our selection as well as about the tools.
Free access by category
| Category | Tools | Free or freemium | Paid only | Read from provider's page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding & Development | 44 | 35 (80%) | 9 | 41 |
| Image Generation | 41 | 27 (66%) | 14 | 27 |
| Video Generation | 36 | 21 (58%) | 15 | 31 |
| Audio & Voice | 35 | 19 (54%) | 16 | 29 |
| Research & Data | 34 | 29 (85%) | 5 | 26 |
| Chatbots & Assistants | 33 | 31 (94%) | 2 | 28 |
| Productivity & Automation | 33 | 23 (70%) | 10 | 31 |
| AI Agents & Workflows | 29 | 23 (79%) | 6 | 28 |
| Design & UX | 27 | 22 (81%) | 5 | 20 |
| Education & Learning | 26 | 22 (85%) | 4 | 21 |
| Writing & Copywriting | 25 | 15 (60%) | 10 | 22 |
| Customer Support | 20 | 4 (20%) | 16 | 16 |
| Sales & CRM | 20 | 6 (30%) | 14 | 18 |
| HR & Recruitment | 19 | 8 (42%) | 11 | 16 |
| No-Code / Low-Code | 17 | 15 (88%) | 2 | 14 |
| SEO & Content | 17 | 2 (12%) | 15 | 17 |
| Marketing & Ads | 16 | 3 (19%) | 13 | 11 |
| Social Media | 16 | 2 (13%) | 14 | 15 |
| Finance & Accounting | 15 | 2 (13%) | 13 | 10 |
| Presentations & Slides | 15 | 10 (67%) | 5 | 13 |
| Voice Agents & AI Receptionists | 2 | 1 (50%) | 1 | 2 |
| AI Infrastructure & Developer APIs | 1 | 1 (100%) | 0 | 1 |
| E-commerce & Product Photography | 1 | 1 (100%) | 0 | 1 |
What a row looks like
Activepieces · Freemium · checked 2026-10-06
Free includes 1,000 credits/month without a card. Paid plans expand capacity; the open core and enterprise components have different terms.
AdCreative.ai · Paid · checked 2026-10-06
Starter, Professional, and Ultimate are paid plans with download-credit and brand limits. A seven-day trial is offered; generated-ad performance is not guaranteed.
Adobe Firefly · Freemium · checked 2026-10-06
Free access has generation limits. Paid plans expand standard and premium usage; some video and audio operations consume credits.
Adobe Podcast · Freemium · checked 2026-10-11
Free and Premium tool access differ; verify current upload and daily-duration limits on the plans page.
AdRoll · Paid · checked 2026-10-15
AdRoll provides paid media through self-service and managed packages, with some capabilities or services as add-ons. No platform fee on a particular offering does not mean advertising is free. Confirm media spend, minimum commitments, attribution and managed-service conditions before activation.
The columns
- slug
- Short name of the tool on geniusforges.com.
- name
- Product name.
- page_url
- Our page for the tool, with plans, free limits and alternatives.
- category
- Main category in our directory.
- price_model
- Free, Freemium (free tier plus paid plans), Paid, or Contact (price on request).
- free_limits
- A short plain-English summary of the free plan or trial, as read on the provider's pages on the last_checked date. May be empty.
- pricing_url
- The provider page we read the prices and limits from.
- last_checked
- Date (YYYY-MM-DD) the provider's pages were last read for this row. Empty if unknown.
- pricing_verified
- true if the price information was read from the provider's own pricing page; false if that page could not be read or confirmed.
- no_signup
- yes / no / unknown: usable without creating an account.
- no_card_required
- yes / no / unknown: free use needs no payment card.
- free_trial
- yes / no / unknown: a free trial or free tier is offered.
- open_source
- yes / no / unknown.
- platforms
- Platforms listed on the provider's site, separated by "; ".
How it is made, and what it cannot tell you
- Each row is read from the provider's own pricing, help or terms pages and dated. Where a provider's pages disagree with each other we say so instead of choosing one.
- We do not check every tool every month. The
last_checkeddate is per row; rows withpricing_verifiedfalse could not be read or confirmed on the provider's pricing page. Recent changes are listed on our plan changes page. - Prices and limits change without notice and differ by country and account. Use the data to find out where to look, and confirm on the provider's page before you pay.
- We do not test the products. See our editorial policy.
Licence and how to credit
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You may copy, share and build on it, including commercially, if you give credit and link back. Suggested credit:
Genius Forges, “AI tool pricing and free limits”, Oct 29, 2026. https://geniusforges.com/ai-tools/data
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