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From intelligent chatbots to automatic image, music, and code creation, there are incredibly powerful free tools that can improve productivity, creativity, and learning.
In this article, a list of free AI tools, divided by category and with an explanation of what they do, their strengths, and who they are best suited for.
🧠 Text & Chatbot
1. ChatGPT (Free - GPT-3.5)
ChatGPT is the chatbot developed by OpenAI and available for free with the GPT-3.5 model. It presents itself as a multifunctional virtual assistant capable of generating text, solving problems, writing code, answering questions, translating languages and much more. Its intuitive interface and ability to maintain coherent conversations make it one of the most versatile and accessible AI tools.
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What it does: Generates texts, answers questions, creates code, summarizes documents, translates, writes emails, posts and much more.
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Strengths: Simple interface, natural language understanding, multitasking.
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Ideal for: Students, copywriters, freelancers, those looking for an "all-purpose" tool.
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Link: chat.openai.com
2. Claude AI (Haiku - Free)
Claude AI, developed by Anthropic, stands out for its ability to process long texts while maintaining a high level of coherence and clarity. The free Haiku model is optimized to be fast and lightweight, while still offering advanced contextual understanding. Claude uses an ethical approach called "Constitutional AI" which makes it reliable and secure.
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What it does: Chatbot with very high contextual understanding, excellent for long texts.
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Strengths: Extensive context memory, clear and natural writing.
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Ideal for: Writers, project managers, researchers.
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Link: claude.ai
3. Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search engine that provides clear answers and verified sources. Unlike traditional engines, it responds directly to user queries using up-to-date data and always cites sources, making it ideal for those who need reliable and contextualized searches.
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What it does: AI search engine that responds with verified sources and detailed explanations.
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Strengths: Updated in real time, always cites sources.
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Ideal for: Students, journalists, information professionals.
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Link: perplexity.ai
4. Gemini (Free)
Gemini is Google's new AI assistant, integrated into services like Search, Gmail, Docs, and Android. It uses the Gemini 1.5 model to provide intelligent contextual answers, analyze files, generate content, write code, and act on voice commands. It is one of the most complete alternatives to the OpenAI ecosystem.
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What it does: Advanced AI chatbot integrated into Google services. Writes, summarizes, analyzes and suggests.
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Strengths: Deep integration with the Google ecosystem, multimodal capacity, quick access to documents and files.
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Ideal for: Google users, students, professionals working on Drive and Gmail.
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Link: gemini.google.com
🎨 AI Images (Text-to-Image)
5. Bing Image Creator (DALL E 3)
Bing Image Creator uses OpenAI's powerful DALL E 3 model to generate high-quality images from text inputs. Integrated into Microsoft's Bing search engine, this tool lets you create stunning visuals quickly and easily, and is perfect for professional or personal use.
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What it does: Generates images from text using the DALL E 3 model.
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Strengths: High quality, good prompt understanding, realistic and creative output.
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Ideal for: Designers, content creatorst creator, who works with social media.
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Link: bing.com/images/create
6. Leonardo AI (Free Tier)
Leonardo AI is an advanced image generation tool, designed for professionals and creatives. It offers a feature-rich interface, various style templates, and visual quality that rivals premium solutions like Midjourney. The free version allows a good number of daily generations.
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What it does: Creates high-resolution images in different styles, with advanced editing options.
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Strengths: Variety of templates, creative control, outputs close to Midjourney.
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Ideal for: Digital artists, illustrators, graphic designers.
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Link: leonardo.ai
7. Craiyon (formerly DALL E mini)
Craiyon is one of the simplest platforms for generating images from text. Despite its rougher and less refined aesthetic than its competitors, it remains a useful tool for those looking for quick ideas or creative images in abstract and cartoon style.
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What it does: Generates images from text, often in cartoon or abstract style.
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Strengths: Completely free, easy to use.
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Ideal for: Creatives, students, those looking for fun and immediate results.
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Link: craiyon.com
8. Sora by OpenAI
Sora is an advanced AI system for image and video generation, currently in the rollout phase. It allows you to create lifelike videos from text descriptions, unifying text, motion and sound into a coherent audiovisual narrative. Although it is not yet open to everyone, its power already makes it relevant in the panorama of free AI tools and places it on the border between images, animation and visual storytelling.
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What it does: Generates video from text, combining images, movement and sound.
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Strengths: Very realistic results, revolutionizes visual storytelling.
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Ideal for: Filmmakers, creative agencies, content creators.
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Link: openai.com/sora
💻 Code & Programming
9. Replit Ghostwriter (Free Tier)
An AI assistant integrated into the Replit development environment. It suggests code, fixes errors, explains functions and helps you create applications directly from your browser.
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What it does: Suggests, fixes and explains code in real time.
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Strengths: Development environment included, multi-language support.
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Ideal for: Beginner programmers, students, those who want to learn.
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Link: replit.com
10. Codeium (Free)
A free extension for editors like VS Code that works as an alternative to Copilot. It suggests code based on context and supports multiple languages.
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What it does: Autocomplete and code generation.
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Strengths: Fast, compatible with modern development environments.
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Who it's for: Freelance devs, computer science students, tech professionals.
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Links: codeium.com
11. Kite (Free)
Kite is an AI coding assistant for Python (and other beta languages), designed to speed up your coding and aid in debugging. It provides real-time suggestions and contextual documentation.
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What it does: Code suggestions, smart completion, documentation support.
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Strengths: Great for Python, easy setup.
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Who it's for: Python programmers, students, those working in Jupyter or VS Code.
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Links: kite.com
12. Tabnine (Free Plan)
Tabnine is an AI code assistant that provides predictive code completion suggestions in multiple languages. It supports environments like IntelliJ, VS Code, and more.
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What it does: Real-time predictive code completion.
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Strengths: Multi-language support, local data security.
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For whom: Experienced developers, teams looking for a lightweight alternative to Copilot.
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Link: tabnine.com
13. GitHub Copilot (Free Tier)
GitHub Copilot is an AI programming assistant developed by GitHub and OpenAI. The Copilot Free tier offers 2,000 code suggestions and 50 AI chat interactions per month. Compatible with VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains and other IDEs.
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What it does: Suggests code, generates functions, explains syntax, helps with testing and debugging.
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Strengths: Powerful contextual completion, supports many languages, IDE integration.
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Who it's for: Programmers of all levels, students, professionals who use GitHub.
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Links: github.com/features/copilot
🎧 Audio & Music
14. Sunō AI (Free Tier)
Sunō AI is one of the most advanced tools for generating music from text. It allows you to create complete songs, with voice, melody and instrumental base, simply starting from a description. The quality is surprisingly professional, so much so that it is also used by artists and content creators.
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What it does: Generates entire songs (text, voice, music) starting from a text prompt.
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Strengths: High audio quality, ability to choose musical styles and virtual singers.
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Ideal for: Musicians, content creators, advertisers.
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Link: suno.ai
15. Voicemod Text to Song
Voicemod offers a fun and accessible song generator, where you can write a text and listen to it sung by an artificial voice. More geared towards entertainment than serious music production, it is perfect for memes, viral videos and social content.
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What it does: Creates short songs from text, with different voices and vocal styles.
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Strengths: Very simple, immediate, suitable for recreational use.
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Ideal for: Tiktokers, streamers, those who create light content.
16. Riffusion (Free)
Riffusion uses visual generation to create short musical loops. By translating text into spectrograms that are then “played,” it creates original, often experimental results. It is great for those looking for musical inspiration or creative sound design.
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What it does: Generates music from text in the form of sound loops and spectrograms.
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Strengths: Creativity, unique method, interactive interface.
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Ideal for: Sound designers, musical experimenters, the curious.
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Link: riffusion.com
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