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Current directory tools with dated pricing snapshots.
Original research · latest source check 2026-09-05
State of AI Tool Pricing 2026
A current, source-led view of how 75 tracked AI tools charge: free-tier availability, paid-plan structure, usage limits, and the date each official pricing page was checked.
55 of 75
73% are labeled with a free tier or free/self-hosted path in the directory.
20
Tools without a free-path label; some use sales-led pricing.
2026-09-05
Newest official-pricing verification date in the dataset.
What this dataset can—and cannot—tell you
Free access is common, but limits are the product. Message caps, credits, minutes, renders, operations, seats, and storage determine whether a nominally free tool fits a real weekly workflow.
Billing units are not directly comparable. A seat, credit, operation, token, minute, or generated second creates different cost risk. Compare the unit against your own task volume before buying annually.
This is a directory snapshot, not the whole AI market. Coverage reflects the tools tracked by AIToolsEssentials. Prices and limits can change after the recorded check date; follow the review's official source before purchase.
Current pricing dataset
| Tool | Category | Access model | Official-pricing snapshot | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Firefly | Creative | Free tier available | Official US monthly pricing lists Firefly Standard at US$9.99 with 2,000 generative credits/month; Firefly Pro at US$19.99 with 4,000 credits/month; Firefly Pro Plus regularly US$49.99 with 10,000 cre | 2026-08-21 |
| Adobe Podcast | Audio & Video | Free tier available | Adobe Podcast's official plans page lists a Free plan and a Premium plan with a 30-day free trial. Free Enhance Speech is audio-only, 30 minutes / 500 MB per file, 1 hour per day. Free Studio allows 3 | 2026-08-26 |
| AIBase | Creative | Free tier available | Official /en/pricing lists Free trial credits, plus monthly Basic $29.9/mo (was $39.9), Pro $49.9/mo (was $69.9), and Ultimate $99.9/mo (was $120) with 800, 1,400, and 2,800 credits per month respecti | 2026-08-28 |
| Airtable AI | Productivity | Paid / sales-led | Free: $0 and 500 AI credits per editor each month. Team: $20/seat/month billed annually or $24 billed monthly, with 15,000 AI credits per billable collaborator each month. Business: $45/seat/month bil | 2026-08-21 |
| AllVideoAI | Video | Free tier available | Free tier plus credit-based plans: Starter $17/month (billed annually, $204/year), Plus $39/month (annual $468), Max $59/month (annual $708), Ultra $159/month (annual $1,908). Promotional countdown ti | 2026-08-23 |
| Bolt.new | Development | Free tier available | Free: $0, public and private projects, 300,000-token daily limit, 1 million tokens/month, 10 MB uploads, Bolt-branded hosting, up to 333,000 web requests, and unlimited databases. Pro: $25/month, no d | 2026-08-21 |
| Browse AI | Automation | Free tier available | Free: $0 forever, unlimited robots, 2 websites, 3 users. Personal: $48/month or $19/month billed annually, 5 websites, 3 users. Professional: $87/month or $69/month billed annually, 10 websites, 10 us | 2026-09-01 |
| Canva AI | Creative | Free tier available | The official US annual pricing view lists Canva Free at US$0, Canva Pro at US$180/year for one person, Canva Business at US$250/year per person, and Enterprise through sales. Canva's AI allowance docu | 2026-08-21 |
| Catch | AI Agents | Free tier available | Official homepage and /security (checked 2026-09-02) advertise one public plan: $99/month, billed monthly, cancel anytime, with a 10-day free trial. catchagent.ai/pricing returned 404. The same homepa | 2026-09-02 |
| ChatGPT | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | OpenAI officially lists ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. Free is $0; paid self-service plans are billed per user per month, while Enterprise pricing is sales-assisted. Exact loca | 2026-08-21 |
| Claude | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | Claude Free is $0. Pro is $17 per month with a $200 annual prepayment or $20 month-to-month. Max starts at $100 per month. Team supports 2–150 users and lists Standard seats at $20 per seat per month | 2026-08-21 |
| CoCounsel Legal | Legal | Paid / sales-led | Thomson Reuters’ official Westlaw plans-and-pricing page lists Westlaw Advantage with CoCounsel Essentials starting at $415.35/month. Broader CoCounsel Legal packages are sales-quoted and vary by juri | 2026-08-26 |
| Copy.ai | Creative | Free tier available | Official pricing page lists Chat at US$29/month or US$24/month billed US$288 annually, with 5 seats and unlimited words and projects in Chat. Growth is US$1,000/month billed annually with 75 seats and | 2026-08-21 |
| Cursor | Development | Free tier available | Cursor Free includes limited agent requests and Composer access. Pro $20/mo, Pro Plus $60/mo, Ultra $200/mo, Teams $40/user/mo, Enterprise custom (cursor.com/pricing, checked 2026-08-25). Cursor Model | 2026-08-25 |
| DeepSeek | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | DeepSeek's official website describes its consumer web chat as free. No official paid consumer or team subscription schedule was located. API access is separately usage-priced, with current model and | 2026-08-21 |
| Descript | Audio & Video | Free tier available | Free $0 includes 1 media hour/month and 100 one-time AI credits. Hobbyist is $24/month or $16/person/month billed annually, with 10 media hours and 400 AI credits/month. Creator is $35/month or $24/pe | 2026-08-21 |
| ElevenLabs | Audio & Video | Free tier available | Monthly Creative plans: Free $0 with 10,000 credits; Starter $6 with 30,000 credits; Creator $22 with 121,000 credits, currently advertised at $11 for the first month; Pro $99 with 600,000 credits; Sc | 2026-08-21 |
| Fathom | Meetings | Free tier available | free: $0; unlimited recordings, transcription, and storage; instant AI summaries; clips, playlists, and search. premium: $20/user/month monthly or $16/user/month billed annually; advanced summaries, A | 2026-08-21 |
| Fireflies.ai | Meetings | Free tier available | free: $0; unlimited transcription and AI summaries; 400 minutes of storage per team; 2-hour recording limit. pro: $18/seat/month monthly or $10/seat/month billed annually; 8,000 storage minutes per se | 2026-08-21 |
| Gamma | Productivity | Free tier available | free: $0; 400 one-time signup credits that do not refill; up to 10 slides per prompt; PDF, PPTX, PNG, and Google Slides export. plus: $9/seat/month equivalent, $108/seat billed annually; 1,000 monthly | 2026-08-21 |
| Gemini | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | For US personal accounts, Gemini Free is $0 per month, Google AI Pro is $19.99 per month, and Google AI Ultra starts at $99.99 per month, with a $199.99 option offering higher limits. For organization | 2026-08-21 |
| GitHub Copilot | Development | Paid / sales-led | Copilot Free is free and limited to 2,000 completions per month, auto model selection, and an unspecified allowance of GitHub AI Credits. Copilot Student is free for verified students. Paid individual | 2026-08-21 |
| Grammarly | Productivity | Free tier available | Free: $0/month and 100 generative-AI prompts per month. Pro: displayed at $12 USD and includes 2,000 AI prompts per member per month, unlimited personalized suggestions, full-sentence rewrites, tone c | 2026-08-21 |
| Grantable | Nonprofit | Free tier available | Grantable's official pricing page lists Free at $0 with 5 chat messages/day and file imports up to 10 MB; Starter at $50/month; and Pro at $150/month. Qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations with annual op | 2026-08-26 |
| Grok | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | Grok Free is $0. SuperGrok is $30/month, SuperGrok Plus is $100/month, with higher tiers above. API (docs.x.ai, checked 2026-08-25): Grok 4.6 $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens (500K context); p | 2026-08-25 |
| Harvey | Legal | Paid / sales-led | Harvey’s official homepage does not publish a self-serve consumer price list. The primary CTA is Request a Demo / contact sales. No official USD seat price is reported. | 2026-08-26 |
| Heidi Health | Healthcare | Free tier available | Heidi's official pricing page lists Free, Clinician, and Teams plans and a feature comparison covering transcription, templates, Ask Heidi, evidence features, team controls, EHR integration, SSO, and | 2026-08-26 |
| Hermes Agent | AI Agents | Paid / sales-led | Open-source Hermes Agent software is available under the MIT license. Model access, Nous Portal or third-party provider usage, hosting, and infrastructure are separate cost considerations; no single u | 2026-08-26 |
| HeyGen | Video | Free tier available | Free $0 with up to 3 videos/month. Creator is $29/month or $24/month billed annually with 600 credits/month. Pro starts at $49/month with 1,000 credits/month; official pricing says Pro tiers scale to | 2026-08-21 |
| HtmlSlides | Productivity | Free tier available | Free: $0, 10 templates, 50MB storage. Pro: $9.90/month (launch offer), all official templates free, 1GB storage, text/speaker-notes editing, Speaker Mode, video export. Credit packs: $1/10 credits, $5 | 2026-08-27 |
| Ideogram | Creative | Paid / sales-led | Ideogram official pricing lists Plus at $15/month billed annually with 1,000 priority credits/mo; Pro at $42/month billed annually with 3,500 priority credits/mo; Team at $20/user/month billed annually with 1,500 priority credits/user/mo; Enterprise custom. Free plan includes 10 slow credits/week. Priority credits expire monthly; top-up credits carry over. No free trial for paid plans. Commercial use allowed. ideogram.ai/pricing checked 2026-08-28. | 2026-08-28 |
| Instrumentl | Nonprofit | Free tier available | Instrumentl's official pricing page lists Discover at $299/month paid upfront annually or $349 paid monthly (up to 3 users); Pre-Award at $499/month annually or $579 monthly (up to 5 users); Full Life | 2026-08-26 |
| Jasper | Creative | Paid / sales-led | Pro: $69/month per seat when billed monthly or $59/month per seat when billed yearly, with a seven-day free trial and one included seat. Pro includes two Brand Voices, five Knowledge assets, and three | 2026-08-21 |
| Khanmigo | Education | Free tier available | Khanmigo's official teacher page states the product is completely free for teachers. The official pricing page lists $4/month or $44/year for learners and for families, with sales tax not included, an | 2026-08-26 |
| Landlord Studio | Property Management | Free tier available | Landlord Studio's official pricing page lists Go as Free for up to 3 units; Pro at $12.00/month or $144 annually; and Pro Plus at $28.00/month or $366 annually. Official FAQ copy says annual billing s | 2026-08-26 |
| Leonardo AI | Creative | Free tier available | Official individual pricing lists Free with 150 Fast Tokens daily; Essential at US$12/month with 8,500 Fast Tokens/month and a 25,500-token rollover-bank cap; Premium at US$30/month with 25,000 Fast T | 2026-08-21 |
| LM Studio | Local AI | Free tier available | LM Studio's official pricing page lists free local use and optional pay-as-you-go cloud models. Local hardware and model-license costs remain separate. | 2026-08-26 |
| Lovable | Development | Free tier available | Free includes 5 daily build credits, capped at 30 per month, plus monthly grants of 20 Cloud credits and 4 credits for AI features in user-built apps. Pro is $25/month per workspace, shared across unl | 2026-08-21 |
| Luma AI | Video | Paid / sales-led | Luma official pricing lists Plus at $30/month ($300/year) with 10,000 credits; Pro at $90/month ($900/year) with 40,000 credits and 4x Luma Agents usage; Ultra at $300/month ($3,000/year) with 150,000 credits and 15x Luma Agents usage. Business Team and Enterprise are contact-sales. Individual plans save 20% yearly. Utilities priced separately: remove background 1 credit/image, reframe video 32 credits/sec, upscale 1080p 10 credits/sec, upscale 4K 17 credits/sec. lumalabs.ai/pricing checked 2026-08-28. | 2026-08-28 |
| MagicSchool | Education | Free tier available | MagicSchool's official pricing page lists Free at $0 Forever Free for individual teachers exploring AI; Plus at $8.33 USD/user/month billed annually or $12.99 USD/month billed monthly; and Enterprise | 2026-08-26 |
| Make | Automation | Free tier available | At the displayed 10,000-credit tier: Free is $0 with up to 1,000 credits/month; Core is $12/month; Pro is $21/month; Teams is $38/month; Enterprise is sales-led. Most module actions use 1 credit, whil | 2026-08-21 |
| Meta AI | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | Meta states that Meta AI with Muse Image is free for everyday creation and that higher creation usage is available through Meta subscription plans. The reviewed official public sources do not publish | 2026-08-21 |
| Microsoft Copilot | Productivity | Free tier available | Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is available for work or education without an additional Copilot license and supports metered pay-as-you-go agents. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is displayed at a promotio | 2026-08-21 |
| Microsoft Dragon Copilot | Healthcare | Paid / sales-led | Microsoft's official Dragon Copilot product page does not publish a self-serve consumer price list; next steps route to a Microsoft representative. Microsoft Learn documents Physician Per User and Phy | 2026-08-26 |
| Midjourney | Creative | Paid / sales-led | Official plans are Basic at US$10/month or US$96/year with 3.3 Fast GPU hours/month; Standard at US$30/month or US$288/year with 15 Fast GPU hours/month and unlimited Relax image generations; Pro at U | 2026-08-21 |
| Mistral Le Chat | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | Le Chat is now Mistral Vibe. Free plan available; Pro is $14.99/month excluding taxes; Team is $24.99/user/month excluding taxes; Enterprise pricing is custom. | 2026-08-21 |
| n8n | Automation | Free tier available | Starter: €20/month billed annually for 2,500 workflow executions with unlimited steps and 2,300 AI credits/month. Pro: €50/month billed annually for 10,000 executions and either 5,700 or up to 13,700 | 2026-08-21 |
| NotebookLM | Research | Free tier available | NotebookLM has been renamed to Gemini Notebook. The official about page states it is free to use for individuals. The page advertises uploading PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs | 2026-09-01 |
| Notion AI | Productivity | Paid / sales-led | Free: $0/member/month with a limited Notion AI trial. Plus: $10/member/month with a limited AI trial. Business: $20/member/month and includes Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search beta, an | 2026-08-21 |
| Ollama | Local AI | Free tier available | Ollama supports running models on your own hardware and also offers optional cloud plans. Local runtime cost is separate from hardware, electricity, model licenses, and any cloud usage; the official p | 2026-08-26 |
| Open WebUI | Local AI | Paid / sales-led | Open WebUI is self-hosted software; its official license documentation describes the current licensing and branding requirements, including distinctions for larger deployments. Optional enterprise/sup | 2026-08-26 |
| OpenClaw | AI Agents | Paid / sales-led | Official OpenClaw materials describe the project as open-source and MIT-licensed. Self-hosted software cost is distinct from model API usage, hosting, maintenance, and any optional managed service. | 2026-08-26 |
| OpenEvidence | Healthcare | Free tier available | The official OpenEvidence homepage states the product is free and unlimited for healthcare professionals. No self-serve paid consumer price list was published on that page during verification. | 2026-08-26 |
| Otter.ai | Meetings | Free tier available | basic: Free; 300 monthly transcription minutes, 30 minutes per conversation, and three lifetime audio/video file imports. pro: $16.99/user/month monthly or $8.33/user/month billed annually; 1,200 in-a | 2026-08-21 |
| Perplexity | Research | Free tier available | Official support lists Standard/Free, individual Pro, individual Max, Enterprise Pro, and Enterprise Max. Max includes everything in Pro plus the highest access to advanced models, Comet Max Assistant | 2026-08-21 |
| Pika | Video | Paid / sales-led | Pika's official pricing page did not publish a self-serve consumer price list during verification; primary CTA is contact/sales or Discord. No official USD seat or credit price is reported. pika.art/pricing checked 2026-08-28. | 2026-08-28 |
| Poe | General AI Assistant | Free tier available | Poe offers free daily points and annual subscriptions of $49.99/year for 10,000 points/day, $199.99/year for 660,000 points/month, $499.99/year for 1.65 million points/month, $999.99/year for 3.3 mill | 2026-08-21 |
| Replit AI | Development | Free tier available | Starter is free with daily Agent credits, free daily usage, one published live project, and a built-in database. Core is $25 monthly or $20/month billed annually, includes two parallel agents and $25 | 2026-08-21 |
| Riverside | Audio & Video | Free tier available | Riverside's official pricing page lists Free at $0/month with 2 hours of one-off multi-track recording, 720p, a watermark, 44.1 kHz audio, and unlimited single-track recording. Official compare/FAQ co | 2026-08-26 |
| Rows | Productivity | Free tier available | Free: $0 forever, 5 AI tasks/month, manual data import, 10 integration accounts, 3 guests. Plus: $8/month per user billed monthly or $6/month billed annually, 200 AI tasks/month, daily data automation | 2026-09-01 |
| Runway | Video | Free tier available | Creative plans: Free $0 with 125 one-time credits and 5 GB storage; Standard $15 monthly or $12/month billed annually with 625 credits/month; Pro $35 monthly or $28/month billed annually with 2,250 cr | 2026-08-21 |
| Shortwave | Productivity | Free tier available | Business is $30/seat/month, Premier is $45/seat/month, and Max is $120/seat/month. Business includes standard intelligence (Claude Sonnet 4.6), roughly 150-300 AI requests/day, 5 years AI search histo | 2026-09-01 |
| Slack AI | Productivity | Paid / sales-led | Free: $0. Pro: $7.25/user/month when paid annually or $8.75 when paid monthly. Business+: $15/user/month annually or $18 monthly. Enterprise+ uses sales-based pricing. The pricing page labels Free and | 2026-08-21 |
| Speechify | Audio & Video | Free tier available | Free: $0, listen at up to 1.5x speed, 10 robotic-sounding voices, text-to-speech features only. Premium: $29/month, includes 1000+ natural voices, 60+ languages, 5x speed, scan and listen, AI summarie | 2026-09-01 |
| Spellbook | Legal | Paid / sales-led | Spellbook’s official homepage does not publish a self-serve consumer price list. Official comparison materials describe custom per-seat annual subscriptions. No unverified dollar figure is reported as | 2026-08-26 |
| Suno | Audio & Video | Paid / sales-led | Suno official pricing lists Free at $0 with 100 credits/day limit and 10 credit daily limit; Pro Plan is most popular with priority queue, advanced models, 10 concurrent generations, up to 30-minute songs, stems, and add-on credits available; Premier Plan adds higher limits and early access. Credits do not carry over month to month; purchased top-up credits do not expire but require active subscription. suno.com/pricing checked 2026-08-28. | 2026-08-28 |
| Synthesia | Video | Paid / sales-led | Basic is $0 with 1,200 credits/month. Starter is displayed at $29/month with 1,200 credits/month, or $18/month billed yearly with 14,500 credits/year. Creator is displayed at $89/month with 3,600 cred | 2026-08-21 |
| TenantCloud | Property Management | Paid / sales-led | TenantCloud's official pricing page lists Starter at $25/month or $180/year billed annually ($15/month, advertised as 40% off); Growth at $35/month or $350/year ($29/month); Pro at $60/month or $600/y | 2026-08-26 |
| Tunii | Audio & Video | Free tier available | Free: 10 min signup + 5 min/week. Paid: minute packs, no subscription, no public pricing page. | 2026-09-05 |
| TypingMind | AI Agents | Free tier available | TypingMind offers one-time lifetime licenses: Standard at $39 (basic chat, AI agents, voice input, chat sharing), Extended at $79 (adds image generation, web search, text-to-speech, vision/images, doc | 2026-09-01 |
| Udio | Audio & Video | Paid / sales-led | Udio official pricing lists Standard at $10/month with 1,200 monthly credits, no daily limit, up to 6 concurrent songs, editing tools, stems, and custom cover art. Pro at $30/month with 4,800 monthly credits and up to 8 concurrent songs. Free plan at $0 with 100 credits/month and 10 credit daily limit. Top-ups: 100 credits $3.00, 1,000 credits $25.00. udio.com/pricing checked 2026-08-28. | 2026-08-28 |
| v0 | Development | Free tier available | Free: $0/month, $5 monthly credits, 7-message daily limit. Premium: $20/month with $20 monthly credits, but is being sunset and is unavailable to new users. Plus: $30/user/month with $30 monthly credi | 2026-08-21 |
| Whop CLI | Automation | Free tier available | Free CLI install. Whop platform fees apply on sales (standard Whop transaction fees). No separate CLI subscription. | 2026-08-27 |
| You.com | Research | Free tier available | Official support says the chat product has a free plan with unlimited Smart Agent access, limited premium-agent/model queries, and paid plans with greater access, but it does not state current chat-pl | 2026-08-21 |
| Zapier AI | Automation | Free tier available | Core Zapier plans: Free at $0 with 100 tasks/month; Professional starts at $19.99/month when billed annually; Team is $69/month when billed annually; Enterprise is custom. AI steps, code, MCP, SDK, an | 2026-08-21 |
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Pricing Watch shows the source snapshots; the change radar surfaces records that need another look. Keep/Cut Weekly turns verified changes into one practical decision each week.
Methodology
- Each row is tied to the current tool inventory and a dated pricing snapshot.
- Snapshot text records plan names, published prices, cadence, and meaningful limits where available.
- Free-tier classification uses the current directory pricing label; it is not a claim that the free tier is sufficient.
- Promotions do not change rankings. Affiliate participation does not change inclusion, scores, or conclusions.