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TagCoding29Agents30Work26Chat30Image31Video24Audio23Search16Embedded3Platforms21OCR4Scraping6Document Parsing6TTS8Compute2

Free AI Coding Tools: Free Tiers, Limits

Free AI Coding Tools

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Coding is where the tools write, review or complete code: editor plugins with inline suggestions, terminal assistants, cloud agents that open pull requests, and the model endpoints behind them. Raw model hosting without a coding workflow belongs under Platforms. Free allowances are usually counted in completions or requests rather than minutes, and when they run dry most of these fall back to a smaller model instead of cutting you off. Access splits editor-embedded tools from command-line ones; Type separates a lasting free tier from a launch campaign.

CodeArts Agent

CodingAgents
Free plan (¥0/mo): 500 credits/month plus a limited-time 100 credits/day; 3 concurrent sessions / 3 Agent Space tasks; unlimited code completion
New users get 4,000 credits on sign-up (one-time)

Huawei CodeArts AI coding assistant

    Qoder

    CodingAgents
    New user trial plan 2-week Pro trial with 300 Credits (new users); Free tier limited to base models; Pro $20/mo with 2,000 Credits
    100 general-purpose Credits Claim 100 Credits daily, valid for 30 days
    Qwen3.8-Flash free for a limited time Credit rate cut from 0.1× to 0.0×; calls to Qwen3.8-Flash consume no Credits
    Efficient tier free for a limited time Efficient tier billing multiplier drops from 0.3x to 0.0x — no Credits deducted
    For paid users (Lite/Pro/Pro+/Ultra, Teams/Enterprise seats); free plan only during the Pro trial while the account has Credits
    End date to be determined; advance notice will be given on this page

    Alibaba agentic coding IDE powered by Qwen 3.8 Max

      Qoder CN

      CodingAgents
      100 general Credits daily Claim 100 general Credits daily, each valid 30 days
      Qwen3.8-Flash free for a limited time Credit rate cut from 0.1× to 0.0×; this model consumes no Credits

      Alibaba agentic coding IDE (CN); Qwen3.8-Flash free for a limited time

        CodeBuddy CN

        Coding
        Free tier Free tier is free of charge with 500 base credits per month and no bonus credits

        Tencent AI code editor (CN) powered by Hunyuan

          Zhipu free models

          CodingChat
          GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.6V-Flash: input, output, and cache free (concurrency 1).
          New-user starter pack New users: 20M free Tokens on sign-up, plus 120 image & video generations

          GLM-4.7-Flash, works with Claude Code and coding agents

            Freebuff

            CodingAgents
            30 hours refilled daily (1 hour per session, charged at the model's rate; resets at local midnight)With ads

            AI coding agent across CLI, web, desktop, and cloud

              Replit

              CodingAgents
              Starter free plan: daily Agent credits (reset daily, up to a monthly cap) plus monthly cloud credits; 1 free published app that goes down after 30 days

              Online IDE & agent app platform

                v0

                Coding
                Free plan $0/month: 7 message/day limit (billed per token)
                New user credits $5 in one-time credits for new users, billed per token, no monthly refresh

                Vercel AI app generator

                  GitHub Copilot

                  CodingAgents
                  Free tier 2,000 completions per month; chat and agent usage limited via GitHub AI Credits

                  GitHub's official AI coding assistant

                    Gemini

                    CodingAgentsWorkChat
                    Free with personal Google account: 60 RPM / 1,000 RPD
                    Accounts without an AI plan default to auto model selection: most prompts go to Flash-Lite, deeper reasoning may use Flash or Pro. Standard limits, refreshed every 5 hours up to a weekly limit.

                    Google open-source CLI coding agent

                      Amazon Q Developer

                      CodingAgents
                      Perpetual free tier: 50 agent requests/month

                      AWS AI coding assistant with agent coding

                        CodeGeeX

                        Coding
                        The plugin is completely free for individual users; private deployment is an enterprise service

                        Open-source code LLM by Zhipu AI and Tsinghua

                          Lovable

                          CodingAgents
                          Free plan: 5 build credits/day (up to 30/month) plus 20 Cloud credits/month

                          Generate full-stack web apps with AI

                            CatPaw

                            CodingAgentsWork
                            Free tier Free tier (¥0/mo): 200 credits, multi-agent calls; 1,000 bonus credits on first login
                            LongCat 2.0 model free tier (limited time) LongCat 2.0 (1.6T MoE, 1M context) free during promo period

                            Meituan's self-developed AI IDE with agent-driven coding

                              Kiro

                              CodingAgents
                              Sign up to get 50 credits per month, Access to open weight models* and Claude Sonnet 4.5

                              AWS's Spec-driven IDE with Claude Sonnet 4.5

                                Google Antigravity

                                CodingAgents
                                Free Tier: Agent usage quota, refreshes weekly

                                Google's agentic IDE powered by Gemini 3

                                  Google AI Studio

                                  CodingChatImageVideoAudio
                                  Search grounding: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then $14 per 1,000 requests; not available on Gemini 2.5 and older.

                                  API access to Gemini multimodal models

                                    Devin

                                    CodingAgents
                                    Light quota to code with agents, Limited model availability, Unlimited inline edits, Unlimited Tab completions

                                    AI software engineer with agent

                                      Kilo Code Open-source

                                      Coding
                                      Kilo Code itself is free and can use the Auto Free model pool (kilo-auto/free, no credits required, models rotate through what is available); the pool carries a rate limit, not a usage cap: 200 requests per hour per IP. BYOK and local models are also supported.

                                      Open-source AI coding agent, 500+ models at cost

                                        Mistral AI

                                        CodingAgentsChatPlatforms
                                        Free plan Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on Vibe (web + mobile), basic image generation, and Mistral Studio to test Mistral models

                                        Mistral's official API, chat and coding platform

                                          CodeBuddy

                                          Coding
                                          Free tier Free tier: 100 credits/mo + 30 credits/day daily active reward (valid 30 days), 5,000 code completions, 3 auto tasks, includes Auto model scheduling, experts/skills/connectors, cross-file understanding, code generation from comments
                                          New User Bonus 250 welcome credits on sign-up

                                          Tencent AI code editor (international), Hunyuan-powered

                                            Cursor

                                            Coding
                                            Hobby (Free): no credit card required; limited Agent requests; Composer access (limits per the official site)

                                            VS Code-based AI-native IDE

                                              MiniMax Code

                                              CodingAgentsWork
                                              Daily check-in 400 credits, valid for 30 days, can be used for MiniMax Code's Coding, office, deep research, multimodal creation, and other tasks.

                                              MiniMax's desktop AI agent app, an AI-native workspace

                                                Unisound MaaS

                                                CodingAgentsPlatforms
                                                U2 Decision free for a limited time Time-limited free: input, cache hits and output are all ¥0 per 1M tokens (no end date announced)

                                                Unisound model platform, U2 Flash and more free for a limited time

                                                  CodeRabbit

                                                  Coding
                                                  Open-source plan Free forever for public repositories: line-by-line review, issue verification and security review

                                                  AI code review for pull requests, free on public repositories

                                                    Agnes AI CN API

                                                    CodingChatImageVideo
                                                    Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                                    Multimodal API with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

                                                      Cline

                                                      CodingAgents
                                                      Models tagged FREE are free for a limited time and up to a usage quota; the list rotates with each promotion. Once the quota runs out, switch to ClinePass ($9.99/mo) or usage-billing.

                                                      Open-source coding agent; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash free for a limited time

                                                        OpenCode

                                                        Coding
                                                        Models marked Free in the Zen gateway are free for a limited time; OpenCode states this per model (is available on OpenCode for a limited time)

                                                        Open-source AI coding assistant with multi-model gateways

                                                          Agnes API

                                                          CodingChatImageVideo
                                                          Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                                          Multimodal API platform with agnes-2.5-flash and more models