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Best Free AI Developer Tools

The best AI Developer tools with a genuinely free plan, not a trial that expires. Ranked by our review scores, with what each free tier actually gives you before you hit its ceiling.

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GitHub

Individual developers, teams, and enterprises seeking AI-powered code generation and assistance inside their existing IDEs

Rank #1 of 11 AI coding assistants

Agents and your codebase10

Privacy and security6.5

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

JetBrains

Professional software developers using JetBrains IDEs seeking AI-powered code completion, agents, and enterprise governance

Rank #8 of 11 AI coding assistants

Where it works4

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

From $10Free plan

96% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Cursor

Software developers and engineering teams building complex, large-scale software with AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows

Rank #2 of 11 AI coding assistants

Agents and your codebase10

Where it works7

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

From $20Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

CodeRabbit

Engineering teams and developers seeking automated AI-powered code review on GitHub and GitLab

Rank #1 of 5 code review and security tools

Review quality10

Privacy and deployment7

From $24Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

AWS

Software developers, business analysts, and enterprise teams building on or managing AWS infrastructure

Rank #9 of 11 AI coding assistants

Agents and your codebase10

Model freedom1.5

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

From $0Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Zed

Developers seeking a fast, AI-powered collaborative code editor

Rank #6 of 11 AI coding assistants

Agents and your codebase5

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

From $0Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Cline

Individual developers and enterprise teams

Rank #6 of 11 AI coding assistants

Agents and your codebase4.5

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Aider

Developers who want AI pair programming in their local terminal via open-source tooling

Rank #10 of 11 AI coding assistants

Agents and your codebase2.5

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

96% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

BLACKBOX AI

Developers and engineering teams wanting encrypted multi-agent AI coding with fast inference

Free planFree trialAPI

From $10Free plan

Snyk

Development teams and security engineers securing AI-generated code, open source dependencies, containers, and IaC

Rank #4 of 5 code review and security tools

Security scanning10

Review quality0

From $25Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

AskCodi

Individual developers and power users who want a local-first AI engineering team with multi-agent orchestration and BYOS (bring your own subscription)

Free planFree trialAPI

Bito

Engineering teams wanting AI-powered architectural context, code generation, and code reviews grounded in full codebase knowledge

Free planFree trialAPI

Price not publishedFree plan

Warp

Developers and teams wanting AI-powered terminal with scalable agent usage

Rank #5 of 11 AI coding assistants

Privacy and security5

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

From $20Free plan

94% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Windsurf.dev

Developers seeking AI-powered full-stack code generation, refactoring, and workflow automation within an intelligent IDE

Free planFree trialAPI

Devin

Engineering teams and individual developers needing autonomous AI-driven code migrations, bug fixing, and repetitive engineering task automation

Rank #3 of 11 AI coding assistants

Agents and your codebase10

Agents that work in the cloud and open pull requests

From $20Free plan

88% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Replit

Developers and non-technical builders who want to go from idea to deployed app quickly using AI agents

Rank #4 of 4 AI app builders

Trust and compliance0

HIPAAISO 27001Builds mobile apps

From $20Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

v0 by Vercel

Developers and teams building UI with AI assistance

Rank #2 of 4 AI app builders

Trust and compliance10

What you can ship3

HIPAAISO 27001Builds mobile apps

From $30Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Greptile

Engineering teams and individual developers who want AI-powered pull request code review with deep codebase context

Rank #3 of 5 code review and security tools

Review quality10

Fits your stack5

Free planFree trialAPI

85% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Locofy.ai

Frontend developers and designers converting Figma/Penpot designs into production-ready UI code

Free planFree trialAPI

From $40Free plan

Galileo AI

AI/ML engineers and developer teams building, evaluating, and monitoring LLM-powered applications and agents

Free planFree trialAPI

From $0Free plan

Lovable

Non-technical founders, product managers, designers, and marketers who want to build web apps and prototypes without coding

Rank #3 of 4 AI app builders

What you can ship3

HIPAAISO 27001Builds mobile apps

From $25Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

bolt.new

Product managers, entrepreneurs, marketers, agencies, and students who want to build full-stack web apps via AI chat without writing code

Rank #1 of 4 AI app builders

Trust and compliance5

HIPAAISO 27001Builds mobile apps

From $25Free plan

100% from published facts · checked 14 Sep

Mintlify

Developer teams, startups, and enterprises needing AI-native, self-updating documentation

Free planFree trialAPI

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