AI & Agent Dev Tools: Free Tiers & Pricing Compared (2026)
| Service | Free tier | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Workers AI Cloudflare | Yes | 10k Neurons per day free |
| Hugging Face Hugging Face | Yes | Hub is free; Inference Providers include small monthly free credits |
| Replicate Replicate | No | Per-second GPU billing / per-output billing |
| Modal Modal | Yes | Starter plan includes monthly free compute credits |
| Cursor Anysphere | Yes | Hobby plan is free with limits |
| GitHub Copilot GitHub | Yes | Copilot Free with monthly completion/chat limits |
| Windsurf Windsurf | Yes | windsurf.com/pricing now 308-redirects to devin.ai/pricing (Cognition); brand/plan mapping to verify |
| Trae ByteDance | Yes | ByteDance AI IDE; free plan with limits |
| LangSmith LangChain | Yes | Free Developer plan with monthly trace limits |
| E2B E2B | Yes | Sandboxes for agents; Hobby plan free with one-time credits |
| Firecrawl Firecrawl | Yes | Web scraping API; free tier with one-time credits |
| Tavily Tavily | Yes | Search API for agents; monthly free credits |
| Pinecone Pinecone | Yes | Free Starter vector DB with storage caps |