I build and run one of the tools on this list (AGenO — full disclosure below), and I use every other tool here regularly. This is what "free" actually gets you on each one, including the catches.
The AI tool landscape has a dirty secret: almost nothing labeled "free" is free. Most tools give you a taste — ten messages, three images, one song — and then the paywall lands. So instead of another list of forty tools nobody has tried, here are nine that give you real value at $0, organized by what you're trying to make, with the actual limits spelled out.
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