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Free AI tools from Google Cloud
Work with the latest AI models and turn your ideas into apps with free AI tools
Google AI Studio is the fast path for developers, students, and researchers who want to try Gemini models and start building with the Gemini Developer API. We also offer free tools for common AI use cases, including translation, image and video analysis, speech-to-text, and more.
*Google AI Studio usage is free of charge in all available regions. See Billing FAQs for details.
Overview
What are AI tools?
AI tools are software applications that use artificial intelligence to do tasks that would otherwise require human brainpower. These tools are built on machine learning models and algorithms that help them learn from data, recognize patterns, and make decisions or predictions. Common examples can include virtual assistants, content creation platforms that can write articles or generate images, and sophisticated analytics software used for everything from medical diagnoses to financial modeling. Their main goal is to make difficult or tedious digital jobs faster and easier for us.
Which AI tools are free?
Google Cloud offers free usage of many AI products up to monthly limits, including Translation, Speech-to-Text, Natural Language, and Video Intelligence. There is no charge to use these products up to their specified free usage limit. The free usage limit does not expire, but is subject to change.
Additionally, there are several core generative AI tools that offer defined free usage:
- Google AI Studio makes it easy to start building with Gemini, including free tiers across our family of multimodal generative AI models.
- With NotebookLM, you can create a personalized AI assistant that surfaces insights and provides Audio Overviews on data you upload, including text, video, and audio. It is available on a free plan with set usage limits.
- Gemini Code Assist for individuals is available at no cost and offers defined daily and monthly request limits for code completion, generation, and chat within supported IDEs.
What is a free AI writing tool?
Depending on your use case, Gemini Code Assist offers assistance for writing and developing code. Gemini for Workspace integrates with Docs to help you write and develop web pages, business proposals, and other content via a conversational interface.
Is Google Gemini free to use?
Google Gemini is free to use for users 18 and over with a personal Google Account or a Google Workspace account for which your admin enabled access to Gemini.
What AI agent tools are available?
You can build AI agents with Vertex AI's Agent Builder. Get started by exploring Agent Garden for pre-built, customizable blueprints, complete with source code and configuration files.
Why choose Google Cloud for your AI journey?
Google Cloud provides a streamlined ecosystem that helps you move from a prototype to a production-ready application without the friction of switching between disconnected tools.
Vertex AI in particular, serves as a unified platform that manages every stage of the machine learning lifecycle, including data preparation, model training, and deployment. By using a single environment, your teams can more easily maintain better version control and automate their workflows more effectively. This integration can help you spend less time on infrastructure management and more time on refining your models to solve complex business problems.
Is there a free AI website?
Visit the AI product directory for a full list of AI products, including the monthly limits of Google Cloud free AI tools.
Is there a free generative AI tool?
Text, chat, and code generation using Vertex AI, a unified platform for building and leveraging generative AI, starts as low as $0.0001 per 1,000 characters. Plus, new Google Cloud customers get $300 free credits to use towards Vertex AI.
Compare the 10+ free AI tools
| Product | Description | Free offer details | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
Get an API key and start integrating Gemini models into your apps. | The Gemini API “free tier” is offered through the API service with lower rate limits for testing purposes. Google AI Studio usage is completely free in all available countries. | ||
An agent-first IDE designed to streamline complex software engineering tasks by coordinating multiple AI agents across your entire codebase. It helps you build and refactor applications by using a variety of advanced models, such as Gemini 3 Pro and Flash, to handle everything from frontend components to full-stack logic. | The individual plan is available at no cost during its public preview, providing you with unlimited tab completions and command requests. This plan also includes access to a wide selection of leading agent models, though it's subject to weekly rate limits to ensure fair resource distribution for all users. | ||
A powerful command-line interface that allows you to integrate Gemini models directly into your terminal workflows, shell scripts, and local development environments. It helps you manage project contexts, automate file-based tasks, and use AI-powered sub-agents without leaving your IDE or console. | The free tier offers a generous starting point, including up to 1,000 model requests per day if you authenticate with a Google account. If you choose to use an unpaid Gemini API key instead, you can access the Flash model for up to 250 requests per day with a rate limit of 10 requests per minute. | ||
An AI-powered coding assistant, built on Gemini models, that provides real-time code completions, generation, debugging help, and natural language chat directly within supported IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, etc.). | The Gemini Code Assist for individuals version is available at no cost with no credit card required. It offers high usage limits, including up to 180,000 code completions per month. | ||
Create a personalized AI assistant that surfaces insights and provides Audio Overviews on data you upload. | NotebookLM offers a powerful Free Plan that includes: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, and a source capacity of up to 500,000 words per source. | ||
Translate and localize text in real time with support for 100+ language pairs. Compare to AWS Polly | First 500,000 characters free per month. No expiration | ||
Translation support for batch text and formatted documents, custom models, and romanized text Compare to AWS Polly. | First 500,000 characters free per month No expiration | ||
Detect faces, properties, landmarks, logos, text, and more in images Compare to AWS Rekognition | First 1,000 units free per month No expiration | ||
Accurately convert speech into text using domain-specific models to improve quality. Compare to AWS Transcribe | First 60 minutes free per month No expiration | ||
Convert text into natural-sounding speech with human intonation. Compare to AWS Polly | First 4 million characters (Standard) First 1 million characters (WaveNet) No expiration | ||
Identify and analyze entities and sentiments in unstructured text. Compare to AWS Comprehend | First 5,000 units free per month No expiration | ||
Detect shots, faces, celebrities, explicit content, logos, text, and more in video. Compare to AWS Rekognition | First 1,000 minutes free per month No expiration | ||
Create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructure. Compare to AWS EC2 | 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance in US regions free per month No expiration | ||
Store unstructured data for training deep learning and machine learning models cost-effectively. Compare to AWS S3 | 5 GiB of US regional storage free per month No expiration |
To get started, create or sign in to your Google Cloud account. New customers get $300 free credits on signup.
Get an API key and start integrating Gemini models into your apps.
The Gemini API “free tier” is offered through the API service with lower rate limits for testing purposes. Google AI Studio usage is completely free in all available countries.
An agent-first IDE designed to streamline complex software engineering tasks by coordinating multiple AI agents across your entire codebase. It helps you build and refactor applications by using a variety of advanced models, such as Gemini 3 Pro and Flash, to handle everything from frontend components to full-stack logic.
The individual plan is available at no cost during its public preview, providing you with unlimited tab completions and command requests. This plan also includes access to a wide selection of leading agent models, though it's subject to weekly rate limits to ensure fair resource distribution for all users.
A powerful command-line interface that allows you to integrate Gemini models directly into your terminal workflows, shell scripts, and local development environments. It helps you manage project contexts, automate file-based tasks, and use AI-powered sub-agents without leaving your IDE or console.
The free tier offers a generous starting point, including up to 1,000 model requests per day if you authenticate with a Google account. If you choose to use an unpaid Gemini API key instead, you can access the Flash model for up to 250 requests per day with a rate limit of 10 requests per minute.
An AI-powered coding assistant, built on Gemini models, that provides real-time code completions, generation, debugging help, and natural language chat directly within supported IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, etc.).
The Gemini Code Assist for individuals version is available at no cost with no credit card required. It offers high usage limits, including up to 180,000 code completions per month.
Create a personalized AI assistant that surfaces insights and provides Audio Overviews on data you upload.
NotebookLM offers a powerful Free Plan that includes: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, and a source capacity of up to 500,000 words per source.
Translate and localize text in real time with support for 100+ language pairs.
Compare to AWS Polly
First 500,000 characters free per month.
No expiration
Translation support for batch text and formatted documents, custom models, and romanized text
Compare to AWS Polly.
First 500,000 characters free per month
No expiration
Detect faces, properties, landmarks, logos, text, and more in images
Compare to AWS Rekognition
First 1,000 units free per month
No expiration
Accurately convert speech into text using domain-specific models to improve quality.
Compare to AWS Transcribe
First 60 minutes free per month
No expiration
Convert text into natural-sounding speech with human intonation.
Compare to AWS Polly
First 4 million characters (Standard)
First 1 million characters (WaveNet)
No expiration
Identify and analyze entities and sentiments in unstructured text.
Compare to AWS Comprehend
First 5,000 units free per month
No expiration
Detect shots, faces, celebrities, explicit content, logos, text, and more in video.
Compare to AWS Rekognition
First 1,000 minutes free per month
No expiration
Create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructure.
Compare to AWS EC2
1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance in US regions free per month
No expiration
Store unstructured data for training deep learning and machine learning models cost-effectively.
Compare to AWS S3
5 GiB of US regional storage free per month
No expiration
To get started, create or sign in to your Google Cloud account. New customers get $300 free credits on signup.
How It Works
All customers can explore and assess Google Cloud with free usage of over 20 products, including 10 free AI tools, up to monthly limits. When you stay within the free usage limits, these resources are not charged against your free credits or to your Cloud Billing account's payment method.
All customers can explore and assess Google Cloud with free usage of over 20 products, including 10 free AI tools, up to monthly limits. When you stay within the free usage limits, these resources are not charged against your free credits or to your Cloud Billing account's payment method.
Common Uses
Build and prototype with generative AI models
Experiment, test, and discover the power of Gemini with Google AI Studio
Start using Gemini with Google AI Studio, a web-based tool that lets you prototype, run prompts right in your browser. If you're a developer, student, and researcher, try the Gemini Developer API, which is suitable for experimentation, prototyping, and AI deployments.
*Google AI Studio usage is free of charge in all available regions. See Billing FAQs for details.
How-tos
Experiment, test, and discover the power of Gemini with Google AI Studio
Start using Gemini with Google AI Studio, a web-based tool that lets you prototype, run prompts right in your browser. If you're a developer, student, and researcher, try the Gemini Developer API, which is suitable for experimentation, prototyping, and AI deployments.
*Google AI Studio usage is free of charge in all available regions. See Billing FAQs for details.
AI-powered language translation
Detect and translate simple text in real time
With Translation API Basic, you can dynamically translate over 100+ language pairs using Google's pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model. The first 500,000 characters are free per month, making it a good fit for applications that handle primarily casual user-generated content, such as chat, social media, or comments.
Build glossaries, batch text requests, and translate docs
Translation API Advanced includes all the capabilities of Translation-Basic and supports enhanced customization features, including building glossaries for translating domain-specific terms and batching longform text requests. The first 500,000 characters are free per month, including translating formatted documents on Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and custom models.
How-tos
Detect and translate simple text in real time
With Translation API Basic, you can dynamically translate over 100+ language pairs using Google's pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model. The first 500,000 characters are free per month, making it a good fit for applications that handle primarily casual user-generated content, such as chat, social media, or comments.
Additional resources
Build glossaries, batch text requests, and translate docs
Translation API Advanced includes all the capabilities of Translation-Basic and supports enhanced customization features, including building glossaries for translating domain-specific terms and batching longform text requests. The first 500,000 characters are free per month, including translating formatted documents on Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and custom models.
AI image detection and analysis
Detect faces, landmarks, logos, and insights from images
Cloud Vision AI uses Google's pre-trained machine learning model to easily integrate vision detection features within applications. The first 1,000 units (feature requests) are free per month, including detecting and labeling faces, objects, landmarks, logos, and more insights in images.
Build a visual product search pipeline with Vision API
Vision API makes product discovery easier for end users and retailers by querying objects in reference images against a retailer’s established product set. The first 1,000 images queried and stored are free per month.
How-tos
Detect faces, landmarks, logos, and insights from images
Cloud Vision AI uses Google's pre-trained machine learning model to easily integrate vision detection features within applications. The first 1,000 units (feature requests) are free per month, including detecting and labeling faces, objects, landmarks, logos, and more insights in images.
Additional resources
Build a visual product search pipeline with Vision API
Vision API makes product discovery easier for end users and retailers by querying objects in reference images against a retailer’s established product set. The first 1,000 images queried and stored are free per month.
Speech-to-text transcription
Transcribe short audio from local files
Speech-to-Text API uses synchronous speech recognition to transcribe audio files up to 60 seconds long. Audio content can be uploaded through local files or Google Cloud Storage buckets. The first 60 minutes of processed audio is free per month.
How-tos
Transcribe short audio from local files
Speech-to-Text API uses synchronous speech recognition to transcribe audio files up to 60 seconds long. Audio content can be uploaded through local files or Google Cloud Storage buckets. The first 60 minutes of processed audio is free per month.
Text-to-speech generation
Create natural-sounding, synthetic speech as playable audio
Text-to-Speech API converts arbitrary strings, words, and sentences into the sound of a person speaking the same things and supports over 380 voices, spanning 50+ languages and variants. Common uses of the API include adding synthetic voice to apps, enhancing customer service voicebots, and improved accessibility user experiences. The first 4 million of processed text in Standard voice is free per month.
How-tos
Create natural-sounding, synthetic speech as playable audio
Text-to-Speech API converts arbitrary strings, words, and sentences into the sound of a person speaking the same things and supports over 380 voices, spanning 50+ languages and variants. Common uses of the API include adding synthetic voice to apps, enhancing customer service voicebots, and improved accessibility user experiences. The first 4 million of processed text in Standard voice is free per month.
Analyze unstructured text
Recognize entities and sentiment in unstructured text
Natural Language API uses natural language understanding (NLU) to identify and extract meaning from applications with features including sentiment analysis, entity analysis, entity sentiment analysis, content classification, and syntax analysis. The first 5,000 units (1 unit = 1,000 Unicode characters) of analyzed text is free per month for all features except content classification (30,000 units free per month).
How-tos
Recognize entities and sentiment in unstructured text
Natural Language API uses natural language understanding (NLU) to identify and extract meaning from applications with features including sentiment analysis, entity analysis, entity sentiment analysis, content classification, and syntax analysis. The first 5,000 units (1 unit = 1,000 Unicode characters) of analyzed text is free per month for all features except content classification (30,000 units free per month).
Label and analyze video with AI
Detect objects and actions in stored and streaming video
Video Intelligence API uses pre-trained machine learning models that automatically identify and label video metadata, including shot types, faces, people, celebrities, explicit content, logos, and text. The first 1,000 minutes of analyzed video is free per month.
How-tos
Detect objects and actions in stored and streaming video
Video Intelligence API uses pre-trained machine learning models that automatically identify and label video metadata, including shot types, faces, people, celebrities, explicit content, logos, and text. The first 1,000 minutes of analyzed video is free per month.
AI research assistants
Create a personalized AI research assistant
NotebookLM uses Gemini multimodal understanding capabilities to summarize uploaded source material (including PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, etc.) and surface interesting insights between topics. Plus, with Audio Overview, you can turn your sources into engaging “Deep Dive” discussions—similar to a podcast.
How-tos
Create a personalized AI research assistant
NotebookLM uses Gemini multimodal understanding capabilities to summarize uploaded source material (including PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, etc.) and surface interesting insights between topics. Plus, with Audio Overview, you can turn your sources into engaging “Deep Dive” discussions—similar to a podcast.
FAQ
What is the difference between Google Cloud Free Tier and the $300 credit?
The Free Tier and the $300 credit work together to let you explore Google Cloud without upfront costs. The Free Tier provides free usage amounts and the $300 credit pays for anything extra.
Free Tier provides specific free usage amounts for popular products (like Compute Engine and Cloud Storage) that reset on a cadence, usually monthly. It is available to all users with a billing account.
$300 credit is a 90-day welcome gift for new users when they create their first billing account. It automatically covers any usage that exceeds Free Tier limits and applies to select services that do not have a free tier.
If you are new to Google Cloud, the best way to get started is by signing up for a Free Trial. This gives you access to both offers. Plus, you will never be billed during the trial.
How do I monitor my usage to stay within the free limits?
Monitoring your usage of Google Cloud can include: checking your billing reports in Google Cloud Console, setting up budgets and alerts, monitoring your quotas, and being mindful of what services you use as not all are part of the Free Tier.
Are the free usage limits for AI tools monthly?
Yes - most Google AI tools’ monthly free-tier limits are reset monthly, but it’s important to keep in mind usage limits and be aware of what tools may have special circumstances or different limits.
Is Google Gemini free to use for business?
While the general Gemini App is free, it comes with its limits. For businesses who want access to features like the latest Gemini models, tighter security controls, and integrations with Google Workspace products like Docs and Sheets, there is the Google AI Ultra for Business plan, which has a $124.99/mo for 3 months offer for new customers.
What is the best way to get started with a free AI tool?
The easiest way to get started is to just sign up! Not sure where to start? Google AI Studio is great for beginners and those looking to prototype!
