Top FREE AI no-code tools 2026

Free & open source, runs locally

⚠️Runs entirely on your own computer — download and install it, no account or hosted service involved.

A free, open-source app builder that runs on your own machine — no signup, no card, and your code stays private by default.

If you outgrow the free tier: None — it's free and open source with no paid tier. You only pay if you connect it to a paid LLM API key.

Free, no card required; includes free Cloud Run deployment for new builders

Google's free 'vibe coding' surface — describe an app in plain English and Gemini assembles a working React/Tailwind or native Android app, with free Cloud Run deployment for new builders and no card on file.

If you outgrow the free tier: The Studio interface itself stays free with no paid tier; costs only appear if you exceed the free Gemini API quota and enable Cloud billing (pay-per-token), or outgrow the free Cloud Run starter allowance (2 free full-stack app deployments)

Free during public preview, generous Gemini 3 usage included

Google's agentic development platform built on Gemini 3 — autonomous agents plan, write and verify full applications across your editor, terminal and browser, free while in public preview.

If you outgrow the free tier: No confirmed paid tier yet — expect usage-based or subscription pricing once it exits preview; check antigravity.google for current terms.

300K tokens/day, up to 1M tokens/month

Full-stack apps in the browser with zero setup — a real daily-and-monthly token allowance instead of a one-time trial.

If you outgrow the free tier: Pro $25/mo (10M tokens), Teams $30/member/mo. Costs scale with project complexity, not just number of interactions.

5 credits/day (~30/month)

The most beginner-friendly idea-to-app builder — daily credits mean you can keep coming back without ever entering payment details.

If you outgrow the free tier: Pro $25/mo (100 credits), Business $50/mo (200 credits + SSO). Real total cost often runs 2-3x the sticker price once hosting/custom domains are added.

$5 in credits/month, resets monthly

The best free option for polished landing pages and UI — produces production-grade React/Tailwind you can deploy straight to Vercel.

If you outgrow the free tier: Premium $20/mo, Team $30/user/mo, Business $100/user/mo — each tier includes a monthly credit pool for generations.

1,200 dev minutes + 100 AI completions/month

Cloud IDE plus an AI agent that handles multi-step builds — a genuine monthly allowance of dev time and AI completions to learn on.

If you outgrow the free tier: Core $20/mo annual (~$25/mo monthly) includes $20 of usage credit; Pro $100/mo for larger teams. Unused credits don't roll over — switches to pay-as-you-go once spent.

25 message credits + 100 integration credits/month

Popular with non-technical founders for going from prompt to working app fast, with credits that renew every month.

If you outgrow the free tier: Starter $16/mo, Builder $40/mo, Pro $80/mo, Elite $160/mo (annual billing, ~20% more month-to-month).

Free to install; usage draws from your Claude.ai plan (free tier included) or a separate API key

⚠️Runs in your terminal — install via npm, not a website. Some technical comfort helps, though setup is a single command.

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI — describe a full website or app in plain English and it plans, writes, tests and iterates on the codebase directly in your terminal, working against your own project files.

If you outgrow the free tier: Included in Claude Pro $20/mo and Max plans with higher usage limits; heavy use can also run on pay-as-you-go Anthropic API credits.

Included in ChatGPT's free tier with limited usage; higher limits on paid plans

⚠️The CLI/IDE version installs locally (npm or extension marketplace); the cloud sandbox runs entirely in the browser.

OpenAI's coding agent — runs as a CLI, IDE extension or cloud sandbox to build and edit whole apps from a prompt, bundled into your ChatGPT plan including the free tier.

If you outgrow the free tier: Usage scales with your ChatGPT plan — Plus $20/mo, Pro $200/mo unlock significantly higher Codex limits.

Free tier included with GitHub Copilot subscriptions (including Copilot Free)

GitHub's natural-language app builder — describe an idea and get a full-stack app with built-in hosting, data storage and auth, deeply tied into the GitHub ecosystem.

If you outgrow the free tier: Usage scales with your GitHub Copilot plan — Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Business/Enterprise seats for teams.

Free self-hosted Community Edition, unlimited executions

⚠️This free tier is self-hosted only — you run the Community Edition on your own server (technical setup, e.g. a $4-7/mo VPS). n8n's own free cloud tier has been discontinued.

The most popular open-source automation platform — self-host the Community Edition for unlimited workflows at zero cost (n8n's own cloud free tier has since been discontinued).

If you outgrow the free tier: n8n Cloud (optional, fully hosted, no server needed): Starter ~$20/mo (2,500 executions), Pro ~$50/mo (10,000), Business ~$667/mo (40,000). Self-hosting stays free forever regardless.

Free self-hosted Community Edition, unlimited usage

⚠️The free, uncapped tier is self-hosted only — you run the Community Edition on your own server. Dify's hosted Cloud free tier is capped at 200 total message credits (not renewing monthly).

A production-grade open-source platform for building RAG-powered agents and workflows — self-host the Community Edition for free with no usage caps and full data control.

If you outgrow the free tier: Dify Cloud (optional, if you don't want to self-host): Professional $59/workspace/mo (5,000 message credits), Team $159/workspace/mo (10,000 credits), custom Enterprise (annual only). Self-hosting stays free forever regardless.

Free & open source (MIT), self-hosted, unlimited

⚠️The free, uncapped tier is self-hosted only — you run it on your own server. Flowise's hosted Cloud free tier caps out at 100 predictions/month.

A LangChain-based drag-and-drop agent builder under a permissive MIT license — free to self-host and use commercially with no restrictions.

If you outgrow the free tier: Flowise Cloud (optional): Starter $35/mo (10,000 predictions/mo), Pro $65/mo (50,000 predictions/mo, +$15/extra user). Self-hosting stays free forever regardless.

Free & open source, runs locally on your own machine

⚠️Self-hosted only — install via a one-line script or npm and run it yourself; it has filesystem/shell access, so read the docs before granting it broad permissions. You still bring your own LLM API key (or a local model) to power it.

The breakout open-source personal agent of 2026 (300K+ GitHub stars) — connects an LLM to your actual apps, files and browser with 100+ built-in skills, and you talk to it through Signal, iMessage, Discord or Telegram instead of a separate chat window.

If you outgrow the free tier: No official paid tier from the OpenClaw project itself — cost comes from whichever LLM API key you connect (pay-as-you-go with that provider).

Free & open source (MIT), self-hosted

⚠️Self-hosted — install from a terminal (CLI/TUI) or run the messaging gateway (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email). Desktop apps exist for macOS/Windows, but you still bring your own LLM API key or a local model to run it against.

Nous Research's self-improving personal agent — the standout feature is a learning loop that turns successful tasks into reusable skills and keeps persistent memory across sessions, running unattended on a schedule rather than only replying when prompted.

If you outgrow the free tier: No subscription for Hermes Agent itself; you pay only for the AI model tokens it consumes (or run it free against a local model on your own hardware).

Free, open-source desktop app (macOS/Windows/Linux)

⚠️Self-host your own instance or use Block's hosting — either way you bring your own LLM to power the agents (Buzz is model-agnostic).

Jack Dorsey's Block-built Slack alternative where AI agents sit in the channel as full teammates alongside humans, with your Git repos and code review built into the same workspace. Note: Block itself calls it "early stages" and pre-1.0 — expect rough edges.

If you outgrow the free tier: No paid tier — Buzz and its source (Apache-2.0) are free either self-hosted or on Block's hosting. Your only real costs are servers (if self-hosting) and whichever LLM you connect.

Completely free, no subscription, no card required

A personal AI companion that grew agentic tools in 2026 — reminders, to-do lists and shopping it can act on for you, not just discuss — and is completely free with no paid tier to hit.

If you outgrow the free tier: None — Pi has no paid consumer tier. (Development has slowed since Inflection's pivot to enterprise, so treat it as stable rather than fast-moving.)

100 tasks/month, resets monthly

8,000+ app connections and the easiest on-ramp for non-technical teams, with a permanent free plan that renews every month.

If you outgrow the free tier: Professional $19.99-29.99/mo (750 tasks), Team ~$103.50/mo (2,000 tasks), scaling up to ~$5,999/mo at 2M tasks. Annual billing saves ~33%.

10,000 CPU-seconds/month (~10K executions)

Free tier is priced in raw compute (CPU-seconds) rather than opaque credits, so simple workflows stretch further before you hit a paywall.

If you outgrow the free tier: Free plus metered pay-as-you-go after that (billed per second of execution time rather than per task) — e.g. roughly $1-11/mo at 20,000-100,000 runs on the cheapest qualifying plan.

1,000 tasks + 200 AI credits/month (cloud); unlimited if self-hosted

⚠️The generous "unlimited" tier requires self-hosting the Community Edition yourself; the hosted cloud free plan runs on daily credits with real limits.

An open-source Zapier alternative with a genuinely free cloud tier, or self-host the Community Edition for unlimited automations.

If you outgrow the free tier: Activepieces Cloud (optional): Standard $5/active flow/mo (unlimited runs on that flow), custom Ultimate tier with added governance/compliance. Self-hosting stays free forever regardless.

~2,000 credits/month

A visual agent builder with one of the more generous monthly credit allowances for building real automations without paying.

If you outgrow the free tier: Pro from $37/mo (20,000 credits, scales up to $1,840/mo at 1M credits). Note: Gumloop removed its permanent free tier as of 2026-07-30 — confirm current free access before recommending it.

400 credits/month

An "AI employee" builder popular on r/nocode for handling email, scheduling and support — 400 credits renew every month.

If you outgrow the free tier: Plus $49.99/mo, Pro $99.99/mo, Max $199.99/mo. Note: Lindy dropped its free plan entirely in 2026 — now only a 7-day free trial, monthly billing only (no annual discount).

500 messages + $5 AI credit/month

A well-regarded platform for building support and sales chatbots, with a pay-as-you-go free plan that never requires a card to start.

If you outgrow the free tier: Plus $150/mo, Team $750/mo, plus custom Managed/Enterprise tiers. Every paid plan now includes unlimited bots and AI usage costs at no extra charge (as of the May 2026 pricing update).

300 credits/day + 1,000 starter credits, Chat mode + Agent Mode (Manus 1.6 Lite), 1 concurrent task

A general-purpose autonomous agent that turns a plain-English request into finished work — research, spreadsheets, slide decks, even full web apps — with a genuine daily credit refresh to try Agent Mode for free.

If you outgrow the free tier: Standard $20/mo (4,000 credits), Customizable $40/mo (8,000 credits), Extended $200/mo (40,000 credits). ~17% cheaper billed annually.

No free tier at all — beta access only, no standalone price

⚠️Paid-subscription-only: requires SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra ($200/mo), or Cursor Teams Premium ($120/seat/mo). A 7-day free trial exists on Cursor Ultra but still needs a credit card upfront — there's no way to use Grok Bot without paying.

xAI's always-on agent — each Bot gets its own cloud computer, logs into the tools you already use, and works multi-step tasks 24/7, only surfacing when it needs your approval. Included here for completeness, but it's not actually free.

If you outgrow the free tier: Bundled into SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra ($200/mo) or Cursor Teams Premium ($120/seat/mo) — no separate published price for the bot itself.