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Best Free AI Agents (Free Plans) (2026)

Ready-to-use AI agents whose makers list a free plan (freemium), so you can try them before paying. Below are the top 20 of 243 matching tools in the AgentScout directory, ranked.

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How we ranked: Most tools here are commercial products without public GitHub repos, so we rank by the maturity stated on each listing: Mature first, then Active, then newer launches. Within each group, tools with more tracked GitHub stars come first, then alphabetical order. This is not a quality score. No paid placements.

Quick comparison Top 10 of 20 listed below. Pricing as the maker states it; blank means we don't have it.

ToolPricingBest forOpen source
Fish AudioFreemiumVoiceover
CursorFreemiumWrite code
HypitFreemiumEdit video
ego liteFreemiumAutomate the browser
Palmier ProFreemiumEdit video
BoltFreemiumAutomate the browser
ElevenLabs AgentsFreemiumVoice & phone calls
ElicitFreemiumResearch the web
GitHub CopilotFreemiumWrite code
LindyFreemiumWrite code
  1. Fish Audio logo

    1. Fish Audio

    voiceFreemium★ 33,333 GitHub stars

    Fish Audio is a voice AI platform for text to speech, voice cloning and speech to text, with a real-time API for voice agents. Its Drama 3 and S2 models take inline emotion and delivery tags such as whispering, laughing or pauses, it can clone a voice from a few seconds of audio, and its library has more than two million community voices for narration, characters, audiobooks and support agents. The Fish Speech models behind it are published on GitHub and Hugging Face.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier (8,000 credits a month); Plus $11/mo and Pro $75/mo billed yearly ($15 and $100 monthly); Max $749/mo yearly; API billed by usage · Mature

  2. Cursor logo

    2. Cursor

    codingFreemium★ 33,283 GitHub stars

    AI code editor with an agent mode and background agents.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  3. Hypit logo

    3. Hypit

    video generationFreemium★ 24,265 GitHub stars

    An open-source agent workflow that takes a viral short video and rebuilds it as an editable template, letting you swap the presenter, script, voice and B-roll to produce many new variants with your own API keys.

    Pricing (as stated): Open-source core $0; Starter $9.90/mo; Pro $39.90/mo; Ultra $99.90/mo (cloud credits) · Mature

  4. ego lite logo

    4. ego lite

    browser/computer useFreemium★ 17,562 GitHub stars

    Free macOS browser where Claude Code or Codex run automation tasks in their own isolated Spaces next to your tabs, reusing your logged-in sessions through an agent skill.

    Pricing (as stated): Freemium · Mature

  5. Palmier Pro logo

    5. Palmier Pro

    film & TV productionFreemium★ 14,600 GitHub stars

    macOS video editor built around AI, where an assistant can search footage, assemble cuts and edit the timeline for you.

    Pricing (as stated): Free editor; Pro $29/mo; Max $69/mo (limited-time prices) · Mature

  6. Bolt logo

    6. Bolt

    app buildersFreemium

    Prompt-to-app builder that runs full-stack apps in the browser.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  7. ElevenLabs Agents logo

    7. ElevenLabs Agents

    voiceFreemium

    Voice AI platform with conversational agents and TTS.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  8. Elicit logo

    8. Elicit

    researchFreemium

    Research assistant that finds and summarizes academic papers.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  9. GitHub Copilot logo

    9. GitHub Copilot

    codingFreemium

    AI pair programmer with a coding agent that works from issues.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  10. Lindy logo

    10. Lindy

    No-code AI assistants for email, meetings and ops.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  11. Make logo

    11. Make

    Visual automation platform with AI agents.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  12. Manus logo

    12. Manus

    General-purpose autonomous agent that does research and tasks in a cloud computer.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  13. Relevance AI logo

    13. Relevance AI

    No-code platform to build AI agent teams for business work.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  14. Replit Agent logo

    14. Replit Agent

    app buildersFreemium

    Builds and deploys full apps from a prompt in the browser.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  15. v0 logo

    15. v0

    app buildersFreemium

    Vercel's agent that generates and deploys web apps and UI.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  16. Windsurf logo

    16. Windsurf

    codingFreemium

    AI IDE with the Cascade agent, now rebranded as Devin Desktop after Cognition acquired Windsurf (windsurf.com redirects there).

    Pricing (as stated): Free; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams plans (as Devin Desktop) · Mature

  17. Zapier Agents logo

    17. Zapier Agents

    AI agents that act across 7,000+ Zapier apps.

    Pricing (as stated): Free tier + paid plans · Mature

  18. Stability AI logo

    18. Stability AI

    image generationFreemium★ 27,301 GitHub stars

    Maker of Stable Diffusion, offering image models, an API and self-hosted enterprise licenses.

    Pricing (as stated): Community License free under $1M annual revenue; Enterprise license custom; API usage billed separately · Active

  19. Stable Audio logo

    19. Stable Audio

    music productionFreemium★ 3,888 GitHub stars

    Stability AI's music and sound generation toolkit with commercially safe models.

    Pricing (as stated): Free (50 credits/mo, non-commercial); Session $30/mo; Producer $90/mo; Studio $199/mo · Active

  20. Skales logo

    20. Skales

    personal agentsFreemium★ 2,196 GitHub stars

    Personal AI agent for desktop and mobile that codes, automates the desktop and browser and runs scheduled tasks with local or cloud models.

    Pricing (as stated): Free for personal and educational use; companies need a licence · Active

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Facts come from our directory listings; pricing is as each maker states it and GitHub stars are as recorded on each listing. Check official sites before you choose.

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