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Free AI Coding Tools - No Credit Card Required
Discover AI coding tools with meaningful free tiers you can use without a credit card, from code editors to app builders.

free-tier Tag
Free AI Coding Tools - No Credit Card Required
Free-tier AI coding tools let you build, test, and ship without upfront cost, making them ideal for students, side projects, and evaluations.
Free-tier tools remove the barrier to entry for developers exploring AI-assisted coding. Look for tools that offer generous usage limits, not just trials.
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free-tier Tools (7)
Retool
NewLow-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels, and dashboards. Retool combines 90+ drag-and-drop UI components with JavaScript extensibility and AI app generation to connect any database or API.
Retool
Low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels, and dashboards. Retool combines 90+ drag-and-drop UI components with JavaScript extensibility and AI app generation to connect any database or API.
Obsidian Skills
Official collection of Agent Skills for Obsidian, created by CEO Steph Ango (kepano). Teaches AI agents how to work with Obsidian Markdown (wikilinks, callouts, frontmatter), Bases databases, JSON Canvas whiteboards, the Obsidian CLI, and Defuddle web extraction. Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and any skills-compatible agent. 13.9k+ GitHub stars.
Obsidian Skills
Official collection of Agent Skills for Obsidian, created by CEO Steph Ango (kepano). Teaches AI agents how to work with Obsidian Markdown (wikilinks, callouts, frontmatter), Bases databases, JSON Canvas whiteboards, the Obsidian CLI, and Defuddle web extraction. Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and any skills-compatible agent. 13.9k+ GitHub stars.

CodeGeeX
Free, open-source AI coding assistant built on a 13B-parameter multilingual model by Tsinghua University (THUDM). Provides code completion, generation, translation, commenting, intelligent Q&A, unit test generation, and repository-level chat across 100+ programming languages. Available as extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, and HBuilderX.

CodeGeeX
Free, open-source AI coding assistant built on a 13B-parameter multilingual model by Tsinghua University (THUDM). Provides code completion, generation, translation, commenting, intelligent Q&A, unit test generation, and repository-level chat across 100+ programming languages. Available as extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, and HBuilderX.
NTM (Named Tmux Manager)
NTM (Named Tmux Manager) is a free, open-source tool that transforms tmux into a multi-agent command center. Spawn, tile, and coordinate Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI agents across named panes with broadcast prompts, a TUI command palette, conflict tracking, context monitoring, and persistent sessions that survive SSH disconnections.
NTM (Named Tmux Manager)
NTM (Named Tmux Manager) is a free, open-source tool that transforms tmux into a multi-agent command center. Spawn, tile, and coordinate Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI agents across named panes with broadcast prompts, a TUI command palette, conflict tracking, context monitoring, and persistent sessions that survive SSH disconnections.
AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md is an open format standard for documenting instructions that AI coding agents need to work on software projects. Think of it as a README for agents: a dedicated, predictable place for setup commands, code style, testing instructions, and project conventions. Stewarded by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, it is used by 60,000+ open-source projects.
AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md is an open format standard for documenting instructions that AI coding agents need to work on software projects. Think of it as a README for agents: a dedicated, predictable place for setup commands, code style, testing instructions, and project conventions. Stewarded by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, it is used by 60,000+ open-source projects.
cmux
cmux is a free, open-source native macOS terminal built on libghostty (Ghostty rendering engine) with vertical tabs, split panes, notification rings, and a built-in scriptable browser, designed for managing multiple parallel AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
cmux
cmux is a free, open-source native macOS terminal built on libghostty (Ghostty rendering engine) with vertical tabs, split panes, notification rings, and a built-in scriptable browser, designed for managing multiple parallel AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.

IntelliCode
Microsoft's AI-assisted development tool for Visual Studio and VS Code. Provides whole-line completions and API usage examples based on thousands of open-source projects.

IntelliCode
Microsoft's AI-assisted development tool for Visual Studio and VS Code. Provides whole-line completions and API usage examples based on thousands of open-source projects.
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