13 free alternatives in AI / ML. Sorted by pricing stability.
All Free Alternatives (13)
5 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 8 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.
Left out of this list: Groq (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini API (shares no subtype with this product), Mistral AI (shares no subtype with this product), OpenRouter (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare Workers AI (shares no subtype with this product), Cerebras (shares no subtype with this product), Cohere (shares no subtype with this product), Brave Search API (shares no subtype with this product), OpenAI (shares no subtype with this product), Pinecone (shares no subtype with this product), Qdrant (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Comet ML (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), Maxim AI (shares no subtype with this product), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), SerpApi (shares no subtype with this product), Tavily AI (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AX (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Braintrust (shares no subtype with this product), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Keywords AI (shares no subtype with this product), Langfuse (shares no subtype with this product), LangSmith (shares no subtype with this product), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), LangWatch (shares no subtype with this product), Lumenfall.ai (shares no subtype with this product), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), Portkey (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), xAI (shares no subtype with this product), Anthropic API (shares no subtype with this product), GitHub Models (shares no subtype with this product), NVIDIA NIM (shares no subtype with this product), Ollama Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), LLM7.io (shares no subtype with this product), SiliconFlow (shares no subtype with this product), Zhipu AI (shares no subtype with this product), DeepSeek API (shares no subtype with this product), MiniMax (shares no subtype with this product), Exa (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google Vector Search 2.0 (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), Together AI (shares no subtype with this product), ElevenLabs (we have not classified this record), Stability AI (we have not classified this record), Mem0 (shares no subtype with this product), Zep (shares no subtype with this product), Letta (we have not classified this record), Supermemory (shares no subtype with this product), Cognee (shares no subtype with this product), Serper (shares no subtype with this product), Linkup (shares no subtype with this product), Parallel (shares no subtype with this product), Jina AI (shares no subtype with this product), You.com (shares no subtype with this product), Hetzner Inference API (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare AI Search (we have not classified this record), Valyu (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
Free
ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models.
AI / ML
Read 2026-10-30 · confirmed 2026-10-05
Free
Hosted Jupyter notebooks with free access to GPUs and TPUs. In the free version, notebooks run for at most 12 hours, depending on availability and usage, and idle runtimes time out.
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-10
Free
Computer vision platform for labeling, training and deploying models. On September 18, 2026 Roboflow announced a free tier for its Core plan: 10 credits that refresh every month, private projects and models, and model weight download.
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-02
Free
ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean. The Free plan is $0 with public projects, 5 GB of storage and free machines for Notebooks in your private workspace (Free CPU C4 and Free GPU M4000; free machines shut down after at most 6 hours).
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-06
Free
Google's data science platform with free notebooks, datasets and competitions. Notebooks get a weekly GPU quota of 30 hours, sometimes more depending on demand (one NVIDIA Tesla P100 or two Tesla T4s), and a TPU v3-8 for up to 20 hours per week.
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-06
Free Credits
Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started.
AI / ML
Read 2026-10-28 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Free Credits
Sandboxes for running AI-generated code, priced pay as you go. New accounts get $200 in free compute on a free trial that needs no credit card; Daytona does not say whether the credit expires or renews, and it does not cover GPU sandboxes.
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-12
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Free Credits
Devboxes: secure micro-VM environments for building and running AI agents. New accounts get $50 in usage credits with Pro features and no credit card; usage draws the credit down until it is gone, and nothing is charged automatically when it ends.
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-12
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Free Credits
Cloud sandboxes for AI agents: isolated Linux machines that run generated code and shell commands, work with files and reach the internet. The Hobby plan has no monthly fee and a one-time $100 usage credit, with no credit card needed to start.
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-09
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Free Credits
Sandboxes and runtime for AI agents, priced on usage with no plan fee. New accounts get up to $200 in free credits; Blaxel does not say whether they renew, and its terms say unused service credits expire one year after they are issued unless otherwise specified.
AI / ML
Read and confirmed 2026-11-12
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Trial
ML model hosting and inference. A new account can run the models in Replicate's Try for Free collection without buying credit, for a limited number of runs that Replicate does not state; after that you add billing and buy credit.
AI / ML
Read 2026-10-24 · confirmed 2026-10-01
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
Basic (Free Credits)
ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount.
AI / ML
Read 2026-10-29 · catalogue date 2026-08-01
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Basic (Free Credits)" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
−1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-29, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor.
Free Credits
Sandboxes for AI agents from Novita AI, billed per second for CPU and RAM while a sandbox runs. New users who complete an account setup survey get $100 in promotional credits for Novita Sandbox usage, with no credit card; the credits expire, and Novita does not state after how long.
AI / ML
Read 2026-11-12 · catalogue date 2026-09-27
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-12 — deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash returned no message content), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input.
The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
- date
- 2026-11-14
- query_key
- alternative-to:Modal
- seed
- f5c8a52216236e6f2cd5ee07e35210ed73182d4fdc0a7838be113331537d0bc6
- tie_count
- 5
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best free alternatives to Modal?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 13 free alternatives to Modal, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 5 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 8 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Modal's free tier still available?
Modal has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-10-01: Since October 1, 2026, Modal charges for network egress: the Starter plan includes 1 TiB a month, Team 10 TiB and Enterprise 100 TiB, and egress beyond that costs $0.04 per GiB. Source: https://modal.com/docs/guide/network-egress-billing
How many free alternatives to Modal exist?
There are 13 free alternatives to Modal tracked on AgentDeals across the AI / ML category.
Has Modal changed their pricing?
Modal has 2 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-10-01: Since October 1, 2026, Modal charges for network egress: the Starter plan includes 1 TiB a month, Team 10 TiB and Enterprise 100 TiB, and egress beyond that costs $0.04 per GiB. Source: https://modal.com/docs/guide/network-egress-billing