Compare 7 free alternatives to Roboflow for AI / ML. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

Best Roboflow Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

7 free alternatives in AI / ML. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Roboflow Situation

Risk Level: caution
Why: effective 2026-07-30 — Roboflow's free Public plan went from "$60/mo free credits" to "15 credits / month" between the Internet Archive's 2026-06-23 and 2026-07-30 captures of its pricing page. Roboflow states no dollar value for a credit; its Core plan sells 50 credits for $99 a month. Source ↗
Category: AI / ML

Recent Pricing Changes (1)

reduced effective 2026-07-30 high impact
Roboflow's free Public plan went from "$60/mo free credits" to "15 credits / month" between the Internet Archive's 2026-06-23 and 2026-07-30 captures of its pricing page. Roboflow states no dollar value for a credit; its Core plan sells 50 credits for $99 a month. Source ↗

All Free Alternatives (7)

2 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 4 are demoted with the reason named, and 1 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), 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), Kaggle (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), 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), 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), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Together AI (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product), ElevenLabs (we have not classified this record), Stability AI (we have not classified this record), Daytona (shares no subtype with this product), Blaxel (shares no subtype with this product), Novita Sandbox (shares no subtype with this product), Runloop (shares no subtype with this product), Mem0 (we have not classified this record), Zep (we have not classified this record), Letta (we have not classified this record), Supermemory (we have not classified this record), Cognee (we have not classified this record), 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). 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
AI / ML Read 2026-09-13 · catalogue date 2026-08-09
paperspace stable
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-08-22
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-06-09 · tried again 2026-09-26 and did not read the page
−1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-09-26 — HTTP 404), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor.
Basic (Free Credits)
AI / ML Read 2026-09-10 · 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.
Fireworks AI stable
Free Credits
AI / ML Read 2026-09-24 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Trial
AI / ML Read 2026-09-17 · catalogue date 2026-08-15
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
Pay-as-you-go
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-07-31
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
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
2026-09-30
query_key
alternative-to:Roboflow
seed
3ff8970efbc8ac087baa3c745db72a4ad84e19db13c6cfd78e27a98d3ab4dffd
tie_count
2

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Roboflow?
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 7 free alternatives to Roboflow, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 2 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 4 are demoted with the reason named, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Roboflow's free tier still available?
Roboflow has a free tier (Free), but it's flagged as "caution" because of one specific recorded change, on 2026-07-30: Roboflow's free Public plan went from "$60/mo free credits" to "15 credits / month" between the Internet Archive's 2026-06-23 and 2026-07-30 captures of its pricing page. Roboflow states no dollar value for a credit; its Core plan sells 50 credits for $99 a month. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260730102926/https://roboflow.com/pricing
How many free alternatives to Roboflow exist?
There are 7 free alternatives to Roboflow tracked on AgentDeals across the AI / ML category.
Has Roboflow changed their pricing?
Roboflow has 1 recorded pricing change. The most recent was on 2026-07-30: Roboflow's free Public plan went from "$60/mo free credits" to "15 credits / month" between the Internet Archive's 2026-06-23 and 2026-07-30 captures of its pricing page. Roboflow states no dollar value for a credit; its Core plan sells 50 credits for $99 a month. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260730102926/https://roboflow.com/pricing

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