Roboflow free tier includes Computer vision platform for labeling, training and deploying models… Verified November 2026. Compare with 8 alternatives in AI / ML.

Roboflow Free Tier 2026

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Why caution: 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 ↗ Full history ↓

A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective 2026-07-30, so it lapses on 2027-01-27 unless we record something new first.

Source states a free price: The page we cite for Roboflow states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

Subtypes in AI / ML: data_labeling — produces labelled or annotated training data; model_hosting — you supply or select a model and the platform serves it behind an endpoint on hardware you choose. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://roboflow.com/pricing, where it says: “Data labeling suite w/ AI features Model training Workflow builder Cloud hosted deployment” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 8 alternatives. Verified November 2026. Last updated 2026-11-02.

Roboflow's free tier offers Computer vision platform for labeling, training and deploying models… We rate it caution — one recorded limit reduction, on 2026-07-30.

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Free Tier Details

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. More credits can be bought. Credits pay for storage, labeling, training and cloud deployment; running models on your own hardware with Roboflow Inference uses none. Core's data licensing and model training setting is on by default, including for private projects; a workspace can turn it off. Public plan workspaces are moving to the Core free tier.

From docs.roboflow.com/platform/billing-and-plans/plans, read 2026-11-02:

Core starts with the Free Tier, which costs nothing, needs no credit card, and includes 10 credits that refresh every month.

When You'll Outgrow Roboflow's Free Tier

When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 8 alternatives in AI / ML are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.

Pricing Change History (2 recorded)

corrected effective 2026-09-27 low impact

Data correction - Roboflow's Public plan credit change took place between 2026-06-23 and 2026-07-30, and was first recorded on 2026-08-28. The plan still lists 250,000 images and 2 users, which the earlier record said were gone. Source ↗

Before: Recorded 2026-08-28 as a same-day cut that also removed the image, project and user limits

After: limits_reduced dated 2026-07-30: free credits only, from the Internet Archive's captures of roboflow.com/pricing

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 ↗

Before: Public: "Free No credit card required. $60/mo free credits", 2 users (roboflow.com/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-06-23)

After: Public: "Free No credit card required. 15 credits / month", 2 users (roboflow.com/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-07-30)

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Alternatives in AI / ML

How Roboflow compares against every one of the 8 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service	Free Tier	Stability
Roboflow	Free	caution
paperspace	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).	stable
Labelbox	Free Data labeling platform (Catalog, Annotate and Model). The Free plan includes 500 Labelbox Units (LBUs) each month, up to 30 users, 50 projects and 25 ontologies.	stable
Modal	Free Serverless platform for running CPU and GPU workloads. The Starter plan has no monthly fee and includes $30 of compute per month (GPU, CPU and memory), 3 workspace seats, 100 containers and 10 GPU concurrency.	caution
Hugging Face	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.	caution
Replicate	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.	stable
Fireworks AI	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.	unrated
Baseten	Basic (Free Credits) ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount.	unrated
Scale AI	Pay-as-you-go Data labeling and AI data platform. scale.com/pricing now redirects to a form for booking an intro call and states no prices.	source unconfirmed

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Roboflow free?

Yes, Roboflow offers a free tier: 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 ... The page we cite for Roboflow states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

What is Roboflow's free tier?

Our stored record calls Roboflow's free tier "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. More credits can be bought. Credits pay for storage, labeling, training and cloud deployment; running models on your own hardware with Roboflow Inference uses none. Core's data licensing and model training setting is on by default, including for private projects; a workspace can turn it off. Public plan workspaces are moving to the Core free tier. The page we cite for Roboflow states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.

Is Roboflow's free tier reliable?

Roboflow's free tier requires 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

Is Roboflow's free tier good for production?

Roboflow's free tier is usable for prototyping and development, but we rate it caution because of one recorded limit reduction, on 2026-07-30. Consider alternatives with more stable pricing for critical services.

What changed in Roboflow's pricing?

Roboflow has had 1 recorded pricing change. Most recently: 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 (2026-07-30).

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 8 free alternatives to Roboflow in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 4 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 3 are demoted with the reason named, 1 is listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

When will I outgrow Roboflow's free tier?

When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.

What category is Roboflow in?

Roboflow is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 8 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.