Which business and AI tools have a free plan?
Quick answer: 154 of the 252 tools we track offer a free tier — about 61%. A free plan is now the norm rather than the exception, but the allowance is what matters: what runs out first is what forces the upgrade.
154 of 252 tools (61%) publish a free tier. That number is high enough that its absence is the signal: a tool with no free plan is usually selling to buyers who expect a demo and a contract.
Read the allowance, not the label. Free tiers fail in different ways — a cap on records, on seats, on monthly actions, or on the one feature you actually came for. Several tools we track advertise a free plan whose limit is reached in a day of real use.
Tools with a free tier and a full pricing breakdown: Airtable, Asana, Basecamp, Brevo, Buffer, Calendly.
Computed from DigiJaws’ pricing dataset of 252 tools, each figure read from the vendor’s own pricing page on a recorded date. The data is open at /pricing-data.json.
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Is a free trial the same as a free tier?
No, and vendors blur it deliberately. A trial expires; a free tier is a plan you can stay on. We record them separately for exactly this reason.Why do some tools not publish any price?
26 of the tools we track publish no comparable figure — usage-based billing, a configurator, or quote-only enterprise sales. That is a pricing strategy, not an oversight: it moves the negotiation to a sales call.Related answers
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