The Free Tier Index
168 of the 498 tools we hand-researched have a real free tier (34%). Here's every one, what you actually get free, and the ones where free is a doorway to a paid ceiling.
A tool is listed here only if our research found a genuinely free plan, version or tier. The sentence under each name is what that free plan includes, straight from our dossier. A ⚠ badge names what can start costing money: fees after a free allowance, usage meters, per-seat pricing or paid add-ons. No badge only means we found none of those in our notes, not that the free plan fits your volume: check the limit in the sentence.
Communication & Voice (5)
CometChat⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
The pricing cliff is the honest headline: from a 100-MAU free tier straight to ~$239/mo is a brutal jump for an early-stage app, and users report plan structures changing under them.
CrankWheel
A free plan with no payment details required — unlimited usage for the first 15 days, then up to 15 sessions a month for life.
How we checked
read on crankwheel.com/pricing, 2026-08-21 (price last checked 2026-08-21)Fireflies.ai⚠ usage meter, per seat
Free $0 — unlimited transcription, limited AI summaries, 400 mins storage per team, 20 AI credits.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-08-31 against the vendor's own pricing page, read from a European exit (price last checked 2026-08-31)Freshchat⚠ per seat, paid add-ons
Free is $0 for up to 10 agents.
ZenZap⚠ per seat
(2026) Free plan: unlimited group chats, unlimited built-in to-dos, WhatsApp chat migration, AI voice-note transcription and in-chat search, 1 GB storage — the page publishes no user cap for it and no promise of unlimited seats.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-01 against the vendor's own pricing page (price last checked 2026-09-01)Financial Operations (3)
Aspire
SGD $0 monthly fee on Basic, no minimum balance and no deposit to open.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-10-02 against the vendor's own pricing page (price last checked 2026-10-02)Melio⚠ fees after the free allowance
A free Go plan, $0 forever, with 5 free ACH payments a month and $0.50 for each one after that.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-08-17 on their own pricing page (price last checked 2026-08-17)Zeffy⚠ usage meter
Still genuinely $0 for nonprofits: no platform fee, no transaction fee and no card-processing fee on donations, ticketing, shops, raffles, auctions, peer-to-peer or memberships.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-09 and re-read 2026-09-27 on zeffy.com/home/free-online-fundraising-platform (price last checked 2026-09-27)Growth & Revenue (36)
Apollo⚠ usage meter, per seat
A free plan (900 credits per seat per year, 2 sequences); paid Basic $49, Professional $79 and Organization $119 per seat/mo billed annually, or $65, $99 and $149 month to month - the annual saving the page advertises is 24%.
Attribuly⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
A free plan that covers the first $1,000 of recovered email revenue, then Capture at $450 a month and Recapture at $500, both with a 14-day free trial.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-13 on apps.shopify.com/attribuly; every amount unchanged since 2026-08-18 (price last checked 2026-09-13)AWeber
A free plan still exists (up to 500 subscribers, 3,000 emails a month) but it is reached through the separate free-signup page, not the pricing page; Lite shows $12.49/mo and Plus $19.99/mo at 500 subs (annual billing; both scale by subscriber count).
How we checked
re-verified 1 Oct 2026 (price last checked 2026-10-01)Beefree⚠ usage meter
Exports are metered at six a month, rather than the unlimited free tier its old reputation suggests.
Beehiiv
Launch is $0 up to 2,500 subscribers with unlimited sends.
Bitscale⚠ usage meter
Free is $0 with 200 credits, no card required, capped at 20 action columns per grid and 50,000 rows.
Brevo⚠ per seat, paid add-ons
Read on brevo.com/pricing on 6 September 2026 with the currency switched to US dollars and the yearly tab open: Free at $0 with 300 emails a day; Starter from $9 a month for 5,000 emails, or $8.08 on yearly billing; Standard from $18 ($16.17 yearly) adding marketing automation and A/B testing; Professional from $499 ($449 yearly, from 150,000 emails) with multi-user access and contact scoring; Enterprise on quote.
Capsule⚠ per seat, paid add-ons
The free tier covers two users and 250 contacts, and every paid card is quoted per user a month with a 14-day trial that needs no card.
How we checked
price page re-read 2026-09-11 (price last checked 2026-09-07)Clay⚠ usage meter
The free plan is real: 6,000 actions and 1,200 data credits a year, unlimited seats and tables, multi-provider waterfalls and Claygent, capped at 200 rows per table and with no phone enrichment.
Essential Loyalty⚠ usage meter
Free covers up to 250 of those and is unusually complete: the point program, VIP tiers, a referral program, twelve-plus ways to earn points, product, cart, popup and account placements, built-in email notifications with Klaviyo, and discount, gift, shipping and credit rewards.
Gelato
The free plan is genuinely usable, so the honest question is only whether Gelato+ earns its fee — and that depends entirely on volume: below ~10 orders a month the discounts won't cover the subscription.
Hello Bar
Starter is $0 forever with 5,000 views in total rather than per month.
Iconosquare⚠ per seat
Free covers 2 social profiles, 1 user and 10 posts a month per profile, with one month of analytics history.
Kit
The free plan is $0/mo and covers up to 10,000 email subscribers, with unlimited landing pages and forms, unlimited email broadcasts, audience tagging and segmentation, and digital products and subscriptions.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-02 (price last checked 2026-09-02)Leadfeeder
Lite is free forever with a 14-day full trial, seven days of visitor history and the last 100 companies a month.
How we checked
read 2026-08-26 on leadfeeder.com/pricing over a US connection (price last checked 2026-09-05)ManyChat⚠ paid add-ons
Free: $0, 25 active contacts, 2 channels, 1 user.
Notify Me⚠ usage meter
Four tiers: Lite, a free plan with mostly lifetime allowances, then Kickstart $9.90/mo or $95/yr, Starter $19.90/mo or $191/yr, Standard $39.90/mo or $383/yr, with annual marked 20% off, plus an Enterprise tier arranged by meeting.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-23 against the Shopify App Store listing and notify-me.io/pricing (price last checked 2026-09-23)Optizen⚠ usage meter
The free tier is a demo rather than a usable floor — one campaign, five conversions, no AI at all.
Outgrow
Three tiers our earlier reading missed sit alongside these: a free Forms/Surveys plan at $0 with 100 leads a month, Startup Basic at $55/$35 ('only new companies can apply') with 750 leads, and Startup Special at $85/$55 ('only startups and small businesses can apply') with 8 content types, 6 pieces and the same 1,000-lead cap as Freelancer Pro.
Parallel AI⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Plan credits come with the subscription: Pay As You Go is $0 with 50 credits and no card, Entrepreneur $99 a month for 2,000 credits and 2 companies, Business $297 for 9,000 credits and 10 companies, and Enterprise is quote-only with SSO, on-premise deployment and dedicated support.
Poptin⚠ usage meter
Free is $0 forever with 1,000 unique visitors a month, one domain and unlimited poptins.
Post Purchase Upsell Hero⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
One plan, Performance, free to install, at $0 a month plus usage charges.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-19 on apps.shopify.com/post-purchase-upsell-hero and the vendor's own site; amounts unchanged since 31 August, USD (price last checked 2026-09-19)Printify⚠ usage meter
A free plan at $0 a month -- you pay only the product base cost plus shipping per order -- and Premium from $39 a month, or from $24.99 a month billed yearly, which the page states as 36% off.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-07 and again 2026-10-01 (price last checked 2026-10-01)Pumper Bundles⚠ usage meter
Free covers up to $300 of extra revenue generated by the app.
PushOwl⚠ usage meter
Basic is $0 and covers 500 emails and 500 web push notifications a month with no SMS credits.
Rank Math⚠ usage meter
The free version is so generous that many sites never need to upgrade — PRO mainly earns its keep once you want built-in rank tracking, Content AI credits or to manage many sites.
Restream⚠ paid add-ons
Free: 2 channels with Restream branding, 1 seat.
Seamless.ai⚠ usage meter
Still no published price above the free plan, in a fifth reading.
Selleasy⚠ usage meter
Every Starter tier counts total store orders, so the free plan's 50-order ceiling is reached by any shop doing two orders a day whether or not a single upsell ever fired — and, read the other way, a 5,000-order store running one quiet bundle pays the top step of the ladder all the same.
Stampezee
Stamp Start free: 1 branch, 1 stamp card, up to 100 customers or 100 stamps, whichever comes first.
Streak⚠ usage meter, per seat, paid add-ons
The free CRM tier was eliminated in 2024-25, but the free email tools remain - email and link tracking, snippets, Streak Share, a thread splitter, and mail merge at 50/day against 1,500*/day on all three paid plans; the free plan has no CRM pipelines.
Success.co⚠ per seat, paid add-ons
There is a Free Forever plan at $0 with the V/TO, Accountability Chart and Organizational Checkup, no time limit and no card.
How we checked
read 2026-08-21 in Success.co's structured data on success.co/pricing, re-read 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-26 (price last checked 2026-09-26)SurveySparrow⚠ usage meter
On yearly billing the survey line runs Basic $19, Starter $39 and Business $79 a month, above a forever-free plan (75 responses a quarter, 3 active surveys, 10 questions each) and below a custom-priced Enterprise tier.
Upsell.com⚠ usage meter
Free: up to 50 monthly store orders or $50 of upsell revenue, whichever is hit first.
VidPal⚠ usage meter
(2026) Free: 4 lifetime credits, standard-quality exports, "Made with Vidpal.ai" watermark, no card.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-01 against the vendor's own pricing page (price last checked 2026-09-20)IT & Productivity (17)
Blinq⚠ per seat, paid add-ons
Free forever for individuals (2 cards, unlimited QR sharing).
How we checked
re-verified 2026-08-17 (price last checked 2026-08-17)Bright Data⚠ usage meter
API side: Unlocker, Crawl and SERP APIs from $1/1k requests (free tiers available), Scraper APIs $1.50/1k records pay-as-you-go with a 5K/month free tier and a $499 Scale plan bundling 384,000 records at $1.30/1k overage, Data Firehose $0.20/1k, Datasets from $250/100k records; managed offerings from $1,500/mo (Managed Data Acquisition) and Retail Insights from $2,000/mo.
Browse.ai⚠ usage meter
Free is $0 with 50 credits a month, 2 websites and 3 users.
Claude⚠ per seat
The free tier is $0.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-08-27 on their own pricing page (price last checked 2026-08-27)Consensus⚠ per seat
Free: $0, 10 Pro messages and up to 3 Deep reviews a month.
How we checked
re-verified 28 September 2026 in a rendered browser, monthly and annual tabs (price last checked 2026-09-28)Devs.ai⚠ usage meter, per seat
Free is $0 forever, but Agent Builder and App Builder appear there in "Core" rather than "Full" form, data upload is capped at 2 GB, and workflows, APIs and integrations are marked absent.
Emergent⚠ usage meter
Free $0 (10 credits/mo); Standard $20/mo, or $17/mo billed annually, for 100 credits (the page states a $36 annual saving, 15%); Pro $200/mo, or $167/mo billed annually, for 750 credits (a $396 saving, 16.5%).
How we checked
re-verified 2026-08-31 on emergent.sh/pricing (price last checked 2026-08-31)Getscreen
Free plan (2 devices); paid tiers add one-time quick connections (Advanced) and white-label, roles and mass-device management (Enterprise) — plus a one-time Personal Lifetime Deal at $149 in the page as served, which a browser on a European connection re-renders as EUR 139 (a different number, not just a different symbol, unlike the business rates), and which sidesteps the recurring fees of rivals like TeamViewer (~$50/mo).
Glide⚠ usage meter, per seat, paid add-ons
The classic spreadsheet-to-app builder still has a genuinely free tier: unlimited drafts, one editor, up to 25k rows.
How we checked
Classic re-verified 2026-09-03 in a live browser session on both tabs and both billing toggles, unchanged since 2026-08-04; the GlideOS plans were re-read the same day after a restructure (price last checked 2026-09-07)Lovable⚠ usage meter
Free: 5 build credits a day, capped at 30 a month, which do not roll over; plus a monthly Cloud grant of 20 credits for hosting and backend services and 4 credits for AI features inside published apps.
How we checked
read 2026-09-26 on lovable.dev/pricing from a European exit, so shown in euros including VAT, and in Lovable's plans-and-credits documentation (price last checked 2026-09-26)MindStudio⚠ usage meter, per seat
Free is $0/month plus usage and caps you at one agent and 1,000 runs a month.
Proton
Free is $0.00 a month for 1 GB and one address.
How we checked
read 2026-08-26 on proton.me/pricing over a US connection, on the Mail tab with yearly billing (price last checked 2026-08-26)Proton Drive⚠ per seat
Proton Free gives 5 GB.
How we checked
read 2026-08-26 on proton.me/drive/pricing over a US connection, on the Individuals view with yearly billing (price last checked 2026-08-26)QuickSigner⚠ usage meter, per seat
Personal is free: 5 documents a month, 3 signers and 1 document per request, 5 MB maximum, PDF only, with signature and stamp fields and AATL sealing.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-08-17 and re-read unchanged 2026-09-27 against QuickSigner's own machine-readable pricing page and pricing table (price last checked 2026-09-27)SMTP2GO⚠ usage meter
Free: 1,000 emails a month, 200 a day, 5 days of reporting, ticket support only (toll-free phone and live chat limited to 14 days), extra emails not permitted.
How we checked
read 2026-09-26 on smtp2go.com/pricing with the volume slider walked through all nine stops; the plan cards carry the amounts in their data-rate-monthly and data-rate-annual attributes (price last checked 2026-09-26)Softr⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
A free plan with unlimited apps, up to 3 builders, 5 app users, 5,000 database records, 500 workflow actions and 5 AI credits a month.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-07 and again 2026-10-01 (price last checked 2026-10-01)WebCatalog⚠ per seat
The free plan's 2-app limit is tight, but browser profiles and PWAs solve part of the same problem for free.
Operations & Workflow (32)
Alohi⚠ usage meter, per seat, paid add-ons
A free plan gives 10 pages in total, not per month.
Bokun⚠ usage meter
(2026) A free version (1 user) plus paid plans from $49/mo (Start, up to 5 users), $149 (Plus, up to 10) and $499 (Premium, unlimited).
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-20 on bokun.io/pricing, plan cards and the full comparison table (price last checked 2026-09-20)Breezy HR⚠ usage meter
The jump from free (one position) to the first paid tier is steep if you only hire occasionally — the free plan is genuinely usable, so live in it until you're filling several roles at once.
ClickUp⚠ usage meter, per seat, paid add-ons
A Free Forever plan with unlimited tasks but 60MB of storage; Unlimited $7 and Business $12 per user/month billed yearly, which are $10 and $19 billed monthly; Enterprise is quote-only.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-08-13, read on their own pricing page with both billing tabs open; every amount unchanged on 2026-09-30 (price last checked 2026-09-30)Connecteam⚠ per seat
The free tier is real and not a trial: the Small Business Plan is $0 for life, covers up to 10 users and includes all hubs and features.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-10-03 on their own pricing page, USD (price last checked 2026-10-03)Databox⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Free is $0 forever: 1 user, 3 data sources, 1 dashboard, 10 custom metrics, 50 AI credits a month, daily sync.
Descript⚠ usage meter
Free plan with 60 minutes a month and watermarked 720p exports.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-08-17 and again 2026-10-01 (price last checked 2026-10-01)FlexiQuiz
Free: 20 responses a month, no card required.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-22 on flexiquiz.com/Home/Plans, every amount unchanged; the monthly-billed rates were read from the page's own billing-toggle script, the yearly rates from the rendered cards (price last checked 2026-09-22)Gamma⚠ usage meter, per seat
Served to us in euros from a Dutch address, so your own checkout may quote dollars) Free €0 with 400 one-time credits at signup and up to 10 slides per generation.
Goflow⚠ usage meter
Goflow Core is free forever at $0/mo with no credit card, capped at 500 orders a month (new orders then wait until the 1st of the next month or an upgrade), 3 users and 1,000 newly created listings, and limited to stores on Amazon, eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart, QuickBooks Online only, with no API and no App Store.
How we checked
re-verified 23 Sep 2026 on goflow.com/pricing; the plan ladder was restructured since 3 Sep (price last checked 2026-09-23)Hive⚠ usage meter, per seat, paid add-ons
Free forever for up to 10 workspace members, with 1,000 AI credits a month and 200MB of storage; Starter $5 per user a month and Teams $12 per user a month on yearly billing, which the page states saves 33% against monthly; Enterprise is custom.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-03 (price last checked 2026-09-03)Katana MRP⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
A Free plan covering 30 SKUs with unlimited users, integrations and locations plus all Katana features, add-ons and API access, then Core starting at $299/month with unlimited SKUs, users and integrations, one inventory location and 24/7 support, and an Advantage tier on custom pricing that adds custom integrations, dashboards and automations with a dedicated Solutions Engineer.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-23 (price last checked 2026-09-23)Miro⚠ usage meter, per seat
Free plan: 3 editable boards workspace-wide, unlimited members, AI shown as a limited trial in the plan table, which the FAQ puts at 10 credits a month.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-23 on miro.com/pricing/ (price last checked 2026-09-23)Momence⚠ paid add-ons
The last ladder Momence published itself, read 6 September 2026: Basic $0/mo with a 5% Momence fee on every transaction plus 4% passed to the client; Pro $60/mo with the fee halved to 2.5%; Custom $199/mo with no Momence fee, unlimited add-ons and dedicated support.
Murf⚠ usage meter
Studio plans: Free $0 for 10 projects, 10 minutes of voice generation and one editor, with no downloads and no commercial rights.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-10-03 in a browser; the page renders client-side and opens on annual billing, so check which column you are reading (price last checked 2026-10-03)Pangram⚠ usage meter, per seat
Free: $0, no payment method, up to 2,000 words a day (20 credits of 100 words, rounded up per check: ten checks of 150 words in our test of 1 October 2026) and 3 image scans a day.
How we checked
re-verified 6 September and again 30 September 2026 on pangram.com/pricing and pangram.com/llms.txt, which agree with each other on every figure (price last checked 2026-09-30)Prezi
Prezi has a free plan, Basic, and three paid individual plans: Standard €5 a month, Plus €15 and Premium €25, all billed annually.
QuillBot
Free at $0 (paraphrase up to 125 words in 2 modes, humanizer up to 125 words and 6 uses a day, summaries to 1,200 words).
Reclaim.ai⚠ per seat, paid add-ons
Lite is free forever for a single user.
Sendcloud⚠ usage meter
Free plan €0/mo: up to 20 parcels a month, no courier contract, no subscription, €0.50 a label beyond that.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-22 against the vendor's own pricing page, read from a Dutch exit; every subscription, label fee and cap identical to the 31 Aug 2026 reading (price last checked 2026-09-22)ServiceM8⚠ usage meter
Free $0: 1 user, 30 jobs a month, SMS at 10c each.
Shippo⚠ usage meter
Starter is free: up to 30 labels a month, discounted USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express rates, 1 user login, and 5¢ per label if you connect your own carrier account.
SimplyBook.me
SECOND READING, SAME DAY, DIFFERENT COUNTRY: a server in Frankfurt (German IP, Accept-Language en-GB) was served the identical ladder, R$0 / R$33.75 / R$65.83 / R$110 billed annually, with priceCurrency BRL five times in the page markup.
Survicate⚠ usage meter
The plan is metered by response volume, not by surveys — a viral NPS month can push you a tier up, and the free plan's 30-day retention quietly deletes your history.
Synthesia⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Basic is $0 with 500 credits a month plus a free allowance of 10 minutes of video or dubbing and 3 survey responses; free videos carry a Synthesia watermark and are shared by link.
Team Pulse⚠ usage meter
Genuinely free tier: $0/mo for 1 member, 2 projects, unlimited collaborators, chat/tasks/files, 3 private notes, 15 AI credits and 1GB storage.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-22 in the site's own plan-config array (price last checked 2026-09-22)Todoist⚠ per seat
The free plan's 5-project cap, and reminders that fire only at the moment a task comes due, push most serious users to Pro quickly — but Pro is genuinely cheap.
Toggl⚠ per seat
Free is $0 for a limited number of users and the page calls it free forever.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-09 and again 2026-10-01 on toggl.com/track/pricing, which now redirects to toggl.com/pricing (price last checked 2026-10-01)Wrike⚠ per seat
A permanent free plan at $0 per user, with no user cap named on the plan card; Team $10 per user a month for 2 to 15 users; Business $25 per user a month for 5 to 200 users.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-25 (price last checked 2026-09-25)ZenBusiness
Formation itself is $0 plus the state's fee — that applies to LLC, S corp and C corp filings alike, and the state fee is separate, varies by state and is not shown until you pick one.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-22 on zenbusiness.com/pricing-products/, where /pricing/ now redirects; every one of the sixteen published amounts unchanged since 25 Jul 2026 (price last checked 2026-09-22)Other (75)
AgentNest⚠ usage meter
Free: unlimited catalogue scans, a catalogue readiness score, product-level issue reports and the full findings view.
AhaSlides
Free is 0 for up to 50 participants, with unlimited events and unlimited presentations but only 5 Quiz and 3 Unscored slides per deck.
Amplitude⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Free $0 with 2 million events a month, permanently, no card required and no time limit.
How we checked
2026-09-17, re-read on their own pricing page and again on 2026-10-04, unchanged (price last checked 2026-10-04)AskNest⚠ usage meter
Free: 50 AI replies a month, replies in one language you select, answers drawn from your FAQs, policy pages and product data, translated storefront widget, product finder and usage tracking.
Assembly⚠ usage meter, per seat
Free, a free-forever plan: $0 with 5 active contacts, 1 internal user, 50 build credits a month and 3 apps.
AutoWrite⚠ usage meter
Free: 10 posts, 10 images, 1 workflow, basic SEO.
Bot It AI
Free is free forever, with no trial involved: the full catalogue audit and Agent Readiness Score across 13 checks per product, the store gates check (password, robots.txt, UCP profile, sitemap), native llms.txt, agents.md and robots.txt theme files, a brand voice editor, unlimited product and collection narratives, and email support.
How we checked
read 2026-09-24 on apps.shopify.com/bot-it and on the vendor's own botitai.com/pricing, which list the same two tiers (price last checked 2026-09-24)Brandye
Free covers up to 100 quiz submissions and 100 chats in total, lifetime rather than per month, with 15 days of data.
Bread & Butter⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Free at $0: unlimited website traffic, 200 stored lead profiles, 30 days of attribution retention, your existing web forms, lead capture and content gating, social logins with your own branding, server-side journey tracking, CSV, Google Sheets and Mailchimp export, Slack alerts, unlimited team members, one-day email response.
BrowserAct⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
A credit-metered subscription with a free tier.
How we checked
prices re-verified 2026-10-03 on browseract.com/pricing, both billing tabs open, and cross-read against browseract.com/llms.txt the same day (price last checked 2026-10-03)Claap⚠ usage meter, per seat, paid add-ons
And the free tier's 300 minutes is a total, not a monthly allowance: it is a sample, not a plan you can sit on.
Clonable
Website plans, annual setting: Free €0 for 1 clone and up to 20 translated pages (an upgrade to 50 pages is €25 a month), Business €49 for 3 clones and 400 pages, Pro €79 for 5 clones and 1,200 pages, Expert €249 for 10 clones and 5,000 pages, Premium €999 for 20 clones and 50,000 pages.
Cloro⚠ usage meter
Free is $0 for 500 credits a month, one concurrent job and one seat.
Cloze⚠ usage meter
Free plan available: 25 AI conversations a month, up to 100 synced products, core assistant customisation and 7 days of conversation history.
How we checked
read 2026-08-19, re-verified unchanged 2026-09-04 on apps.shopify.com/cloze, listed as “Cloze: AI Shopping Assistant” (price last checked 2026-09-04)Code Bulk Discounts
Read the free plan's number twice, because the word doing the work is 'lifetime': it is 500 codes in total, not 500 a month.
Consentmo
And the free tier puts Consentmo's own branding on the banner your visitors see first.
DigitalOcean⚠ usage meter
App Platform has a free tier for three static-site apps (1 GiB of transfer each, further static apps $3 each); apps with a server start at $5 a month for a fixed container with 1 vCPU and 512 MiB, limited to one instance, then $10, $12, $25 and $50, with a $7 development database, a $25 dedicated egress IP and $0.02 per GiB beyond the bandwidth allowance.
Dondy⚠ usage meter
Free: a WhatsApp chat button with unlimited conversations, custom size and location, and prefilled messages.
Easy Bundles⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
The free plan is free to install and covers up to $500 of bundle sales a month.
EcomXray
Free: product analytics inside Shopify, cost price and gross margin, net units sold over 30, 90 and 365 days with refunds, cancellations and test orders excluded, 30-day restock recommendations and a revenue rank for top products.
ElevenLabs⚠ usage meter
Free $0 with 10k credits/mo; Starter $6/mo (30k credits, commercial license); Creator $22/mo — first month 50% off at $11 — with ~121k credits.
EngageBay⚠ per seat
Genuinely free tier: $0 for 250 contacts with email marketing, CRM, helpdesk and live chat, and the plan card adds that it is free for teams of up to 15 members.
How we checked
price re-verified 2026-09-18 on engagebay.com/pricing (price last checked 2026-09-18)Essent Preorder Back in Stock⚠ usage meter
Free covers 25 pre-orders and 300 back-in-stock notifications a month, with unlimited Notify me sign-ups, automated pre-orders and restock alerts, variant-level campaigns, full and partial payments, customisable buttons, forms and emails, and 24/7 support.
Essential Announcement Bar
Free covers up to 2,000 views a month with unlimited simple bars and unlimited rotating bars, each with a link or button.
Essential Countdown Timer Bar
Free covers up to 1,000 views a month with unlimited product-page and top-bar timers.
Essential Free Shipping Bar
Free covers up to 1,000 views a month with unlimited top-bar and product-page boosters.
Essential Trust Badges
Free covers up to 5,000 views a month, the full icon library, unlimited payment icons on product pages and one product-page banner or one block of three icons.
Essential Upsell & Cross Sell⚠ usage meter
Free covers up to $100 of generated revenue with product-page and post-purchase offers, analytics and translations.
Feedyio⚠ usage meter
The second is freshness: the free tier updates products once a day and hourly updates start at $9.99, which matters when stock moves faster than a day.
HelpCenter⚠ usage meter
Free covers 10 tickets a month and charges $0.25 for each one after that.
HubSpot⚠ usage meter, per seat, paid add-ons
Free is $0 for up to 2 users and 1,000 marketing contacts, with no time limit.
How we checked
2026-08-18, read in a live browser on their own marketing pricing page, USD view (price last checked 2026-08-18)involve.me⚠ usage meter
There is a free plan, and this is what it actually gives: 2 live funnels, publishing on a daanV.involve.me subdomain (or one of ten alternatives such as quizzes.cx, forms.ac and calculators.cx), the AI funnel builder, and involve.me branding on every page.
How we checked
re-verified 19 September 2026 on the public pricing page; the free plan's feature set was measured inside the product, because the plan cards still do not state it (price last checked 2026-09-19)Jibble⚠ per seat
Free forever with unlimited users holds up: the plan a new account lands on is Free, €0, with no card.
Kite
The Free plan is free to install and covers the first 50 discount orders each month; the listing states that $29 a month is billed only if you go over 50 orders.
Kiwi Sizing⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
The free plan is not limited by the chart count most people assume.
Loyalino⚠ usage meter
Free: $0 for up to 200 loyalty orders a month.
LumenCart⚠ usage meter
Free $0 with 25 lifetime image generations for a new store; then Starter $9, Growth $29, Pro $79 and Scale $199 a month, with annual billing taking 15% off.
How we checked
read 22 September 2026 and re-read unchanged 27 September 2026 on the vendor's own pricing page, lumencart.fleeta.co.uk/pricing (price last checked 2026-09-27)Meeri⚠ usage meter
The vendor’s own site sells the same two tiers at the same prices, calling Basic free forever and Pro’s allowance 3,000 notification impressions a month, and it does not print a usage rate either.
Modelize⚠ usage meter
Free plan available, then Starter $19, Pro $49 and Enterprise $99 a month — the three paid rates are unchanged since 19 August 2026.
How we checked
re-read 2026-09-17 on apps.shopify.com/modelize, listed as “Modelize: AI Product Photos” (price last checked 2026-09-17)NeuroAds⚠ usage meter
Free: 200 conversations, AI answers about products, collections and orders, rich product cards with add-to-cart, order status and tracking in chat, replies in the shopper's language.
Nexis CRO⚠ usage meter
The meter is AI credits: Free gives 5 a month and a single audit, Pro 100 with unlimited audits and history, Growth 300, Agency 500.
Nextify.ai⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Five ways to pay, and the free plan is only visible when you are logged out — the signed-in pricing page starts at Starter.
How we checked
read 7 September 2026 on nextify.ai/pricing, signed in and signed out, in both billing modes (price last checked 2026-09-07)PagePulse⚠ usage meter
Free $0: 1 page, unlimited traffic, unlimited collaborators, 14 days of data retention and 15 AI insights a month.
Piktochart⚠ usage meter, per seat
Free is $0, Pro is $15 per member per month billed monthly or $10 billed annually ($120 a year), Business is $20 monthly or $17 billed annually ($204 a year), and Enterprise is quote-only from 101 members.
How we checked
re-verified 6 September and again 19 September 2026 on piktochart.com/pricing/, US dollar view; the plan amounts are unchanged from our 6 August 2026 reading (price last checked 2026-09-19)Pippit⚠ usage meter
Yearly: Free €0 with recurring daily credits and no card; Starter €87 a year against a struck-through €145; Plus €213 against €355; Pro is a five-step ladder at €467, €948, €1,260, €1,901 and €3,117 against list prices of €779, €1,580, €2,100, €3,169 and €5,195, with the €1,901 step shown by default.
Postscript⚠ usage meter
Starter is shown as $0 a month with a $49 monthly minimum spend, at $0.015 then $0.009 per SMS and $0.045 per MMS, plus carrier fees.
How we checked
Re-verified 19 September 2026 on their own pricing page; every figure below is unchanged from the 30 August reading. (price last checked 2026-09-19)Pricefy⚠ usage meter
A genuinely free tier: $0 for up to 50 SKUs, 5 competitors, daily price updates and AI automatch.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-08-17 and again on 2026-09-28 (price last checked 2026-09-28)Rapid Search⚠ usage meter
Free covers 2,000 monthly sessions and 5,000 products with email support, and the search carries Rapid Search branding.
ReachStream⚠ usage meter
Free is $0 with 100 export credits and 200 email views a month (1,200 and 2,400 a year).
Retouch4me⚠ usage meter
Free: a trial pack of 20 cloud photo retouches on sign-up (no card, seen in the account on 8 September 2026), the Frequency Separation and Color Match Free plugins, the Apex, Photoshop Panel and Arams applications, a Try Demo on every paid plugin, and free cloud retouches for uploading RAWs to their RAW Bank.
Scrolly
On 19 September 2026 it carries a Free Plan and an Unlimited Plan at $2.99 a month, or $25.11 a year with a 30% saving and a 7-day free trial.
Section Library⚠ usage meter
Free plan: 8 credits a month, access to the free sections only, basic AI generation.
How we checked
re-read 2026-09-17 on apps.shopify.com/section-library, now listed as “Section Library: AI Sections”; every amount is unchanged since 19 August 2026 (price last checked 2026-09-17)Securify
Free plan plus three paid tiers, unchanged since the readings of 18 August and 13 September 2026.
How we checked
re-verified 2026-09-20 on apps.shopify.com/easy-block-customer-ip-country (price last checked 2026-09-20)Seel⚠ usage meter
Three plans on seel.com/pricing, re-read 7 September and again 19 September 2026 (on that second reading the plan cards no longer print a monthly figure at all — all three say “Contact us” — and the $99 survives only in the FAQ below them, which states it three times; the rate card and the usage caps are unchanged): Free at $0 per store per month (no monthly platform fee), Growth at $99 per store per month, Enterprise at custom pricing.
SEO Space⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Three named tiers plus a free plan.
How we checked
prices read 2026-09-16 and re-read unchanged on 2026-10-04 on seospace.co, where the plan cards and the page's own pricing script both carry the figures (price last checked 2026-10-04)SEOKart⚠ usage meter
Free covers 50 pages of one-click AI optimisation, 10 tracked keywords checked monthly, 50 image optimisations and 50 pages of bulk editing, with limited rich snippets.
SEOmatic⚠ usage meter
Free: 10 products, 50 image optimisations, AI SEO audit, auto-pilot AI meta title and description, schema markup, HTML sitemap.
Smarty Discounts
The listing is unusually candid about what that means at the bottom of the ladder: the free plan's own feature list says low support.
Spiky.ai⚠ per seat
There is a genuine free tier, capped at 3 meetings per user per month.
StoreFAQ⚠ usage meter
Free: 100 FAQ page views, unlimited FAQs and FAQ groups, the AI chatbot and AI-written FAQs, 25 AI conversations for the lifetime of the account, AI training on up to 50 products, export and import, instant answer with live chat and standard support.
StoreSEO⚠ usage meter
Free Forever covers 25 products with SEO scoring, 200 AI credits, 25 image optimisations, up to 5 tracked keywords, an LLMs.txt generator and Agents.md editor, an SEO migrator, alt-text optimisation and 24/7 chat support.
How we checked
read 2026-08-19 on apps.shopify.com/storeseo, re-verified unchanged 2026-09-28 (price last checked 2026-09-28)Storista⚠ usage meter
Free covers 10 videos with unlimited views, TikTok Shop and Shop app integration, GEO/SEO optimisation and the Carousel and Spotlight widgets, and it keeps Storista branding on the widget.
Storylane⚠ paid add-ons
Free $0: 1 seat, 1 published demo live at a time, unlimited views.
How we checked
2026-08-01, read on their own pricing page; the Demo Suite amounts were unchanged on 2026-09-29 (price last checked 2026-09-29)Tapita AI SEO Blog Builder⚠ usage meter
We checked that against the same developer's other listing in the same session — apps.shopify.com/google-seo-schema-meta-data renders its header as “Free plan available” and prints its full ladder — so this is the state of this listing rather than a page that failed to load.
Tapita SEO Optimizer⚠ usage meter
Free: SEO audit and LLMs.txt on basic pages, unlimited on-page SEO audit, essential JSON-LD schemas, and image compression 900 a month capped at 30 a day.
TestGorilla⚠ usage meter
Free $0 with 10 credits a month, no card needed, including preset custom questions and 1 full-access seat.
How we checked
2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit (price last checked 2026-08-30)TextExpander⚠ per seat
Free is $0 forever with no credit card, Pro $5 (billed annually at $60), Business $10 (billed annually at $120), Enterprise quoted.
Tidio⚠ paid add-ons
The free plan carries 50 billable conversations, 100 Flows visitors reached and 50 Lyro AI conversations, and the comparison table's own footnote makes that last allowance a lifetime one rather than a monthly one.
Timesact Preorder⚠ usage meter, paid add-ons
Free costs $0 and covers 20 orders a month on unlimited products, unlimited email sending and sign-ups, unlimited coming-soon and low-stock states, and support, with Timesact branding on the storefront; the App Store card labels it Free (New Users).
Track123⚠ usage meter
The pricing article says annual plans have no overage: once the allowance is used up, new orders stop syncing until you upgrade, and the free plan stops the same way until the next cycle.
UptimeRobot⚠ usage meter
The famous free tier is real — but the paid ladder has quiet extras: extra login seats cost $15-19 per month EACH beyond the included ones, and SMS or voice-call alerts are pay-per-credit on every plan.
VyReel⚠ usage meter
Free: 500 storefront clicks a month and up to 5 video uploads, with every feature and AI product tagging unlocked; the vendor site labels it Trial, $0 forever.
Wegic⚠ usage meter
Free: 100 credits at signup only, which Wegic's FAQ describes as credits to chat with the AI — generating a site is a paid action.
Wistia⚠ usage meter
Switch that toggle to Monthly and the same three cards read $0, $99 and $412 a month, with the per-extra-user rate moving from $25 to $31 — so the 20% the chip promises is real, and paying month to month costs about a fifth more.
Zendrop⚠ usage meter
The free tier allows none at all (“No linked products allowed”), Beginner covers 1-20, Pro 21-100 and Plus 101 or more; the feature list on all three paid tiers is identical (trending products, Zendrop Academy, Zendrop AI access, custom branding).
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