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Ranked by free-tier generosity — quality and quota of access without a subscription.
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DeepSeek has the most generous free tier — fully free in the consumer app.
| # | Model | Free tier | Standard plan | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek DeepSeek · DeepSeek V3 | 5/5 | API only | 128K | Compare → |
| 2 | Microsoft Copilot Microsoft · GPT-5.2 (M365-tuned) | 5/5 | $20/mo | 128K | Compare → |
| 3 | Meta AI Meta · Llama 4 Maverick | 5/5 | Free | 1M | Compare → |
| 4 | NotebookLM Google · Gemini 3 Pro (research-tuned) | 5/5 | $20/mo | 1M | Compare → |
| 5 | Character.AI Character.AI · Character (proprietary) | 5/5 | $9.99/mo | 8K | Compare → |
| 6 | Pi Inflection AI · Pi 3 | 5/5 | Free | 32K | Compare → |
| 7 | Gemini Google · Gemini 3 Pro | 4/5 | $20/mo | 2M | Compare → |
| 8 | Le Chat Mistral · Mistral Large 2 | 4/5 | $14.99/mo | 128K | Compare → |
| 9 | Qwen Alibaba · Qwen 3 Max | 4/5 | Plus | 256K | Compare → |
| 10 | ChatGPT OpenAI · GPT-5.2 | 3/5 | $20/mo | 256K | Compare → |
| 11 | Claude Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 3/5 | $20/mo | 1M | Compare → |
| 12 | Grok xAI · Grok 4 | 3/5 | $30/mo | 256K | Compare → |
| 13 | Perplexity Perplexity · Sonar Pro | 2/5 | $20/mo | 200K | Compare → |
| 14 | Claude Opus Anthropic · Claude Opus 4.7 | 1/5 | $100/mo | 1M | Compare → |
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Free-tier generosity scored 1–5 by Perspective AI editorial team based on monthly message limits, model access, and feature gating. Subjective.
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