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AI-Visibility Tools With a Real, Ongoing Free Tier

The 16 tools in our index with a free plan you can use indefinitely with no card (not a one-time check, not a trial that expires), from unlimited bring-your-own-key monitoring to a standing $25/month hosted credit allowance.

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A "free tier" checkbox on a comparison page can mean four different things: a self-hosted tool you run forever on your own API key, a standing hosted plan with real (if capped) capacity, a single one-time check with no account required, or a trial clock that starts the moment you sign up and eventually runs out.

At a glance

tools
16
curated for this set
Free to start
15 of 16
a free or freemium entry tier
Public API
5 of 16
10 more only on a paid tier
Publish a price
16 of 16
an anchor price on their own page
What this collection covers

These 16 tools clear the higher bar: an ongoing free option, usable indefinitely, with no card and no expiry. Six put no vendor-imposed ceiling on use at all because the cost sits with your own API key; the other ten host the free plan themselves and cap it, but never take it away. Open any entry for its exact limits.

Engine coverage, prompt caps, workspace and seat counts vary by an order of magnitude between the most generous plan here and the smallest, and two tools that both say "free tier" on their homepage can mean very different things once you read the fine print.

How these 16 tools were picked

A tool earns a place here only if its own CitedIndex listing documents an ongoing free option usable indefinitely without a credit card: either a self-hosted or bring-your-own-key tier with no vendor-imposed usage ceiling, or a standing $0 hosted plan with a published (or vendor-stated "forever") cap. Excluded: a one-time check or a periodic audit (once every 90 days, for example), and a time-limited trial with no ongoing free plan beneath it. Both are covered separately in [What 'Free' Actually Means Across 70 AI-Visibility Tools](/blog/free-tier-vs-free-trial-ai-visibility-tools-2026/), the data report this list is drawn from. Every fact below is transcribed from that report's own sourced, vendor-page-verified figures, current as of the report's 2026-08-11 update. Re-verified against the live 92-listing corpus on 2026-08-18: membership unchanged at 16; checked and excluded GetCito (a genuinely self-hosted, BYOK Self-Host tier, but capped to a single domain on a weekly refresh, which is a vendor-imposed ceiling this page's bar excludes) and reconfirmed LLMrefs, Local Dominator AI Tracker, Rankshift and ZipTie remain time-boxed trials with no standing free tier beneath them. Pricing changes; re-verify against the vendor's live pricing page before relying on any single figure for a purchase decision, and see each tool's own listing for its full pricing table and sources.

The 16 tools on this shelf

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