One question per category
Every free plan gives you something. The question is what you can take with you.
A vendor's pricing page tells you what the free plan lets you do. It rarely tells you what leaves with you when you are finished — whether the transcript downloads as a file, whether the PDF needs a card first, whether the audio may be used commercially, whether the deck carries someone else's logo, whether your code and chats stay out of a training set. That is the only question we ask, and we ask it of the vendor's own pages.
Everything here is read on the vendor's own pricing, terms or help pages, and stamped with the date we read it. What a vendor does not state, we leave blank — we do not estimate, and we do not repeat numbers we found on aggregator sites.
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AI Meeting & Transcription Tools
On the free plan, can you export the full transcript as a file you keep — or does download only unlock when you pay?
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AI Coding Assistants
On the free tier, is your code used to train models — and if it is, can you turn that off without upgrading?
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AI Voice & Text-to-Speech
Audio you generate on the free plan — can you use it commercially, must you credit the vendor, or is it non-commercial only?
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AI Resume Builders
After you finish the resume on the free plan, does the PDF download — or does a paywall appear at the download button?
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AI Presentation Tools
Does a deck exported on the free plan carry the vendor's branding — and what is the cheapest plan that removes it?
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General AI Assistants
On the free tier, do your conversations train the model by default — and can you switch that off without paying?
Latest reviews
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Whose logo is on the deck your free plan just exported?
Gamma exports PDF and PPTX free and sells branding removal, Pitch prices an unbranded export at $10 a month, and Beautiful.ai has no free plan to ask the question of at all.
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Which AI meeting tools let you download the transcript on a free plan?
Otter, Fireflies and Fathom all transcribe for free. Only one documents a transcript file you can download without paying, one puts download behind Pro, and one never says.
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Which AI resume builders let you download the PDF for free?
Rezi gives you three free PDFs, Kickresume says downloads are not limited at all, and Zety's free plan hands you a .txt file. The paywall is in a different place on each one.
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Do free AI coding assistants train on your code?
Copilot, Cursor and Amazon Q all let you switch training off without paying — and all three make it something you do rather than something you get. Windsurf's page says nothing.
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Can you turn off model training on a free AI assistant?
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all let free users switch model training off at no cost. What separates them is what happens to the conversation afterwards — and only one publishes a number.
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Can you use free AI voice generators commercially?
ElevenLabs, Murf and Speechify all hand out free voice generation. All three rule out commercial use of it in their own terms, and one of them will not let you download the file at all.