Best free AI tools for students

Every tool on this page has a genuinely free plan — not a trial that expires. We say what the free tier actually includes, and where it runs out.

11 tools

A browser-based design tool with templates for presentations, posters and reports.

OpenAI's conversational AI assistant, used for explanation, drafting and brainstorming.

Claude

Studying Free plan

Anthropic's AI assistant, often used for working through long documents and detailed explanation.

Elicit

Research Free plan

Automating literature reviews by extracting answers from many papers at once

Gemini

Studying Free plan

Google's AI assistant, integrated with Google's own products.

AI pair programmer built into your editor that autocompletes code, explains unfamiliar codebases, and can run autonomous "agent mode" tasks across multiple files.

A writing assistant that checks grammar, clarity and tone as you type.

A Google research assistant that answers questions using only the sources you upload.

An AI search engine that answers questions and cites the sources it used.

A paraphrasing and summarising tool aimed at writers and students.