Open-source alternatives to paid AI tools

Looking to replace a paid AI subscription with something free you can run yourself? Pick the tool you use now. Each page lists the open-source and local options we verified, with their licenses and the trade-offs.

Alternatives to ChatGPTJan · LM Studio · GPT4All · Open WebUI · LibreChat · …Alternatives to MidjourneyComfyUI · Invoke (InvokeAI) · Stable Diffusion (SDXL and 3.5) · FLUX.1 [schnell]Alternatives to Otter.aiWhisper · Buzz Alternatives to GitHub CopilotContinue · Cline · Aider · Tabby · OpenHands Alternatives to ElevenLabsKokoro TTS · Piper TTS · Chatterbox Alternatives to PerplexityVane (formerly Perplexica)Alternatives to Zapiern8n · Activepieces · Dify Alternatives to SunoACE-Step Alternatives to RunwayWan 2.2

Alternatives are listed only where we could verify the license on the project's own page or repository. “Open source” means the code is public under the license shown; “open weights” means the model files can be downloaded; “source-available” means the code can be read but the license is not open source. Quality is not benchmarked here. See all open-source and local AI tools.