Here's the updated list with tutorial links added to each bullet:
🟢 100% Free Forever — No Credit Card, No Expiration
- Google Gemini API — All Gemini models free, 1M token context | Quickstart tutorial
- Groq — Unlimited free LLaMA 3.3 70B, fastest inference | Getting started guide
- Mistral AI — All models free including Codestral | API quickstart
- Ollama — Run LLMs locally, completely offline, zero limits | VS Code + Ollama + Continue coding assistant setup (March 2026)
- Hugging Face — 500K+ models, free Spaces, free inference | NLP course
- VS Code + Live Share — Full IDE + real-time team editing | Live Share quickstart
- Excalidraw — Instant diagramming, no signup needed | Excalidraw tutorial
- OBS Studio — Pro screen recording, no watermarks | OBS quickstart guide
- shadcn/ui + Tailwind CSS — Production React components | shadcn/ui docs
- Unsplash / Pexels — Free stock photos
- LangChain / LlamaIndex — Open source AI frameworks | LangChain quickstart
- GitHub Pages — Free static hosting from any repo | Pages quickstart
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API — Free IRS 990 data, 1.8M+ orgs | API docs
🟢 Free With Student Verification (.edu email) — No Money
- GitHub Student Developer Pack — 80+ tools, unlocks most items below | How to apply
- GitHub Copilot — AI coding assistant (normally $10/mo) | Getting started
- Microsoft Azure for Students — $100 credits, no credit card | Student quickstart
- DigitalOcean — $200 credits via Student Pack | Droplet tutorial
- JetBrains IDEs — All IDEs free | Getting started guides
- Figma Education — Full Professional plan | Figma basics tutorial
- Canva for Students — Pro features free | Design school
- Notion Education — Plus plan free | Getting started
- Namecheap — Free .me domain | Domain setup guide
- get.tech — Free .tech domain
- Name.com — Free domain (.app, .dev, etc.)
- Appwrite Education — Full backend ($160/mo value) | Quickstart
- MongoDB Atlas — 512 MB free + Student Pack credits | CRUD tutorial
- Miro — Unlimited boards | Getting started
- Heroku — $312 in credits via Student Pack | Deploy guide
🟡 Generous Free Tier — No Credit Card, But Has Limits
- Firebase — 1 GB Firestore, 50K auth users, real-time sync | Web quickstart
- Supabase — 500 MB Postgres, 50K auth users | Next.js quickstart
- Neon — Serverless Postgres, 100 projects | Getting started
- Turso — 5 GB edge SQLite free | Quickstart
- Clerk — 10K free monthly active users | Next.js quickstart
- Auth0 — 25K free monthly active users | React quickstart
- Vercel — Unlimited projects, 100 GB bandwidth | Deploy tutorial
- Cloudflare Pages — Unlimited bandwidth, no overages | Deploy guide
- Netlify — 100 GB bandwidth, 300 build minutes | Step-by-step deploy
- Anthropic Claude — ~$5 free credits after phone verification | API quickstart
- Cohere — 1,000 free requests/month | RAG tutorial
- Postman — Unlimited API requests on free tier | Learning center
- Docker Desktop — Free for personal/educational use | Getting started
- Loom — Free recording up to 5 min | Quick start
- Airtable — 1K records/base + 50% nonprofit discount | Quickstart
- Stripe Test Mode — Full payment API, free for prototyping | Accept payments tutorial
- Mapbox — 50K free map loads/month | First map tutorial
🟠 Free Trial — Credit Card Required or Time-Limited
- Google Cloud — $300 credits for 90 days | Quickstart tutorials
- AWS Free Tier — $200 credits for 6 months | Getting started
- Twilio — $15.50 trial credits for SMS/voice | SMS quickstart
- Google Maps Platform — $200/month free credit | Maps JS tutorial