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Freshdesk's Free Plan Expires After Six Months
Every other free tier in this category is permanent. Freshdesk's is a six-month programme, which makes it a trial with a longer fuse.
Alpesh Gevariya
Brand, graphic and UI designer. Works across landing pages, mobile app interfaces and design systems. Covers design and graphics software, and sets the visual system for eFree Directory.
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Intercom Has No Free Plan, Only a 14-Day Trial
Two meters run at once: a seat price and a charge every time the AI resolves something. Neither of them starts at zero.
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Chatwoot's Free Tier Is a Real Help Desk With a 30-Day Memory
Two agents, five hundred conversations, thirty days of history, and an open source escape hatch that no other tool in this category offers.
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Crisp's Free Plan Gives Two Seats and No Conversation Cap
Unlimited conversations at zero cost is rare in live chat. Crisp charges for the AI layer, the omnichannel inbox and the small branding line.
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Buttondown Is Free to 100 Subscribers, Then Priced by Feature
One hundred subscribers, no feature gates, no card. The bill arrives only when you want tagging, analytics or a second newsletter.
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n8n Has No Free Tier, Only a Free Product
Every other tool here rations a hosted free tier. n8n gives the software away instead, and charges for the server you no longer have to run.
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beehiiv Sends Without Limit on Free, and Charges for Growth
A newsletter platform that never bills you for sending. Everything that helps you grow or earn sits behind the paid wall.
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Make Free Gives 1,000 Credits and Multi-Step Scenarios
The most generous automation free tier of the three, undone by two active scenarios and a quarter-hour wait between runs.
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Brevo's Free Plan Is Two Limits Wearing One Name
Three hundred sends a day and space for a hundred thousand contacts. The catch is not the volume, it is everything around it.
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ClickUp Free: Unlimited Tasks, 60MB of Storage
Unlimited tasks and unlimited members, against 60 megabytes of storage. That ratio tells you exactly what the free tier is for.
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invideo Hides Its Free Plan From the Pricing Page
There is a free tier, it needs no card, and invideo does not sell it. That absence is itself the most useful thing to know before signing up.
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Zapier Free Stops at 100 Tasks and Two Steps
The task count is the number people watch. The two-step limit is the one that decides what you can actually build.