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HeyGen Free: Three Videos a Month, One Minute Each
Three videos and sixty seconds each is a demo allocation, not a production allowance. The avatar catalogue is what makes it worth using anyway.
Chintan Dhokai
Full-stack developer. Has published 215 posts on DEV Community and writes about AI models, agents and the cost of running them. Covers AI assistants, productivity software and developer tooling for eFree Directory.
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Obsidian Is Free, Complete, and Needs No Account
The rarest kind of free tier: the whole product, permanently, without an account. What it does not include is any way to get your notes onto a second device.
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Proton Pass Free: Unlimited Passwords, Ten Aliases
Unlimited passwords across unlimited devices for nothing, and the aliases are the part no other free manager matches. Two vaults is where it starts to pinch.
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Proton Drive Free Gives You 5GB and Nothing Broken
Five gigabytes of encrypted storage with no card and no expiry. The interesting question is not what Proton withholds, but how long 5GB lasts.
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Suno Free Gives 50 Credits a Day and No Rights At All
Fifty credits a day sounds generous until you read the part about downloads. Free accounts get seven, ever, and none of them can be used commercially.
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CapCut Free Only Watermarks Pro Assets, Not Everything
The watermark question has a precise answer that most guides get wrong: it depends on the assets you use, not the export resolution or the plan itself.
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VeraCrypt Has No Free Plan Because It Has No Paid One
There is no pricing page because there is no price. The limits that matter in VeraCrypt are not quota limits but the consequences of getting it wrong.
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Proton Mail Free Is 1GB and No IMAP. Here Is the Trade.
Encrypted mail cannot be read by a desktop client the way ordinary mail can, because the keys never leave your browser. That is the trade free Proton Mail makes.
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Cloudflare Free Gives 10ms of CPU Per Request
Static hosting on Cloudflare is unmetered. The moment a request runs code, a 10-millisecond CPU budget applies, and it is tighter than most people expect.
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Linear Free Gives You 250 Issues. They Never Come Back.
Linear's free plan is not a monthly allowance. It is 250 issues for the life of the workspace, and when you reach it, new issues stop being accepted from every entry point.
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You.com Free Gives 100 Searches a Day, to Developers
You.com no longer publishes consumer pricing. Its public free tier is a hundred search API calls a day, which is a different product from the assistant it used to be.
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Mistral Free Is Vibe Now, and Its Limits Have No Number
Mistral renamed Le Chat to Vibe and gave the free plan $10 a month of API credit, which is the most useful thing on it. The message limit stays unpublished.