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Free AI Tools Every Indie Developer Should Know

Curated list of free-tier AI services and open-source tools.

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Best free tools: Claude free tier, Groq, Google AI Studio. Open source: Qwen 2.5, DeepSeek R1, Nomic Embed. Dev tools: Supabase, Vercel, LangSmith. Start free, pay only at real bottlenecks.

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