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"Free" AI coding tools where you bring your own key: what you actually pay for

I run VibeCodePicks , a directory of AI coding and building tools. Every listing has a "free tier: yes/no" field, and one group of tools keeps making that field awkward: the ones where the software is free but the model isn't. Zed, Cline, Aider and OpenCode all fall into this group, and Warp partly…

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  1. 2026-11-03 13:41 · DEV Community — AI
    "Free" AI coding tools where you bring your own key: what you actually pay for

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