Just 6 hours ago, I bought “The Chaos Agent” – the latest Gray Man book by Mike Greaney which, of all topics, is on artificial intelligence. I haven’t even started chapter 1 of the book and it has, obviously, nothing to do with this blog topic on free AI tools for business. However what intrigued me is the line written on page 2 of the book. It’s a quote by Albert Einstein which says, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”. One of the greatest minds amongst all known human beings saw this coming some eighty years ago. Now twenty years down the line technology will be well-past the exceeding point; it will ‘control’ humanity.
Well, until that happens, we can safely explore the AI tools and specifically the free ones available for us.
ChatGPT: The Top Free AI tool for business
Now, who hasn’t heard ChatGPT? It is the most popular generative AI model today that has a widespread use starting from writing a sales pitch for a product to ReactJS code. People find innovative ways to use ChatGPT and a significantly big portion is for business purposes.
- ChatGPT Version 3.5 is free
- Version 4.0 is for $20/Month
A word of caution: Content pundits (including the great Neil Patel) says that all-AI content is likely to be punishable by Google. So, till the time your content written through ChatGPT doesn’t go out on the internet as a blog or web-page, you are absolutely fine with this free AI tools for business. Whenever you use ChatGPT, make sure you ‘infuse’ your own words too!
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Grammarly
Grammarly has been there for almost 15 years and proved to be one of the best tools developed for English language assistance. Over the years it has remarkably improved and now they have an AI version that makes writing even better in terms of grammar and conciseness. The free version with its browser and MS-Word extensions are good enough for any business use. It can find logically correct ‘mistakes’ in a seemingly well-written piece of content and help you to make it crisper and more readable.
- Grammarly Free: 100 AI prompts
- Premium: $12 (Rewrite full sentences, Write fluently, accidental plagiarism, 1,000 AI prompts)
- Business: $15 (Enterprise features)
Plus AI
Plus AI is a handy presentation enhancer tool. This free AI tool for business has features like prompt to presentation, document to presentation, AI in slides etc – all of which in some way or the other can help you to fasttrack your presentation making task. It also has generative AI based Google Docs extensions that can assist in writing business content in a much faster way. In fact, you can generate and edit the whole piece of content on the same screen with additional translation features. No wonder they have a 4.6 rating on Google.
- Basic: $10 (free trial)
- Pro: $20 (free trial)
- Enterprise: Contact for details
Otter.ai
Otter.ai uses AI to turn spoken words into written text in real-time. It recognizes who is speaking and lets users add notes and make changes to the text together. This free AI tool for business is very useful for meetings, classes, and interviews. Otter.ai can be used with platforms like Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams and equally useful for personal use, business and educational purposes. Otter.ai has four different plans as of now starting with a free one and differentiate majorly in terms of transaction minutes which is equivalent to the number of minutes you are online.
- Basic: Free
- Pro: $10
- Business: $20
- Enterprise: Contact for details
Lumen5
Your business promotions are incomplete without good videos. From showcasing the features of your products or narrating the services you are offering, you need the videos out there on your website and social media. Lumen5 is the tool that makes video making really simple and equally interesting. It has an AI-enabled scripting tool that can create a script out of your blog. They have something called talking-head video which is a collection of well-thought features for creating reels, products videos, explainers etc. The free plan is good enough to create nice videos with, of course, Lumen5 watermark.
- Basic: $19
- Starter: $59
- Professional: $149
- Enterprise: Custom
ClickUp
Being a project manager, I prefer to go by ease-of-use rather than a bagful full of features in my project management tool. For any Small Business project manager, the foremost task is to track and collaborate. Well, if I compare with Jira, Asana, Trello and other big guns of project management, ClickUp may not stand out, but this free AI tool for business has two things that any project manager wants on any given day – easily manageable and the right set of features to manage tasks. Coupled with its AI-powered features to generate standup, plans, ideas, notes and task summaries, ClickUp probably is now one of the most competent AI-based project management tools in the market today.
- Personal: Free
- Unlimited: $7
- Business: $12
- Enterprise: Contact sales
Descript
Descript is a multimedia editing tool that simplifies video and audio editing, making it as easy as editing a text document. It offers a range of features including multitrack audio editing for podcasts, accurate and fast transcription services, and the ability to create realistic AI voice clones. The free AI tool for business also supports remote recording for clear audio and video collaborations, and provides tools for quick screen recording and editing. This tool is ideal for podcasters, videographers, and content creators who need a straightforward solution for their editing needs.
- Free: $0
- Creator: $12
- Pro: $24
- Enterprise: Custom
Next I will cover the following:
- Eightify
- Looka
- NotionAI
- Pictory
- Playground AI
- QuillBot
- Synthesia
- Zoho Creator
- Flick
- Sniper AI
- ContentStudio
- Crayon AI