r/AIToolBench

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Free ai for coding

Hi,

I previously used antigravity for 3 months with the 25$/month plan. Currently I am using vs code with kilo code and am running DeepSeek v4 pro through open router. I am also exploring using the free aws 100$ but it isn’t working for some reason. I have also checked out gitlab and heard about a notion bug that lets you code with it. Is there any loopholes or optimal ways to get frontier ai for free or at a very low cost (I am ok with trials aswell) to code on an ide? I am also curious on hearing your guys setups.

Any information on this matter helps.

Thank you

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u/submarinebeansteam — 3 hours ago
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I need a bit of a help with extending my side project, all ideas welcome

I want to extend my side project further but ran out of ideas. It tracks what you can get for free from the AI giants (and not so giants). Is there a way I could make this even better and add more information? It doesnt have to be a free tier tracker but maybe something more indepth. Some niche or something else. All ideas are welcome and will give credit on website for them (if you want to).

I plan to make this side project to have more community feedback instead of just making what I think is useful. I'm Building this while waiting on MS certification to be concluded for my main product (Takes waaay too long).
Previsouly it was basically just random python scripts that everyone could use (open repo github).

https://getaitools.dev

Really appriciate any help here :)

u/Lucky_Cardiologist_5 — 11 hours ago

How Do You Organize Long AI Brainstorming Sessions?

Hi everyone,

I use AI chats extensively for brainstorming, but I've noticed that my sessions often grow into very long conversations. While that's great for exploring ideas, it creates a few productivity challenges:

  • It becomes difficult to find previous conversations when I want to revisit an idea.
  • Copying the most valuable insights into tools like Google Docs, Notion, or Obsidian is more manual than I'd like.
  • Searching through long chats to find a specific discussion or decision can be time-consuming.
  • Starting a new chat while preserving the right amount of context from previous conversations isn't always straightforward.

I'm curious how others have solved these problems.

  • How do you organize and archive insights from AI conversations?
  • What tools or workflows do you use to capture, tag, or search important ideas?
  • How do you maintain context across multiple brainstorming sessions without creating one giant chat?
  • Have you discovered any productivity hacks or best practices that make working with AI more efficient?

I'd really appreciate hearing about your workflows, tools, and lessons learned. Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!

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u/Inner_Document_8462 — 13 hours ago
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How to build an AGY WIKI OKF on the Antigravity CLI

AGY Builders,

We are all trying to build useful and scalable workflows for our AGY CLI and ecosystem, but the speed at which we need to learn, build, and deploy new things is incredibly overwhelming. If you are feeling that pressure, you are in the right place here at r/GoogleAntigravityCLI.

Over the past few weeks, I have been testing an "AGY WIKI OKF" setup that I put together myself (after inviting some members of this community to collaborate; mod is not proud). I know some folks might hesitate to trust a tutorial from a random Redditor, but I wanted to share this with the community anyway because it actually works.

I was able to build this because I am all-in on Google and the Antigravity Ecosystem. I’m a truly AGY—I am not some ultra-smart, 10x developer, but I know how to work hard, I dig for the right information, and I iterate.

AGY WIKI OKF | The Idea

To build a frictionless, token-efficient knowledge WIKI engine that transforms static documentation or notes (information) into an active, intelligent collaborator—orchestrated entirely by Antigravity CLI.

The core philosophy is simple: treat knowledge management as a clean pipeline and tokens as a premium, finite resource.

By anchoring this architecture to Google’s Antigravity CLI, the AGY WIKI OKF bypasses heavy middleware and complex UI layers, delivering a hyper-focused AI partner built entirely for execution speed, context hygiene, and minimal footprint.

Why adopting AGY WIKI OKF matters:

  • Stay organized (AGY OCD): Structured Markdown and YAML keep the chaos in check.
  • Save tokens: Doing more with less context window bloat.
  • Scale shareable knowledge: Making it easy to pass context and logic between different LLMs.
  • Humans and Agents working together: One standardized, readable format that works perfectly for both of us.
  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Data): Own your context. Port it to the newest model, platform, or OS instantly.

The Tools

The WIKI

In the agent-first era, a WIKI is no longer just a static graveyard for human notes; it is the operational hard drive for your agents. By maintaining a highly structured WIKI, you ensure that every piece of context is stored in a clean, machine-readable format. This means that whether you are testing a new modular skill or spinning up a specialized agent, your AGY CLI knows exactly where to find the precise context it needs to generate autonomous action, moving you far beyond simple, reactive conversational text.

Reference: Gist on Knowledge Representation

Google Open Knowledge Format (OKF)

Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) feels like the exact missing piece we've needed for orchestrating multiple AI agents effectively. It provides a vendor-neutral, interoperable standard for storing and sharing organizational knowledge.

Why this is huge for orchestration:

  1. The "Lingua Franca" for Agents: Any agent can read it out of the box without platform-specific integrations.
  2. Seamless Context Passing: Specialized agents can access, update, and pass the exact same foundational context back and forth.
  3. Human-in-the-Loop Oversight: Because OKF is just Markdown and YAML, it’s inherently readable and auditable.
  4. Scalable Knowledge: It acts as a shared, living library that grows alongside your agents.

AGY WIKI OKF Integration

Structuring an AGY Wiki using OKF revolutionizes how complex knowledge is shared. By standardizing documentation with concise Markdown and YAML frontmatter, OKF provides a unified taxonomy for cataloging AGY CLI slash commands or skills It is highly token-efficient, stripping away bloated formatting and maximizing context window limits.

The Prompt for Building an AGY WIKI OKF

AGY CLI WIKI OKF PROMT EXAMPLE

/grillme I want to initialize a brand-new, empty Obsidian vault from scratch that adheres strictly to the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) standard, with the specific intent of potentially open-sourcing or sharing this architecture later. I want a purely blank, skeletal framework with no pre-populated data. Please grill me to define the optimal architectural blueprint for this vault. I need you to interrogate me on: Do not generate the directory structure or files until you are satisfied that you have captured all my requirements for a production-ready, shareable knowledge base. 
Core Directory Hierarchy: How should we structure the root (e.g., /concepts, /resources, /indices, /log) to be intuitive for external users? Template Strategy: What base boilerplate templates do we need to ensure every new file is automatically OKF-compliant and structured for consistent metadata? Workflow Logic: Since this is a fresh start, what processes should we bake in for capturing information vs. refining knowledge that could be easily documented for others? CLI Integration: What specific file locations or configurations do we need to ensure this vault plays nicely with the Antigravity CLI from day one? Open-Source & Contributor Documentation: What files should we create to make this a "deployable" standard? Please include requirements for: A README.md with installation and usage instructions. A CONTRIBUTING.md that defines how to add new concepts or schemas. A "System Architecture" document that explains the logic behind the folder structure and metadata fields, ensuring anyone who clones this vault understands how to extend it.

The Final File Structure

AGY WIKI OKF
    ├── .agyrc
    ├── ARCHITECTURE.md
    ├── CONTRIBUTING.md
    ├── README.md
    ├── .agy
    │   └── .keep
    ├── .obsidian
    │   ├── app.json
    │   ├── appearance.json
    │   ├── core-plugins.json
    │   └── workspace.json
    ├── 00-Inbox
    │   └── .keep
    ├── 10-Projects
    │   └── .keep
    ├── 20-Areas
    │   └── .keep
    ├── 30-Resources
    │   ├── .keep
    │   └── Google Antigravity Documentation.md
    ├── 40-Archive
    │   └── .keep
    ├── 99-Meta
    │   └── Templates
    │       ├── Base_Template.md
    │       ├── Project_Template.md
    │       └── Resource_Template.md
    └── Clippings

TL;DR

  • AGY WIKI OKF: Organizes your information (context) , AGY CLI commands, skills  behaviors, and A2A workflows into a token-efficient, shareable format that reduces inference costs for any LLM.
  • Open Knowledge Format (OKF): Provides a standardized, vendor-neutral way to share context (Markdown + YAML), preventing platform lock-in and eliminating data fragmentation.

AGY Builders, I genuinely want your input on this. Please comment, grill me, roast me, ask questions, or give me your raw feedback on this AGY WIKI OKF setup. We are building the foundation to organize and share our data in the BYOD era. Let's build the future together.

u/AgentPadrino — 2 days ago
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I built an open-source, self-hosted AI gateway: 237 providers (90+ free), auto-fallback combos, and a 10-engine token-compression pipeline (MIT)

Builders-welcome post with the substance up front (disclosure: I'm the maintainer). OmniRoute is a free, MIT, self-hosted AI gateway — one OpenAI-compatible endpoint over 237 providers — built around two problems: runs dying on a provider 429, and tokens bleeding on tool/log output.

One endpoint, 237 providers — 90+ of them free. You point any tool or agent at a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint (localhost:20128/v1) and it can reach 237 LLM providers without you rewriting anything. 90+ have free tiers and 11 are free forever (no card), which aggregates to ~1.6B documented free tokens/month — and that's honest, pool-deduped math (we count each shared pool once instead of inflating it; the methodology is public in the repo). There's a one-command setup-* for 13+ coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Roo, Kilo, Gemini CLI…), so switching your existing setup over takes seconds.

Fallback combos — so it never stops mid-task. A "combo" is a ladder of models the router walks automatically: your subscription first, then API keys, then cheap models, then free ones. When a provider returns a 500 or you hit a rate limit, it slides to the next target in milliseconds, mid-request, and your tool never even sees the error. There are 17 routing strategies (priority, weighted, round-robin, cost-optimized, auto/coding:fast…) plus three resilience layers — a per-provider circuit breaker, a per-key cooldown, and a per-model lockout — so one dead key can't take down a whole provider.

Fusion — an ensemble mode for the hard steps. Beyond simple routing, there's a fusion strategy that fans a single prompt out to a panel of different models in parallel and then has a judge model synthesize one best answer (mixture-of-agents, built in). It's cost-aware, so easy turns stay on one fast model and it only fuses when the step is worth it.

A 10-engine compression pipeline — the part most routers don't have. Every request flows through a transparent compression pass you can toggle/stack per combo. Instead of one trick, it stacks the best of the open-source ecosystem: RTK filters command/tool output (git diffs, test logs, builds) at 60–90%, Microsoft's LLMLingua-2 does ML semantic pruning, Caveman handles prose, session-dedup strips repeats across turns. Critically, code, URLs and JSON are preserved byte-perfect, and a default-on inflation guard throws the compressed version away and sends the original if compressing would actually grow the prompt — it never makes things worse. On tool-heavy sessions that's ~89% average input-token reduction (an 8k-token git diff becomes a few hundred). Full credit to every upstream project (RTK, Caveman, LLMLingua-2, Troglodita) is in the README.

Agent-native — the agent can drive the router itself. There's a built-in MCP server (95 tools across 30 audited scopes, over stdio / SSE / streamable-HTTP), plus A2A (v0.3, JSON-RPC 2.0) support. That means an agent can query providers, switch combos, read its own remaining quota and manage memory through the gateway — not just consume tokens through it.

It's 100% local (zero telemetry, AES-256-GCM at rest), MIT-licensed, has a prompt-injection guard on every LLM route, opt-in memory, and runs on npm, Docker, desktop or your phone via Termux.

For context on whether it's worth your time: it's grown to ~9.8K GitHub stars, 1,490+ forks and 280+ contributors in ~4.5 months, with 21,000+ automated tests and 1,830+ issues closed — so it's a battle-tested project, not a brand-new experiment.

npm install -g omniroute

GitHub: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute · Site: https://omniroute.online

Would value a critique of the routing/compression architecture from this crowd.

u/ZombieGold5145 — 2 days ago
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Ask questions across your Markdown notes using a fully local Graph RAG engine. Built for Obsidian vaults, works with any folder of Markdown files. Extracts entity-relation triples from wikilinks & YAML frontmatter, retrieves answers via hybrid search (vector + BM25 + temporal). Multilingual. No cloud. Runs on Ollama.

https://github.com/benmaster82/Kwipu

u/WritHerAI — 2 days ago
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I built a Chrome extension that catches doomscrolling before it turns into an hour

I realized I kept opening YouTube and Reddit without even deciding to.

So I built Lucid — a Chrome extension that interrupts autopilot scrolling with calming reset overlays, breathing goals, and awareness prompts before the doomscroll spiral starts.

Still early, but it’s already helping me become way more intentional online.

Chrome link:
Lucid - Chrome Web Store

u/Big_Economics_5590 — 2 days ago

Student hitting AI usage limits constantly — any better free options for building a project?

Hey everyone,

I'm a student working on a project and keep running into the same issue — I hit the usage limit on whatever AI I'm using, so I'm forced to switch to another one, and I lose all my context/progress in the process. It's getting frustrating.

Also heard GitHub Copilot's free Student plan recently got cut down a lot (premium models removed, new sign-ups paused), so that's not really reliable anymore either.

Currently using a mix of Claude's free tier and a couple others, but none of them alone feel like enough for a full project without hitting caps.

For students out there — what's actually working for you right now? Looking for:

• Free or student-discounted AI tools with decent usage limits

• Anything that helps keep context when switching between tools

• General tips for managing a real project without constantly running out of quota

Appreciate any suggestions, thanks!

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u/Rash_Fushigami — 3 days ago

what AI app builders should i consider before Lovable/Cursor, or is everyone overbuying early?

keep seeing people pushed straight to Lovable, Cursor, or Replit Agent when they want to build their first AI-generated app, and I’m wondering if a lot of beginners are overbuying too early.

genuinely asking the tool-comparison crowd: what AI app builders should someone consider before jumping into the more “serious” coding-agent tools?

I’m mainly thinking about people who want to build things like:

  • landing pages
  • simple SaaS prototypes
  • internal dashboards
  • client demos
  • MVPs with basic auth/database
  • small tools they can test with users

my read is that tools like Cursor or Replit Agent make more sense once you actually care about code ownership, debugging, repo structure, deployment, and long-term iteration.

but before that, maybe something like Bolt, v0, Claude Artifacts, Framer AI, Softr, Bubble AI, or other lighter tools might be enough depending on the use case.

it feels like buying the “most powerful” AI coding tool too early can create more problems than it solves: too many files, too much debugging, too much setup, and not enough product clarity.

for people who eventually moved to Lovable, Cursor, Replit Agent, or similar tools:

what did you use first?

what was the actual signal that you had outgrown the simpler tool?

and which AI app builder would you recommend for someone who just wants to validate an idea before committing to a heavier workflow?

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u/Senior-Chard-8872 — 4 days ago

Claude Code / Cursor / Combination?

Hi,

I'm a bit confused... I want to buy some pro plan and I hear great things from both Claude Code and from Cursor. But now I also heard about the option to purchase Claude Code and simply use it within Cursor IDE using the plug-in.

Can anyone tell me the advantage of that, I am so confused and I am not sure which one offers better value for money at this point. I'm simply wanting to test it out, so I'm not really picky but I am simply not sure what is the way to go here.

Any info or tips are welcome.

Thank you in advance.

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u/Inner_Credit_9495 — 3 days ago

Is there an ai for my needs?

Hi, I'm looking for an ai (or at least a couple of them since there isn't an ai that will solve all of my listed problems) that would be able to do these things:

Gather knowledge, like perplexity, you can chat with it like any other gpt tool, but it's mainly focused on research. (The reason why I don't use perplexity is because of their ridiculous monthly planning.)

Read pdfs and watch videos, like Gemini, it's analysis is good for me but I keep on hitting the limits although I'm a plus user.

Be good for debates, like claude, it should be able to reconstruct the opposing argument whether if its an philosophical one or ideological one, and then steelman the argument. I use Claude combined with consensus pro (I linked the two together) but it just doesn't feel right for some reason (I also fear that I might hit the limit wall more often than I do with gemini)

And most importantly give references and be mostly true, I know that I should fact check each info given on every single ai but it takes a huge amount of time to do that. I will still do it nonetheless but I really want to find am ai that would make it easier to give actual correct info.

Basically I'm looking for an ai that could perform well with gathering Web searches like perplexity (including with its academic and scientific research), talk to me like chatgpt, reason like claude, do video/pdf analyses like gemini and be more likely to be correct like consensus ai. (Again, I know that there won't be one ai to do all of this but I'm still open for suggestions. Thank you.)

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u/Time_Helicopter_3030 — 4 days ago
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LocalAIMaxxing - I analyzed 2.3k local AI Apps to find the best in each category

Local AI for Mac Directory (https://bunnysoft.app/local-ai-mac-apps)

Hello friends! As a local LLM enthusiast, I've been very open to ways to increase my local AI usage. Previously, I've tried running local models via Ollama, llama.cpp, or vllm. I've even fine-tuned my own Gemma model

However, I've struggled to truly embrace local AI because I can't find durable use cases other than learning and tinkering. For my bread and butter - coding, I use Codex and Claude because I need to be as productive as possible. For everything else, my usage is so sporadic, I forget the proper llama.cpp launch commands when the time comes around.

With the release of Apple M5 and ultra compact local models more recently, I am becoming more confident about another possibility that we've been collectively sleeping on: the rise of local AI apps - products that package local models, workflows, and UI to serve a narrow purpose well. Apps remove the operational pain disproportionately felt during casual usage, and allow more of us to expand AI usage by covering diverse workflows with AI apps, instead of tokenmaxxing on narrow areas.

I made a directory site to survey the local AI apps landscape, and the results are surprisingly good: there are tons of options in LLM chat, transcription, OCR, Photo editing categories (50+ apps each), and some truly unique use cases such as wardrobe stylists and pet health assistants that I had no idea existed. There are 82 categories currently. Please check this out if you're interested! https://bunnysoft.app/local-ai-mac-apps

Limitations:
- Currently only covers the Mac App Store (since i need a reliable api to get data from)
- Data is collected on 6/24 so super new apps are not included. Planning on doing monthly updates
- If you see an app missing here, please let me know by submitting a nomination form

Methodology
- I scraped 20,435 apps from the app store api (513 search terms, plus crawling profiles of developers who build local AI Apps)
- Narrowed down to 2,259 apps that are actually local AI using deepseek v4 flash as classifier.
- Used a combination of scripts and LLM-as-a-judge for categorization and grading. The ranking rewards fully on-device apps. I've spot checked the big categories but for 2.3k apps there will be misses. If you find something incorrect, please call it out and I will fix it.
- see more here: https://bunnysoft.app/local-ai-mac-apps/how-we-rank

Here is the shameless plug: One of the apps on the site is built by me, you can't miss it if you visit the site 😂

Please let me know what you guys think about the future of local AI, apps, or the site 🙏

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u/Top_Power5877 — 3 days ago
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Learning tool to estimate AI stack cost

I built a learning tool to see how cost changes based on reasoning, caching, deployment, EU/US compliance etc.

It’s a learning tool, not a quote.

There are other factors that can impact the cost.

If you see any errors, something is missing or factually incorrect, please let me know.

Also it doesn’t mean that the quality will be the same. I tried to pick more or less comparable models but of course DeepSeek Flash is not the same quality as Opus 4.8

It’s rather to understand that if you run classification or summarisation task with Opus and you could do it with DeepSeek, you waste a lot of money

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u/Forsaken-Park8149 — 3 days ago
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i think i found a gap in the market

For most of my life I tried to be someone else. I'd find someone I admired, decide they were better than me, and copy them. That mindset pushed me into a business I never enjoyed and only started because I looked up to one specific guy. It failed. I felt completely lost.

Around that time I was obsessively tracking my sleep with a Whoop, trying to optimize it. I kept getting good recovery scores. And I was still exhausted, yawning through entire afternoons, dead by 2pm. That's when it clicked: the score doesn't do anything. It just confirms you slept well or badly. Cool. Now what? Knowing isn't fixing.

So I built the thing I actually wanted. It takes the data your wearable already collects sleep, recovery, heart rate, and turns it into a daily protocol instead of another number. It tells you what supplements to take based on your metrics, predicts your most productive hours and gives you the exact time window when you should do deep focus tasks and light focus tasks, it tells you how much caffeine you have in your system left based on your first coffee taken and notifies you when you should take the next caffeinated drink for maximum productivity, it even tells you when to nap so your energy lasts the whole day instead of crashing and much more...

It's on the App Store as RizeAI https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079. i built by myself, it's early stage right now, and I want honest feedback, what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd never use. Tear it apart.

u/PieKey1836 — 5 days ago

How do you keep product shots consistent across the website, ads, and social media?

Maintaining a cohesive product visual style can be challenging across platforms. Do you rely on templates, editing presets, or a defined brand guide? What’s your strategy for making every image feel more connected with the audience?

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u/Own_Pressure6793 — 4 days ago

How do you tell if an AI-picked clip from a long video is actually usable?

AI has been hitting pretty much every industry over the past couple of years, and I’ve tried a bunch of editing tools with AI features along the way. A lot of these AI clipping tools say they can find highlights from long videos. But from my experience so far, I’m still not totally sure how to judge whether the clips they pick are actually useful, especially for educational content.

For example, in a webinar about improving course completion rates, the speaker might suddenly say something like:

“Your course isn’t actually too long. It’s just missing the right progress signals.”

That sounds like a highlight, and I can totally see an AI tool picking it. But if the viewer didn’t hear the earlier part about why students drop off halfway through a course, they might have no idea what “progress signals” even means. The better short clip might actually be the part right after that, where the speaker spends 30 to 45 seconds explaining what progress signals are. For example, telling students at the start of each lesson what problem they’ll solve, ending with a small task, and showing completion progress between modules. That part may not have one super punchy quote, but it has the full problem, explanation, and actionable advice. It actually works on its own.

So I’m curious: if you repurpose webinars, podcasts, or long-form interviews into short videos, how do you decide whether an AI-picked clip is worth keeping? Do you look for a strong hook at the beginning, a complete point, or a clear takeaway in the transcript?

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u/Dangerous-Guava-9232 — 4 days ago
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Ai recommendation

In-home/ partial clinic BCBA: I’m looking for an AI tool to help manage and organize my caseload. Something that can track client hours, scheduling, billable requirements, cancellations, due dates all in a place. My company uses rethink for data collection but it’s terrible for actual BCBA case management

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u/Unable-Technician209 — 5 days ago

any ai recommendations?

i need an AI to generate videos from pictures or just videos. i am able to pay like 10$ a month but not for an ai that only generate with these fuckass credits but AI that generates unlimited vids (if its not possible it can be limited but not with these credits that let you generate maybe 5 vids)

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u/Infinityy69 — 4 days ago