The Google Free-15 Audit Pack — All 15 Tools Tested in One Day: the 6 Keepers, the Graveyard, and the 30-Second Survival Check
The companion to the video. Every 'best free Google AI tools' list repeats the same 15 names — and as of the August 11, 2026 audit, three of them are dead or dying (Gemini CLI stopped serving individual accounts June 18 while its README still advertises 1,000 free requests/day; Gemini Code Assist for individuals retired the same day; Firebase Studio's signups are closed with full shutdown and data deletion on March 22, 2027). INSIDE: (1) THE FULL VERDICT TABLE — all 15 tools with KEEP / WAIT / SKIP / DEAD verdicts, each backed by a same-day test on a real machine, not a rewritten press release. (2) THE 6 KEEPERS with their exact free limits as read off a real account's screen: Gemini Notebook (100 notebooks, 50 sources each, 50 chats and 3 audio overviews a day), Code Wiki (free public-repo preview, no caps published), Stitch (400 daily credits, resets midnight UTC, Figma + code export built in), Opal (no published limits — treat as playground), Pomelli (no caps seen; site → brand DNA → 4 finished ad creatives in ~11 minutes; uncheck the pre-checked marketing boxes), and Flow (50 credits refreshed daily — and image generation cost 0 of them in the test). (3) THE GRAVEYARD LIST — so you stop building on dead tools the blogs still recommend, with migration notes. (4) THE AI STUDIO REALITY BOX — what 'free' actually did on a fresh account (permission denied + a billing push even after creating a free API key), plus the two genuinely generous rows: Gemma 4 at 14,400 requests/day and the unlimited Live voice API. (5) THE 30-SECOND SURVIVAL CHECK — three questions (product or 'experiment'? printed limits? export path?) that would have saved every Whisk user who lost their library on April 30. Independent audit from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Google.
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