Are you feeling "AI Subscription Fatigue"? How much are you spending monthly?

Hey Product Hunt community! 👋

A year ago, paying $20/month for an AI tool felt like a no-brainer. But fast forward to 2026, and the "AI subscription stack" has gotten out of hand for many creators and devs:

• Midjourney: $30/mo

• ChatGPT Plus / Claude Pro: $20/mo

• Cursor / Copilot: $20/mo

• ElevenLabs: $22/mo

• Video / Research tools: $30–$50/mo

Before you know it, you're burning $120–$150+ every single month just to stay productive.

At the same time, open-source and open-weights models have exploded in quality:

• Flux.1 is matching Midjourney quality.

• DeepSeek V3/R1 is competing with frontier reasoning models.

• Kokoro-82M gives studio-grade TTS for $0.

• Continue.dev + Ollama brings AI pair programming right into stock VS Code.

That's why we've been building FreeAI Engine — an open community index benchmarking 100% free, freemium, and local alternatives to expensive subscriptions.

I’d love to learn from fellow makers:

1. How much are you currently spending on AI subscriptions per month?

2. Which paid AI tool do you refuse to cancel (what’s actually worth the money)?

3. Have you successfully replaced any expensive tool with a free/open-source stack?

Drop your current stack below — let’s see where the community stands! 👇