I Tested the Free Tiers of AI Business Tools. Here's What $0 Gets You

Every AI tool has a free plan now. The question is, can these free plans actually get you anywhere? So I'm taking one business idea, a small online shop for dog owners. For each one, I'll show you what you can get for free and where it asks you to pay. Then at the end, I'll tell you which ones I'd actually pay for first. So I'm going to do them in the order that you would actually need them to start this side hustle. So first tool is going to be ChatGPT. You don't even need an account for this one. I have a fresh incognito mode. I'm not logged in. have no account at all and i'm just asking it where to start what kind of dog products are worth testing uh if you've got just a few hundred dollars so from chat gpt the free version they give personalized dog bandanas which having two dogs now i got a second dog but i can verify dog owners love like personalized things for their dogs personalized dog bandana honestly i'd probably buy it never saw myself being this way but i am what i am um poop bag holder yeah i always need that. Dog enrichment toys. Yes, you want your dog to do better and improve. Pet hair removal. I have a Husky and a Pomeranian Husky. Big problem. And then portable dog walking accessories, which I take my dogs on like 50 walks a day. So definitely need that as well. So for ideation, definitely can use ChatGPT for free just to get ideas. Bounce your ideas off of ChatGPT and see if you like what it has to say. It's kind of like an advisor for free. So a great starting point. But what this doesn't tell me is which exact product to sell, who makes it, what I'd actually make on selling it, what are the margins. It gives me ideas, but not products with numbers. So I'll get there in a minute. So free gets you good ideas, no account needed, but where it stops is it doesn't actually know what is for sale or what it costs, what my profit could be, anything like that. And then a little tip that I've learned here is I end most of my prompts with keep it short or else you end up with like two page answers, which, you know, if you want two pages of answers, that's great. But usually I'm looking just for, Hey, sum it up where they say, kiss, keep it simple, stupid, not insulting AI. AI is very smart. So tool two is Doba pilot. This is an AI that finds a drop shipping products for you and new accounts start with 30 free credits, no card. One message is one credit. So I have a paid account with Doba pilot, but you get 30 free messages on the free account. So you can say things like find me six products for dog owners under $25 that I could sell profitably. Again, one credit per message, but this goes into the Doba database and we'll find six products for dog owners under $25 that sell profitably. So this is the same idea that I gave to ChatGPT, but this time it actually goes and finds real products. So it'll give you a lot more information than ChatGPT will so here they gave elevated breathable dog bed a pee pad holder stainless steel pet bowls a heavy duty six foot leash dog poop bags cute black dog flannel blanket so and you notice we get a lot more information when we run it through this and opposed to Chat GPT it tells us about how much these will sell for what kind of profit we're looking at so like 16% profit. Actually, this one's 53% profit. And it even gives us the supplier. So where can we find these products? If we need them in bulk, like what is the supplier? And gives information about the supplier as well. And very key information, refund rate, how many people ask for refunds for this product. So you want that number to be low, obviously. And these AI insights tell you why this might be a good product for you personally to sell. US warehouse means it is faster delivery and then fast prep which in drop shipping delivery time is probably one of the number one complaints because people are too used to Amazon so if you get really fast shipping that's what people are looking for so ChatGPT gave some good info on some ideas of things to sell but not enough information to actually pick a product to sell so since we get 30 free messages with Doba Pilot we can narrow these down to only the ones that ship from a U.S warehouse If it ships from China, it's going to take quite a while to reach an American audience and people are going to get upset. So in this list, five of the original six ship from U.S. warehouses already. So it just took out the dog blanket because that ship's not from the U.S. So two credits used. I've got products, prices and suppliers cost me zero dollars. What free doesn't include here is actually setting up the store and listing these to your store. for that they do have a seven day trial for 99 cents so it's not completely free but you know a dollar is is almost free but link and code down in the description if you want to check that out so free gets you real products with the numbers attached and the sources where it stops is the store setup so two or three we're gonna look at is Claude on the free plan so I've got some products from Doba and now I need something to say about them on my store so of course I have a paid Claude plan I talk about it a lot but I created a new free plan I want to see what you can get on free what you can get is you can get Sonnet 3.5 which is a pretty powerful model Opus 3.5 and of course Haiku is their top model but Opus is what I use for most of my daily tasks that you do have to pay but Sonnet 3.5 will work for most things and you can use it free here so I'm going to have it just write a short friendly product description for some of those products that we found on Doba and that took like three seconds sometimes i like when AI takes longer because it makes me feel like it actually went out and and looked um but AI is getting very fast so waterproof dog car booster seat give your pup a front row view and a safer more comfortable ride i'm sold already on this and then the elevated dog cot lets your dog relax in cool comfort indoors or out and maybe this would prevent dog hair um if i didn't let my dog sleep on the couch but got this elevated dog cot instead so free on Claude will get you writing that's good enough to use um where it stops is you can't use their top model you can't use Opus 3.5 um and Opus is better okay i know a lot of people who are like ai is not that smart it's not that great and then i ask what what what plan are you on what are you using they say oh i'm using the free Claude or i'm using the free chat gpt Those are not the top models, okay? You're not getting a good feel for what AI can actually do for you. So tool four we're gonna look at is Canva. And I do have a Canva paid account as well, but I'm using the free account. Created a fresh new account. I just wanna see what I can get for free on Canva. Every store needs a logo, so I'm gonna have Canva build a logo for me. So I'm gonna go over here to Canva AI. Again, I'm not interested in designing my own thing. I don't have time for that. So we're gonna tell Canva that we need a simple friendly logo for an online dog shop called Good Boy Goods what do you think of that for a name i got that from claude uh flat design one paw print warm colors let's see what it comes up with all right so it did come up with a logo here and this works for a first logo honestly you don't want super complicated logos it's not going to win an award but you don't need that on day one you can always iterate and get better you just need something and Canva free plan says you get 20 ai uses so i can make 20 different logos so here's where i ended up four tools zero dollars i've got a list of ideas from chat gpt i got real products with suppliers and pricing and shipping information from Doba product descriptions from claude and a logo from Canva so that's a big chunk of what you need to actually start a store and i did all this for free and my main point in this video is for you to start taking some action. Again, hard work brings profit. Mere talk leads only to poverty. I might say it in every video I ever make, but a lot of people are talking about starting a side hustle, starting a store. I want you to just take some action, and I showed you four things you can do today that cost you no money at all, and they get you on your way. Then if you want to keep going from there, of course, you can sign up for a Doba account. 99 cents. It'll help you get your store started, get the products actually listed on the store I have a lot of videos about that but take some action link to all these things down in the description let me know in the comments what you're going to do today thank you all so much for watching god bless you all and have a great rest of your day