Incentives for alternative energy policies and the current environmental requirements, the need to generate more clean energy sources, an example of this type of energy is hydrogen gas. Currently, the production of hydrogen gas can be done by various methods such as reforming of hydrocarbons, alcohols, water electrolysis via photovoltaic cells, among others, though most processes use platinum electrodes, which increases the cost of production, and required the application of an overpotential of approximately 1.2 V. Research should be make to optimize the production of hydrogen gas and minimize the energy expenditure of the process. The objective of this paper is the report to produce hydrogen gas using electrodes of stainless steel 304, 316 and titanium alloy, with or without phosphate surface and with or without addition of organic compounds in the electrolyte studied, in 3 mol L -1 formic acid. The techniques employed were potentiodynamic cathodic polarization and chronoamperometry. The polarization curves show a reduced voltage required to production hydrogen gas to the stainless steels with different surface treatments and/or when it is inserted an organic compound in the electrolyte studied. The results show that the production of hydrogen gas is economically possible when compared to the processes described in the literature, being about 20 % more efficient with the use of stainless steel 304 relatively to the platinum, which is about 20000 times more expensive than steel.