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Best AI Tools for Chatting and everyday assistance (28 options)
28 tools for chatting and everyday assistance in the directory. General-purpose AI assistants you can chat with.
How to read this page. We do not rank tools or publish scores. This page lists every Chatbots & Assistants tool in the directory with its official link and pricing model so you can shortlist, then try the ones that fit. Pricing labels come from each vendor's pricing page when we could confirm them; "See site" means we could not.
At a glance
- 28 tools listed; 2 free to use, 11 with a free tier, 0 paid, 15 where pricing is not confirmed here.
- With a free plan or tier: ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, GPT4All, Grok, LM Studio, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral AI, Msty, Poe, Venice.ai, You.com.
What to look for
Compare which models you can pick, usage limits on free plans, file and image support, and whether the vendor offers business plans with different data terms.
All 28 tools
| Tool | What it does | Pricing | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brave Leo | AI assistant built into the Brave browser. | See site | Official site |
| Character.AI | Platform for chatting with official and user-created AI characters. | See site | Official site |
| ChatGPT | OpenAI's conversational AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding and image creation. | Freemium | Official site |
| Claude | Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding and long-document work. | Freemium | Official site |
| DeepSeek | AI lab offering a chat assistant and an API built on its DeepSeek open-weight models. | See site | Official site |
| Duck.ai | DuckDuckGo's chat interface giving access to several AI models with a privacy focus. | See site | Official site |
| Google Gemini | Google's AI assistant for writing, planning, brainstorming and learning. | Freemium | Official site |
| GPT4All | Open-source desktop chat app from Nomic for running language models locally. | Free | Official site |
| Grok | xAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, research and image generation, with free and paid SuperGrok tiers. | Freemium | Official site |
| HuggingChat | Open chat interface from Hugging Face for trying a range of open models. | See site | Official site |
| Jan | Open-source desktop assistant that runs models locally or connects to cloud model APIs. | See site | Official site |
| Kimi | Moonshot AI's assistant for chat, long-document reading and web search. | See site | Official site |
| LibreChat | Open-source chat interface that supports multiple model providers, agents and tools. | See site | Official site |
| LM Studio | Desktop app for downloading and running language models on your own computer. | Freemium | Official site |
| Meta AI | Meta's AI assistant, available on the web and across Meta apps. | Free | Official site |
| Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft's AI assistant to create, brainstorm, learn and solve problems. | Freemium | Official site |
| Mistral AI | European AI lab with an AI assistant and developer platform; Free, Pro, Team and Enterprise plans. | Freemium | Official site |
| Msty | Desktop app for chatting with local and online AI models. | Freemium | Official site |
| Ollama | Runs open language models locally through a command line and local API. | See site | Official site |
| Open WebUI | Self-hosted web interface for Ollama and OpenAI-compatible model APIs. | See site | Official site |
| Pi | Conversational personal assistant from Inflection AI. | See site | Official site |
| Poe | One app to chat with many AI models and bots, privately or in group chats. | Freemium | Official site |
| Qwen Chat | Alibaba's chat interface for its Qwen family of language models. | See site | Official site |
| Replika | AI companion app for ongoing conversation. | See site | Official site |
| TypingMind | Chat front end that works with your own API keys for major model providers. | See site | Official site |
| Venice.ai | Chat and image generation platform that emphasizes privacy. | Freemium | Official site |
| You.com | AI assistant and search engine that answers questions with cited web sources. | Freemium | Official site |
| Z.ai | Zhipu AI's chat interface for its GLM family of models. | See site | Official site |
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