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Conversational tools for asking questions, developing ideas and completing tasks through chat.

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AI Chatbots

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s general AI assistant for writing, research, coding, file analysis, image creation, voice conversations, and longer tasks that produce editable work.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsFree tier; paid Go, Plus, Pro and Business

Claude

Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant for thoughtful writing, research, coding, document analysis, visual creation, and longer work across web, desktop, mobile, and the terminal.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsFree tier; paid Pro, Max and team plans

Gemini

Google Gemini is an AI assistant for research, writing, coding, image generation, and work across Gmail, Drive, Docs, Android, and the web.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsFree tier; paid Google AI plans

Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the web, writes a direct response, and places source links beside the claims so readers can inspect the evidence.

Academic ResearchAI AssistantsFree Standard; paid Pro, Max and Enterprise

Character.AI

Chat with and create conversational characters for storytelling, role-play, and entertainment; optional c.ai+ features are separate from free access.

AI AssistantsAI CharactersFree; optional c.ai+ subscription

DeepSeek

DeepSeek provides a free AI chat experience and low-cost developer APIs for reasoning, coding, long-context analysis, structured output, and tool-enabled applications.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsFree chat; usage-based API

GPT4All

Run supported open language models on a computer and ask questions over local documents without a hosted chat subscription.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsFree local desktop app; hardware and model costs vary

Grok

Grok is xAI’s assistant for real-time web and X research, writing, coding, voice, image and video generation, automations, and longer autonomous tasks.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsFree; paid SuperGrok plans

Kimi

Moonshot’s AI assistant for search, long documents, research, chat, and agent tasks, with separate developer access.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsFree access; memberships and API vary

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft’s AI assistant for web tasks, with deeper Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook integration on eligible Microsoft 365 plans.

AI AssistantsAI ChatbotsLimited free chat; Microsoft 365 plans add features

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted gateway that connects AI agents to chat apps, local tools, browser actions, memory, skills, plugins, and mobile devices.

AI AgentsAI AssistantsFree software; model and hosting costs vary