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OpenAI's all-purpose AI assistant for chat, writing and analysis
38 tools · updated Nov 2026
Best AI Chatbots & Assistants Tools in 2026
General-purpose AI assistants and chatbots for writing, research, analysis and everyday tasks. Our top picks are ChatGPT, Claude and Google Gemini.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant known for writing, reasoning and coding
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant connected to Search and Workspace
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI companion across Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
Ollama
Run open-source LLMs locally with a single command
DeepSeek
Free chatbot powered by DeepSeek's open-weight reasoning models
Grok
xAI's assistant with real-time access to X (Twitter) data
LM Studio
Desktop app to discover, download and run local LLMs
Poe
One app to chat with GPT, Claude, Gemini and hundreds of bots
Mistral Le Chat
Mistral AI's fast, European-built AI assistant
Qwen Chat
Alibaba's free assistant built on the open Qwen model family
Meta AI
Free AI assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and the web
Kimi
Moonshot AI's assistant known for long context and agentic research
Alexa+
Amazon's generative-AI upgrade to the Alexa voice assistant
You.com
AI search and research assistant with multiple models
TypingMind
Better chat UI for AI models using your own API keys
Duck.ai
DuckDuckGo's private, anonymous chat with popular AI models
Msty
Desktop app for chatting with local and online AI models
Jan
Open-source, offline ChatGPT alternative for your desktop
Geekflare
Team workspace to chat with every top AI model
Z.ai
Free chat with Zhipu's open-weight GLM models
Shortcut Chat
One prompt, answers from every top AI model
Pi
Friendly, emotionally intelligent personal AI from Inflection
GPT4All
Nomic's free app for private local AI chat with your documents
FreedomGPT
Private AI chat with many models, including open-source
Perplexity
AI answer engine with real-time, cited web results
Hugging Face
The hub for open-source models, datasets and AI apps
Character.AI
Chat with millions of user-created AI characters
Microsoft 365 Copilot
AI assistant across Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint
Kagi
Ad-free paid search engine with built-in AI assistant
Chatbase
Build AI support agents trained on your data
Brave Search
Independent private search engine with AI answers
CustomGPT.ai
No-code AI agents trained on your business content
SchoolAI
Teacher-guided AI spaces for safe student learning
Sider
AI sidebar for chatting, reading and writing on any page
Delphi
Build an interactive AI clone of your expertise
Monica
All-in-one AI assistant in your browser
Merlin
AI assistant extension for browsing, writing and research
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