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Assistants & chat

20 tools

Assistants & chatApps

Abacus.AI ChatLLM

One subscription that bundles access to most frontier AI models plus document, image and small agent tools, instead of paying separately for ChatGPT, Claude and others.

From $7

Assistants & chatApps

ChatGPT

OpenAI's assistant in a browser tab, a desktop app and a phone app, where you ask questions, draft text, and hand it files or spreadsheets to work through.

Free · from $20/month

Assistants & chatApps

Chatsonic

A chat assistant from Writesonic that combines ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in one interface, built around marketing workflows.

Free · from $16/month

Assistants & chatModel

Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant, available in a browser tab and — the part that matters here — as a desktop app that can read the files on your own machine and reach the systems you connect to it.

Free · from $17 per month

Assistants & chatApps

DeepSeek

A chat assistant with strong reasoning, free to use in the browser, and an API priced far below the Western labs for anyone building on top of it.

Free · from $0.15/M

Assistants & chatHarness

Dia

A browser where you can chat with whatever's in your open tabs, summarise a page, or draft a reply in place instead of copying text into a separate AI tab.

Free tier

Assistants & chatAgents

Dust

A workspace for building small AI assistants trained on your team's own documents, connected to Slack and Notion so they answer inside tools you already use.

Free · from €24/month

Assistants & chatModel

Google AI Studio

Google's free browser workbench for testing Gemini models and prompts before wiring them into a paid API integration.

Free · from $0.75 per million

Assistants & chatApps

Google Gemini

Google's assistant, usable on its own and also inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Drive, so it can draft and summarise against files you already keep in Google.

Free · from $4.99/month

Assistants & chatApps

Grok

xAI's chat assistant, with live search across X posts and the web, plus image and video generation, available on the web and in the X app.

Free · from $30/month

Assistants & chatApps

HuggingChat

A free chat interface over open-weight AI models, with no subscription required, useful for testing a model before deciding whether to pay anyone for it.

Free · from $9/month

Assistants & chatApps

MaxAI

A Chrome extension that rewrites, summarises, translates and drafts replies to whatever's on your screen — email, a webpage, a social post — without switching tabs.

Free · from $19/month

Assistants & chatApps

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's assistant inside Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and Windows, able to draft, summarise and answer from the files and messages already in your Microsoft 365 tenant.

From $18.00 user/month

Assistants & chatApps

Mistral Le Chat

A chat assistant and coding agent from Europe's largest AI lab, with connectors to Gmail, Drive and Slack, built for teams that need their data to stay under EU rules.

Free · from $14.99/month

Assistants & chatApps

NotebookLM

Upload your own documents and ask questions answered only from them, with citations back to the exact passage, plus generated audio summaries of the material.

Free · from $4.99/month

Assistants & chatModel

OpenRouter

A single account and bill for calling hundreds of AI models from different providers, so switching models doesn't mean signing a new contract.

Free tier

Assistants & chatApps

Perplexity

A research assistant that answers questions from live web sources and shows the citation for every claim, so you can click through and check it yourself.

Free · from $20/month

Assistants & chatModel

Poe

One subscription and one inbox for chatting with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and dozens of other AI models, so you stop paying for and switching between separate apps.

Free · from $4.99/month

Assistants & chatApps

Qwen Chat

Alibaba's free assistant for chat, documents and images, strongest in Chinese-language work and built on one of the leading open-weight model families.

Free tier

Assistants & chatApps

You.com

A research assistant that queries several AI models at once and returns an answer with a visible list of the sources it used.

Free · from $5.00

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