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AI Chatbot Tools

Conversational AI you talk to directly: general assistants, companions, and support bots. For tools that plan and take actions on their own, see AI Agents; to build your own bot, see Agent Builders & Frameworks.

27 tools·25 with free plan·5 with free trial

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This category is for chatbots you converse with, from general-purpose assistants to niche companions and customer-facing helpers. It is distinct from AI Agents, which act autonomously across tools and tasks, and from Agent Builders & Frameworks, which are the platforms and SDKs you use to build agents and bots yourself. If you want to automate multi-step work rather than chat, start with AI Agents.

27 tools reviewed25 with a free plan5 with a free trial24 with an API14 self-hostable1 paid-only

Top picks

01

Claude is an AI chatbot developed by Anthropic, offering conversational AI capabilities with multiple model tiers (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) and specialized products including Claude Code for software deve

Our pick for serious writing, long documents, and careful coding — the strongest reasoning of the big three, but text-only (no image generation).

freemium·1 upvotes·$20/mo

02

Gemini is Google's multimodal AI chatbot that handles text, images, audio, and video understanding with real-time Google Search integration and deep Google Workspace compatibility

The one to use if you live in Google — a huge context window and tight Workspace integration — though the standalone experience still trails ChatGPT.

freemium·1 upvotes·$10/mo

03

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that handles conversational tasks including writing, coding, learning, and brainstorming

Still the default AI assistant for most people — the biggest ecosystem and the most polished all-rounder, even though rivals now match it on raw model quality.

freemium·$8/mo

All AI Chatbots

Drift is a conversational AI platform designed for B2B customer engagement and sales pipeline acceleration

#support-customers#answer-questions#generate-leads

Klarna AI is an AI-powered shopping assistant and customer service platform integrated into Klarna's buy-now-pay-later service

#support-customers#answer-questions

Grok is xAI's conversational AI assistant that integrates real-time data from X (formerly Twitter) and offers advanced reasoning capabilities

#answer-questions#search-the-web#do-research 2 views

An open-weight AI chatbot with strong reasoning at a fraction of the usual cost.

#answer-questions#write-code 2 views

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's AI assistant across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365 apps.

#answer-questions#write-content 1 views

Meta's free AI assistant, powered by Llama and built into WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

#answer-questions#generate-images 1 views

Le Chat (Mistral)

Mistral AI's fast, European-built assistant with strong open models behind it.

#answer-questions#write-code 3 views

Quora's app for chatting with many AI models — and custom bots — in one place.

#answer-questions 1 views

Chat, call and role-play with millions of user-made AI characters

#chatbot#companion#roleplay 2 views

Alibaba's free AI assistant, backed by the open-weight Qwen model family

#llm#chatbot#open-source 1 views

Free AI chat assistant from Moonshot AI, built for long-context reasoning and open Kimi K2 models

#llm#chatbot#long-context 1 views

Meta's open-weight 30B agentic model that runs local, multimodal AI agents on a single GPU

#llm#open-source#local-ai#agentic 2 views

Open-weight frontier LLM family from Z.ai (Zhipu AI), tuned for coding and agents.

#llm#open-source#coding#agentic 1 views

Google's family of open-weight AI models you can download, run locally, and self-host

#llm#open-source#google#local-ai 1 views

ByteDance's multimodal AI assistant for chat, images, and voice - China's most-used AI app.

#llm#chatbot#bytedance 2 views

Secure and scalable enterprise and sovereign AI.

#enterprise-llm#rag#embeddings#open-weights 2 views

Multimodal AI across text, video, audio, and music.

#multimodal#open-weights#video-generation#agentic-llm 1 views

Frontier natively multimodal AI models and agents.

#multimodal#open-weights#agentic-research#video-understanding

Amazon's family of foundation models on AWS Bedrock.

#foundation-models#aws-bedrock#multimodal#low-cost

Baidu ERNIE Bot

Baidu's flagship multimodal AI assistant for the Chinese market

#llm#multimodal#chinese-ai#chatbot

Tencent Hunyuan

Tencent's open and hosted AI models for text, image, and video

#llm#video-generation#open-source#multimodal

A warm, empathetic AI companion focused on emotional intelligence

#chatbot#ai-companion#voice-ai#emotional-intelligence

Device-native foundation models built to run efficiently on-device

#edge-ai#on-device#open-weights#foundation-models

Enterprise-grade Jamba models and the Maestro agent orchestration platform

#llm#enterprise-ai#long-context#rag

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Frequently asked questions

What's the best ai chatbots tool?: Claude currently leads in community votes. Our pick for serious writing, long documents, and careful coding — the strongest reasoning of the big three, but text-only (no image generation).
Are there free options?: 25 tools in this category offer a free plan. Another 5 have a free trial.
How do you rank these tools?: Tools are ranked by a combination of community upvotes, editorial review, and feature breadth. Our editors review pricing and capabilities quarterly.
Can I suggest a tool we're missing?: Yes — submit it here. Our team reviews submissions weekly.