# AI chat assistants

12 apps ranked by verified data.
Source: https://altcatalog.com/category/ai-chat-assistants/

## Apps

- [ChatGPT](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/chatgpt.md) — OpenAI's assistant with the largest user base
- [Claude](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/claude.md) — Anthropic's assistant focused on long-context work
- [DeepSeek](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/deepseek.md) — Free, open-weight Chinese AI chatbot known for frontier-class reasoning at no cost
- [Gemini](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/gemini.md) — Google's assistant integrated with Workspace
- [Grok](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/grok.md) — xAI's chat assistant with real-time X/web knowledge, voice mode, and image generation
- [Le Chat](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/le-chat.md) — Mistral's assistant with European hosting
- [LibreChat](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/librechat.md) — Open-source, self-hostable ChatGPT-style interface unifying OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and
- [Meta AI](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/meta-ai.md) — Meta's free AI assistant built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and its own app/website
- [Microsoft Copilot](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/microsoft-copilot.md) — Microsoft's free consumer AI chat assistant with web search, voice, image and file tools
- [Perplexity](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/perplexity.md) — Answer engine with cited web search
- [Poe](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/poe.md) — Quora's multi-model AI chat platform giving one subscription access to GPT, Claude, Gemini
- [Qwen Chat](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/qwen.md) — Alibaba's free AI chat assistant with no usage caps, built on the Qwen open-weight model f

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