AI assistants and chatbots

General-purpose chat assistants for questions, drafting, analysis and everyday tasks.

7 tools

OpenAI

OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant

AssistantsFree plan + paid

Anthropic

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding

AssistantsFree plan + paid

Free chat app and low-cost API from Chinese lab DeepSeek

AssistantsFree plan + paid

Google

Google's AI assistant, connected to Google's apps and services

AssistantsFree plan + paid

Mistral AI

Mistral AI's assistant, now merged into Vibe with a coding agent

AssistantsFree plan + paid

Microsoft

Microsoft's consumer AI assistant, built into Windows and Microsoft 365

AssistantsFree plan + paid

AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources

ResearchFree plan + paid