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Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, research, and analysis — free to start at claude.ai, with paid Pro and Max plans for heavier use.
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Best free AI chat assistants
General-purpose AI chat you can open and start using for free. A short, checked list rather than every chatbot on the internet.
6 tools worth trying
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ChatGPT
OpenAI
OpenAI's widely used AI assistant for writing, coding, and everyday questions — free to use at chatgpt.com with an account, with paid Go, Plus, and Pro plans for higher limits and stronger models.
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Google Gemini
Google's AI assistant for writing, research, and image-aware tasks — free to use at gemini.google.com with a Google account, with paid Google AI plans for higher limits and stronger models.
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Meta AI
Meta
Meta's free AI assistant for questions, writing help, and image generation — at meta.ai and built into WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook. Built on Meta's Llama models, and made by a company whose business is advertising.
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Qwen Chat
Alibaba Cloud · Qwen3
Alibaba Cloud's free AI assistant, running the open-weight Qwen3 model family — chat, reasoning, and multilingual tasks in the browser at chat.qwen.ai, and a capable free ChatGPT alternative.
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek
A capable AI assistant for writing, reasoning, and coding, free to use at chat.deepseek.com — made by the Chinese company DeepSeek and hosted in China, which is a real data-handling consideration worth weighing before you sign up.
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