Alternatives to ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ChatGPT.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.
Claude from Anthropic offers a large context window for long documents and an Artifacts panel for generated code, with usage limits on its free tier.
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.
Google Gemini accepts multimodal input and integrates with Google services, making it most useful for people already in the Google ecosystem.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks.
Microsoft Copilot is a browser-based assistant whose answers can draw on the web, with features varying by plan and region and processing on Microsoft servers.
DeepSeek
A web chat assistant from Chinese developer DeepSeek, known for strong coding ability.
DeepSeek offers a free chat tier known for strong coding ability, but it is operated from China, which matters for some privacy requirements.
Grok
An AI assistant for chat, images and code, with real-time answers from the web and X.
Grok combines chat, image creation and code writing with real-time answers drawn from the web and posts on X.
Le Chat
Mistral AI's chat assistant, a multilingual AI chatbot from a European developer.
Le Chat is Mistral AI's multilingual assistant from a European developer, with prompts processed on Mistral's servers and plan details not confirmed.
Meta AI
Meta's free AI chat assistant, powered by Llama and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta AI is free, runs on Meta's Llama models and is built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, but is tied closely to Meta's platforms.
HuggingChat
Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.
HuggingChat is free and lets you choose among many hosted open-source models, with automatic model selection, though answers may be inaccurate.
Also worth comparing
These listings name ChatGPT as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Character.AI
A chat app for role-play conversations with AI characters, fictional personas and custom creations.
ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant for writing, coding and analysis rather than an entertainment app, with no catalogue of user-made role-play characters.
Doubao
ByteDance's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, translation, coding and video generation.
ChatGPT covers writing, coding, analysis and images from OpenAI's servers, with features and limits varying by plan instead of Doubao's free use and Chinese-language focus.
Julius AI
An AI workspace that analyses data and creates spreadsheets, slides, dashboards, websites, images and video.
ChatGPT is a general assistant that handles analysis alongside writing, code and images, without Julius's data source connectors and task templates.
Kimi
Moonshot AI's chat assistant for long documents, research, coding and slide creation, powered by Kimi models.
ChatGPT from OpenAI covers writing, coding, analysis and images in one browser app, with features and limits varying by plan and prompts processed on OpenAI's servers.
Pi
A conversational AI assistant in the browser, built for supportive, informal dialogue rather than task automation.
ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant for writing, coding, analysis and images rather than supportive conversation. It is freemium, with limits varying by plan.
Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.
ChatGPT is OpenAI's single assistant for writing, coding, analysis and images, rather than a hub for several providers' models.
Qwen Studio
Alibaba's AI chat assistant built on its Qwen family of language models.
ChatGPT runs OpenAI's models in the browser for writing, coding, analysis and images. Features and limits vary by plan, and prompts are processed on OpenAI's servers.
Rytr
An AI writing assistant with over 40 templates for drafting, rewriting and improving text.
ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant for writing, coding and analysis, so drafting happens through open conversation rather than more than 40 fixed templates.
Sudowrite
A web-based AI writing partner built for novelists and fiction writers.
ChatGPT covers writing, coding and analysis in one general assistant, so fiction help comes through conversation rather than dedicated tools such as Describe.
Z.ai Chat
A web chat assistant from Zhipu AI that runs on its GLM language models.
ChatGPT is OpenAI's hosted assistant covering writing, coding, analysis and image creation, with features and limits that vary by plan instead of Z.ai Chat's free GLM access.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Perplexity
An AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources.
Google AI Studio
A web workspace for trying Google's Gemini models and getting API keys for the Gemini API.
TypingMind
A chat interface for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other language models that runs on your own API keys.
LibreChat
Self-hosted open-source chat interface that brings many AI models and providers into one place.
