Alternatives to Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Claude.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.
ChatGPT from OpenAI handles writing, coding, analysis and image creation in one place, with features and limits that vary by plan.
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.
Google Gemini accepts multimodal input and ties into 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 answers can draw on the web, with features varying by plan and region and conversations processed on Microsoft's 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, 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 adds real-time answers from the web and X along with image creation and code writing, with features depending on the service plan.
Le Chat
Mistral AI's chat assistant, a multilingual AI chatbot from a European developer.
Le Chat is a multilingual assistant from European developer Mistral AI, with prompts processed on Mistral's servers and plan limits not confirmed.
Meta AI
Meta's free AI chat assistant, powered by Llama and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta AI is free and runs on Meta's Llama models inside 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 offers a choice of hosted open-source models with automatic selection, running on Hugging Face's servers rather than locally.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Claude 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.
Claude is a general assistant with a large context window for long conversations and documents, built for writing and analysis rather than character role-play.
Doubao
ByteDance's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, translation, coding and video generation.
Claude is Anthropic's assistant with a large context window for long documents and an Artifacts panel, with a free tier that has usage limits.
Kimi
Moonshot AI's chat assistant for long documents, research, coding and slide creation, powered by Kimi models.
Claude from Anthropic also handles long documents through a large context window and adds an Artifacts panel for generated code and documents.
Pi
A conversational AI assistant in the browser, built for supportive, informal dialogue rather than task automation.
Claude is Anthropic's freemium assistant focused on writing, analysis and coding with a large context window. The free tier has usage limits.
Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.
Claude is Anthropic's assistant with a large context window and Artifacts panel, offering one provider's models instead of several in one interface.
Qwen Studio
Alibaba's AI chat assistant built on its Qwen family of language models.
Claude uses Anthropic's models with a large context window and an Artifacts panel for generated code and documents. It runs only online, and the free tier has usage limits.
Rytr
An AI writing assistant with over 40 templates for drafting, rewriting and improving text.
Claude is a general assistant with a large context window and an Artifacts panel, suited to longer drafts but without dedicated copywriting templates or a browser extension.
Sudowrite
A web-based AI writing partner built for novelists and fiction writers.
Claude is a general assistant with a large context window for long manuscripts, but lacks Sudowrite's fiction-specific tools and the Muse model trained for fiction.
Z.ai Chat
A web chat assistant from Zhipu AI that runs on its GLM language models.
Claude from Anthropic offers a large context window and an Artifacts panel for code and documents, with a free tier that has usage limits rather than 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.
Cursor
An AI code editor built on VS Code, with coding agents that plan and carry out tasks.
GitHub Copilot
An AI coding assistant from GitHub that suggests code and carries out coding tasks in editors and terminals.
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.
