Alternatives to Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Google Gemini.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.
ChatGPT is OpenAI's general-purpose assistant for writing, code, analysis and images, with prompts processed on OpenAI's servers instead of tying into Google services.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.
Claude is Anthropic's assistant with a large context window and an Artifacts panel for code and documents, without integration into Google services.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks.
Microsoft Copilot is a browser assistant that draws answers from the web, with features varying by plan and region and conversations processed by Microsoft.
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 Llama models inside Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, tying you to Meta's platforms rather than Google's.
Grok
An AI assistant for chat, images and code, with real-time answers from the web and X.
Grok answers with real-time information from the web and X, and handles chat, images and code, processed on the developer's servers.
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.
DeepSeek
A web chat assistant from Chinese developer DeepSeek, known for strong coding ability.
DeepSeek offers a free chat assistant known for coding, operated from China, which matters for some privacy requirements.
Perplexity
An AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources.
Perplexity answers questions by searching the web with cited sources and a choice of models, focusing on researched answers over general assistance.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Google Gemini as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Doubao
ByteDance's AI chat assistant for questions, writing, translation, coding and video generation.
Google Gemini is a multimodal assistant integrated with Google services, processed on Google's servers, and is most useful to people already using the Google ecosystem.
Kimi
Moonshot AI's chat assistant for long documents, research, coding and slide creation, powered by Kimi models.
Google Gemini accepts multimodal input and integrates with Google services, making it most useful to people already in the Google ecosystem.
Pi
A conversational AI assistant in the browser, built for supportive, informal dialogue rather than task automation.
Google Gemini is a freemium multimodal assistant integrated with Google services. Prompts are processed on Google's servers.
Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.
Google Gemini is a multimodal assistant integrated with Google services, limited to Google's models rather than several providers.
Qwen Studio
Alibaba's AI chat assistant built on its Qwen family of language models.
Google Gemini replaces Qwen models with Google's multimodal assistant, tied into Google services. Prompts are processed on Google's servers instead of Alibaba's.
Z.ai Chat
A web chat assistant from Zhipu AI that runs on its GLM language models.
Google Gemini accepts multimodal input and ties into Google services, running on Google's servers instead of Zhipu AI's, with features varying by plan.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Google AI Studio
A web workspace for trying Google's Gemini models and getting API keys for the Gemini API.
Gemini Notebook
Google's AI research notebook, formerly NotebookLM, that summarizes and answers questions about your uploaded sources.
HuggingChat
Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.
Google Home
Google's app for connecting, controlling and automating smart home devices, with a web version and Gemini voice assistant.
