Alternatives to HuggingChat
Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
HuggingChat
Hugging Face's chat app for talking to a choice of hosted open-source AI models.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as HuggingChat.
Poe
A chat platform from Quora that gives access to several AI models in one place.
Poe gives access to several AI models in one interface with shareable custom bots, with the models on offer and limits depending on the plan.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.
ChatGPT uses OpenAI's own models for writing, code, analysis and images instead of a choice of open-source models, with features varying by plan.
Le Chat
Mistral AI's chat assistant, a multilingual AI chatbot from a European developer.
Le Chat is Mistral AI's multilingual chat assistant from a European developer, offering its models rather than a choice across many open-source ones.
Meta AI
Meta's free AI chat assistant, powered by Llama and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta AI is a free assistant running on Meta's Llama models and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, without choosing between models.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with a large context window.
Claude is Anthropic's closed-model assistant with a large context window and Artifacts panel, with free tier usage limits unlike free HuggingChat.
DeepSeek
A web chat assistant from Chinese developer DeepSeek, known for strong coding ability.
DeepSeek is a free-tier chat assistant known for coding, from a Chinese developer, offering one provider's models rather than a model choice.
LibreChat
Self-hosted open-source chat interface that brings many AI models and providers into one place.
LibreChat is MIT-licensed and self-hosted, bringing many providers into one interface with agents and MCP, but needs a server and Docker.
NextChat
An open-source AI chat client for the web and desktop that connects to many language models.
NextChat is an MIT-licensed client for many providers with desktop and mobile apps, needing your own model provider or its paid hosted service.
Also worth comparing
These listings name HuggingChat as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Google AI Studio
A web workspace for trying Google's Gemini models and getting API keys for the Gemini API.
HuggingChat is a free browser chat for trying many open-source models on Hugging Face's servers, without Gemini API keys or official SDKs.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks.
HuggingChat is free and lets you choose among hosted open-source models, with automatic selection through Omni, running on Hugging Face's servers.
Z.ai Chat
A web chat assistant from Zhipu AI that runs on its GLM language models.
HuggingChat lets you pick among many hosted open-source models for free, with automatic model selection, rather than using only Zhipu AI's GLM models.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Google Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant, formerly Bard, integrated with other Google services.
Perplexity
An AI answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources.
LobeHub
AI agent workspace for building, scheduling and chatting with agents across many models.
Page Assist
An open-source browser extension that adds a sidebar and web UI for chatting with local AI models.
LLM
A command-line tool and Python library for prompting remote and locally installed language models.
