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Free AI chatbots

Editorial picks for "best free ai chatbots".

31 tools

EB

Ernie Bot

Agents · Baidu ERNIE 4.0 / ERNIE X1 / ERNIE Turbo (in-house)
8.7

Baidu's Mandarin-first ChatGPT rival, powered by the ERNIE model family

Freemium· Free tier for Ernie 3.5 access; Ernie 4.0 and premium features require a paid subscription (approximately CNY 59.9/month for individual plans); enterprise API pricing via Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan platform is metered per 1K tokens.Mandarin content writing and marketing copyChinese-language document Q&A and summarisation
DO

Doubao

Agents · Doubao Seed 2.1 Pro (in-house ByteDance), with Seed 2.0 / 1.5 on free tier
8.5

ByteDance's flagship AI assistant with a real agent mode and one of the largest user bases outside ChatGPT

Freemium· Free tier (chat, search, writing, image gen, voice/video chats) / Doubao Pro RMB 68/mo (~$9.40) / RMB 200/mo (~$27.80) / RMB 500/mo (~$69.40). API: 6 yuan per 1M input tokens, 30 yuan per 1M output tokens for Doubao 2.1 Pro (cache-hit as low as 1.2 yuan).Long-document PDF and Office file summarizationAutonomous browser and local-computer agent tasks
CZ

ChatGLM (Zhipu Qingyan)

Agents · GLM-4, GLM-4V, GLM-4-Air/Flash, CogView, CogVideoX (ChatGLM family, Zhipu AI / Tsinghua KEG)
8.4

Zhipu AI's bilingual ChatGLM assistant with agents, code, image and video generation

Freemium· Free consumer tier (chatglm.cn); paid API tiers via Zhipu Open Platform (bigmodel.cn) priced per million tokens by model (GLM-4, GLM-4-Air, GLM-4-Flash, GLM-4V, CogVideoX); enterprise/private deployment on requestChinese-language document drafting and rewritingChinese-English translation and localisation
L3

Llama 3

Writing · Llama 3 / 3.1 (8B, 70B, 405B)
8.3

Meta's open-weights LLM family that put serious frontier-adjacent models in everyone's hands.

Free· Weights free under Meta Llama Community License; inference cost via self-hosting or 3rd-party providerschatlong-context reasoning
LS

LM Studio

Agents · Multi-model (gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma, DeepSeek-R1, Llama, others)
8.3

Desktop app for discovering, downloading, and running open-weight LLMs locally with an OpenAI-compatible server.

Freemium· Free: $0local-llm-inferenceprivate-chat
JA

Jan

Writing · Multi-model (local open-weights + OpenAI/Claude/Gemini via API)
8.2

Open-source desktop ChatGPT alternative that runs local LLMs and routes to cloud providers from one app.

Free· Free and open source; bring-your-own keys for cloud modelslocal-llm-chatprivate-ai-assistant
LI

LibreChat

Writing · Multi-model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Ollama, and others)
8.2

Open-source, self-hostable ChatGPT-style frontend that brings every major LLM provider under one roof.

Free· Free and open source; self-hosted (you pay model providers for API usage)multi-model chatself-hosted chatgpt
PO

Poe

Writing · Multi-model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, FLUX, Sora, others)
8.2

One subscription, every frontier model - Quora's multi-model chat hub with bots, image, video, and audio generation.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salesmulti-model chatimage generation
KI

Kimi

Writing · Kimi K2 (K2.5 / K2.6 / K2.7 Code)
8.1

Moonshot AI's chat assistant with long-context document analysis, coding agents, and deep research built in.

Freemium· Free web chat; API pay-as-you-go from ~$0.60/MTok inputlong-document analysisdeep research
CH

ChatGPT

Writing · GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o-series reasoning models
8.0

OpenAI's flagship conversational assistant, and the default benchmark every other chatbot is measured against.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact saleswritingcoding
MA

Meta AI

Writing · Llama (Meta's open-weight family)
7.9

Meta's free consumer AI assistant powered by the Llama family of open-weight models.

Free· Free consumer product; no paid tierchat-assistantwriting-help
TY

TypingMind

Writing · Multi-model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, local)
7.7

BYOK chat frontend that puts GPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models behind one polished UI.

Paid· Standard: $39 · Extended: $79 · Premium: $99multi-model-chatprompt-library
GE

Gemini

Writing · Gemini 2.x (Flash / Pro / Ultra)
7.3

Google's flagship multimodal AI assistant with deep integration into Workspace and Android.

Freemium· Free tier; Google One AI Premium $19.99/mo includes Gemini Advancedchat-assistantresearch
CS

Cherry Studio

Agents · Multi-model
7.2

Open-source desktop AI client that wires 300+ LLMs into one chat, knowledge-base, and agent workspace.

Free· Free and open source; bring your own API keysmulti-model chatlocal knowledge base
GR

Grok

Writing · Grok (xAI)
7.2

xAI's conversational assistant with real-time X integration and a distinctly less-filtered personality.

Freemium· Free tier on X; X Premium from ~$8/mo; SuperGrok and API pay-as-you-goconversational-aireal-time-search
PA

Perplexity AI

RAG · Multi-model (Sonar, GPT-4 class, Claude, Gemini)
7.2

Conversational answer engine that cites its sources by default.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $30 · Enterprise: Contact salesai-searchresearch
QC

Qwen Chat

Writing · Qwen3 family (Qwen3-Max, Qwen-VL, Qwen-Coder, Qwen-Image)
7.2

Alibaba's flagship chatbot fronting the Qwen family of open-weight LLMs, with vision, code, and image generation in one UI.

Free· Free with sign-in; paid API access via Alibaba Cloud DashScopechatreasoning
ZA

Z.ai

Writing · GLM-5.2 (GLM family)
7.0

Zhipu AI's free chat interface powered by the GLM family of large language models.

Freemium· Free chat tier; paid API and Pro plans via z.ai open platformgeneral chatlong-form writing
AD

AI Dungeon

Writing · Multi-model (rotating open-weights: Mixtral, Llama, Hermes variants)
6.9

AI-powered text adventure platform where the story is generated turn-by-turn by an LLM.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: $50interactive-fictionai-roleplay
CU

Chatbot UI

Writing · Multi-model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta, etc.)
6.9

Open-source unified chat interface for 80+ frontier AI models.

Freemium· Free tier on hosted app; self-host is free (bring your own API keys)multi-model chatprompt management
FL

FlowGPT

Writing · Multi-model
6.9

Community marketplace for AI character roleplay scenarios and prompt templates.

Freemium· Free browsing; in-app wallet/credits for premium chatsprompt-discoverycharacter-roleplay
MC

Microsoft Copilot

Writing · GPT-4-class (OpenAI) + DALL-E
6.9

Microsoft's consumer AI assistant, formerly Bing Chat, now powered by GPT-4-class models with web grounding and image generation.

Freemium· Basic: $20 · Pro: $50 · Enterprise: Contact salesconversational-searchwriting-assistance
AA

Arena AI

Evaluation · Multi-model
6.8

Head-to-head LLM battle arena with a public leaderboard for ranking AI models.

Free· Free to use; no public paid tier listedllm-benchmarkingmodel-comparison
CA

Character.AI

Writing · Proprietary Character.AI models
6.8

Conversational roleplay platform with millions of user-created AI personas.

Freemium· Free tier; c.ai+ around $9.99/moroleplaycreative-writing
CH

ChatBar

Writing · Multi-model (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Pi, Poe)
6.8

Menu-bar launcher that puts ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Pi and Poe one keystroke away.

Free· Free and open-source; paid macOS App Store build for auto-updatesmulti-model chatmenu-bar access
NA

Nexus AI

Writing · Multi-model
6.8

All-in-one AI workspace bundling writing, image, voice, and chat into a single subscription.

Freemium· Free 500 words/mo; Premium $18-25/mo; Ultimate $35-50/mo (30% off annual)ai-writingimage-generation
AI

Ailin

Agents · Multi-model — routes to OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and customer-supplied custom models

One prompt, every AI model — plus a no-code builder for agents and workflows

Paid· Basic: $20 · Pro: $50 · Enterprise: Contact salesinternal knowledge-base chatbotmulti-model prompt A/B testing
AT

AI Toolbox

Writing

One Chrome extension for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok

Freemium· Free forever: $0 · Monthly: $9.99 · Annual: ? · Lifetime: ? · All Access Lifetime: ?Organizing ChatGPT and Claude chat history into foldersFull-text search across past LLM conversations
LO

LobeHub

Agents · OpenAI GPT-4o/o1, Anthropic Claude 3.5/4, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Ollama, and 40+ other providers (bring-your-own-key)

Open-source AI agent platform and chat UI supporting every major LLM, plugins, and multi-agent workflows.

Freemium· Free: Free · Starter: $9.9 · Premium: $19.9 · Ultimate: $39.9Self-hosted ChatGPT alternativeMulti-provider LLM comparison
OW

Open WebUI

Agents · Backend-agnostic: any Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, or OpenAI-compatible API (OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Llama 3.x, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma, etc.)

Self-hosted, extensible AI chat platform that runs on your infrastructure

Freemium· Free (self-hosted, MIT-style community license via pip/Docker) / Enterprise: custom pricing for SSO, RBAC, audit logs, air-gapped deployment, data-residency guaranteesSelf-hosted ChatGPT alternative for a teamPrivate RAG chatbot over internal documents
SI

SillyTavern

Writing · Backend-agnostic — OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral, OpenRouter, KoboldAI/KoboldCpp, Text-Generation-WebUI, Tabby, llama.cpp, NovelAI, AI Horde, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Locally installed power-user frontend for chatting with LLMs, image models, and TTS backends

Free· Free and open source (AGPL-3.0). Users pay only for whichever backend they connect (OpenAI, Claude, local models via KoboldCpp/Ooba/Tabby, AI Horde, etc.).Character-driven AI roleplayLong-form collaborative fiction