Free AI chatbots
Editorial picks for "best free ai chatbots".
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Ernie Bot
Baidu's Mandarin-first ChatGPT rival, powered by the ERNIE model family
Doubao
ByteDance's flagship AI assistant with a real agent mode and one of the largest user bases outside ChatGPT
ChatGLM (Zhipu Qingyan)
Zhipu AI's bilingual ChatGLM assistant with agents, code, image and video generation
Llama 3
Meta's open-weights LLM family that put serious frontier-adjacent models in everyone's hands.
LM Studio
Desktop app for discovering, downloading, and running open-weight LLMs locally with an OpenAI-compatible server.
Jan
Open-source desktop ChatGPT alternative that runs local LLMs and routes to cloud providers from one app.
LibreChat
Open-source, self-hostable ChatGPT-style frontend that brings every major LLM provider under one roof.
Poe
One subscription, every frontier model - Quora's multi-model chat hub with bots, image, video, and audio generation.
Kimi
Moonshot AI's chat assistant with long-context document analysis, coding agents, and deep research built in.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's flagship conversational assistant, and the default benchmark every other chatbot is measured against.
Meta AI
Meta's free consumer AI assistant powered by the Llama family of open-weight models.
TypingMind
BYOK chat frontend that puts GPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models behind one polished UI.
Gemini
Google's flagship multimodal AI assistant with deep integration into Workspace and Android.
Cherry Studio
Open-source desktop AI client that wires 300+ LLMs into one chat, knowledge-base, and agent workspace.
Grok
xAI's conversational assistant with real-time X integration and a distinctly less-filtered personality.
Perplexity AI
Conversational answer engine that cites its sources by default.
Qwen Chat
Alibaba's flagship chatbot fronting the Qwen family of open-weight LLMs, with vision, code, and image generation in one UI.
Z.ai
Zhipu AI's free chat interface powered by the GLM family of large language models.
AI Dungeon
AI-powered text adventure platform where the story is generated turn-by-turn by an LLM.
Chatbot UI
Open-source unified chat interface for 80+ frontier AI models.
FlowGPT
Community marketplace for AI character roleplay scenarios and prompt templates.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's consumer AI assistant, formerly Bing Chat, now powered by GPT-4-class models with web grounding and image generation.
Arena AI
Head-to-head LLM battle arena with a public leaderboard for ranking AI models.
Character.AI
Conversational roleplay platform with millions of user-created AI personas.
ChatBar
Menu-bar launcher that puts ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Pi and Poe one keystroke away.
Nexus AI
All-in-one AI workspace bundling writing, image, voice, and chat into a single subscription.
Ailin
One prompt, every AI model — plus a no-code builder for agents and workflows
AI Toolbox
One Chrome extension for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok
LobeHub
Open-source AI agent platform and chat UI supporting every major LLM, plugins, and multi-agent workflows.
Open WebUI
Self-hosted, extensible AI chat platform that runs on your infrastructure
SillyTavern
Locally installed power-user frontend for chatting with LLMs, image models, and TTS backends