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Best AI tools Chatbots & Assistants

Conversational AI assistants for questions, writing, analysis, and daily work, from ChatGPT and Claude to DeepSeek and Gemini.

12 tools, ranked in di9's top tools list

Claude

Chatbots and assistants
1

Anthropic's AI assistant, strong at natural writing, long documents and careful coding

Free + subscription

ChatGPT

Chatbots and assistants
2

The most widely used AI assistant, from writing and translation to coding and file analysis

Free + subscription

Gemini

Chatbots and assistants
3

Google's AI assistant that connects to Gmail, Drive and YouTube, and also generates images and video

Free + subscription

DeepSeek

Chatbots and assistants
4

A free, open-source Chinese chatbot with strong reasoning

Free

Perplexity

Search and research
5

An AI search engine that gives short, up-to-date answers with sources you can check

Free + subscription

Grok

Chatbots and assistants
7

Elon Musk's chatbot with live access to X posts, a looser tone, and image and video generation

Free + subscription

Google AI Studio

Programming
18

Google's free workspace for trying Gemini models, getting an API key and building apps from a text description

Free + subscription

Meta AI

Chatbots and assistants
20

Meta's AI assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, with image generation and task handling

Free + subscription

Qwen

Chatbots and assistants
21

Alibaba's free assistant and open-source models, from chat and coding to image creation and editing

Free

Mistral Vibe (Le Chat)

Chatbots and assistants
22

Mistral's European assistant, now called Vibe: fast, privacy-minded, with a work agent built in

Free + subscription

Kimi

Chatbots and assistants
23

Moonshot's assistant with large open-weight models, strong at long text, research and agentic work

Free + subscription

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