ChatGPT
AI Assistants & Chatbots
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OpenAI's conversational assistant for answering questions, drafting text and working through problems.
Best for: General AI help: writing, analysis, images, coding and agent-style tasks
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General-purpose AI assistants for questions, drafting and everyday thinking work.
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Claude
AI Assistants & Chatbots
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Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with Claude Code for software work.
Best for: Writing, research, coding and document work with long-form reasoning
Gemini
AI Assistants & Chatbots
Free Plan Available
Google's AI assistant, connected to Google's apps and services.
Best for: AI assistance built into Google apps such as Gmail, Docs and Chrome
Perplexity
AI Assistants & Chatbots
Free Plan Available
An AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources.
Best for: Web research and answers with cited sources
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