Chat models

Alibaba's official browser assistant gives you direct access to the Qwen model family for questions, reasoning, drafting, and learning. Its broader Qwen Studio experience also supports creative and collaborative work. This is a useful first stop for trying Qwen without setting up an API or running models locally.

DeepSeek's official chat service makes its own model family accessible through a familiar question-and-answer interface. It is suited to explanations, brainstorming, mathematical reasoning, and working with text. The official consumer experience includes web search, a deeper-thinking option, and file text extraction, with history available across devices.

OpenAI's general-purpose assistant combines conversation with web search, document and image understanding, and learning support. You can use it to explain unfamiliar concepts, revise text, plan projects, or ask questions about uploaded material. The free plan provides a practical introduction, with limits on heavier tools and advanced model usage.

Anthropic's assistant is useful for discussing ideas, reviewing documents, analyzing images, and revising long passages of text. Its free plan also includes web search and content creation features. You can follow up conversationally to refine an answer, while keeping in mind that free usage is limited and model availability changes.

Google's Gemini assistant helps with explanations, brainstorming, research, and questions about text or images. The free account includes access to Gemini models and selected creative and research features. It is particularly convenient for people who already use a Google account, with premium plans offering higher limits rather than being mandatory.

Mistral's assistant, formerly called Le Chat, combines conversational help with search, document work, and creation tools. Its browser interface is useful for trying Mistral models on ordinary questions and productivity tasks. The current Free plan offers limited access; the broader Vibe product also includes coding and workflow capabilities on supported plans.

DuckDuckGo's chat service offers a selection of third-party models through one simple interface. It anonymizes conversations and stores recent chats locally on your device, making it convenient for quick questions, summaries, and drafting. You can compare available models without a separate provider account, although free access has a daily cap.

Hugging Face's chat interface lets you explore open models without downloading their weights or configuring local inference. Its Omni router can choose a model for your request, while direct model selection supports comparison. Current access uses Hugging Face inference credits, so this is best treated as a small experimentation allowance.

Grok is xAI's conversational assistant for questions, explanations, brainstorming, and working through problems. Its web experience includes access to search and tools that can vary by plan. The free tier is useful for exploring the Grok family, while paid SuperGrok subscriptions provide larger allowances and access to additional capabilities.

The Allen Institute for AI's public playground offers a hands-on way to explore its open language and multimodal models. It is especially useful for learning how open research models behave, comparing outputs, and exploring features such as OlmoTrace, which connects matching response passages with examples from a model's training data.

Arena lets you compare responses from different AI models, including anonymous head-to-head battles where you vote on your preferred answer. It also provides direct model selection and public rankings. This makes it useful for comparing capabilities on your own prompts, while contributing feedback to a public model-evaluation platform.

Character.AI centers on interactive conversations with fictional or user-created personalities. You can explore characters, develop scenarios, and practice conversational storytelling in a browser. Its free plan supports basic chat styles, while subscriptions add premium styles and memory features. Treat character responses as generated entertainment rather than authoritative factual guidance.

Free.ai offers a browser chat interface with self-hosted models and a shared token allowance across its tools. You can choose among its free model options for explanations, translation, and drafting. Its large catalog also lists paid external models, so checking the free-model label matters before assuming every listed assistant is included.

Moonshot AI's assistant supports conversational tasks and knowledge work, with project spaces for organizing chats and reference files. It is a way to explore the Kimi family directly in the browser. Free accounts provide limited entry-level access, while advanced agent work and particular models can draw from membership credits.

Meta's free assistant is available as a standalone website as well as across its messaging and social applications. It supports everyday questions, idea generation, and conversational help, with creative tools offered in supported markets. The website provides a direct way to explore Meta's assistant without beginning inside a social-media conversation.

Microsoft's consumer Copilot answers general questions and helps with writing, brainstorming, and summaries directly in a browser. You can begin without signing in, then use a personal account for features such as saved conversations and longer interactions. This consumer service is separate from paid Copilot features inside Microsoft 365 applications.

Poe brings multiple model providers and community-created bots into one conversational interface. It is useful for trying different response styles or comparing assistants without opening a separate account with every provider. Free access is metered by daily compute points, and each bot's price determines how far that allowance will go.

Proton's AI assistant focuses on private conversations, with optional web search and encrypted saved chat history. You can begin as a guest or sign in for more features. It supports everyday explanations, summaries, planning, and writing assistance, making it a useful choice for people who want a straightforward privacy-focused assistant.

Venice provides browser access to conversational AI with an emphasis on privacy and user control. Its free account is useful for occasional questions and experimentation with the base models. The platform also offers image and other creative capabilities, but premium models and more intensive usage sit behind paid plans or credits.

Z.ai provides the official conversational interface for its GLM model family. It is useful for exploring general questions, reasoning, and practical assistance without configuring developer tools. The service also exposes creation-oriented workflows, but available models and heavier agent features can vary with account status, regional availability, and current demand.

A browser AI assistant for chatting, rewriting, translating, and summarizing web content. Basic and advanced models use different allowances.

A browser sidebar and web toolkit for summarizing pages, drafting text, and working with images. Its basic credits are shared across supported features.

An AI assistant for web research, writing, and page summaries, available through its website and browser extension.

A simple browser chatbot for questions, explanations, short writing tasks, and language practice, without installing an app.

A multi-purpose AI chat workspace with document chat, writing, and presentation features alongside its standard assistant.

Easy-Peasy.AI combines writing templates, AI chat, image generation, transcription, and text-to-speech in a browser workspace.