25 tools

Chatbots AI tools

Frontier conversational AI — reasoning, tool use, and long-context.

ChatGPT logo
ChatGPT 9.5/10 Free tier + Plus $20/mo + Pro $200/mo ★ Pick

OpenAI's flagship AI assistant with o3/o4-mini reasoning, GPT-4o, Advanced Voice, Sora video gen, Operator agent, and Deep Research — the most feature-packed chatbot available.

Agents & autom.ProductivityMedia production
Claude logo
Claude 9.5/10 Free tier + Pro $20/mo + Team $30/mo/user ★ Pick

Anthropic's AI assistant with Opus 4.6, 1M-token context, computer use, agentic coding via Claude Code, and MCP integrations.

DevelopmentAgents & autom.Productivity
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Gemini 9.2/10 Free tier + Advanced $19.99/mo ★ Pick

Google's multimodal AI assistant with Gemini 2.5 Pro/Flash, 2M-token context, Workspace integration, Gems agents, and native image generation.

ProductivityResearchAgents & autom.
GPT-6 Astra logo
GPT-6 Astra 9.2/10 API: $10/1M input, $50/1M output tokens; included in ChatGPT paid plans ★ Pick

OpenAI's flagship model for complex reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and end-to-end document tasks.

GPT-5.6 Sol logo
GPT-5.6 Sol 9.1/10 API usage-based: Sol $5/$30, Terra $2.50/$15, Luna $1/$6 per 1M tokens ★ Pick

OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) targeting frontier coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity — currently in limited preview.

DevelopmentAgents & autom.
Retell AI logo
Retell AI 8.9/10 Free $10 credit, then ~$0.07/min usage-based ★ Pick

A developer platform for building production-grade voice AI agents that handle phone conversations with human-like latency and natural turn-taking.

Agents & autom.DevelopmentCustomer support
Gemini 3.7 Flash logo
Gemini 3.7 Flash 8.9/10 Intro $0.75 input / $3.75 output per 1M tokens through Dec 31, 2026; then $1.50 / $7.50. Half the original 3.6 Flash token price during the intro window.

Google's Aug 13, 2026 Flash workhorse for coding and agents. Introductory API price is $0.75/$3.75 per 1M tokens through December 31, 2026.

DevelopmentAgents & autom.Productivity
Vapi logo
Vapi 8.8/10 Free tier, then ~$0.05/min + provider costs ★ Pick

Developer platform for building, testing, and deploying voice and chat AI agents at scale with full-stack control over the entire pipeline.

DevelopmentAgents & autom.Customer support
Meta Llama logo
Meta Llama 8.7/10 Free (self-hosted) · Cloud API pricing varies by provider ★ Pick

Meta's open-weight LLM family. Llama 4 brings mixture-of-experts, native multimodal input, and up to 10M token context — all free to download and deploy.

DevelopmentProductivity
Grok logo
Grok 8.7/10 Free + SuperGrok $30/mo + SuperGrok Plus $100/mo + Heavy $300/mo ★ Pick

xAI's flagship chatbot on Grok 4.6. Consumer plans now run Free, SuperGrok $30, SuperGrok Plus $100, and Heavy $300, plus a separate API.

ResearchAgents & autom.Development
Sierra logo
Sierra 8.7/10 Enterprise only — outcome-based, contact sales

Enterprise platform for building autonomous customer-service agents that work across chat, voice, SMS, WhatsApp and email — billed per resolved issue.

Customer supportAgents & autom.
GPT-Live logo
GPT-Live 8.7/10 Free tier + ChatGPT Plus $20/mo ★ Pick

OpenAI's real-time voice model family that listens and speaks at the same time, powering natural full-duplex conversations inside ChatGPT.

ProductivityLearning
Bland AI logo
Bland AI 8.6/10 From $0.09/min or plans from ~$499/mo ★ Pick

API-first platform for building and deploying high-volume AI phone agents, optimized for enterprise outbound and inbound calling at scale.

Agents & autom.MarketingCustomer support
Kimi K3 logo
Kimi K3 8.5/10 Free tier + paid from $19/mo; API $3/$15 per M tokens ★ Pick

Moonshot AI's 2.8T-parameter multimodal chatbot with a 1M-token context window, tuned for coding and long-horizon agentic tasks.

DevelopmentAgents & autom.
Hume AI logo
Hume AI 8.4/10 Free credits + usage-based from $0.07/min

Empathetic voice interface with emotional intelligence model for expressive, human-like interactions that understand and respond to tone and sentiment.

DevelopmentResearchAgents & autom.
Siri AI logo
Siri AI 8.3/10 Free with iOS 27 / macOS 27

Apple's rebuilt assistant with deep personal context, onscreen awareness, and systemwide app actions across all Apple devices.

ProductivityAgents & autom.
Character.AI logo
Character.AI 8.2/10 Free tier + c.ai+ $9.99/mo + Ultra $29.99/mo

Platform for creating and chatting with personalized AI characters for roleplay, companionship, creative writing, and entertainment.

Content creationLearning
Le Chat logo
Le Chat 8.2/10 Free tier + Pro plan available

Mistral AI's chat assistant with frontier open-weight models, canvas editing, web search, and code execution — built with European data privacy at its core.

ProductivityDevelopmentResearch
Poe logo
Poe 8.2/10 Free with limits; $19.99/mo for Poe Premium

Quora's multi-model AI platform giving you access to GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and 30+ models in one interface — plus a bot marketplace.

Content creationProductivityDevelopment
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xAI Voice Agent Builder 8.2/10 Usage-based from $0.05/min

xAI's no-code platform for building and deploying human-like voice agents powered by Grok Voice, with an API for support, sales, and custom call flows.

Customer supportAgents & autom.Development
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Qwen App 8.2/10 Free; Alibaba publishes no paid consumer tier

Alibaba's consumer AI assistant, wired into Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy and Amap so a conversation can place an order or plan a trip end to end.

ProductivityAgents & autom.Content creation
Pi logo
Pi 8/10 Free

Inflection AI's emotionally intelligent personal AI companion designed for natural, empathetic conversations rather than productivity tasks.

Learning
Amália logo
Amália 7.8/10 Free — open weights, dataset and code on Hugging Face

Portugal's first open-source LLM, trained on European Portuguese for sovereign AI — weights, dataset and code free on Hugging Face.

DevelopmentResearch
Vinci logo
Vinci 7.6/10 Free (open weights)

An open-weight 4B-parameter chat model built to run locally on a laptop, tuned for blunt honesty and a distinct personality.

DevelopmentProductivity
Overtone logo
Overtone 7.3/10 Freemium — public tiers not yet announced

AI dating app where you talk to a voice assistant that learns your personality, then introduces you to people it judges compatible.

Agents & autom.

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