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52 tools in Chatbots & Assistants with a free plan, as shown on each vendor's own pricing page. 38 of them were read and verified on the vendor's page; the rest carry their check status so you can see how sure we are.

Listed A to Z, not ranked. A free plan usually has limits (credits, watermarks, exports); the line under each price says what we found. Free trials are not counted as free plans. Checked up to 11 Nov 2026.

AI search engine that gives written answers instead of a list of links, built on its own search index, with no login or ads.
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All-in-one app to chat with your documents using any LLM. Desktop and self-hosted Docker versions are free and open source; hosted Cloud instances and an optional Pro add-on are paid.
From $50/mo (Cloud Basic) Free plan
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Multi-model AI chat workspace that runs on your own API keys with no markup. Free to use or self-host; Pro adds cloud backup and sync.
From $10.99/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Brave Leo: privacy-focused AI assistant built into the Brave browser.
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Chat app where you talk to AI characters made by the company and by other users, with a free tier and paid plans for better models and memory.
From $4.99/mo (c.ai lite) Free plan
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General-purpose AI assistant from OpenAI for chat, writing, analysis, images and voice. Has a free tier and several paid tiers that raise usage limits.
From $8/mo (Go) Free plan
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Chat with PDFs and other documents: upload a file and ask questions, get summaries, flashcards, slides and cited answers. Free plan limits you to a few documents a day; Plus removes the limits.
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AI assistant from Anthropic for chat, writing, analysis and coding help, with a free tier and paid tiers that raise usage limits. Pro includes the Claude Code coding tool.
From $20/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Browser tools for AI chat, images, video and music under one DeepAI Pro subscription with monthly allowances and a prepaid wallet for extra use.
From $9.99/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Chinese AI lab behind the open-source DeepSeek R1 and V4 models. The chat app is free; the API is billed per million tokens.
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Free browser dating-sim game where you chat with an AI character across 10 locations and your choices shape the story.
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Falcon: open large language models from the UAE's Technology Innovation Institute, including Arabic, ASR and OCR models.
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Community platform for sharing AI prompts and AI characters. Browsing and using the library is free; its Emochi companion app has paid Plus and Ultra tiers.
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Builds AI chat agents for business websites that answer visitors and collect leads, trained on your links and files.
From $19/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Google's AI assistant, free with a Google account. Paid Google AI plans raise usage limits and bundle cloud storage and AI features inside Gmail, Docs and other Google apps.
From $4.99/mo (Google AI Plus) Free plan
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Free desktop app from Nomic that runs open-source chat models on your own laptop with no internet, plus LocalDocs for chatting with your files. No account or key needed.
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Open-source desktop app that runs AI models locally and offline on Mac, Windows and Linux, with optional connections to cloud models. Free, with no subscription.
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Moonshot AI's Kimi assistant with agent, deep research and coding features. Free tier and paid memberships; the Kimi API is billed separately by the token.
From $19/mo (Plus) Free plan
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Open-source ChatGPT-style web app you host yourself and connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, local models and more with your own API keys. Supports agents, file chat, image tools and multi-user logins.
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Simon Willison's open-source command-line tool and Python library for working with many large language models.
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Desktop app for running local AI models privately on your own computer, now with Bionic, an optional cloud-model add-on. The app is free for home and work use.
From $20/mo (Bionic+) Free plan
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Open-source AI chat framework and hosted LobeHub Cloud with agents, knowledge bases and many models. A free cloud tier uses monthly credits; paid plans add usage allowances and storage.
From $20/mo (Plus) Free plan: 500,000 credits per month
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Manychat: automate two-way chats in Instagram DMs, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and SMS to grow sales.
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AI assistant that gives you many chat, image and video models in one subscription, as a browser extension, web app and mobile app.
From $15/mo billed yearly (Teams) Free plan
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Meta's AI assistant for answering questions, creating and editing images, shopping and finding places.
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Microsoft's AI assistant, free in the Copilot app and built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook on Microsoft 365 plans. Paid plans raise the usage limits and add Office apps and cloud storage.
From $9.99/mo (Microsoft 365 Personal) Free plan
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No-code builder for AI agents and multi-agent workflows that you publish by link or embed. All paid plans allow unlimited agents; usage is metered in AI credits.
From $49/mo (Pro) Free plan: 100 AI credits per month
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Mistral's AI chat and agent for work and code, formerly called Le Chat. A free plan is available; Pro and Team raise limits and add the Vibe coding agent.
From $14.99/mo (Pro) Free plan
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All-in-one AI assistant with many models, as a browser extension and apps. Plans differ by monthly queries and advanced credits.
From $8.30/mo billed yearly (Pro) Free plan: 40 basic-model queries per day
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Desktop app for chatting with local and online AI models in one place. The core is free; Aurum adds advanced features and Studio Web, billed yearly or as a lifetime licence.
From $12.42/mo billed yearly (Aurum) Free plan
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Tool for running open AI models on your own computer, with an optional cloud for larger models. Local use is free and unlimited; cloud plans include a monthly pool of usage credits charged per token.
From $20/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Self-hosted AI chat interface that works with Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API. Free for any number of users while its branding stays intact; Enterprise licences add white-labelling and support.
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Opera AI: free AI built into the Opera browser that answers with real-time web information and creates content.
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Answer engine that searches the web and replies with cited sources. Free tier covers core search; paid plans add more in-depth searches, file uploads and advanced models.
From $10/mo (Education Pro) Free plan: 3 Pro Searches per day
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AI search and answer engine aimed at developers, with web-grounded answers and code help. Prices below come from third-party trackers, not Phind's own pricing page.
From $20/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Pi: personal AI chat companion from Inflection for advice, answers and talking things through.
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PoeVisit ↗Freemium
Single subscription for chatting with many AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) plus user-made bots, paid for with monthly compute points.
From $4.99/mo (10K points/day) Free plan
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Open-source desktop AI assistant for Windows, Linux and macOS with agents, RAG, Python tools, MCP, vision and Ollama support.
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Alibaba's Qwen family of AI models, sold through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio by the token, with many open-source Qwen models too.
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Qwen Chat: Alibaba's official chat app for Qwen models, with image generation, document and video understanding, and voice chat.
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AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes meetings and searches across them. The free plan covers 5 meeting transcripts a month.
From $19.75/mo (Pro) Free plan
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AI companion app for chatting with a personalised virtual friend. Has a limited free use tier and paid Pro, Ultra and Lifetime subscriptions.
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Search tool that shows the hardware you need to run local LLMs and image, video or audio models, with build specs and benchmarks.
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AI meeting recorder with no bot in the call: video, transcript with speaker names, AI notes and action items for Google Meet, Zoom and Teams.
From $20/mo (Pro) Free plan
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AI customer support chatbot trained on your website, docs and files, with built-in live chat, human handoff, model choice (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI) and a free plan.
From $29/mo (Starter) Free plan
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AI meeting notetaker and deal-intelligence assistant for sales teams: call summaries, follow-up emails, pre-meeting briefs and CRM updates.
From $30/mo billed yearly (Pro) Free plan
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Video AI platform for real-time conversational AI humans and personalised video generation by API, with stock and custom replicas, a persona builder and enterprise compliance options.
From $22/mo (Starter) Free plan
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Open-source no-code platform for AI chatbots and live chat across web, WhatsApp and other channels. Cloud plans are priced in euros; the open-source version can be self-hosted.
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Platform for designing, testing and shipping chat and voice AI agents, with model choice and a knowledge base. You pay a monthly plan fee plus credit-based usage.
From $60/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Enterprise conversational AI platform for customer and employee service across chat, voice, email and WhatsApp, with a Freemium plan and quote-only Premium plans.
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AI search and chat with many models, research agents and custom agents. Also sells a pay-per-call Web Search API.
From $20/mo (Pro) Free plan
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Zhipu's Z.ai offers GLM models through a Coding Plan that works with Claude Code, Cline and 20+ agent tools, plus a pay-as-you-go API.
From $18/mo (Lite) Free plan: 3,000,000 tokens per day
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