ChatGPT
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s general-purpose assistant for drafting text, discussing ideas and working with uploaded files. Available models, tools and usage allowances depend on the plan.
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Poe alternatives
Compare 8 options for tasks you use Poe for. Their feature coverage differs; check the summaries and plan details. Every major AI model in one chat app.
| Tool | Pricing | Score | API | Ongoing free tier | Self-hosting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poethis one Every major AI model in one chat app. | Freemium | 117 | Unknown | Yes | No |
| ChatGPT OpenAI assistant for writing, files, images and conversation | Freemium | 381 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Claude Anthropic assistant for documents, writing and code | Freemium | 372 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Gemini Google assistant with optional connections to your apps | Freemium | 332 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Microsoft Copilot AI assistant across Windows, Office and Edge. | Freemium | 135 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Perplexity Search the web, ask follow-ups and inspect cited sources | Freemium | 238 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Grok xAI’s assistant with real-time X (Twitter) data. | Freemium | 194 | Unknown | Yes | No |
| DeepSeek Open-weight frontier models, free to chat. | Free | 262 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Le Chat Mistral’s fast European assistant. | Freemium | 107 | Yes | Yes | No |
What each tool does
Claude
Claude is Anthropic’s assistant for writing, analysing documents and working with code. Artifacts provide an interactive workspace, while Claude Code supports development workflows.
Gemini
Gemini is Google’s assistant for writing, questions and working with information. Eligible users can connect supported apps to bring selected Google services into the conversation.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot spans Windows, Edge and the Microsoft 365 suite: it drafts documents in Word, builds slides in PowerPoint, summarizes threads in Outlook and analyzes tables in Excel. The business version connects to company files and meetings via Microsoft Graph.
Perplexity
Perplexity combines web search with conversational answers and source links. Pro Search and Research provide additional ways to investigate a question, with access that varies by plan.
Grok
Grok is xAI’s chatbot, distinguished by live access to the X platform for up-to-the-minute news and public sentiment. It offers image generation and a deliberately less filtered conversational style, with deeper reasoning modes on paid plans.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek offers a free chat assistant built on its open-weight models, which shook the industry by matching far more expensive systems in reasoning and coding. The API is remarkably cheap, making it a favorite for developers running high-volume workloads.
Le Chat
Le Chat is the assistant from French AI lab Mistral, known for very fast responses and a strong privacy stance under European data rules. It includes web search, image generation and code interpretation, with generous limits on the free tier.