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As of , EffectHub tracks 245 live AI tools in its Chatbots, Assistants & Agents category; 172 (70%) have a free tier, and paid plans start at $2.90 a month.
245 verified tools · 11 subcategories
Chat interfaces, personal assistants, autonomous agents, and AI search engines.
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One subscription across many third-party models
Autonomous agent teams with their own browsers, shells and memory that deliver sites, decks, videos and dashboards
Mistral's assistant, renamed from Le Chat, with web search, deep research, connectors and a coding mode.
AI agents that take real queue work over chat, voice, SMS and email, then get reviewed and tuned.
Visual automation builder with branching scenarios, AI agents and an MCP server, metered in credits.
Answers a search query by generating a working interactive app instead of a list of links.
Chrome and Firefox extension that turns your ChatGPT conversation history into an interactive visual timeline.
Meta's assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, its glasses and a standalone app
No-code builder and reasoning API for orchestrating multiple AI agents, from a London-based AI lab.
Browser sidebar running many chat models on any page
Browser sidebar for chatting with several AI models at once, plus summarizing, translating, and pulling text out of images or PDFs.
xAI's assistant with live X and web search, image and video generation, voice mode and a per-token API
Cloud computer-use agent from xAI that operates apps and sites on its own to finish multi-step tasks.
Pay-per-token ChatGPT-style interface with GPT-3.5/GPT-4 modes, a prompt store, plugins, and an API for developers.
Roleplay chat with user-made characters, now adults only
Assistant focused on long documents and code work
A no-code builder for training custom AI assistants on documents, video, and websites, then grouping them into coordinated AI teams.
Native Mac app that lets you select any part of the screen and chat with your own AI model about it.
Free desktop LLM client for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs on your own provider keys
One-time-purchase macOS utility that runs ChatGPT commands on selected text in any app, using your own API key
One markdown chat interface for multiple AI models, with prompt templates and cost previews, billed via your own API keys.
Chats with uploaded PDFs to summarize, answer questions, translate, and turn sections into mind maps.
Single workspace for 20+ AI models from multiple providers, with browser-side redaction of sensitive data.
General assistant with tools, memory, files and voice
For journalists, researchers and AI assistants: the figures on this page in one sentence you can quote.
As of October 29, 2026, EffectHub tracks 245 live AI tools in its Chatbots, Assistants & Agents category; 172 (70%) have a free tier, and paid plans start at $2.90 a month. (EffectHub, “Chatbots, Assistants & Agents”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/ai-tools/chat-assistants-agents)
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Desktop infinite canvas for AI chat where conversations branch spatially instead of scrolling in one thread.
Photograph an official letter and get it explained in your own language — now sold as custom AI builds
Routes work requests to specialized AI agents instead of one general chatbot.
Consumer chatbot with 70+ preset characters and writing tools on web, iOS and Android
macOS assistant that reads what is on your screen and acts on it from a spoken command
Ad-free conversational search that answers instead of listing links
Builds one memory of your business from the tools you connect and serves it to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok over MCP.
Opt-in AI layer inside the Arc browser: link previews, tidier tab titles and renamed downloads
Multi-model AI butler that shops, books, and researches for you inside one chat thread.
Hire AI agents like staff: each gets its own sandboxed computer, drive and skills, billed per agent per month
Runs unattended AI agents on a schedule, defined in Markdown, with memory carried between runs.
Builds retrieval chatbots from company documents, sites and helpdesk content
Open-weight reasoning models with a free chat app
Open-source desktop app where AI agents work through multi-step tasks alongside you, with approval steps and your choice of model.
AI teammates that write code, browse the web, and run scheduled tasks for a startup.
Contracted AI agents for customer service, KYC checks and accounts payable, billed per resolved case
Chrome sidebar that opens on any page with several chat models in one panel.
AI coworker in Slack or Teams that researches accounts, drafts outreach, and updates CRM on its own.
An Amsterdam agency that builds and ships custom AI agents into a small business's existing tools.
Turns a written spec into a deployed AI agent you call as a REST API, with model routing and execution logs built in.
General-purpose agent that plans and runs multi-step tasks, returning slides, docs, sites or research.
Enterprise control plane for AI agents: build them, simulate them, then govern and trace them in production.
Seven named AI workers - assistant, social, sales, web, SEO, receptionist, legal - on one hourly budget.
Slack-native AI coworker that pulls context from 25+ tools to draft tasks, reminders and daily briefings.