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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.
Showing 1–24 of 245
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.
A no-code builder for training custom AI assistants on documents, video, and websites, then grouping them into coordinated AI teams.
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
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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Chat with PDFs, Word files, websites, and YouTube videos, then get sourced answers instead of skimming.
Fetch.ai's assistant and OpenAI-compatible API whose models hand work off to specialist agents
AI agent platform for solo founders and small businesses to automate research, follow-ups, and admin tasks.
Browser-based autonomous agent that splits a written goal into tasks and runs them in a loop
Desktop chat client for Mac, Windows and Linux that calls ChatGPT, Gemini and other models from a shortcut over any app
Builds AI agents that collect, watch and report on web data from social platforms, marketplaces and ordinary websites on a schedule
Multi-model chat, image and video app — the AmigoChat brand now ships as Overchat AI
A downloadable AI companion with persistent memory that runs locally across desktop, mobile, and chat apps.
Ad-free weather forecasts and radar, with an AI chat for planning around conditions.
No-code support chatbots trained on your own documents
Phone-based assistant that screens and places calls, runs web research and posts to social accounts
Free, open-source desktop app from Block for wiring together AI agents, model providers, and automations on a canvas.
Native Mac client for 300+ models on your own keys
No-code chatbot and agent builder that publishes to WhatsApp, Messenger, Slack, Telegram, SMS and a website widget.
Support agents trained on your documents and embedded as a widget
Claude-based AI bot for Discord servers that remembers conversations, answers questions, searches the web and runs scheduled tasks.
Open-source Python framework for role-based agent crews and event-driven flows, with a hosted platform for running them
Chat-driven agent that runs one-off and scheduled tasks across roughly 1,500 connected apps.
Trains a chatbot on your site or documents and puts it on the web, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack
Puts one question to five independent frontier models and reports consensus, confidence or open dissent.
Google assistant wired into Workspace and Android
Desktop assistant that watches your screen and points at the exact button you need to click next
Turns your docs, tickets and wikis into a question-answering agent that cites its sources and answers inside Slack, Jira or Zendesk.