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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.
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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Open-source personal agent that keeps your credentials in an encrypted enclave, not in the prompt
Enterprise AI workspace: model-agnostic chat, agents and workflows with EU hosting and admin governance
Open-source data framework for retrieval and agents, with LlamaParse as the paid document parsing, extraction and indexing service
Menu-bar shortcut that runs AI on selected text inside any Mac app, without switching windows.
Native macOS app for chatting with ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs outside a browser tab.
End-to-end encrypted AI chat where even the operator cannot read your conversations
One workspace to run the same prompt across GPT, Claude, and Gemini side by side, with mindmaps and notes.
Personal workspace for notes, tasks, journal, email and calendar with an optional AI assistant you can switch off.
Team workspace where people and AI agents share channels, calls and tasks, with Claude Code and Codex working alongside colleagues.
Uncensored chat with image generation, image-to-video and an API on a flat monthly plan
Turns a 3D model or design into an AI character you can talk to over video, then embed or share.
Turns documents, databases, and websites into a searchable knowledge base with cited answers.
One subscription of connected AI assistants and daily briefings across business, home, health, life and learning.
Private memory layer giving AI persistent, owned recall
Custom AI personas from Pika Labs that video-call, message, and post across a dozen apps with a persistent memory.
Mac menu bar and Dock app that opens the ChatGPT web interface from a keyboard shortcut, with custom CSS and JavaScript.
Encrypted access to GPT, Claude, Gemini and other models inside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, the browser and Telegram.
Builds and runs a workforce of custom agents for sales, support and back-office work without code.
Plans and executes multi-step tasks — coding, research, deployment — end to end inside a sandboxed environment from one prompt.
Managed AI build team supervised by human engineers that builds, ships and runs business software in cloud accounts the client owns.
Chrome extension that sorts open tabs into named groups you can jump between from the keyboard
Assigns work to AI agents with task ownership and progress tracking, so engineering and ops work gets followed through.
Native Mac app for asking GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and Deepseek the same question at once, plus voice and screenshot Q&A.