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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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Queries GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok together, then synthesizes or fact-checks one consensus answer.
Builds custom AI agent deployments for large enterprises and charges only once the deployment shows results.
Uncensored, privacy-focused AI chat covering text, image, video, audio, code, and search.
Describe a Discord bot in plain English and it writes, hosts and runs the bot on your server
An agent that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to your tools and executes multi-step work instead of returning text.
Build AI agents on your own documents, then share or sell access to them
Agency chatbot builder that deploys to a web widget, Slack, email or a REST API on your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini keys.
Company-wide agent platform reachable from Slack, email and iMessage, with adaptive model routing and an isolated computer per run.
Open-source Python SDK and self-hosted runtime for building agents, teams and workflows, with a web control plane to monitor them.
A chatbot called Lexi that argues real positions on contested topics instead of deflecting with disclaimers.
Multi-model AI chat with one encrypted memory across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, plus an opt-in map for meeting people nearby.
Private on-device AI assistant for chatting with your documents, running agents and transcribing meetings, free on desktop.
Chrome extension for asking questions about the page, YouTube video, or document you're currently viewing.
macOS utility that calls your own AI keys from any app via a hotkey — one $29 lifetime license
Apple-only assistant bundling an AI keyboard, chat, smart notes and transcription
Group chat where people and several AI agents share one thread and review each other's drafts
Mac-wide autocomplete: press Tab in any app and it finishes the sentence from what it has seen on your screen
Sends one prompt to several of 30+ AI models at once, including GPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek, for side-by-side comparison.
Builds support chatbots trained on your site and docs
A Chrome extension that adds ChatGPT summarizing, research, and translation to any page without switching tabs.
Multi-model AI workspace for chat, images, video and small websites, with a Chrome side panel and a Mac app that reads your screen
Builds a chat clone of a coach from their own content
Free Mac app that chats with your PDFs on-device and links every answer back to the page
Browser for Mac and Windows whose assistant answers across your open tabs, Slack, Notion, Teams, calendar and GitHub