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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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Ask questions across a set of documents at once, including scanned ones, and keep them in a reusable knowledge base.
Platform for building chat, voice and workflow agents that run inside a customer's own cloud or data center, with an open-source Python SDK.
Windows Store client that wraps ChatGPT in a native desktop interface with markdown and dark mode
A native Mac app for chatting with 300+ AI models in one workspace, with local models supported free.
No-code agent-as-a-service platform that builds RAG-backed AI agents on your own documents, in the cloud or on-premise.
Web search and page-content API built for agents, priced per request with no subscription
Multilingual AI search from a Tokyo company that also makes slides, images and research reports from one credit wallet.
Search across claims pulled from thousands of non-fiction books and compare what different sources argue
Canvas workspace where AI agents run long multi-step tasks
Free desktop app that runs open language models privately on your own computer, with local document chat.
Google's source-grounded notebook: ask questions of your own PDFs, docs and videos with citations
One account and a credit balance across 109 generators wired to 315 image, video, 3D, text and audio models.
Paste your URL, it crawls the site and puts a conversion-focused chat agent on your pages.
Sells a one-time structured report that compares 2-3 options or maps recurring decision patterns.
Chat with several AI models side by side, compare their answers, and keep conversations private in incognito mode.
Open-source Python framework for agents written as durable flows that resume after a crash, retry safely and log every step.
AI companion app with layered memory, generated selfies, custom voices and video calls, on phone and web.
AI teammates that work inside email, calendar, meetings and a browser, built from triggers and skills without code
Cross-app AI assistant that sits in the background, joins meetings for notes, and answers questions using context it already has.
Single subscription for chatting with, and comparing answers from, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and other AI models.
A privacy-focused AI chat assistant from Proton with zero-access encryption on conversations.
Search API that returns a written answer with inline citations, source links and a confidence score
One subscription covering many chat, image and video models