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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
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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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Microsoft's consumer assistant for chat, image creation and search across Windows, Mac, mobile and Edge
One credit-based subscription for chat, image, video, audio, and voiceover generation across several underlying AI models.
An AI-native web browser from Norton's parent company, built on Chromium.
Desktop browser from Opera with a built-in AI sidebar, tab grouping, split-screen, and free VPN.
Free, open-source desktop chat client for GPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models.
Alibaba's free web and mobile AI chat assistant, with a separate metered API for developers.
Mac and Windows launcher with extensions, snippets and window management, plus an AI assistant on paid plans.
Open-source desktop AI coworker that builds a local knowledge graph from your email and meetings and runs background agents.
Proactive AI teammate with persistent memory that works through iMessage, Slack, email and the web, and builds routines for repeat tasks.
Chat with large PDF collections and get answers with the source passage cited back
Browser side-panel extension that sorts tabs into spaces and runs an AI agent over what you have open.
Deploys AI 'employees' for defined, repeatable workflows in sales, marketing, support, and ops.
Chat platform where you pose a business or life question to a simulated panel of historical thinkers.
Enterprise AI platform bundling department chat agents, workflow automation, and data governance.
Drafts emails in your voice and manages follow-ups across Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and email for review.
Embed an assistant that calls your product's own API
A free, open-source AI search engine that scrapes top results and synthesizes an answer with sources.
Free Chrome extension that opens ChatGPT in an overlay on any page with a keyboard shortcut
AI teammate in Slack that chains 100+ integrations to finish real tasks from a plain-language goal.
Personal AI assistant with persistent memory that acts across email, calendar, files and chat apps
Enterprise AI operating system plus local deployment teams for running agents and AI apps in regulated industries
Floating ChatGPT window and iOS keyboard that works inside any Mac or iPhone app
AI chat assistant with real-time web search, file uploads, and conversation history for everyday questions.