ChatGPT

Looking for a tool like ChatGPT (OpenAI's chatbot — the one hundreds of millions use weekly)? Below are 28 AI tools people use as an alternative to ChatGPT, ranked by leaderboard position. Each one is approved by our editors and worth comparing before you decide.

Claude Anthropic's AI assistant, built with safety front and center

Aug 17

Gemini Google's AI assistant, now on the Gemini 3 model family

Aug 17

Claude Code Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal

Aug 17

DeepSeek Chinese open-weight models that shook the AI industry

Aug 17

NotebookLM Google's AI research assistant grounded in your own documents

Aug 17

Grok xAI assistant with native image and synchronized audio-video generation

Aug 17

Mistral Europe's leading AI lab, backed by a major ASML investment

Aug 17

Perplexity Cited AI search with an Android assistant that can act across apps

Aug 17

Raycast AI Mac productivity launcher with AI commands built in

Aug 17

Baidu ERNIE Bot Baidu's flagship conversational AI, one of China's most-used chatbots

Aug 18