15 Best Free Online ChatGPT Alternatives

Here is a list of the best free online ChatGPT alternatives. ChatGPT has been in the headlines lately and it has the fastest user growth in history. It has crossed 1 million users just in 5 days of launch. Currently, ChatGPT has over 100 million users and generates 1.8 billion visitors per month.

ChatGPT is a generative AI chatbot that communicates using human-like text responses. It really excels in many fields including creative content generation, summarization, and code generation. ChatGPT is accessible through a web portal on OpenAI’s website. OpenAI also released a ChatGPT iOS app recently with an Android app release on the way. ChatGPT is completely free to use via the web portal and apps. It also offers a paid plan for faster response and other additional benefits. It has a pay-as-you-go API as well that you can use in your own projects.

After ChatGPT, there is a quick rise in such chatbots. Some are based on ChatGPT itself whereas some have their own dataset, LLM, and training. There are more than 15 alternatives to ChatGPT. However, I’m only covering the ones that are either completely free to use or offer limited free usage.

My Favorite Chat Alternative

This post covers AI tools with different expertise. Some are good at general-purpose AI queries and some are good at creative content generation and writing. Bard, Bing Chat, and Poe offer the same service as ChatGPT and are up-to-date with current information. Whereas Perplexity.ai and Elicit excel at academic research. Go ahead, explore the list, and share your favorite AI tool in the comments.

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Comparison Table:

Name	Availability	Usages	Expertise
Google Bard	Open access	Free	Generative AI
Bing Chat	Open access	Free	Generative AI
Poe.com	Open access	Free/Limited	Generative AI & more
Perplexity.ai	Open access	Free	Academic & Research
Chatsonic	Open access	Free/Limited	Generative AI & more
HuggingChat	Open access	Free	Generative AI
You.com	Open access	Free	Generative AI
Character.ai	Open access	Free/Paid	AI Characters
h2oGPT	Open access	Free	Generative AI & more
MagickPen	Open access	Free/Paid	Writing Assistant
Type.ai	Open access	Free/Paid	AI-powered Document Editor
Elicit	Open access	Free	Research Assistant
Rytr	Open access	Free/Paid	Writing Assistant
Tome	Open access	Free/Paid	AI-powered Storytelling
Twain	Open access	Free	Email generation

Google Bard

Bard is a large language model by Google. It is Google’s alternative to ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Bard is trained on the massive amount of text data. It is able to communicate with human-like text responses with prompts and questions. It can also generate different creative text formats of text content, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, emails, letters, etc.

When you ask a question to Bard, it generates three responses for that. It shows one response on the screen with an option to view the other persons as well. From there, you can check all the drafts and generate them. Bard does provide source citations but that is not very common. You can give your feedback for every response. Alongside the feedback, you get a button to search the same query on Google. Bard also lets you export the responses. You can choose to export responses directly either to Google Docs or Gmail.

Highlights:

Name: Bard
Company: Google
Expertise: General purpose generative AI with coding skills.
Source Citation: Yes (not often).
Export Response: Google Docs and Gmail.
Usage: Free.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: N/A.
Availability: Available in 150+ countries worldwide.

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Bing Chat

Bing Chat is an AI chatbot from Microsoft. It is based on ChatGPT version 4.0. Similar to ChatGPT, Bing Chat provides responses to how humans will answer questions. On top of the Large Language Model from OpenAI, it also uses Bing Search to fetch information from the web. That means it is aware of the current events and more online information.

Bing Chat also supports prompts where you can structure your queries to get the best responses. It offers 3 conversation styles (More Creative, More Balanced, and More Precise). You can select a mode of choice before starting the conversation. With each response, Bing Chat adds the source citation at the bottom of the response. You can simply click a source to visit that directly from the chat. It also lists three related next-question suggestions at the end of the response.

Note: You can only use Bing Chat in the Microsoft Edge browser. It does not work in Google Chrome or other web browser (for now).

Highlights:

Name: Bing Chat
Company: Microsoft
Expertise: General purpose generative AI with coding skills.
Source Citation: Yes (most of the time).
Export Response: PDF, TXT, WORD.
Usage: Free.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Android and iOS.
Availability: Available to everyone.

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Poe.com

Poe.com is a service by Quora. It has a range of AI chatbots built on top of LLMs. Currently, it offers the following chatbots:

Sage: Good in multiple languages and also in programming-related tasks. Powered by GPT-3.5-turbo. (Unlimited responses)
GPT-4: It is OpenAI’s most powerful model that can perform quantitative questions (math and physics), creative writing, and many other challenging tasks. (Subscription)
Calude+: Anthropic’s most powerful model. Particularly good at creative writing. (3 free responses per day)
Claude-instant-100k: Anthropic’s fastest model, with an increased context window of 100k tokens (around 75,000 words). Enables analysis of very long documents, code, and more. (Subscription)
Cluade-instant: Anthropic’s fastest model, with strength in creative tasks. Features a context window of 9k tokens (around 7,000 words). (Unlimited responses)
ChatGPT: Powered by GPT-3.5-turbo. (Unlimited responses)
Dragonfly: It gives shorter responses, and excels at following instructions when given examples in the input. Powered by text-DaVinci-003. (Unlimited responses)

Apart from these, Poe also incorporates dozens of other chatbots. For example, it has a Midjourney photo prompter that can generate photo prompts for Midjourney. Apart from that, you can also create your own bot on Poe.

Highlights:

Name: Poe
Company: Quora
Expertise: General purpose generative AI with coding skills, prompt generator, creative writing, etc.
Source Citation: Yes.
Export Response: Link share.
Usage: Free and limited access.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Android and iOS.
Availability: Open access.

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Perplexity.ai

Perplexity.ai is an AI chat tool that serves as a search engine. This is a simple ChatGPT alternative that is trained on OpenAI API. This chat tool searches through the internet to give an answer while citing the sources. While asking a question, you can go with these search options:

All: Search across the internet
Academic: Search in published academic papers
Wolfram|Alpha: Computational knowledge engine
YouTube: Discover and watch videos
Reddit: Search for discussions and opinions
News: Search through the latest news articles
Wikipedia: Search for facts and information

Along with the citation, each response has a button to view sources. This shows a box on the screen covering all the included sources. If you want to remove one or more sources, you can do it from there. When you do that, the tool then changes the response without the removed source(s). Perplexity.ai is available on the web. There is also an Android app, an iOS app, and a Chrome extension that you can install to quickly access Perplexity.ai.

Highlights:

Name: Perplexity.ai
Company: Perplexity
Expertise: General purpose generative AI, research, exploration, and more.
Source Citation: Yes.
Export Response: N/A.
Usage: Free.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Android, iOS, and Chrome extension.
Availability: Open access.

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Chatsonic

Chatsonic is a conversational AI chatbot that packs lots of features. This chatbot is developed by Writesonic. It uses the capabilities of GPT-4 and addresses some of the limitations of ChatGPT. Writesonic offers Chatsonic (AI chatbot) and Botsonic (to create chatbots). I’m covering Chatsonic here which can serve as an alternative to ChatGPT. Chatsonic can generate high-performing ads, blogs, landing pages, product descriptions, ideas, and more. It has a library of prompts that you can use. You can also create your own prompts and publish them for others to use.

With Chatsonic, you can get 10000-word generation per month for free. It has Google search integration that can fetch the latest information from Google. However, enabling this consumes double w0rd-generation quota. It also has an AI image generation based on Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. It has voice commands that you can use to directly speak your queries to the bot instead of typing. On top of that, it uses Text-to-Speech to provide voice responses like Siri or Google Assistant. You can Edit, Copy, Download, and Share a specific response or even your entire conversations with your friends, colleagues, family, and followers. Last but not least, Chatsonic has personalities and provides responses accordingly. Here are all the personalities that are currently available:

General AI
English Translator
Interviewer
Travel Guide
Stand-up Comedian
Motivational Coach
Relationship Coach
Poet
Philosopher
Astrologer
Career Counselor
Personal Trainer
Accountant

Highlights:

Name: Chatsonic
Company: Writesonic
Expertise: General purpose generative AI with additional skills.
Source Citation: Yes.
Export Response: Docs, Text-to-Speech, and Share.
Usage: 10000 word-generation per month.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Android App and Chrome extension.
Mobile App: Not available.
Availability: Open access.

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HuggingChat

HuggingChat is an online AI chatbot that provides answers to a wide variety of topics. This chatbot is offered by HuggingFace and it is running in a Hugging Face Space. Currently, it is running OpenAssistant’s latest LLaMA-based model (which is one of the current best open-source chat models).

This tool has a ChatGPT-like interface where you can ask it about any topic from personal struggles, daily life experiences, general queries, coding, etc. It provides a human-like text response to your query. From the bottom section of the screen, you can share the entire conversion (share link). The goal of this chatbot is to provide valuable resources for many individuals seeking emotional support.

Highlights:

Name: HuggingChat
Company: Hugging Face
Expertise: General purpose generative AI with coding skills.
Source Citation: Yes, when available.
Export Response: Link share.
Usage: Free unlimited access.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Not available.
Availability: Open access.

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You.com

You.com is an AI search assistant by You.com. It is a chatbot similar to Bing Chat. This tool allows users to conduct searches in a conversational manner. This chatbot is up-to-date with current events and news. It cites the sources along with each response. It is also capable of explaining concepts, suggesting ideas, summarizing text, composing emails, and writing code.

This tool can hold conversion in the continuum. It has a side panel that you can hide or show. This panel lists the related search when providing a response. You can also provide feedback for each generated response and copy the output in one click. Apart from the web, YouChat is available via the Android app, iOS app, and Chrome extension.

Highlights:

Name: YouChat
Company: You.com
Expertise: General purpose generative AI with coding skills.
Source Citation: Yes.
Export Response: Link share.
Usage: Free unlimited access.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Android and iOS.
Availability: Available to everyone.

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Character.ai

Character.ai is an AI-based chatbot that allows you to create characters and interact with them with text. The website features a collection of characters from fiction as well as real life. These characters are powered by a neural language model that can produce text responses that sound like those of real people. You can freely access these characters and engage in contextual conversion with them.

With a paid plan, you can create your own characters with distinct characteristics. You can submit your characters to the community for other users to interact with. The people behind Character.ai is has worked on Google’s LaMDA. This service provides a fun way to bring imaginary characters to life and interact with them in natural languages.

Highlights:

Name: Character.ai
Company: Character.ai
Expertise: AI characters.
Source Citation: N/A.
Export Response: N/A.
Usage: Free unlimited access.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: N/A.
Availability: Open access.

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h2oGPT

h2oGPT is an open-source GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) project led by H2O.ai. h2oGPT is an AI chatbot powered by a large language model. The tool provides question-answer capabilities in a simple chatbot UI. You can simply type your question and get answers. The interface has multiple sections covering an Expert mode where users can configure some parameters of the model.

h2oGPT has a goal to create the best open-source GPT that can perform reasoning, factual correctness, mathematical capabilities, and code completion with maximum hallucinations and repetition. The project uses high-quality created data by OpenAssistant and base models by EleutherAI and OIG data created by LAION.

Highlights:

Name: h2oGPT
Company: h2oGPT.ai
Expertise: General purpose generative AI with additional skills.
Source Citation: When asked.
Export Response: Import and export chats.
Usage: Free unlimited access.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Not available.
Availability: Available worldwide.

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MagickPen

MagickPen is an intelligent writing assistant that can help you write articles of any type. This tool can write short sentences, articles, or poetry, and provides other services such as translation, grammar checking, and coding. Along with that, it offers additional functionalities including sentence rephrasing, style editor, engagement metrics, and plagiarism checker.

MagickPen provides free and paid services. The free allows you to generate 10 responses per day. It has a limit of 500 words per generation. Users can choose the type of writing, topic, role and configure language, tone, length, and format under advanced settings. Overall, it is a really good writing tool that can help you generate content efficiency by using templates.

Highlights:

Name: MagickPen
Company: MagickPen.com
Expertise: Intelligent writing assistant.
Source Citation: When asked.
Export Response: *.md file.
Usage: 10 free credits per day with 500 words per generation limit.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Not available.
Availability: Available worldwide.

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Type.ai

Type.ai is an AI-powered document editor that helps you generate drafts in minutes. Either you can add your own content and use the tool to get suggestions. Or, you can type what you want to write and use the AI assistant to generate content, transform text, write lists, and generate code blocks.

It has a document editor where you can structure the content and insert images. Alongside the content, it has a section where it suggests what to include and what to write next. It also has a chat section where you can ask it any question to get answers right in the editor. Type.ai offers 30 free AI commands per month. This includes content generation as well as chat.

Highlights:

Name: Type.ai
Company: Type.ai
Expertise: AI-powered document editor.
Source Citation: N/A.
Export Response: Copy.
Usage: 30 free AI commands per month.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Not available.
Availability: Available worldwide.

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Elicit

Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant. This tool is designed for academic research powered by language models like GPT-3. It uses machine learning to help users find papers on any topic and extract key information such as summary, intervention, outcomes measured, brainstorming ideas, etc.

While searching research papers, you can apply filters with keywords, publish data, study type, and PDF. It compiles key takeaways from all the available papers. You can search through the summary of all the articles. You can also view each paper and run search queries through that. On top of that, you can also upload your own papers (PDF) to automatically extract key information, analyze claims, and find similar papers.

Highlights:

Name: Elicit
Company: Elicit.com
Expertise: AI-powered research assistant.
Source Citation: When asked.
Export Response: BIB, CSV.
Usage: Unlimited usage.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Desktop app.
Availability: Available worldwide.

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Rytr

Rytr is an AI writing assistant that can generate a variety of content in seconds. This tool can blog posts, social media copy, business pitches, cover letters, ads, job descriptions, story plots, reviews, descriptions, video ideas, videos description, and more. Rytr is based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 API. It can generate content in multiple languages and tones.

To generate content, you can select what type of content you want to generate, and select a tone and a language. It shows the generated content in a text editor that has a built-in plagiarism checker. Along with the content, it can also generate images from the description. Rytr also has a chat section where you can interact with the tool.

The free plan allows you to generate 10,000 characters per month. You can access 40+ use cases, 20+ tones, and write in 30+ languages. Also, you can generate up to 5 images per month with AI.

Highlights:

Name: Rytr
Company: Rytr.me
Expertise: AI writing assistant.
Source Citation: When asked.
Export Response: DOCX, HTML.
Usage: Generate 10K characters per month for free.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: Not available.
Availability: Available worldwide.

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Tome

Tome is an AI-powered storytelling tool that creates presentations. To use the tool, you have to create a workspace first that you can share with others as well. The workspace comes with a few templates. From there, you can create a blank presentation and use Tome to generate page layout, themes, colors, guides, and generate presentations.

After generating the presentation, you can add video narration using native video recording. It also lets you add content from Tweet, Airtable, Figma, Giphy, Table, Image, etc. As an individual, you can use Tome for free to make and edit presentations. However, generating a presentation using AI costs compute credits. And you get only 500 free AI compute credits upon signup.

Highlights:

Name: Tome
Company: Tome.app
Expertise: AI-powered storytelling.
Source Citation: N/A.
Export Response: Link share, PDF (Pro).
Usage: Unlimited use with 500 free AI compute credits.
Plugins: No.
API Access: Not available.
Mobile App: iOS.
Availability: Available worldwide.

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Twain

Twain is an AI communication assistant for outreach. This tool can help you write a variety of outreach messages. This tool does not generate the content for you. Instead, it checks your content and provides recommendations to make it clear, convincing, and impactful. It provides recommendations based on outreach best practices, such as improving the introduction, showing when to avoid filler words, and explaining why a clear question at the end of an email is the way to go.

Twain gives a score to your message and shows readability and reading time. From there, you can copy the message and listen to it. You can use this to curate messages with up to 10,000 characters.