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15 AI pages in Assistants.

Character.AICharacter.AI is a platform for chatting and role-playing with AI characters, free with ads and optional plans ((c.ai) lite from $4.99 a month, or c.ai+). It filed for Chapter 11 on Oct 12, 2026 to sell itself, with Disney as the lead bidder; the app still runs, and users under 18 cannot use open-ended chat.
ChatGPTChatGPT is OpenAI's AI assistant. It is free to use, with paid plans of Go ($8 a month in the US), Plus ($20) and Pro ($100, $200 or $500), and since Oct 2026 it runs on the GPT-6 models.
ClaudeClaude is Anthropic's AI assistant. It has a free plan, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $100 and Ultra at $200, runs on the Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 models, and leads the main coding leaderboards as of Nov 6, 2026.
DeepSeekDeepSeek is a Chinese AI lab whose free chat app and open-weight models, now the V4 family (V4-Pro and V4.1-Flash), are MIT licensed and among the cheapest to use by API. Its privacy policy says user data is stored in China, which led Italy's privacy regulator to block it there in Jan 2025.
DoubaoDoubao is ByteDance's AI assistant in China, free on the web and in apps, running ByteDance's own Seed models (Seed 2.1 since Jun 2026) with Seedance video and Seedream image generation built in. Outside China, ByteDance offers a similar assistant called Dola at cici.com.
GeminiGemini is Google's AI assistant and model family. The app is free, Google AI Plus costs $4.99 a month, Google AI Pro $19.99 with Gemini 4 Argon, and Google AI Ultra $99.99 or $199.99, as of Nov 6, 2026.
GLMGLM is the model family from Zhipu AI, which trades as Z.ai, with a free chatbot at chat.z.ai. The newest, GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash (Aug 25, 2026), are open weight, and the GLM Coding Plan for coding agents starts at $18 a month, as of Nov 6, 2026.
GrokGrok is the AI assistant made by xAI, now SpaceX Super Intelligence (SpaceXSI), on grok.com, iOS, Android and X. It is free with limits; since Oct 12, 2026 the paid plans are The X Subscription, from $8 a month (Plus) to $200 (Ultra), bundled with X Premium and Cursor.
KimiKimi is Moonshot AI's chat assistant and family of open-weight models. The newest, Kimi K3.1 Pro (Nov 2, 2026), is a 2.8-trillion-parameter agentic model with a 1-million-token context, free to download under a license that adds terms only for large model-as-a-service companies.
Le ChatLe Chat was Mistral AI's chat assistant; on May 28, 2026 Mistral renamed it Vibe, one agent for everyday work and coding. It is free with limits, and Vibe Pro costs $14.99 a month, as of Nov 6, 2026.
Meta AIMeta AI is Meta's free assistant inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and Threads, the Meta AI app, meta.ai and Meta's AI glasses. Since Apr 2026 it runs on Meta's Muse Spark model instead of Llama; Meta's separate Muse agent app has paid plans.
Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant app for Windows, the web and phones. It is free with lower limits, and higher use comes with Microsoft 365 Personal ($9.99 a month), Family ($12.99) or Premium ($19.99), as of Nov 6, 2026.
PerplexityPerplexity is an AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources. It is free with limits; Pro costs $17 a month billed yearly and Max $167 a month billed yearly ($200 month to month), as of Nov 6, 2026.
PoePoe is Quora's app for chatting with many AI models in one place, including GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon and Grok 4.7. It is free with daily points; subscriptions give more points, priced by Poe at about $30 per million points.
QwenQwen is Alibaba's family of AI models and its free chat app at chat.qwen.ai. The newest generation, Qwen3.8 (Aug 2026), includes the open-weight Qwen3.8-Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and an Apache 2.0 Qwen3.8-27B that runs on one large GPU.