AI Chatbot & Assistant AI Tools

AnythingLLM is a free, MIT-licensed AI assistant that runs on your own computer, with document chat, agent skills, background jobs and an on-device meeting assistant. It needs no account or API key, and it can be self-hosted for teams.

Alexa+ is Amazon's generative-AI version of Alexa for Echo devices, the Alexa app and Alexa.com in the US. It is included with Prime, a free text chat tier is open to everyone, and it costs $19.99 a month without Prime.

ConverseNow is a voice AI for restaurants that handles phone ordering with upselling, multilingual support and analytics. It is sold by consultation; no prices or free plan are published.

Hostie is a virtual concierge for restaurants that answers calls, texts and emails, books reservations and takes takeout orders. Plans are Essential, Premium and Hospitality Plus; no prices are published.

Loman is a voice AI that answers restaurant calls and, on its Premium plan, takes takeout and delivery orders and reservations with POS integration. Pricing is by request; no free plan.

Slang.ai is a voice AI host for restaurants that answers calls, manages reservations and captures private-event leads. Pricing is by quote for Core, Premium and Enterprise; no free plan is listed.

Takeorder.ai is an AI phone agent that answers restaurant calls and sends orders to Square, Toast or Clover. A 14-day free trial needs no card; Starter is $199 a month.

Maple is a voice AI for restaurants that answers phone calls, takes orders into a POS and books reservations, 24/7. No free plan; Voice is $150 a month on monthly billing, Pro $350.

HubSpot is a CRM platform with marketing, sales and service products, including a Customer Agent in Service Hub that answers customers from your knowledge base. Service Hub has a free tier for 2 users.

Gorgias is a help desk for online stores with an AI Agent that works with Shopify order data and resolves conversations. Starter is $40 a month billed monthly with the AI Agent; a free trial needs no card.

Crisp is a customer support suite with a shared inbox, website chat widget, knowledge base and the Hugo AI agent, priced per workspace. A free plan has 2 seats and no AI credits; Mini costs $45 a month.

Freshdesk is a help desk from Freshworks with a shared inbox, knowledge base and the Freddy AI Agent, which handles the first 500 sessions on paid plans. Growth costs $23 per agent per month billed monthly.

Zendesk is a customer service platform with ticketing, messaging, voice and AI agents that resolve requests. Plans are priced per agent; a 14-day free trial needs no credit card.

GPT4All is a free, MIT-licensed desktop chat app from Nomic that runs open models on Windows, macOS and Linux. No GPU is required, and LocalDocs lets you chat with files on your computer.

Msty Studio is a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux that runs local models through Ollama, MLX and Llama.cpp next to online providers. The Free plan covers core desktop features.

llama.cpp is a free, MIT-licensed C/C++ engine for running language models on your own hardware, including CPUs and many GPUs. It includes an OpenAI-compatible server and sits under several local AI apps.

Jan is a free, open-source ChatGPT alternative from Menlo Research that runs local or online models on Windows, macOS and Linux, with an OpenAI-compatible local API server.

LM Studio, now shown as LM Studio Bionic, runs local language models and an agent that works on documents and code. The free plan covers local models, offline voice transcription and LM Link; Bionic+ is $20 a month.

Ollama downloads and runs open AI models on your own macOS, Windows or Linux computer, with a command line, local API and desktop app. Local use is free; paid plans cover Ollama's cloud models.

Mistral's Vibe, which Mistral's help center says replaces the Le Chat name, is an AI assistant for research, coding and everyday tasks. A Free plan has limited messages; Pro costs $14.99 a month.

DeepSeek is an AI chat assistant from a Chinese research company, offered as a mobile app, web chat and desktop client. The official site calls the app free to use; the API is billed per token.

Grok is an AI assistant for chat, image creation, coding help and answers drawn from the web and X. Free to try on web and mobile apps; the SuperGrok plan raises usage limits.

Perplexity is an AI answer engine with a free tier of basic searches and a few Pro Searches a day. Paid Pro and Max plans add advanced models and image generation; Max is $200 a month.

Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI chat assistant, free with limits at copilot.microsoft.com. Higher usage comes with Microsoft 365 plans: Personal is $9.99 a month, Family $12.99 and Premium $19.99.

Voiceflow is a platform for building chat and voice AI agents for customer support across web, app, WhatsApp, SMS and phone. Public pricing is not shown; businesses are told to request it.

Fin is Intercom's AI support agent that answers customers across chat, email, voice and social, and works with Intercom or other helpdesks. It is billed per outcome and offers a 14-day trial without a card.

Elfsight AI Chatbot is an embeddable website assistant trained on your own pages and files, aimed at small sites. The free plan allows one chatbot and 50 visitor messages a month, with no card needed.

Overchat AI is an all-in-one AI platform that combines 50+ leading models with 100+ mini apps for chat, image and video generation, document work, writing, and study tasks.

VibeBot is an AI-powered Discord bot builder for creating, customizing, and launching Discord bots without writing code.

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