The 10 Best ChatGPT Alternatives (2024)

Gemini: Best for Real-Time Information From the Web

Gemini is Google's AI chatbot that the company says "can supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and help you bring your ideas to life."

Gemini is fun to play with and easy and intuitive to use. Like ChatGPT, it accepts text input to help you write code, generate stories, look up information, and more. It'll even analyze an image you send, meaning you can ask questions about a photo!

This is my #1 choice for the best alternative to ChatGPT because it's always connected to the web (no plugin needed!), and it feels straightforward to use.

Here are some other things I appreciated while using it:

• Precise location access provides relevant responses to where I am.
• Results can be converted into a new Gmail message or exported to Google Docs or Sheets.
• Previous chats can be pinned at the top of the page for easy retrieval.
• Results can be read aloud.
• Conversations can be shared via a link.
• Images can be generated.
• Pick a different response without typing everything out again.
• The extensions are free and easy to turn on and off.

Copilot: Best for Windows Users

Microsoft's AI chatbot is called Copilot (formerly Bing Chat). It's a combination of GPT-4 and the Bing search engine, so it's always accessing the internet to give updated results.

Although it's similar to Bard, I like that with Copilot, it's easy to switch between the AI responses and a normal Bing search if one feels like it'd be more useful than the other.

There are three conversation styles to pick from, depending on how you want the chatbot to respond. I like Balanced for most situations because it blends the other two nicely, but Precise is good for when I want a straightforward answer, and Creative is just fun to play around with.

In most cases, you can get more information about a response by clicking through the sources and additional information provided below each result.

Copilot works in Edge and most other browsers, including Chrome. There's also a shortcut to it on the Windows 11 taskbar.

AnonChatGPT: Best for Using ChatGPT Without an Account

If you want to use ChatGPT without logging in, AnonChatGPT is your best bet. It simply forwards all your prompts to OpenAI's servers and then displays the responses. I like this because my personal information isn't shared with the makers of ChatGPT, but I still get all the basic benefits.

AnonChatGPT is based on OpenAI's GPT-3 model, but the user interface isn't quite the same. Only one conversation can be held at a time, so past responses aren't stored to look through later. Just refresh the page to start a new conversation.

Copy.ai: Best for Summarizing Text

Copy.ai offers way more than just text summarizations, but I mention this first because it's awesome at it. I have found it super useful for really long essays, blog articles, and lists I just don't have the time to fully read.

As you can see in the screenshot, I fed it a URL, and it quickly and accurately read and understood the task. I got the same results with countless articles I tested. You'll love using this if you find yourself skipping interesting articles just because they're too long to get into right now.

Check out Copy.ai, and you'll find it's like ChatGPT on steroids, chock-full of countless valuable qualities. Below are some of the coolest features I found to help me write social media descriptions, generate blog ideas, and even write a birthday card.

• Create your own brand voice to generate content in line with your brand.
• Easily reuse important data by adding text or uploading files to your Infobase.
  
• Build workflows. One example lets you turn a content brief into a full blog post with a relevant meta description.
• Organize everything into project folders.

The free plan is fine if usage stays below 2,000 words in the chat. Paid plans include GPT-4 access and unlimited words, projects, brand voices, and more.

Character.AI: Best for Character-Based Conversations

Character.AI lets you chat with an agent that's preconfigured as someone specific—celebrities, religious figures, and game characters are a few neat ones I tried. The chatbot gives off the illusion that you're chatting with that character.

Some characters are built for fun; talk to Shakespeare, Einstein, Harry Potter, and Bill Gates. But there are also so-called "helpers" that can be used as psychologists, creative guides, trip planners, spirituality coaches, etc. Other topics include language learning, philosophy, and history. There's a lot to pick from!

If you're interested in building your own character, a quick mode option can spin up a new agent in no time (it took me about a minute). There's also an advanced mode with more powerful tools to perfect the chatbot. Creations can be private or public.

You can pay if you want priority access, faster response times, and a few other features.

ChatPDF: Best for Answering Questions From PDFs

Most free AI chatbots are useless if you need to analyze text from a document. ChatPDF can help by first identifying what in the document your question most likely is referring to, and then it leverages ChatGPT's power for the answer.

All you have to do is upload a PDF and then ask a question, just like you would in ChatGPT. You can also share a URL to the document so someone else can run questions by it.

I tried this with a 115-page document about something notoriously confusing— health insurance policy details— and it worked quite well! It only took a few seconds to come back with an answer. I had a few questions for it, and each time I was given helpful and factual answers (I looked manually to verify). It even tells you which pages it found the answers on.

You can use this alternative to ChatGPT on two documents per day as long as they don't exceed 120 pages. Paying users don't have a daily limit or question limit, and can get answers from PDFs as large as 32 MB.

Chatsonic: Best for Writing Assistance

Chatsonic calls itself the best ChatGPT alternative for content creation. It uses Google to access the web and it can be used through the website and the Android app. I also tried the Chrome extension to help me write directly in Gmail and other places like X (formerly Twitter) without having to leave the page.

Here are some features worth mentioning:

• Includes a plagiarism checker.
• There's a Chrome extension for content suggestions anywhere you write online.
• Suports image generation.
• Feed it documents, images, audio files, and URLs.
• Custom directions to personalize all the responses.
• Zapier and WordPress integrations.
• GPT-3.5 for free users.
• Download results as a DOCX file.

Free users are limited to 10,000 words per month. Additional features are available with the Freelancer and Small Team plans.

Flawlessly.ai: Best for Quick Grammar Fixes

The idea behind this free ChatGPT alternative is simple: It makes any writing flawless.

To use it, just paste your previously written content (or type something new) into the provided box. It can be any text: Notes, stories, emails, blog posts, etc. Then, pick conversational, formal, or semi-formal for the writing style. It'll spit out the same stuff you wrote in just a few seconds, but this time you can feel confident that it's grammatically correct.

I tried this several times with completely different text, both long and short samples, and it did surprisingly well. I recommend this for anyone who struggles with general grammar rules or who isn't quite fluent in English.

Phind: Best for Learning How to Code

Sure, ChatGPT can help with your broken code or general programming questions, but Phind takes it to the next level with constant access to the internet for up-to-date help and filters to adjust how results are ranked.

In my example in the screenshot above, I learned I missed a period in my code. Phind identified what I was trying to do with that code, searched the internet for reasons it doesn't work, and fixed it. If I wanted to learn more about how the answer was found, I could dig into the sources that were provided.

Before you ask Phind something, you can force it to ignore search results if you prefer.

This is a great resource for beginners, and I can see myself using it more as I dive deeper into software development. It's free to use with the Phind Model, and there's limited support for GPT-4, although you can pay for more usage.