The 11 Best ChatGPT Alternatives (2023)

Bard is Google's AI chatbot. Powered by LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), the company says Bard "can supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and help you bring your ideas to life."

Bard 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 it, 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 incredibly easy to use.

Here are some other things I appreciated while using it:

• Precise location access provides relevant responses to where I am.
• Displays results in one chunk instead of typing it out in real-time. This makes skimming the results easier than with ChatGPT.
• Results can be converted into a new Gmail message or exported to Google Docs.
• Previous chats can be pinned at the top of the page for easy retrieval.
• Results can be read aloud.
• Share a link to the conversation.
• Easily modify the response without typing. Choose a shorter or longer response, or simpler, more casual, or more professional.
• The extensions are free and easy to turn on and off.

If you want to use ChatGPT without logging in, AnonChatGPT is your best bet. It simply forwards all your prompts to ChatGPT's servers and then displays the responses. I like this because my personal information is not shared with 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 had at once, so past responses aren't stored to look through later. Just refresh the page to start a new conversation.

Copy.ai offers way more than just text summarizations, but I mention this first because it really is 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 consume 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.
  
• Use dozens of premade templates to generate content from emails and websites to videos, cover letters, and more.
• Organize everything into folder-like projects.

The free plan is fine if usage stays below 2,000 generated words. But the paid plan is still affordable ($36/month) for what you get, which includes unlimited words and projects, dozens of copywriting tools, GPT-4 access, and automation.

Character.AI is "building the next generation of dialog agents." Put simply, it lets you chat with an agent that's preconfigured as someone specific—a celebrity, religious figure, and a game character 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, like " talking" with 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 applications include education and general question-answering. 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 for perfecting the character. Creations can be private or public.

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 brain for the answer.

All you have to do is upload a PDF document 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 answer on.

This tool is free if the document doesn't exceed 10 MB or 120 pages. Paying users can get answers from PDFs that are up to 32 MB. There's also a page limit, per-day file limit, and question limit, but the Plus plan is only $5, so it's definitely worth it for larger files.

Microsoft's AI chatbot is called Bing Chat. It's tied into 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 Bing Chat it's easy to switch between Chat and 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 personally like Balanced for most situations because it blends the other two nicely, but Precise is nice 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.

Bing Chat only works if it's opened from the Edge browser. There's also a shortcut to it on the Windows 11 taskbar.

Unlike ChatGPT, NoowAI isn't based on GPT-3 or GPT-4 technology but instead claims to be a separate AI assistant created by Trần Đức, with its own unique design and capabilities.

Right away, the first thing I appreciate is how it can be used immediately without having to sign in. The website is laid out like an old-fashioned instant messenger chat interface, so it feels sort of like there's a person on the other end.

This chatbot gathers its information from websites, databases, and other digital resources and is focused on providing accurate and helpful information across a wide range of topics. It's said to help with anything from finding information and answering questions to managing schedules and providing recommendations.

Responses can be copied easily, and there's a button to start a fresh conversation at any time. Nothing here costs, so there aren't payment tiers to pick from—it's 100% free.

The idea behind this free ChatGPT alternative is simple: it makes any writing flawless. While it does produce rather highfalutin results, I can see this aiding in professional correspondence like business-related emails.

To use it, just paste your previously written content (or type something new) into the provided box to have it correct your grammar. It can be any text: notes, stories, emails, blog posts, etc. 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.

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 off to the right.

This is a great resource for beginners, and I can definitely see myself using it more as I dive deeper into software development. It's free to use with the GPT-3.5 model, and there's limited support for GPT-4 (25 requests every four hours).

Some AI tools that can search the web don't discriminate, meaning they use the whole internet in each search. This might be helpful sometimes, but other times it doesn't make much sense to do so. iAsk.AI is built differently to target forums, academic sources, books, or wiki pages.

Just type something into the box and choose a category so that it uses specific kinds of sources to generate results. I've been getting great answers using it for all sorts of queries.

For example, I was curious about how a specific medical procedure works, so I searched only for authoritative academic sources. Conversely, I used the forums search to get a list of gift ideas for a woman who likes cats, so it referenced Reddit and some pet-focused forums for answers from real people.

Chatsonic calls itself "your personalized AI-powered chatbot." It works 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.

I like the Current personality menu that tells the chatbot how to respond. Interviewer, Relationship Coach, Poet, Career Counselor, and Motivational Coach are a few of those options.

Here are some other features worth mentioning:

• Text-to-speech can read results back to you.
• Use the Chrome extension for content suggestions anywhere you write online.
• Image generation with Stable Diffusion or DALL-E.
• Extensive prompt library to help when writing.
• Integrates with Google Search for updated data.
• Download results as a DOCX file.

The free trial is limited to just over 8,000 words per month (for the GPT-4 version), doesn't have API access, and includes several other limitations compared to the paid plans, which start at $13 per month.