Best AI Chat Assistants tools
The general-purpose AI assistants people now use instead of search, and the engines your brand needs to show up in. We track 5 tools in this category, ranked by how useful they actually are, not by who paid us.
ChatGPT
AI Chat Assistants
The AI assistant that started the shift from search to answers, and the first place your brand needs to show up.
Claude
AI Chat Assistants
Anthropic's assistant, favored for writing quality, long documents, and careful reasoning.
Gemini
AI Chat Assistants
Google's AI assistant, wired into Search, Workspace, and Android, and the engine behind AI Mode.
Perplexity
AI Chat Assistants
The answer engine: AI search with citations on every claim, and a preview of where search is going.
Microsoft Copilot
AI Chat Assistants
Microsoft's AI across Windows, Edge, Bing, and Office, the default assistant for a large slice of knowledge workers.