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Best Claude alternatives

10 tools similar to Claude, ranked by how closely they match what it does among chat assistants. All 10 have a free option.

Claude alternatives at a glance

Tool	Pricing	Free option	API	Open source	Compare
Claude(this tool)	Freemium · from $17/mo
ChatGPT	Freemium				vs Claude
Poe	Freemium · from $19.99/mo				vs Claude
Claude Code	Freemium				vs Claude
Grok	Freemium · from $8/mo
Le Chat (Mistral)	Freemium · from $14.99/mo
Gemini	Freemium · from $19.99/mo
DeepSeek	Freemium
Jan	Free
Meta AI	Free
Character.AI	Freemium · from $9.99/mo

Top 10 alternatives to Claude

ChatGPT

Chat assistants

OpenAI's conversational AI — the world's most widely-used LLM interface.

Free ($0/mo), Go ($8/mo), Plus ($20/mo), Pro (from $100/mo), Business and Enterprise plans also available.

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Poe

Chat assistants

One platform to access, chat, and build with the world's best AI models

Points-based system mentioned ('Get more points')

Google (Sign-in)Apple (Sign-in)

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Multi-provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and others)

Claude Code

Coding & development

Agentic AI coding assistant by Anthropic that works directly in your terminal

Free tierDevAPI

Grok

Chat assistants

xAI's witty, real-time AI — has live access to X (Twitter) data and minimal content restrictions.

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Le Chat (Mistral)

Chat assistants

Mistral's fast European AI assistant with strong open-source model roots

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Gemini

Chat assistants

Google's multimodal AI assistant with deep Search and Workspace integration

Free tier available

Free tierEveryoneAPI

Google10M+ users

DeepSeek

Chat assistants

Frontier AI models with world-class reasoning — free to chat, open to build on

Free to use with API options available

APIWeb AppMobile App

Free tierEveryoneAPIOSSSelf-host

DeepSeekPopular

Jan

Chat assistants

Personal AI intelligence that runs locally and answers only to you

Free & Open source

ChatGPTClaudeGeminiLlama+1

FreeEveryoneAPIOSSSelf-host

Multi-provider (Llama, Mistral, Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, and more)43kPopular

Meta AI

Chat assistants

Meta's free AI assistant built into Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook.

MetaWhatsAppInstagramFacebook

Character.AI

Chat assistants

Create and chat with AI characters — bring any persona to life

Free tierEveryone

Character.AI (proprietary)

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