# The best free ai chat & assistants tools

All 68 ai chat & assistants tools in the catalog across 4 sub-categories, ordered free tiers first.

## Stats

- 68 tools listed
- 65 free or freemium
- 27 with no paid plan at all
- 4 sub-categories covered

## FAQ

### What are the best free ai chat & assistants tools?

Flocci AI Tools lists 68 of them, ordered free tiers first: Apertus Chat (Public AI), Chatbox, Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode and HuggingChat. 65 of the 68 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.

### Which of these are completely free?

27 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Apertus Chat (Public AI), Chatbox, Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode and HuggingChat. The remaining 41 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.

### How is this list ordered?

Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.

## Quick picks

### Which AI Chat & Assistants Tools work in a browser with no install?

Apertus Chat (Public AI), Chatbox, Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode and HuggingChat all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 43 of the 65 free AI Chat & Assistants Tools listed here are browser-based.

### Which AI Chat & Assistants Tools let you sign in with Google?

Google AI Mode, K2 Think, Kimi, Qwen Chat and Gemini in Chrome support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 29 of the 65 free AI Chat & Assistants Tools on this page.

### Which AI Chat & Assistants Tools have a mobile app?

Chatbox, Google AI Mode, Jais Chat, K2 Think and Kimi have an iOS or Android app. 43 of the 65 free AI Chat & Assistants Tools here can run on your phone.

### Which AI Chat & Assistants Tools can you self-host or run offline?

Cherry Studio, Firefox Smart Window, Gemini in Chrome, LibreChat and Opera Browser AI (Aria) can be self-hosted or run locally without a browser — useful for privacy, air-gapped networks, or avoiding API rate limits. 8 of the 65 free AI Chat & Assistants Tools here run offline.

## Tools

- [Apertus Chat (Public AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/apertus-chat-public-ai) — Free — Chat directly on Apertus 1.5, the fully open Swiss model from ETH, EPFL and CSCS (released 2026-07-24)
- [Chatbox](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/chatbox) — Free — Open-source (GPL-3.0) desktop and mobile client for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and Ollama with local data storage
- [Falcon LLM Chat (TII)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/falcon-llm-chat-tii) — Free — Free public playground for Abu Dhabi TII's open-weight Falcon models
- [Google AI Mode](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-ai-mode) — Free — Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions
- [HuggingChat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/huggingchat) — Free — Completely free and open-source
- [Jais Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/jais-chat) — Free — Bilingual Arabic/English chatbot built on Jais 30B/70B, the leading Arabic-trained LLM family
- [K2 Think](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/k2-think) — Free — MBZUAI/G42 chat app for the open Apache-2.0 K2 Think V2 reasoning model, served on Cerebras
- [Kimi](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/kimi) — Free — Free access to Moonshot's Kimi K3 and K2-series agentic models
- [Meta AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/meta-ai) — Free — Free assistant now powered by Meta's Muse Spark models
- [NextChat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/nextchat) — Free — MIT-licensed lightweight AI chat client with one-click Vercel deployment and roughly 5MB desktop apps
- [Pi (Inflection AI)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/pi-inflection-ai) — Free — Fully free personal-AI chatbot with no subscription tier at all — unlimited conversations, no paywall
- [Qwen Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/qwen-chat) — Free — Free access to Alibaba's latest Qwen3.x models, including the Max tier
- [Sakana Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/sakana-chat) — Free — Free general-public chat service from Sakana AI, built on its own Namazu model
- [Xiaomi MiMo Studio](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/xiaomi-mimo-studio) — Free — Xiaomi's web chat for its open-source MiMo MoE models (MIT license) with classic, deep-reasoning and web-search modes
- [Alibaba Quark AI Assistant](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/alibaba-quark-ai-assistant) — Free — 200M+ existing users of Quark's browser/search app now get a free Qwen3-powered chat assistant
- [Amazon Nova](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/amazon-nova) — Free — Amazon's web playground to chat with Nova models (Nova 2 Lite and others) with a model dropdown
- [Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/baichuan-bai-xiao-ying) — Free — Free consumer assistant from Baichuan, built on the Baichuan 4 base model
- [Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/baidu-ernie-bot-wenxin-yiyan) — Free — Baidu's flagship consumer chatbot built on its Ernie model family
- [Cherry Studio](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/cherry-studio) — Free — Free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) desktop client unifying OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen and local Ollama/LM Studio models in one window
- [Firefox Smart Window](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/firefox-smart-window) — Free — Built-in Firefox AI assistant that answers questions about the page and open tabs and searches browsing history in natural language
- [Gemini in Chrome](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/gemini-in-chrome) — Free — Gemini side panel that answers questions about the current tab and across tabs
- [LibreChat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/librechat) — Free — Fully open-source, self-hostable ChatGPT-style interface connecting to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenRouter and more from one UI
- [LongCat Chat (Meituan)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/longcat-chat-meituan) — Free — Web chat for Meituan's open-source LongCat-Flash models (MIT license, 560B MoE)
- [Opera Browser AI (Aria)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/opera-browser-ai-aria) — Free — Free, native AI assistant built into Opera's mainstream and GX browsers, no separate app needed
- [Page Assist](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/page-assist) — Free — Open-source (MIT) sidebar and ChatGPT-style web UI for local models via Ollama, LM Studio or Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano
- [Sarvam Indus](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/sarvam-indus) — Free — Free (beta) chat assistant natively handling all 22 official Indian languages plus Hinglish code-switching
- [Snapchat My AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/snapchat-my-ai) — Free — Free chatbot inside Snapchat for everyone since 2023
- [Character.AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/character-ai) — Freemium — Chat with millions of community characters
- [ChatGPT](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/chatgpt) — Freemium — Free tier on OpenAI's fast GPT-6/GPT-5.x 'Luna' models, with a Think button for harder questions
- [ChatHub](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/chathub) — Freemium — Side-by-side comparison of multiple AI chatbots' answers in one browser view
- [Claude](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/claude) — Freemium — Free tier on Anthropic's Claude 5 family (Sonnet-class model by default)
- [DeepSeek](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/deepseek) — Freemium — Free web and app chat on DeepSeek's V4-series models
- [Dola](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/dola) — Freemium — ByteDance's overseas assistant (renamed from Cici in Nov 2025) with free chat, translation, summarization and image generation
- [DuckDuckGo AI Chat (Duck.ai)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/duckduckgo-ai-chat-duck-ai) — Freemium — Anonymous, no-account access to Claude, GPT, Mistral and open models with IP stripped before forwarding
- [Euria (Infomaniak)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/euria-infomaniak) — Freemium — Swiss-hosted AI assistant from Infomaniak with a free basic version
- [Gemini](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/gemini) — Freemium — Free tier on Gemini 3.x Flash models, with limited access to the top Pro model
- [Grok](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/grok) — Freemium — Free, rate-limited access to xAI's latest Grok 4.x models
- [Kindroid](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/kindroid) — Freemium — Deep, persistent memory system marketed as its core differentiator among companion apps
- [LobeHub](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/lobehub) — Freemium — Open-source multi-agent chat workspace (about 82.9k GitHub stars) built on Next.js, deployable via Docker or Vercel
- [MaxAI.me](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/maxai-me) — Freemium — One-click rewrite, reply and summarize
- [Merlin AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/merlin-ai) — Freemium — Works on any website
- [Microsoft Copilot](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/microsoft-copilot) — Freemium — Free tier mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI models
- [MiniMax Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/minimax-chat) — Freemium — Consumer chat surface for MiniMax's M3 model family
- [Mistral Le Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/mistral-le-chat) — Freemium — Free tier from Europe's leading AI lab (Mistral Medium/Large 3-series)
- [Monica](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/monica) — Freemium — All-in-one AI copilot for the browser
- [Nomi](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/nomi) — Freemium — Free tier keeps full intelligence, memory and personality — not a stripped-down demo like most companion apps
- [Poe](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/poe) — Freemium — One app for GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and more
- [Proton Lumo](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/proton-lumo) — Freemium — Zero-access encrypted chat from the makers of Proton Mail/VPN — no account needed to start chatting
- [Reka Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/reka-chat) — Freemium — Chat with Reka's multimodal models (Reka Flash 3 etc.) without needing an account for basic use
- [Replika](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/replika) — Freemium — Personal AI companion that remembers you
- ... and 18 more — see the full list on the page.
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Source: Flocci AI Tools — https://aitools.flocci.in/best/best-ai-chat-assistants-tools

Facts last verified: October 2026