# The best free AI chatbots

Every option in the catalog for when you need to chat with a frontier model without paying — 41 AI chatbots, 40 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.

## Stats

- 41 tools listed
- 40 free or freemium
- 19 with no paid plan at all
- 1 sub-categories covered

## FAQ

### What are the best free AI chatbots?

Flocci AI Tools lists 41 of them, ordered free tiers first: Apertus Chat (Public AI), Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode, HuggingChat and Jais Chat. 40 of the 41 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.

### Which of these are completely free?

19 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: Apertus Chat (Public AI), Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode, HuggingChat and Jais Chat. The remaining 22 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 chatbots work in a browser with no install?

Apertus Chat (Public AI), Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode, HuggingChat and Jais Chat all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 29 of the 40 free AI chatbots listed here are browser-based.

### Which AI chatbots let you sign in with Google?

Google AI Mode, K2 Think, Kimi, Qwen Chat and ChatGPT support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 16 of the 40 free AI chatbots on this page.

### Which AI chatbots have a mobile app?

Google AI Mode, Jais Chat, K2 Think, Kimi and Meta AI have an iOS or Android app. 29 of the 40 free AI chatbots here can run on your phone.

## 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)
- [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
- [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
- [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)
- [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
- [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
- [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
- [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)
- [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
- [Venice AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/venice-ai) — Freemium — Browser-side conversation storage — Venice's servers never see or keep chat history
- [You.com](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/you-com) — Freemium — AI assistant with cited web answers
- [Z.ai (GLM Chat)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/z-ai-glm-chat) — Freemium — Free chat on Zhipu's flagship GLM-5.x models
- [Doubao](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/doubao) — Freemium — ByteDance's flagship consumer assistant on its Doubao Seed 2.x models
- [iFlytek Spark (Xinghuo)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/iflytek-spark-xinghuo) — Freemium — Voice-first Chinese chatbot from iFlytek, China's dominant speech-tech vendor
- [Tencent Yuanbao](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/tencent-yuanbao) — Freemium — Free assistant on Tencent's own Hunyuan Hy-series models alongside DeepSeek
- [Upstage Solar Chat](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/upstage-solar-chat) — Freemium — Free hosted chat interface for South Korea's Solar Pro model family, no API key needed to try it
- [Aleph Alpha Pharia Assistant](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/aleph-alpha-pharia-assistant) — Paid — Germany's flagship 'sovereign AI' chat/assistant platform (PhariaAssistant), built for EU data-residency requirements
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Source: Flocci AI Tools — https://aitools.flocci.in/best/best-general-purpose-chatbots

Facts last verified: October 2026