ChatGPT
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free tier runs GPT-5-class models
- Voice, vision, image generation & web browsing
- Agent mode for multi-step tasks
- Custom GPTs and file uploads
AI Chat & Assistants (31)
All 31 AI chatbots in the Flocci catalog, 30 of them free or freemium. Pricing tier and real capabilities on every entry — no ads, no sponsored placement.
AllGeneral Purpose ChatbotsBrowser Extensions & CopilotsAI Companions & RoleplayMulti-Model Aggregators & Universal Clients
freemium
Claude
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free tier with the Claude family (Opus/Sonnet class)
- Best-in-class coding and long-form reasoning
- Artifacts for live code & document previews
- Projects, memory and MCP tool connectors
Gemini
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free tier with Gemini 3 models
- Up to 2M-token context (largest of any flagship)
- Deep Google Workspace + real-time Search integration
- Native image (Nano Banana) & video (Veo) generation
Grok
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free tier with Grok 4-series models
- Live data from X and the open web
- Grok Imagine for image & video generation
- Less-filtered, fast conversational style
DeepSeek
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free access to V3-series & R1 reasoning models
- Open-weight, MoE-efficient architecture
- Strong math, coding and reasoning
- Transparent chain-of-thought mode
Microsoft Copilot
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free tier with frontier OpenAI models
- Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
- Voice, vision and image generation
- Copilot Vision can see your screen
Meta AI
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free, powered by Llama 4
- Built into WhatsApp, Instagram & Messenger
- Image generation and editing in chat
- Real-time web answers
Qwen Chat
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free access to Qwen3-series models
- Strong multilingual and coding performance
- Open weights you can also run locally
- Vision, web search and artifacts
Mistral Le Chat
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free tier from Europe's leading AI lab
- Very fast 'Flash Answers'
- Code interpreter, web search & image gen
- Privacy-focused, EU-hosted option
Kimi
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free access to Kimi K2-series agentic models
- Excellent long-document understanding
- Open weights, strong on agentic tasks
- Built-in research and browsing
HuggingChat
General Purpose Chatbots
- Completely free and open-source
- Switch between top open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek…)
- Web search and tools enabled
- Community assistants
Poe
General Purpose Chatbots
- One app for GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok & more
- Create and share custom bots
- Compare model answers side by side
- Free daily points across models
You.com
General Purpose Chatbots
- AI assistant with cited web answers
- Access to multiple frontier models
- Research and agent modes
- Custom sources and workspaces
Z.ai (GLM Chat)
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free chat on flagship GLM-5.2 with no login required
- Built-in full-stack app/website builder mode
- Free GLM-4.5-Flash tier for API prototyping
Doubao
General Purpose Chatbots
- ByteDance's flagship consumer assistant, built on its own Seed models
- Deep integration with Douyin/TikTok-adjacent content workflows
- Voice, image and document modes in one free app
Tencent Yuanbao
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free full-version DeepSeek-R1 access alongside Tencent's own Hunyuan/Hongyuan models
- One-tap access from inside WeChat chats, groups and Mini Programs
- Pulls in WeChat Official Account and Video Channel content as search sources
Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan)
General Purpose Chatbots
- Baidu's flagship consumer chatbot built on its Ernie model family
- One-stop office/study assistant positioning (办公学习一站解决)
- Tied into Baidu Search and Baidu ecosystem services
MiniMax Chat
General Purpose Chatbots
- Consumer chat surface for MiniMax's own M3/M2.5 model family
- Combines AI search, vision and voice chat in one assistant
- Distinct product from MiniMax's Hailuo video model (already listed) and Talkie companion app
iFlytek Spark (Xinghuo)
General Purpose Chatbots
- Voice-first Chinese chatbot from iFlytek, China's dominant speech-tech vendor
- Permanently free Spark Lite API tier for developers
- Claims support across 74 languages/dialects via Spark X1
Alibaba Quark AI Assistant
General Purpose Chatbots
- 200M+ existing users of Quark's browser/search app now get a free Qwen3-powered chat assistant
- Handles deep research, presentations, image generation and medical-info lookup in one app
- Voice and text chatbot modes built into a mainstream consumer surface, not a standalone chat site
Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应)
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free consumer assistant from Baichuan, built on the Baichuan 4 base model
- Multi-turn AI search plus document/image upload and voice interaction
- Distinct from Baichuan's 2026 pivot to medical LLMs (M3/M4) — this is the general consumer app
Sarvam Indus
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free (beta) chat assistant natively handling all 22 official Indian languages plus Hinglish code-switching
- Built on Sarvam's own 105B parameter model, not a foreign-model wrapper
- Voice, document upload and web research included at no cost during beta
Aleph Alpha Pharia Assistant
General Purpose Chatbots
- Germany's flagship 'sovereign AI' chat/assistant platform (PhariaAssistant), built for EU data-residency requirements
- Deep-research report generation over uploaded documents
- Positioned explicitly against US/Chinese model dependence for European enterprises and governments
Upstage Solar Chat
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free hosted chat interface for South Korea's Solar Pro model family, no API key needed to try it
- Solar Pro 4 (Aug 2026) ships aggressively low promotional API pricing
- Free access for schools, hospitals and nonprofits to the underlying model for up to a year
Sakana Chat
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free general-public chat service from Sakana AI, built on its own Namazu model
- Real-time web search integration and three selectable tones including a distinct 'Osaka' dialect style
- Launched March 2026 as Sakana's pivot from pure R&D into consumer products alongside Marlin and Fugu
Falcon LLM Chat (TII)
General Purpose Chatbots
- Free public playground for Abu Dhabi TII's open-weight Falcon models
- Falcon-H1 Arabic leads the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard across model sizes
- Fully open-source, permissively licensed models downloadable from Hugging Face
Jais Chat
General Purpose Chatbots
- Bilingual Arabic/English chatbot built on Jais 30B/70B, the leading Arabic-trained LLM family
- Trained on 475B+ Arabic tokens, culturally and linguistically tuned rather than translated
- Free web and mobile app with model choice (fast 30B vs precise 70B vs K2-Diamond-Chat for math/code)
Pi (Inflection AI)
General Purpose Chatbots
- Fully free personal-AI chatbot with no subscription tier at all — unlimited conversations, no paywall
- Voice mode with 8 selectable voices, plus iOS/Android/web/Apple Messages clients
- Tuned for supportive, conversational tone rather than task-completion, a distinct niche from utility chatbots
DuckDuckGo AI Chat (Duck.ai)
General Purpose Chatbots
- Anonymous, no-account access to Claude, GPT, Mistral and open models with IP stripped before forwarding
- Contractual guarantees that conversations aren't used for vendor model training, deleted within 30 days
- Free voice mode with daily limits; paid Plus/Pro tiers add GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet/Opus access and higher limits
Venice AI
General Purpose Chatbots
- Browser-side conversation storage — Venice's servers never see or keep chat history
- Requests routed through proxies to decentralized GPU providers, obscuring both identity and full history
- Runs uncensored open-source models with no content-filter layer, a distinct positioning from mainstream chatbots
Proton Lumo
General Purpose Chatbots
- Zero-access encrypted chat from the makers of Proton Mail/VPN — no account needed to start chatting
- Open-source client, no conversation logging or training on user data, by design
- Free tier includes web search and basic chat history, not just a stripped demo
General Purpose Chatbots — straight answers
What are the best free AI chatbots?
Flocci AI Tools lists 31 AI chatbots, ordered free tiers first: Alibaba Quark AI Assistant, Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan), Falcon LLM Chat (TII) and HuggingChat. 30 of the 31 are free or have a free tier. Every entry states what it uniquely does, not a score.
Are there completely free AI chatbots?
Yes — 12 of these are marked fully free with no paid plan attached: Alibaba Quark AI Assistant, Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan), Falcon LLM Chat (TII) and HuggingChat. The rest are freemium, trial or paid, and each row states which.
What should I look for in AI chatbots?
Start with what you need to do: chat with a frontier model without paying. Then check the pricing tier, because "free" here means no paid plan at all while "freemium" means a free tier under paid plans. Every tool on this page lists both.
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