Google AI Mode

Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions

What Google AI Mode does

  • Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions
  • Personal Intelligence brings Gmail, Photos and other Google apps context to free users in the US
  • Also reachable in the Chrome sidebar

Google AI Mode — straight answers

What is Google AI Mode?

Google AI Mode is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Conversational AI search inside Google powered by Gemini with follow-up questions. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at google.com.

Is Google AI Mode free?

Google AI Mode is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Google AI Mode do?

Google AI Mode does 3 things the catalog singles out: Conversational ai search inside google powered by gemini with follow-up questions; personal intelligence brings gmail, photos and other google apps context to free users in the us; also reachable in the chrome sidebar.

What is the best free alternative to Google AI Mode?

Alibaba Quark AI Assistant is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Amazon Nova, Apertus Chat (Public AI) and Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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ChatGPT

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on OpenAI's fast GPT-6/GPT-5.x 'Luna' models, with a Think button for harder questions
  • Voice, vision, image generation and web search in one app
  • Agent mode, projects, memory and file uploads
  • Custom GPTs and a large app/connector ecosystem

Claude

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on Anthropic's Claude 5 family (Sonnet-class model by default)
  • Top-tier coding, writing and long-document reasoning
  • Artifacts for live code, document and app previews
  • Projects, memory, web search and MCP tool connectors

Gemini

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier on Gemini 3.x Flash models, with limited access to the top Pro model
  • Very long context for whole books, codebases and long videos
  • Deep Google Workspace and real-time Search integration
  • Native image (Nano Banana) and video (Veo) generation, Gemini Live voice

Grok

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free, rate-limited access to xAI's latest Grok 4.x models
  • Live data from X and the open web
  • Grok Imagine for image and video generation
  • Fast, less-filtered conversational style

DeepSeek

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free web and app chat on DeepSeek's V4-series models
  • Instant and Expert (deep-thinking) modes
  • Strong math, coding and reasoning at open-model cost
  • Models are also released as open weights

Microsoft Copilot

General Purpose Chatbots
freemium
  • Free tier mixing frontier OpenAI models with Microsoft's own MAI models
  • Built into Windows, Edge and Microsoft 365
  • Voice, vision and image generation
  • Copilot Vision can see and talk through your screen

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