What is HuggingChat?
HuggingChat is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Completely free and open-source. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at huggingface.co.
What HuggingChat does
- Completely free and open-source
- Switch between top open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek…)
- Web search and tools enabled
- Community assistants
HuggingChat — straight answers
Is HuggingChat free?
HuggingChat is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
Can I use HuggingChat in a browser, or is there an app?
HuggingChat works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web.
What can HuggingChat do?
HuggingChat does 4 things the catalog singles out: Completely free and open-source; switch between top open models (llama, qwen, deepseek…); web search and tools enabled; community assistants.
What is the best free alternative to HuggingChat?
Apertus Chat (Public AI) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode and Jais Chat also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
See the full list →HuggingChat alternatives
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General Purpose Chatbots
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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