Chat Rankings
General-purpose assistants for writing, questions, and coding.
| # | Product | Popularity | Pricing | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek | 🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | DeepSeek's LLM products: V4-Pro and V4-Flash both ship a native 1M-token context window, model weights are open-sourced, and the web app and mobile apps are free to use. |
| 2 | Tongyi Qianwen | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | Alibaba's Qianwen assistant — the web entry moved from tongyi.com to qianwen.com; the current flagship model is Qwen3.8-Max and the open-weight releases continue |
| 3 | Wenxin Yiyan | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | Baidu's ERNIE chat entry point — the web app remains at yiyan.baidu.com and the mobile app is now called Wenxiaoyan; it currently runs ERNIE 5.0 / 5.1 with deep Baidu Search integration |
| 4 | ChatGPT | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | OpenAI's AI chat product for Q&A, writing, code, data analysis, image generation, and web search; it moved fully to GPT-6 in October 2026, and the Free and Go tiers show ads |
| 5 | Anthropic | 🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | The company behind Claude: model documentation, API references and enterprise entry points (for the chat product, see Claude). |
| 6 | DoubaoNew | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free | ByteDance's AI assistant, running on the Doubao 2.1 model family since June 2026 across chat, voice, image generation and office tasks |
| 7 | Grok | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | xAI's real-time information assistant; the latest Grok 4.7 targets coding and knowledge work, with a 500,000-token context window. |
| 8 | Zhipu AINew | 🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | Zhipu's global Z.ai platform and mainland China BigModel platform provide AI assistants, agents, GLM APIs, and Coding Plans for different regions. |
| 9 | Poe | 🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | Quora's multi-model AI platform — one subscription and a compute-point meter across 200+ official models and a large library of user-built bots |
| 10 | OpenCat | 🔥🔥🔥 | Paid | A native multi-model AI client for macOS, iOS and iPadOS that connects to services including ChatGPT and Claude. |
| 11 | PerplexityNew | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | An AI search engine that searches the live web and answers with clickable source citations. |
| 12 | OpenGPT | 🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | A third-party ChatGPT app community that packages tuned system prompts into ready-to-use mini-tools you can also build and share |
| 13 | ClaudeNew | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | Anthropic's AI assistant, with Fable 5.1 at the top and Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 as the everyday workhorses, built for long documents, coding, and agent workflows |
| 14 | Google GeminiNew | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | Google's AI assistant, with Gemini 3.8 Flash as the newest model, multimodal input, and Search and Workspace integration; from October 9, 2026 the free tier keeps only Flash-Lite |
| 15 | Tencent YuanbaoNew | 🔥🔥 | Free tier | Tencent's AI assistant built on the Hunyuan models, able to search WeChat Official Account and Channels content, with document reading, an AI voice recorder, and an expert mode for in-depth answers |
| 16 | ByteDance XiaowukongNew | 🔥 | Free tier | ByteDance's content generation toolkit |
| 17 | Kimi | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | Moonshot AI's Kimi, now at kimi.com; K3 targets agentic coding and long documents with a native 1M-token context window. |
| 18 | Character.AI | 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | An AI character chat platform with millions of user-made characters; since November 2025 under-18 users no longer get open-ended chat, and age is verified through Persona |
| 19 | Mistral AINew | 🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | France's Mistral models — the Mistral Large 3 flagship is a 675B/41B sparse MoE with a 256K context under Apache 2.0 — plus the Le Chat assistant and a pay-per-token API |
| 20 | YOU | 🔥🔥🔥 | Free tier | An AI search and research platform that shifted in 2026 to usage-billed search and Research APIs, with a free tier of 100 queries a day |
| 21 | ColossalChat | 🔥🔥 | Free | An open-source chat demo for the Colossal-AI framework showing a complete RLHF training pipeline; the hosted demo is bound by the LLaMA licence |
| 22 | Quark AINew | 🔥🔥🔥🔥 | Free | Alibaba's AI search and productivity platform: an AI super box on mobile and a desktop browser with Qwen built in, plus cloud storage, AI writing and study tools. |
| 23 | iFlytek SparkNew | 🔥🔥 | Free tier | An AI large language model developed by iFlytek, specializing in content generation and conversational interactions. |
| 24 | Baichuan IntelligenceNew | 🔥 | Free tier | Baichuan's foundation-model and medical-AI platform, offering model APIs, healthcare models, and user-facing AI services. |
| 25 | huggingChatNew | 🔥 | Free | Hugging Face's open-model chat interface, with Omni model routing and manual model selection. |
| 26 | LLaMA (Meta AI)New | — | Free | Meta's open model family, with Llama weights available for self-hosting and fine-tuning; from 2026 its frontier models moved to the closed Muse series, while the Apache 2.0 Muse Glimmer continues the open-weight line |
| 27 | Tiangong AI SearchNew | — | Free tier | Developed by Kunlun Tech, an AI-native search engine that delivers information through conversational interactions |
| 28 | devv.aiNew | — | Free tier | A developer-focused AI product that has moved from a developer search engine to an AI coding agent for building full-stack AI applications |
| 29 | LinerNew | — | Free tier | An AI search and research suite split into Liner (web search), Liner Scholar (academic), and Liner Write (writing); the main site moved to liner.com |
Rankings prioritize on-site views, then official-site visits, likes, and editorial trend position; they reflect interest among AI Beyond users.