Best Microsoft Copilot alternatives

1. Gemini

Gemini is Google’s generative AI assistant for writing, planning, brainstorming, and other conversational tasks. It provides a chat interface where you can start a conversation about what you want help with. Its starting options include summarizing, learning, and coding, alongside its broader writing and…

• Writing assistance
• Planning and brainstorming
• Summarizing, learning, and coding

Best for Everyday users, Learners, People working with code

2. ChatGPT

Freemium

ChatGPT is an AI assistant that brings conversation, writing, coding, and image creation into one interface. Users can start a chat to ask questions, draft text, or get help completing work. It supports a range of tasks rather than focusing on a single type of output, making it useful for people who want to move…

• Conversational assistance
• Image creation
• File uploads

Best for Everyday users, Writers and content creators, People working with code

3. Grok

Grok is a general-purpose AI assistant that runs in the browser as a chat window. You type a question or request, or start with a slash command, and the assistant replies in an ongoing conversation, so follow-up questions and revisions stay in the same thread. Alongside conversation, it can generate images, help…

• Conversational chat
• Slash commands
• Image creation

Best for General users, X users, Developers

4. Monica

Freemium

Monica is an AI assistant that brings multiple models together for chat, writing, research, translation, and creative work. It runs on the web, through a Chrome extension, and in desktop and mobile apps. Users can ask questions, compare model responses, summarize documents, and generate images or videos within the…

• Multi-model chat
• Browser sidebar and toolbar
• Writing and email assistance

Best for Researchers and analysts, Marketing professionals, Entrepreneurs, Customer service professionals

5. DeepSeek

Free

DeepSeek is a free AI assistant for iPhone and iPad, powered by DeepSeek’s flagship model. It provides a conversational interface for asking questions and getting help with problems and everyday tasks. Users interact with the assistant through chat, making it a general-purpose tool rather than an app dedicated to a…

• Conversational AI assistance
• DeepSeek flagship model
• Multilingual interface

Best for Everyday AI users

6. Qwen

Qwen is a web-based AI platform for everyday users and developers, bringing access to Qwen’s open-source and proprietary models into one interface. It combines a conversational assistant with tools for working across text, images, documents, voice, and video. Users can ask questions in chat or use its…

• Qwen model chat
• Image and video understanding
• Image generation and editing

Best for Everyday users, Developers

7. Lorka AI

PaidFrom $29.99/mo

Lorka AI is a subscription-based workspace that combines multiple AI chat models with writing, research, and creative tools. Users can work with models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and DeepSeek without moving between separate chat applications. It supports tasks such as drafting emails…

• Multi-model chat
• AI web search
• PDF conversations

Best for Students and researchers, Writers and marketers, Developers and data analysts, Entrepreneurs

8. Claude

FreemiumFrom $20/mo

Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant for answering questions and carrying out work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, code, and connected apps. Users describe an outcome in plain language, give Claude access to relevant files or tools, and review the results. It can search the web, run code, create editable…

• Research and web search
• Editable files and Artifacts
• Scheduled and parallel tasks

Best for Business teams, Developers, Finance and legal professionals, Enterprise administrators

9. Kimi

Kimi is an AI chat and agent workspace from Moonshot AI. Users can ask questions or assign tasks, with tools for coding, deep research, slides, documents, spreadsheets, design, and 3D creation. Its K3.1 Pro model is presented for complex coding projects and agent-based work, including financial research and building…

• Chat and agent tasks
• Coding and building
• Deep research

Best for Developers, Researchers, Designers and content creators

10. Speechify

FreemiumFrom $29/mo

Speechify is a voice-based AI assistant for listening to written content, dictating text, and working with documents. It reads PDFs, books, web pages, and other files aloud, with text highlighting and adjustable playback speed. Users can import documents, paste text, add web links, or scan printed pages to turn them…

• Text-to-speech reader
• Scan and listen
• Voice typing

Best for Students, Professionals, People with reading difficulties, Creators