ChatGPT
AI Assistants
General-purpose AI assistant with the widest capability spread of any consumer product.
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Free tier available; Plus $20/mo, Pro $200/mo
Best AI Assistants for Startups
Tools that give a small team the leverage of a much larger one, without adding headcount.
8 options, with each vendor's own pricing shown.
Claude
AI Assistants
Anthropic's assistant, favoured for long-context reasoning and careful, structured writing.
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Free tier available; Pro $20/mo; API priced per token
Google Gemini
AI Assistants
Google's multimodal assistant, deeply integrated into Search, Docs and Workspace.
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Free tier available; Google AI Pro $19.99/mo, AI Ultra $249.99/mo
Microsoft Copilot
AI Assistants
AI woven into Windows, Office and Microsoft 365 with enterprise compliance.
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Included with Microsoft 365; Copilot Pro $20/mo
DeepSeek
AI Assistants
Open-weight reasoning models with an unusually generous free API.
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Free web and app; API priced per token
Grok
AI Assistants
xAI's assistant with real-time access to X posts and a strong reasoning focus.
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Free tier available; SuperGrok $30/mo; SuperGrok Heavy $300/mo
Le Chat
AI Assistants
Mistral's fast European assistant, with a strong open-weight model family behind it.
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Free tier available; Le Chat Pro $14.99/mo
xAI API Platform
AI Assistants
xAI's developer platform offering the Grok model family over a REST API.
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Per-token pricing; no monthly minimum