ChatGPT Alternatives & Competitors (Free and Paid)

Even if you do not relate to the industry of Artificial Intelligence, there is a probability that you have heard about ChatGPT, which is an AI chatbot, that has blown millions of minds and won millions of hearts through what it does.

With ChatGPT coming to the front, we have seen many AI tools rising, and many problems are being solved through Artificial Intelligence in general. But sometimes, you might want to look for some alternatives to ChatGPT for a variety of reasons, like if ChatGPT is unavailable in your region, or ChatGPT does not fit what you want to do, or you are not allowed to use ChatGPT somehow, or there may be any reason. So, in this article, we are going to talk about some ChatGPT alternatives, that you can use, and they do tasks similar to ChatGPT. Let’s get into it.

ChatGPT Alternatives & Competitors (Free and Paid)

What is ChatGPT?

For someone who is not familiar with ChatGPT, let’s have a quick discussion about what is ChatGPT because it would help you better relate and find the alternatives to ChatGPT. If you think you know about ChatGPT, you can happily skip the part, but I would recommend it as a minute-long read.

So, ChatGPT is a chatbot, and Chatbot is not a new thing. But the new thing is that it is an Artificial Intelligence, which can generate human-like language, and it feels so real, that for many, they won’t even notice that they are talking to an AI.

For example, when you go to Google, and ask for “Top 10 tourist sites in Singapore”, it comes up with dozens of links, which take you to the articles, that mention some tourist sites in Singapore(Now it’s different because Google is also using GenAI in search now, but I am talking past), but when the same question is asked to ChatGPT, it would straightaway come up with 10 best tourist sites for you in Singapore, and you can even chat for follow up questions as per your requirement.

In many means, ChatGPT is an incredible tool, provided that you understand how to use it, because it may give different results, depending on the prompt, and some other factors.

But besides all this, you may still need to find some Alternative to ChatGPT, due to many reasons, and now, we are going to jump to that only.

ChatGPT Alternatives –

Now that you have understood what is ChatGPT, let’s now jump into understanding what are some of the alternatives to ChatGPT. First of all, we will list them out, so that we have the complete list for you to explore further, and then we will dive into greater details for each mentioned tool. Here is the list –

• Claude 2
• Bard
• PI
• ChatSonic
• Poe
• Jasper Chat
• Perplexity
• BingAI
• HuggingChat

Above mentioned are some alternatives to ChatGPT. Please note that from the above list, we are not trying to anyway rank the alternatives to ChatGPT, and the above list is arranged in completely random order. So, now that we have the list with us, let’s try to discuss the chatbots one by one, but if you want, you have the names, and you can freely explore the above-mentioned chatbots.

Claude 2

Claude 2 is an AI chatbot, which is presented by the company Anthropic, a rival of OpenAI. Since this company is backed by Google, it makes it a tough competitor to OpenAI. We might not enter into greater technical details of how the Claude chatbot works, or what is behind the scenes, but you can understand that it works very much like ChatGPT, and does several tasks, like text generation, human-like conversation, and even coding.

The thing is that Claude has an even bigger context window, which simply can be understood as if we can enter longer text into Claude when compared to others(I know this is superficial but simpler to understand). Also, Claude comes out to be three HS – Helpful, Honest, and Harmless. As of now, Claude cannot access the Internet, but we can provide some text from the Internet to Claude for greater context, and then Claude may respond accordingly.

You can try claude by visiting https://claude.ai/ or clicking here.

Google Bard

You might be familiar with Google Bard, which is another rival to ChatGPT, from none other than Google. When ChatGPT came and almost broke the internet, people were putting their eyes on what Google does now, and Bard was the answer to ChatGPT.

Bard is a conversational AI chatbot, which is well blended into Google search, which had put it to advantage over ChatGPT, however, ChatGPT can also do the browsing now. Bard is now powered by the Gemini Pro model, which turns out to be one of the strongest models from Google, while Google is now also working on Gemini Ultra, and Gemini Nano, so it would be amazing to look for their capabilities.

To access Google Bard, you need to visit https://bard.google.com or click here, and you would need to sign in using your Google Account.

PI

Of all the alternatives, I must mention that I found PI to be something completely different. PI, or Personal Intelligence, is an AI chatbot, built by Inflection.ai, which is the company founded by Reid Hoffman(Co-Founder: LinkedIn), and Mustafa Suleyman(Co-Founder: DeepMind). PI can be accessed in multiple ways, like from the website, or even through Instagram, or WhatsApp.

We have tried using PI several times, and I can admit that PI has that personal flavor while you are chatting with him/her, and it doesn’t work the way much of the other chatbots work. It appears to be more focused on being friendly, and talkative.

You can try PI on https://pi.ai/, or click here.

ChatSonic

ChatSonic is another AI chatbot alternative to ChatGPT, and it has some enhanced features like you can make use of GPT – 4. It was designed to address the limitations of ChatGPT, and it now provides real-time data, voice searches, and several other features. If you want to use the premium version of ChatSonic, it comes for a lesser cost, than ChatGPT.

You can use ChatSonic by visiting https://writesonic.com/chat or clicking here.

Poe

While Poe may not be a chatbot in itself, it can be understood as a collection of Chatbots, where you can interact with various AI chatbots. Poe stands for “ Platform for Open Exploration”, and as the name says, it turns out to be a platform where people can experiment with various AI chatbots. So, if you want to have a look at such a platform, which lets you access several AI chatbots under one roof, you may count on Poe.

To access POE, you can visit https://poe.com/, or click here.

Jasper Chat

Jasper is a suite of AI tools, that is focused on content creators, and Jasper Chat is a part of Jasper AI tools, and this stands as one of the great alternatives to ChatGPT. This Chatbot works much like ChatGPT does, and as it is made for content creators, it can help you a lot in content-related tasks, like writing complete blogs, brainstorming ideas, rewriting emails, or just a casual chat.

So, if you want to use Jasper Chat, you may need to get the Jasper AI tools suite, but you can also ask for a free trial if in case you want to try.

Perplexity

Another great alternative to ChatGPT comes out to be PerplexityAI, which is a chatbot-style search engine, that uses AI to provide answers to your questions, and it also cites the information that it’s using, so that you can go and cross-check, verify, or learn more about it.

While it is an alternative to ChatGPT, it is a chatbot-type search engine, which uses OpenAI models and focuses on providing more relevant results in a web search.

To use perplexity, you can just go to https://www.perplexity.ai/, or click here. 

BingAI

Bing is something that you might be familiar with, it’s a search engine from Microsoft, and seeing the AI boom, they have integrated AI into their Bing, and now it’s Bing AI, and it’s really helpful because you can use a search engine, which uses AI, to bring up responses in natural language, to your queries, just like ChatGPT does.

BingAI adds some simplicity to you, by providing you with some modes to interact with, like creative, balanced, and precise, which you can explore, and you would get different sets of results for each mode.

To access Bing, you just need to go to https://www.bing.com/chat, and then you can access the chatbot. If you log in, you will get to use its other features, but it’s ok to try because it does provide incredible features.

One more amazing feature of Bing is that if you are using it in Edge browser(which is by Microsoft), you can use it as a side panel, where it can do a lot more things for you, like if you want to understand some PDF, you can open the PDF in edge, and then ask Bing(Copilot) about it.

HuggingChat

This is one of the best Open Source OpenAI alternatives. If you are someone who has a lot of interest in AI, and Generative AI, you might be familiar with HuggingFace. So, HuggingChat is an AI chatbot created by HuggingFace. Initially, it was based on Llama LLM by Meta, but now it does provide several options for choosing LLMs. It’s open source, so you can try it, and find its potential.

If you want to access HuggingChat, you can visit https://huggingface.co/chat, or click here.

Conclusion

So, in this article, we discussed some alternatives to ChatGPT, which is one of the most popular AI chatbots available on the Earth. Although it’s unarguably one of the best chatbots, you might want to check or test alternatives to ChatGPT, for several reasons, so we did look for some alternatives to ChatGPT. It includes Chatbots like Claude, ChatSonic, PI, Bard, etc. You can try those alternatives, and use the ones that you find useful for your tasks.

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