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AI assistants · 11 alternatives

Instead of HuggingChat, try one of these 11.

Every alternative is lined up against HuggingChat on what people actually switch for: price, open source, self-hosting, offline use and platforms. HuggingChat sits in the first row, so you can see what you give up.

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Alternative
Price
Open source
Self-host
Offline
Platforms
Website
HuggingChat
Free chat over open models from Hugging Face.
PriceFree
Open sourceYes
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web
Visit
ChatGPT#1
The AI assistant that started the current wave.
PriceFreemium
plus $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android · Mac · Win
Visit
Claude#2
Anthropic’s AI, praised for coding and long context.
PriceFreemium
pro $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android · Mac · Win
Visit
Perplexity#3
AI search that answers with cited sources.
PriceFreemium
pro $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Visit
Google Gemini#4
Google’s multimodal AI, woven into its apps.
PriceFreemium
advanced $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Visit
Microsoft Copilot#5
AI assistant bundled into Windows and Office.
PriceFreemium
pro $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · Win · iOS · Android
Visit
Mistral#6
European AI lab with open-weight models and Le Chat.
PriceFreemium
le chat from €5/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Visit
Poe#7
One subscription to many different AI models.
PriceFreemium
from $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Visit
DeepSeek#8
Open-source AI assistant for chat and coding.
PriceFreemium
Open sourceYes
Self-hostNo
OfflinePartial
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Visit
Jan.ai#9
Runs open language models offline on your own desktop
PriceFree
Open sourceYes
Self-hostNo
OfflinePartial
Platforms
Web · Win · Mac · Linux
Visit
Qwen#10
Alibaba's chat assistant with long context and open model weights
PriceFreemium
Open sourceYes
Self-hostYes
OfflinePartial
Platforms
Web · Win · Mac · Android
Visit
AnythingLLM#11
Chat with your documents using local or hosted models
PriceFreemium
Open sourceYes
Self-hostYes
OfflineYes
Platforms
Win · Mac · Linux
Visit

Price colours on the Visit buttons: FreeFreemiumPaid

How to read this. The first row is HuggingChat itself, for comparison. “Yes” means fully supported by the maker. “Partial” means it works with caveats. Likes reflect community popularity; vendors can’t pay for them or for placement. How we compare.

HuggingChat alternatives at a glance

HuggingChat is a free ai assistants app. We compared 11 alternatives: 4 are open source, 1 is completely free, 2 can be self-hosted and 1 works fully offline. The most popular is ChatGPT, with 4.6k likes.

Most liked overallChatGPT

The AI assistant that started the current wave.

Freemium
Best free optionJan.ai

Runs open language models offline on your own desktop

Free · Open source
Best open-source optionDeepSeek

Open-source AI assistant for chat and coding.

Freemium · Open source
Best to self-hostQwen

Alibaba's chat assistant with long context and open model weights

Freemium · Open source · Self‑hostable

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