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AI assistants · 11 alternatives

Instead of Perplexity, try one of these 11.

Every alternative is lined up against Perplexity on what people actually switch for: price, open source, self-hosting, offline use and platforms. Perplexity 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
PerplexityWhat you have now
AI search that answers with cited sources.
PriceFreemium
pro $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
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
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
Google Gemini#3
Google’s multimodal AI, woven into its apps.
PriceFreemium
advanced $20/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Grok#4
xAI’s chatty assistant with real-time X data.
PriceFreemium
super $30/mo
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
DeepSeek#5
Open-source AI assistant for chat and coding.
PriceFreemium
Open sourceYes
Self-hostNo
OfflinePartial
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Duck.ai#6
Anonymised chats with third-party models, no account required
PriceFreemium
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflinePartial
Platforms
Web · Win · Mac · Android · iOS
Qwen#7
Alibaba's chat assistant with long context and open model weights
PriceFreemium
Open sourceYes
Self-hostYes
OfflinePartial
Platforms
Web · Win · Mac · Android
You.com#8
AI search and chat platform.
PriceFreemium
Open sourceNo
Self-hostNo
OfflinePartial
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Scira#9
Minimal open-source AI search engine returning cited answers
PriceFreemium
Open sourceYes
Self-hostYes
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web
Z.ai#10
Zhipu's GLM chatbot for questions and content generation
PriceFree
Open sourceYes
Self-hostNo
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web
Morphic#11
Self-hostable AI answer engine that returns cited responses
PriceFree
Open sourceYes
Self-hostYes
OfflineNo
Platforms
Web

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Perplexity alternatives at a glance

Perplexity is a freemium ai assistants app (pro $20/mo). We compared 11 alternatives: 5 are open source, 2 are completely free, 3 can be self-hosted and 0 work 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 optionZ.ai

Zhipu's GLM chatbot for questions and content generation

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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