What makes ChatGPT great is that it's actually useful and usable. When you're using ChatGPT, you don't have to frame your questions in weird ways or cram in certain keywords to get it to answer your questions correctly (or at least, mostly correctly). You can just talk to it the same way you would another person. Sure, the clearer you are, the better the results you'll get—but that's true with people, too.
For any chatbot to be a legitimate alternative to ChatGPT, it has to capture this same chatbot magic. Using it needs to be easy and seamless, and you have to be able to just chat away to it, confident that it understands what you're asking.
On top of that, to be a great ChatGPT alternative, an app needs to:
Do something better than ChatGPT. ChatGPT is currently the best general-purpose chatbot, so to make this list, an AI chatbot had to be the best at something else specific.
Be easy to use. AI tools are rapidly developing. Some of the best ones require you to run your own AI models, either locally or on a cloud computing platform. While this gives you a lot of options, it's a lot harder than signing up for ChatGPT. To make this list, an app needs to be as easy as signing up and starting to chat. Some have more customization options or a steeper learning curve, but none of them require technical expertise to use.
Be widely available. Similarly, some widely touted AI tools are locked away in closed betas or have a long waiting list. I was only looking for apps that you can sign up for right now and start using.
Work reliably. Some AI tools I've tested are constantly offline or throwing errors. To make this list, the chatbots had to work reliably so you can count on them when you need them.
Over the past few months, I've tested all these apps extensively, and the Zapier team has spent hundreds, if not thousands, of collective hours in them.
We'll continue to test these apps because they keep getting better and adding new features. But fair warning: this means that some details of this list will be out of date the second we hit publish. But we still stand over all these picks being great at what they do— and if the model numbers go up a digit or the number of parameters gets larger, we're confident the apps will only be better.
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