Free Alternatives to Perplexity

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   Claude

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   Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, research, analyzing long documents and coding.

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   Gemini

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   Google's AI assistant for chat, writing, research, images and video, with a free plan and deep links to Gmail, Docs and Drive.

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   ChatGPT

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   Microsoft Copilot

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   Microsoft's AI assistant for answers, writing, images and help inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Windows. Free to use, with more in Microsoft 365.

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   Gamma

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   LM Studio

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   Free desktop app for running open AI models like Llama, Gemma and Qwen locally, with no account and no data leaving your computer.

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   Speechify

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   Text to speech app that reads documents, PDFs, emails and websites out loud. Works on phone, computer and in the browser, up to 5x speed.

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