Conversational chat
Chat interface for asking questions and conversing with the AI assistant.
ChatGPT, Grok
Best AI Assistants & Search tools 2026
AI search ranking
Measured from 80 AI answers to questions that name no product. Questions that name a product only show each product's pros and cons and are not counted. Includes brands from those answers that are not listed here.
| # | Brand | Share of voice | Mentioned in | Recommended in | Site cited in | Positive | Avg. position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13.4% | 70% | 52.5% | 0% | 75% | 1.4 | |
| 2 | 10.8% | 56.3% | 27.5% | 29.1% | 73.3% | 3.5 | |
| 3 | 9.8% | 51.2% | 33.8% | 21.8% | 80.5% | 2.2 | |
| 4 | 5.7% | 30% | 5% | 7.3% | 50% | 4.1 | |
| 5 | 3.3% | 17.5% | 11.3% | 12.7% | 71.4% | 2.7 | |
| 6 | 1.7% | 8.8% | 5% | 0% | 57.1% | 1 | |
| 7 | 1.2% | 6.3% | 5% | 0% | 80% | 2 | |
| 8 | 1.2% | 6.3% | 1.3% | 5.5% | 40% | 3 | |
| 9 | 1.2% | 6.3% | 2.5% | 3.6% | 40% | 4 | |
| 10 | 1% | 5% | 3.8% | 0% | 100% | 3.5 | |
| 11 | 1% | 5% | 3.8% | 3.6% | 100% | 2.5 | |
| 12 | 1% | 5% | 5% | 0% | 100% | 1 | |
| 13 | 1% | 5% | 5% | 3.6% | 100% | 2 | |
| 14 | Amazon Alexa+ | 1% | 5% | 2.5% | 0% | 75% | 3.5 |
| 15 | 1% | 5% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 0% | 4.3 | |
| 16 | 1% | 5% | 5% | 0% | 100% | 1.3 | |
| 17 | Elicit | 0.7% | 3.8% | 1.3% | 0% | 66.7% | 5 |
| 18 | 0.7% | 3.8% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 66.7% | 2.5 | |
| 19 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 3.6% | 100% | 2.5 | |
| 20 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 100% | 4 | |
| 21 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 3.6% | 100% | 6 | |
| 22 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 1.8% | 100% | 5 | |
| 23 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 1.8% | 100% | 4 | |
| 24 | Jan | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 0% | 50% | 2 |
| 25 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 50% | 3 | |
| 26 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 0% | 50% | 2 | |
| 27 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 0% | 50% | — | |
| 28 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.3% | 3.6% | 100% | 3 | |
| 29 | 0.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 1.8% | 100% | 2 | |
| 30 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | |
| 31 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | |
| 32 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | |
| 33 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 5 | |
| 34 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 3 | |
| 35 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 5 | |
| 36 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 1.8% | 100% | — | |
| 37 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | |
| 38 | Kodus | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | 5 |
| 39 | Mira | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | — |
| 40 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 1.8% | 100% | — | |
| 41 | ProPR | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | — |
| 42 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | — | |
| 43 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | — | |
| 44 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | — | |
| 45 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | — | |
| 46 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | — | |
| 47 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 1.8% | 0% | — | |
| 48 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | 4 | |
| 49 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 1.8% | 100% | 5 | |
| 50 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | — | |
| 51 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 1.8% | 0% | 4 | |
| 52 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | 4 | |
| 53 | Gemini Omni | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | 1 |
| 54 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 1.8% | 100% | 5 | |
| 55 | Miro AI | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | — |
| 56 | Gemini Enterprise | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0% | 100% | 4 |
| 57 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 100% | 1 | |
| 58 | GPT4All | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4 |
| 59 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 1.8% | 100% | 2 | |
| 60 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 100% | 3 | |
| 61 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | |
| 62 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | — | |
| 63 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | |
| 64 | Google Workspace with Gemini | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — |
| 65 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 4 | |
| 66 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 100% | 1 | |
| 67 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | — | |
| 68 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | — | |
| 69 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | — | |
| 70 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | — |
Questions asked
The 63 questions this ranking is measured with. Icons show the brands the answers name, most often first.
Questions that name no product (44)
- What should a small team look for when choosing an AI assistant for everyday work?
- How do I compare AI assistants for writing, research, and coding help before committing to one?
- Which AI assistant is best for a marketing team that needs drafting, brainstorming, and image generation?
- How much do AI assistant subscriptions typically cost per user, and what do the paid tiers include?
- Is a free AI assistant good enough for daily work, or do I need a paid plan?
- What are the alternatives to the big-name AI assistants for someone who cares about privacy?
+7
- How can I stop my AI assistant from using my conversations to train its models?
- Which AI assistants can search the web and give answers with cited sources?
- What should a developer consider when picking an AI assistant with API access for building an app?
- How do AI assistants differ in handling long documents and uploaded files for analysis?
- I'm a solo consultant and need an AI assistant to help with emails, proposals, and the occasional bit of research. Which one works best for that?
- When it comes to answering questions about recent news and current events, how accurate are the different AI assistants compared to each other?
- I've got a small engineering team and we want help writing and reviewing code. What's the best AI assistant for that?
- Are there any AI assistants where I can keep my conversations out of training data and history, for confidential work?
- For a 20-person company, how do per-seat AI assistant plans compare, and where do the costs start to add up?
- Which AI assistants can take a rough draft and turn it into polished long-form content without losing my voice?
- How do AI assistants differ when it comes to analyzing spreadsheets and PDFs I upload?
- We're a startup building a customer-facing chatbot. Which AI assistants have an API that's actually practical to use for that?
- At a mid-sized business, what's a reasonable monthly budget per person for an AI assistant?
- Our team mostly needs help with writing, summarizing documents, and answering quick questions. Which AI assistant would you recommend for that?
- How do AI assistants compare when it comes to very long documents and big PDFs, without losing track of details?
- I'm picking an AI assistant for a legal or finance team that handles confidential material. What should I check before choosing one?
- Which AI assistants let me turn off chat history and keep my conversations out of model training?
- For a small business, how much should I expect to pay per person per month for an AI assistant, and what do the paid tiers usually add?
- I need an AI assistant that's good at research tasks pulling from multiple web sources and producing a report with citations. Which ones would you recommend?
- I want to use an AI assistant with a reliable API to power a product feature. What should I evaluate before picking one?
- I'm a solo freelancer doing emails, proposals, and light research. Is a free AI assistant enough, or is a paid plan worth it?
- What are some alternatives to the most popular AI assistants for someone who wants strong privacy and no account lock-in?
- Which AI assistants are actually good at generating images from text prompts, and how do their outputs compare in quality and style control?
- I need an AI assistant that can edit an existing image, like adjusting lighting or removing objects. Which tools handle image editing well?
- How do AI assistants compare at turning a still photo into a short animated video clip?
- Which AI assistants can generate short videos from a prompt, and what resolution and length can I expect?
- I want to upload a PDF or spreadsheet and ask questions about its contents. Which AI assistants handle file uploads for context best?
+1
- Which AI assistants offer a voice mode where I can talk to them hands-free, and how natural does it feel?
- I want an assistant that can run multi-step research across sources and save a report with citations I can revisit. Which ones do that?
- How do AI assistants handle organizing ongoing work into separate project workspaces with shared conversations?
- Which AI assistants can schedule recurring tasks or trigger automations in the cloud without me keeping a browser open?
- Which AI assistants are best at helping me plan a multi-day trip, including an itinerary and packing list?
- How do AI assistants compare at brainstorming product names and then narrowing the list down with me?
- How do AI assistants differ in giving priority access to their best models during peak hours, and does it actually matter?
- I need an assistant that can both draft an email and then tweak the tone of what I already wrote. Which ones handle that back-and-forth well?
- Which AI assistants can host my code and run automated AI code reviews on pull requests?
+5
- Which AI assistants can answer questions about breaking news and posts on social platforms in real time rather than from stale training data?
- Which AI assistants let me keep a conversation out of history and out of model training for confidential work, and how does that mode work?
Questions that name a product (19)
- Can I upload a long PDF contract to Gemini and then ask follow-up questions about specific clauses without it losing details?
- How good is Pi at planning a week-long trip with a day-by-day itinerary and a packing list I can adjust?
- Does Perplexity let me run multi-step research and save a cited report I can reopen later, or is that only in the paid tier?
- Is You.com's API access good enough for a small team to build a customer-facing search feature on top of it?
- Can I upload a long PDF to Gemini and then ask follow-up questions about specific sections without it losing context?
- Is Poe a good way to try out several models like ChatGPT and Claude in one place before I commit to a subscription?
+2
- Does Le Chat have an off-the-record mode so my conversations aren't saved or used for training?
- Does Microsoft Copilot work well for drafting emails and summarizing meetings inside Office apps?
- Is Poe worth using if I mainly want to compare ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini side by side before paying for one?
- Can I upload files like PDFs to Le Chat and then ask questions about what's in them?
- How good is Gemini at editing images, like changing the lighting or removing an object from a photo I upload?
- Can You.com make videos from text prompts in 1080p, or would I need a different assistant for video generation?
- How well does Microsoft Copilot handle file uploads for context? I want to upload a long PDF and then ask follow-up questions about it.
- Can Gemini generate and edit images, like changing the lighting on a photo I upload, or should I use a different assistant for that?
- I want to try ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini side by side before paying for a plan — is Poe a good way to do that?
- Does Le Chat let me upload files for context, so I can ask follow-up questions about a long PDF contract?
- Can I use Poe to try ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all in one place? And is it worth paying for Poe instead of just subscribing to one of them directly?
- Does Claude have an off-the-record chat mode, so confidential conversations aren't saved to history or used for training?
- Can I upload files to Microsoft Copilot so it has context, and then ask follow-up questions about a long document?
Features in this category
Found on each product's own website.
Writing assistance
Helps users draft and refine written text such as emails, letters and other content.
ChatGPT, Gemini
Image generation
Creates images from user prompts.
ChatGPT, Grok
Image editing
Modifies existing or generated images, such as changing lighting.
Gemini, Grok
File upload for context
Allows uploading files so responses can use their content.
ChatGPT, Grok
Coding assistance
Helps users write and work with code.
ChatGPT, Grok
API access
Gives programmatic access to the assistant via an API.
Grok
Multi-step research with cited reports
Runs multi-step research, compares sources and saves cited reports for later review.
ChatGPT
Planning assistance
Helps users plan tasks, activities and schedules.
Gemini
Brainstorming assistance
Helps users generate and develop ideas.
Gemini
Off-the-record chat mode
Chat mode whose conversation is not saved to history or used for model training.
Grok
Custom project workspaces
Lets users create workspaces for organizing conversations and collaborating within projects.
Grok
Code hosting and AI code reviews
Hosts code and performs AI-driven code reviews.
Grok
Real-time web and X answers
Delivers real-time answers sourced from the web and X.
Grok
Voice interaction
Provides voice interaction with the AI assistant.
Grok
Video generation
Generates videos from prompts, including 1080p output.
Grok
Image-to-video animation
Animates images and still photos into videos or animated clips.
Grok
Agent mode for media creation
Agent mode for fast iteration on image and video creation.
Grok
Cloud agents and automations
Runs cloud agents and automations, including scheduling recurring work and reacting to events.
Grok
Grok Build
Provides the Grok Build capability as part of the Plus plan.
Grok
Priority model access at peak times
Gives priority access to models during peak times.
Grok
The ranking reflects measured AI answers, not our opinion. Listings have not been checked individually, and inclusion is not an endorsement.