Best Grok alternatives

Grok is great for live commentary on news, sports and what's trending on x right now.. If it isn't quite the right fit, here are 10 chatbots tools ranked by ToolHund users — many with a free tier.

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The original general-purpose AI assistant

Daily research, writing drafts, brainstorming and code help in one chat.

95THChatbotsfreemium
4.9
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C
Thoughtful, long-context reasoning

Reading huge documents, careful writing and trustworthy coding help.

93THChatbotsfreemium
4.9
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Google-native multimodal assistant

Anyone living in Gmail, Docs and YouTube who wants AI inside them.

91THChatbotsfreemium
4.7
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Open-weight reasoning that rivals GPT-5

Power users wanting frontier reasoning for free.

90THChatbotsfreemium
4.7
5
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The open-source LLM standard

Devs running AI locally or self-hosting at scale.

64THChatbotspaid
4.7
6
M
AI built into Windows & Microsoft 365

Office, Excel and Windows users who want AI in the apps they already use.

89THChatbotsfreemium
4.6
7
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European frontier AI

EU teams wanting fast, sovereign AI with strong code support.

85THChatbotsfreemium
4.6
8
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Strongest open Chinese model family

Multilingual workloads and on-device deployment.

86THChatbotsfreemium
4.6
9
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Every major AI in one subscription

People who want GPT, Claude, Gemini and image models behind one bill.

85THChatbotsfreemium
4.6
10
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The most emotionally intelligent AI

Casual conversation, journaling and thinking things through out loud.

86THChatbotsfree
4.5