Claude Alternatives

Claude is described as 'AI assistant for chat and API, performing summarization, search, writing, Q&A, and coding with high reliability, customizability, privacy, and reduced risks' and is a very popular AI Chatbot in the ai tools & services category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Claude for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, SaaS, Android and Windows apps. The best Claude alternative is ChatGPT, which is free. Other great apps like Claude are Lumo by Proton, DeepSeek, HuggingChat and Mistral Vibe.

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Claude alternatives are mainly AI Chatbots, but if you're looking for AI Writing Tools or Large Language Model (LLM) Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source, Online + Free and EU. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Claude.
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  1. Kimi icon
     25 likes

    AI assistant supports complex math, coding, image understanding, and reasoning with up to 128k token processing, short and long chain-of-thought tasks, visual and text input, accurate benchmarks, self-learning ability, and reinforcement learning for improvement.

    116 Kimi alternatives

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    • Online
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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
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  2. Meta Llama icon
     38 likes

    As part of Meta’s commitment to open science, today we are publicly releasing Llama (Large Language Model Meta AI), a state-of-the-art foundational large language model designed to help researchers advance their work in this subfield of AI.

    275 Meta Llama alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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  3. Z.ai icon
     18 likes

    Z.ai is an AI-powered conversational platform developed by Zhipu AI, designed to provide intelligent, natural, and context-aware interactions. It leverages Zhipu’s advanced large language models (GLM series) to support tasks such as answering questions, generating content...

    80 Z.ai alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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  4. Staan icon
     17 likes

    We've built our own web search index, Staan API, and we're excited to share it with you! Designed specifically for LLMs and generative AI agents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  5. Arena AI icon
     20 likes

    Public web platform for large language model evaluation using anonymous pairwise comparisons, crowd-sourced voting, real-time model identity reveals and aggregate performance tracking for both open-source and proprietary LLMs across community-submitted prompts.

    57 Arena AI alternatives

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    • Online
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  6. NanoClaw icon
     17 likes

    Lightweight AI assistant runs in Apple containers with isolated Linux container processes for superior OS-level security, transparency, and privacy compared to complex chatbots, enabling quick code review, easy customization, and minimal dependencies for all users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
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  7. Khoj icon
     47 likes

    Open-source app offers local or cloud AI chat with major LLMs, advanced semantic search, automation, personal newsletters, document indexing, image generation, and text-to-speech. Access from web, Obsidian, Emacs, desktop, mobile, or messaging platforms.

    41 Khoj alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Python
    • Homebrew
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  8. Together Chat icon
     17 likes

    Together Chat is a next-generation consumer app designed to let you interact seamlessly with today's most popular open-source models, including free access to DeepSeek R1, securely hosted in the North America.

    168 Together Chat alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Maid (AI) icon
     18 likes

    Maid is a cross-platform Flutter app for interfacing with GGUF / llama.cpp models locally, and with Ollama and OpenAI models remotely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  10. Provides AI-powered writing tools, image generation, Genmoji, and memory movies; enhances Siri with deeper context and actions; integrates ChatGPT for complex tasks; prioritizes on-device processing for privacy; unifies features across Apple devices with Private Cloud Compute.

    194 Apple Intelligence alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  11. Eigent icon
     12 likes

    Eigent is the open source cowork desktop application, empowering you to build, manage, and deploy a custom AI workforce that can turn your most complex workflows into automated tasks.

    15 Eigent alternatives

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    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  12. Private GPT icon
     35 likes

    Ask questions to your documents without an internet connection, using the power of LLMs. 100% private, no data leaves your execution environment at any point. You can ingest documents and ask questions without an internet connection!

    313 Private GPT alternatives

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