By AmazonSeattle, United States2 products across 1 category
Strong fit. The assistant that already has your AWS account in context, which makes it the practical choice for questions about infrastructure you actually run.
Free plan
Yes
Amazon Q Developer free tier with limited agentic requests a month, the latest Claude models
Month to month
$19/mo
Amazon Q Developer Pro
Billed yearly
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No yearly price published
Watch out: Sold and billed through AWS on top of your cloud bill. Q Developer Pro is $19 a user a month; Q Business is a separate product at $3 (Lite) or $20 (Pro) a user a month, with a 60-day trial for up to 50 users.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Amazon Q Developer free tier with limited agentic requests a month, the latest Claude models, and use in the IDE or CLI
Amazon Q Developer Pro
$19/mo
Amazon Q Business Lite
$3/mo
60-day free trial for up to 50 users per application
Amazon Q Business Pro
$20/mo
60-day free trial for up to 50 users per application
By Mistral AIParis, France2 products across 3 categories
Strong fit. European data residency and open weights. The default if EU hosting is a hard requirement.
Free plan
Yes
With $10 a month of API credits
Month to month
$14.99/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
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No yearly price published
Watch out: Smaller ecosystem and fewer integrations than the US majors. Every plan bundles a monthly allowance of API credits — $10 free, $30 on Pro, $15 on Education — and API use beyond it is priced per token on the API tab of the same page.
By TypingMindSheridan, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. One interface over every model you have an API key for, with your chats stored on your own machine and a licence you buy once rather than rent.
Free plan
Yes
Free, but chat history is not saved and a prompt appears every few minutes
Month to month
None
Not published
Billed yearly
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No yearly price published
Watch out: You supply and pay for the API keys, so the licence is not the whole cost. The free version does not save chat history and interrupts you periodically.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free, but chat history is not saved and a prompt appears every few minutes
Standard
$39 one-time licence
removes ads, basic chat, AI agents, shared chats and plugins, voice input
Extended
$79 one-time licence
adds web search, vision, image generation, text to speech and document upload
Premium
$198 one-time licence, on offer at $99 as this was checked
adds multi-model parallel chats, projects and folders, artifacts, unlimited plugins and MCPs, free updates. Model API keys are paid separately on every plan
By Venice AISan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Conversations stay in your browser rather than on its servers, and it runs open-weight models. The default choice if you want an assistant that keeps no history you cannot delete.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily prompt limit
Month to month
$18/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$15/mo
$180 a year, Pro plan −17%
Watch out: Open models trail the frontier ones on hard reasoning. The company also issues a crypto token, which is a business model worth understanding before you depend on it.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier with a daily prompt limit
Pro
$18/mo · $15/mo yearly
all models, unlimited text, 1,000 images a day, $1 in credits a month, API access
Pro+
$68/mo · $61.25/mo yearly
adds $75 in credits a month, 10% credit bonus, video generation and higher API limits
Max
$200/mo · $180/mo yearly
$225 in credits a month, 12.5% credit bonus, highest API limits and priority support
These 22 are on the
site and may be excellent, but not tagged for a developer — usually price, an enterprise
sales process, or the technical knowledge assumed.
General-Purpose AI Assistants tools not tagged for a developer.
What is the best AI for general-purpose ai assistants if you are a developer?
9 of the 31 tools we track for this category are tagged as suiting a developer: ChatGPT, Claude, Amazon Q, DeepSeek, Le Chat (Mistral), Meta AI, Qwen, TypingMind, Venice AI. 2 of them are built for this kind of work.
Are any of them free?
9: ChatGPT, Claude, Amazon Q, DeepSeek, Le Chat (Mistral), Meta AI, Qwen, TypingMind, Venice AI.
Which general-purpose ai assistants tools are not for a developer?
Gemini, Poe, Chorus, DapperGPT, Duck.ai, Easy-Peasy.AI, Genspark, Grok, Jan, Kagi Assistant, LM Studio, Merlin, Microsoft Copilot, MyShell, Nova, You.com, Arvin AI, Manus, Mobile GPT, Monica, Text GPT, Character.AI — 22 of the 31. They are on the site and may be excellent, but not tagged for this reader, usually because of price, an enterprise sales process, or the technical knowledge assumed.
