By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories
Built for this. Sits inside Gmail, Docs and Drive, so it already has your context. Very large context windows and a generous free tier.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with generous limits
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%
Watch out: Which underlying model you get varies by tier, and quality varies with it. Plus and Pro were both showing introductory offers when checked — a fraction of the price for the first three months, or a discount on the first year — so the number on the page is not the standing price, and the rows here quote the standing one.
By QuoraMountain View, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. One subscription across most of the major models, so you can put the same question to several and compare rather than committing to one lab.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily points allowance
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Subscription
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Points, not messages, and different models burn them at wildly different rates. Heavy use of a frontier model empties an allowance faster than the plan name suggests.
All plans (2)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier with a daily points allowance
Subscription
$4.99/mo
annual billing is ten times the monthly rate, from $49.99 to $2,499.99 a year
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
—
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 KagiPalo Alto, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Sits on top of a search engine you pay for rather than one funded by advertising, so the results behind an answer are not ranked by who bought them.
Free plan
Yes
Trial tier, 100 searches with the Assistant included, no card needed
Month to month
$5/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$4.50/mo
$54 a year, Starter plan −10%
Watch out: The free tier is a 100-search trial. Beyond that you are buying the search subscription, and the assistant comes with it rather than being sold on its own; prices exclude sales tax.
All plans (8)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Trial tier, 100 searches with the Assistant included, no card needed
Starter
$5/mo · $4.50/mo yearly
300 searches a month and the Assistant in Quick mode
Professional
$10/mo · $9/mo yearly
unlimited searches and a larger Assistant allowance
Ultimate
$25/mo · $22.50/mo yearly
adds Research mode and flagship models
Duo
$14/mo · $12.60/mo yearly
two Professional accounts, each upgradable to Ultimate for $15 more
Family
$20/mo · $18/mo yearly
Professional for up to six people, each upgradable to Ultimate for $15 more
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
—
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
—
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 You.comPalo Alto, United States1 product across 2 categories
Strong fit. Search and assistant in one window, with the sources listed alongside the answer rather than after it.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier of 100 web search queries a day, no API key required
Month to month
None
Not published
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: The pricing page now sells only APIs, billed per thousand calls with $100 of free credit each. The consumer assistant has changed shape several times as the company has moved toward developers and enterprise.
All plans (6)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free tier of 100 web search queries a day, no API key required
Web Search API
$5 per 1,000 calls, 1 to 100 results a call, news included
$100 free credit
Contents API
$1 per 1,000 pages extracted as Markdown or HTML, several URLs a request
$100 free credit
Answer API
$5 per 1,000 calls for a cited, synthesised answer
$100 free credit
Research API
from $12 per 1,000 calls on Lite, rising through Standard, Deep, Exhaustive and Frontier tiers
$100 free credit
Finance Research API
from $110 per 1,000 calls on Deep, with an Exhaustive tier above
Video generation and editing, clipping, subtitles, avatars, animation and motion capture.
What this leaves out
These 21 are on the
site and may be excellent, but not tagged for a working professional — usually price, an enterprise
sales process, or the technical knowledge assumed.
General-Purpose AI Assistants tools not tagged for a working professional.
What is the best AI for general-purpose ai assistants if you are a working professional?
10 of the 31 tools we track for this category are tagged as suiting a working professional: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Poe, Amazon Q, Grok, Kagi Assistant, Le Chat (Mistral), TypingMind, You.com. 4 of them are built for this kind of work.
Are any of them free?
10: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Poe, Amazon Q, Grok, Kagi Assistant, Le Chat (Mistral), TypingMind, You.com.
Which general-purpose ai assistants tools are not for a working professional?
Chorus, DapperGPT, DeepSeek, Duck.ai, Easy-Peasy.AI, Genspark, Jan, LM Studio, Merlin, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, MyShell, Nova, Qwen, Venice AI, Arvin AI, Manus, Mobile GPT, Monica, Text GPT, Character.AI — 21 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.
