§ Chat & Search

Chat & Search

Chatbots and answer engines built for everyday questions — from multi-model subscriptions to research assistants grounded in your own documents. Compare free tiers and paid plans before you commit to one.

App 5

Free tier 5/5

Paid from $4.99/mo

§ 01 — Pricing

All plans, in full.

App

Free tier

Paid from

Best for

Perplexity

Perplexity AI

Yes

$20/mo

Research with verifiable sources, fact-checking, exploring unfamiliar topics

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Copilot

Microsoft

Yes

$16.58/mo

Excel data, Word drafting, PowerPoint decks, Outlook triage

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Poe

Quora, Inc.

Yes

$4.99/mo

Power users who want to compare GPT, Claude, Gemini and niche bots without juggling separate subscriptions

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Character.AI

Character Technologies, Inc.

Yes

$9.99/mo

Roleplay, fandom chat, and companion-style conversation with persistent characters

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NotebookLM

Google

Yes

$4.99/mo

Students, researchers, and analysts who need grounded answers and audio summaries from their own documents

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§ 02 — Chat & Search

Ask questions, get answers — assistants for everyday use.

Perplexity

by Perplexity AI

Search-first AI. Every answer comes with citations to actual sources.

Free · $20/mo →

Copilot

by Microsoft

Microsoft's AI woven into Windows, Edge, and Office. Office is the killer feature.

Free · $16.58/mo →

Poe

by Quora, Inc.

One subscription, 100+ AI models — a model marketplace instead of a single assistant.

Free · $4.99/mo →

Character.AI

by Character Technologies, Inc.

The original AI companion platform — chat with millions of user-made characters, not a single assistant.

Free · $9.99/mo →

NotebookLM

by Google

Upload your own sources and get a research assistant that only answers from them — now rebranding to Gemini Notebook.

Free · $4.99/mo →

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