--- title: Chat Assistants & Apps | The Agentic AI Hub — daily.dev description: The consumer/prosumer chat apps are the front door to each lab's frontier model. canonical: https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/chat-assistants-apps/ og:type: article og:url: https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/chat-assistants-apps/ og:title: Chat Assistants & Apps | The Agentic AI Hub — daily.dev og:description: The consumer/prosumer chat apps are the front door to each lab's frontier model. og:image: https://daily.dev/assets/og/agentic-ai-hub.png?v=40e6ff69 og:site_name: daily.dev og:locale: en_US article:modified_time: 2026-07-22 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev twitter:creator: @dailydotdev twitter:title: Chat Assistants & Apps | The Agentic AI Hub — daily.dev twitter:description: The consumer/prosumer chat apps are the front door to each lab's frontier model. twitter:image: https://daily.dev/assets/og/agentic-ai-hub.png?v=40e6ff69 --- [Skip to main content ](#main-content) [   ](https://daily.dev/) [ Agentic AI Hub ](/agentic-ai-hub/) [   ](https://daily.dev/) / [ Agentic AI Hub ](/agentic-ai-hub/) [Get the app ](https://api.daily.dev/get?ref=docs-topbar) # Chat Assistants & Apps Too busy to read? Get an AI summary * Copy page Copy page Copy page as Markdown for LLMs [ View as Markdown View this page as plain text ](https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/chat-assistants-apps.md/) Table of Contents * [The assistants at a glance 🔄 (as of July 2026)](#the-assistants-at-a-glance-as-of-july-2026) The consumer/prosumer chat apps are the front door to each lab's frontier model. They differ less in raw IQ now than in **surface features**: memory, connectors, agent modes, voice, and how aggressively they route you to a smaller model when you hit limits. Pick based on ecosystem lock-in (docs, cloud, IDE) more than benchmark deltas. ## The assistants at a glance 🔄 (as of July 2026) | Assistant | Maker | Best for | Watch out | Pricing | | ---------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com) | OpenAI | Widest feature surface: agent mode, code interpreter, deep research, image gen, connectors, voice. **ChatGPT Work** (Jul 2026) folds Codex in to rival Claude for agentic and coding work. | Free/Plus users are routed to smaller models and capped on the strongest reasoning | Free · Plus \~$20 · Pro \~$200 | | [Claude](https://claude.ai) | Anthropic | Coding, long-document and codebase reasoning, careful writing, Artifacts (live-rendered apps/docs) | Smaller free-tier limits; no native image generation | Free · Pro \~$20 · Max \~$100-200 | | [Gemini](https://gemini.google.com) | Google | Very large context, native multimodality (image + video), Workspace integration (Gmail/Docs/Sheets) | The standalone app and "Gemini in Workspace" differ in features and data handling | Free · AI Pro \~$20 · AI Ultra \~$250 | | [Grok](https://grok.com) | xAI | Real-time X data, looser content policy, "Heavy" multi-agent mode | Fewer guardrails cut both ways; thinner ecosystem than Google/Microsoft | Free on X · SuperGrok \~$30 · Heavy \~$300 | | [Copilot](https://copilot.microsoft.com) | Microsoft | Living inside Office (Word/Excel/Outlook/Teams) and enterprise governance | Consumer Copilot and paid Microsoft 365 Copilot are different products | Free · Pro \~$20 · M365 \~$30/user | | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai) | Perplexity | Cited, up-to-date web answers with inline sources; Deep Research | Tuned for retrieval and synthesis, not open-ended creativity or long coding | Free · Pro \~$20 · Max \~$200 | _Others worth knowing:_ [Meta AI](https://www.meta.ai) (free, in WhatsApp/Instagram/Ray-Ban glasses), [DeepSeek](https://chat.deepseek.com) (free app, cheap strong reasoning), [Mistral Le Chat](https://chat.mistral.ai) (European, privacy-forward), [Poe](https://poe.com) (many models on one subscription). Prices move, so verify on each site. Share this page Copy link [ Previous How to Choose a Model ](/agentic-ai-hub/how-to-choose-a-model/) [ Next Coding Tools & CLI Agents ](/agentic-ai-hub/coding-tools-cli-agents/) [ Previous ](#) [ Next ](#) ### Table of Contents * [The assistants at a glance 🔄 (as of July 2026)](#the-assistants-at-a-glance-as-of-july-2026) Link copied!