> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. --- title: "Chat Assistants & Apps" url: https://daily.dev/agentic-ai-hub/chat-assistants-apps/ description: "The consumer/prosumer chat apps are the front door to each lab's frontier model." lastUpdated: "2026-07-22" --- 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 馃攧 (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 路 Plus ~$20 路 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 路 Pro ~$20 路 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 路 AI Pro ~$20 路 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 路 SuperGrok ~$30 路 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 路 Pro ~$20 路 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 路 Pro ~$20 路 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.