Best AI chat assistants
General models people already keep open. The default option everything else is judged against.
The job: Answer, draft, and reason across everyday work.
Ranked by score
- 1
Claude
The professional odds-on. Strong on documents, drafts, and staying with the thread.
Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs89 - 2
ChatGPT
The default option. Specialists have to be better than this at one job.
Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs85 - 3
Perplexity
Cited web answers. The research tool that shows its work.
Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs83 - 4
Gemini
Google's general assistant. Strongest when the files are already Google's.
Preliminary scoreReviewed from docs80