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AI chat

Chat assistants. Hosted services and local-model runners.

5 alternatives 2 big-tech defaults

Privacy-respecting SaaS alternatives

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HuggingChat

SaaS

Free hosted chat UI from Hugging Face that lets you pick from open-weight models like Llama, Qwen, Mixtral, and Gemma.

Free France FOSS self-hostable

Le Chat

SaaS

Hosted AI chat assistant from Mistral, a Paris-based lab, with a free tier and paid Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans.

Freemium France Proprietary

Self-hosted alternatives

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Jan

Self-host

Open-source desktop app that runs LLMs locally on Mac, Windows, and Linux, with a ChatGPT-style UI.

Free community FOSS self-hostable

Ollama

Self-host

A local LLM runner that pulls open models and serves them on your machine through a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible HTTP API.

Self-host community FOSS self-hostable
OW

Open WebUI

Self-host

Self-hosted ChatGPT-style web interface that pairs with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible API.

Self-host community Src-available self-hostable