New this week: 6 head-to-head tests added, including Claude vs Gemini for long documents.
See what changed →AI Alternatives is an independent review desk for AI software. We pay for our own subscriptions, run the same 40 tasks on every tool in a category, and publish the raw result even when it is inconvenient for the vendor.
Prices move every quarter, free tiers shrink without warning, and the tool that was best in January is often third best by June. We built this site because we were tired of guessing.
Each category gets a fixed brief of 40 prompts and jobs. Every contender runs the identical brief, so a score means the same thing across the whole hub.
We record what a working month actually costs at the seat count you are likely to buy, including minimums, overage and the annual-only discounts vendors like to headline.
Where the data lives, whether it trains a model, and how hard it is to export your work are scored alongside output quality. A cheaper tool that traps your content is not cheaper.
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Plenty of our top picks pay us nothing at all. If a tool has no programme and still wins, it still wins. You can read the full affiliate disclosure and our editorial standards.
Open its hub, see the four or five credible replacements, and check what a real month costs before you renew.