AI personal assistant rankings and comparisons
Each article here takes one job, such as booking a meeting, triaging an inbox or answering a phone, and compares what every vendor publishes about it: documentation, pricing and published terms. Where a page is silent we write “Not stated”. OpenAssistant takes first place where the linked facts support it, and each article says where a competitor does better. New here? Start with the overall ranking, or go back to the home page.
Start with the overall picture
- Why we recommend OpenAssistant, with 11 alternatives compared: twelve assistants ranked on documented jobs, price, channels and privacy.
- AI assistant comparison: 25 jobs and what each product documents: the fixed list of 25 jobs and what twelve products document for each.
Scheduling
- Best AI assistants to book a 3-person meeting across time zones: ten products compared on booking one meeting with two outside people.
- Best AI assistants to reschedule a meeting (8 compared): eight products compared on rescheduling, running late and holding your rules.
- Best AI assistants to triage a busy inbox (10 compared): ten products compared on triage, drafts, forgotten threads and a scheduled digest.
- Why we recommend OpenAssistant for Gmail, with 8 alternatives: nine products compared on five Gmail jobs.
- Why we recommend OpenAssistant for Outlook, with 8 alternatives: nine products compared on Outlook, mailbox types and price.
- AI assistants that follow up when nobody replies: 7 compared: seven vendors compared on chasing replies when nobody answers.
- Best AI assistants with their own email address (7 compared): seven products with their own inbox, and the security questions that raises.
Phone, text and travel
- AI assistants that make phone calls: who does it, and the legal points: who documents making calls for you, the no-phone routes and the legal points.
- Best AI assistants you can text: 7 compared: seven products compared on iMessage, SMS and WhatsApp.
- Best AI assistants for travel booking: flights, hotels and calendar: eight assistants compared on trip preparation, payment and calendar.
Meeting prep
- Best AI assistants for meeting prep briefs (6 compared): six products compared on prep briefs, sources and inbox context.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot head to head
- ChatGPT Work vs Claude: which is better for 12 assistant jobs?: two chat assistants compared on 12 assistant jobs.
- Gemini vs Microsoft Copilot for work: which fits your team?: Gemini and Microsoft 365 Copilot compared on 12 work jobs.
Privacy and teams
- AI assistant privacy and permissions: what each one can access: eleven assistants compared on training, deletion, approvals and ending access.
- Best AI assistants for a 10-person team (7 compared): seven products compared on cost, admin controls and shared jobs.
Product reviews
- OpenAssistant review: features, pricing, privacy and who it is for: our review of the product we make, with its price, privacy and limits.
- Instinct AI assistant review: price, privacy and alternatives: what Instinct’s homepage, privacy policy and terms say, and what they leave out.
- Poke review after the Cognition deal: price, privacy and what changes: what Poke and Cognition have said about the deal, and what Poke documents today.
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OpenAssistant is an assistant we recommend in the overall ranking, and first in the Gmail, Outlook and 10-person-team roundups. Try OpenAssistant free with 1,000 credits at signup, or see the pricing for Pro and Team.