Alternatives to Claude
Tools that overlap in use case, field, or sector — plus curated picks. Compare and choose for your needs.
Alternatives
ChatGPT GDPR/DPA
OpenAI’s chatbot for conversation, writing, code, and research. Widely used; UK…
Poe
Quora’s app that lets you use multiple AI bots (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) in…
Microsoft Copilot UK/EU data GDPR/DPA
Microsoft’s AI assistant for search, writing, and summarisation in Bing and Wind…
From £0/mo
DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s conversational and coding models via chat and API. Low-cost API and f…
NoteGPT
Note-taking tool that records, transcribes, and summarises meetings, lectures, p…
Grok
xAI’s conversational AI (including Grok) available via X (Twitter). Free for X P…
Le Chat
Mistral AI’s free web chat for its models (Mistral Large, etc.). UK SMEs can try…
OpenRouter
Single API to call 400+ LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, etc.) with pas…
qwen
Alibaba’s Qwen family of models (including Qwen3 and Qwen3-Code) via chat and AP…
Adobe Firefly GDPR/DPA
Adobe’s generative image and design tools in the Creative Cloud ecosystem. UK SM…
AI Virtual Staging
AI virtual staging for empty property photos: add furniture and décor to listing…
Civitai
Community hub for sharing and downloading Stable Diffusion and other open-source…
Clipdrop
Stability AI’s image tools for background removal, uncrop, and ReImage XL. UK SM…
Midjourney
AI image generation via Discord: text-to-image with strong artistic and photorea…
MindMac
Native macOS app that unifies OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Claude, and OpenRouter in on…
monica
Browser and desktop AI assistant for writing, translating, summarising, and sear…
Nero AI
Image-editing API for upscale, scratch repair, colorisation, background change,…
Notion AI GDPR/DPA
AI writing and automation inside Notion. UK SMEs already using Notion can add su…
PixelPanda
Creates product photos, marketing images, UGC-style videos, and AI avatars witho…
remove.bg
Dedicated background-removal tool for product and portrait images. UK SMEs can u…
Manus
AI action engine that runs tasks and automates workflows from natural language.…
Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills
AI assistant with persistent memory, tool use, and extensible skills for tasks a…
Otter.ai GDPR/DPA
Meeting assistant that transcribes in real time, generates notes and action item…
Perplexity
Search engine that answers questions with cited sources. UK SMEs can use it for…