Which AI is right for me? The 6-question quiz

How the quiz works

The “Which AI is right for me?” quiz asks you 6 questions, one at a time. Each answer raises or lowers the score of assistants depending on how well they fit your situation. At the end, a weighted score (a score where some criteria count more than others) ranks every assistant we track, and the quiz shows you the ones that come out on top.

Two things worth knowing before you start:

• Everything runs in your browser. The calculation happens on your device, using our assistants data file. Your answers are not sent anywhere and are not stored.
• The data comes from the providers. Our file covers around 30 consumer AI assistants. Their prices and features are collected from the providers’ official pages, and the date they were last checked appears on each profile.

The details of the calculation, including how much each question weighs, are explained on our methodology page.

Why these 6 questions

We kept the criteria that genuinely change the recommendation for a beginner, and left out anything that requires technical knowledge.

• Your budget: free, a small monthly budget, or a full subscription. This is often the first filter. Plenty of assistants have a free tier, but with usage caps or features locked behind the paid plan.
• What you mainly want to do: write, look things up, get work done (summarize, organize, draft emails), create images, have the AI take actions for you, or code. An assistant that’s great at writing isn’t necessarily the best at finding recent sources or generating an image.
• Your device: phone or computer. Some assistants have a polished mobile app; others shine on a big screen.
• How much privacy matters to you. Assistants don’t all offer the same controls: turning off chat history, opting out of having your conversations used to train models, or knowing which country the company is based in.
• Your experience level. Someone discovering AI needs a simple interface. Someone already comfortable will appreciate more options.
• Your working language. Assistants aren’t equally good in every language, especially when it comes to nuance, tone and natural phrasing.

How to read your result

Your result shows one main recommendation and 2 alternatives. For each one, you get:

• 3 reasons explaining why it matches your answers;
• what it doesn’t do, so there are no surprises;
• a dated price, with the date it was checked;
• a link to its profile, with details on its features, language quality and privacy options.

A table then compares all three side by side. Read it starting with whatever matters most to you: if two assistants are close, the criterion you care about (price, mobile app, privacy) will settle it.

The alternatives aren’t consolation prizes. They often become the better choice if one of your constraints changes: a different budget, a secondary use, another device. The “retake the quiz” button lets you try different answers in seconds and see how the recommendation shifts.

Finally, the address of the result page contains your answers in encoded form. Copy it to find your result again later, or share it with someone asking themselves the same question: it will show the same result, and nothing is saved on our servers.

The quiz’s limits

A recommendation is not a hands-on review. The quiz matches your answers against public information; it doesn’t measure how well an assistant handles your own tasks. Also keep in mind that:

• plans change often: prices, free-tier limits and features evolve regularly;
• always check the price on the provider’s website before subscribing, especially when there are several plans or prices vary by country;
• your own experience beats any score: the best way to decide is still to try the free version of two assistants on a task you actually do, then keep the one you feel most comfortable with.

What’s next?

Depending on what you’re after:

• to see every assistant and filter them yourself, open the AI assistants comparison;
• to follow how models evolve week after week, check the AI ranking;
• if you’re new to AI, the Start path walks you through the basics step by step;
• to get better answers from your very first chats, try the prompt generator (a prompt is simply the instruction you write to the AI).