Chat assistants · alternatives
Roxy by unOpen.AI asks a lot before you start. Onboarding is through a waitlist, so you cannot begin straight away, and no free access is shown. The cheapest stated plan, Roxy, is $99 per month, well above consumer chatbots. Email and calendar integration appears only on Roxy Pro at $179 per month, and Roxy Business Pro at $499 adds a one-off infrastructure fee from $999. It also runs on a dedicated server rather than as a downloadable app. Prices checked on 2026-10-02.
ChatGPT and Claude both list free tiers and cost $20 per month on their paid starter plans (Plus and Pro). ChatGPT offers projects, scheduled tasks and custom GPTs, while Claude adds Projects, Research and Claude in Chrome. Neither is described in our data as a private assistant on a dedicated server with persistent memory like Roxy's 25 GB, so the trade is lower price and instant sign-up against privacy and memory depth.
"Better suited" below is based on documented features and pricing from our verified profiles, not on a head-to-head test. Prices are USD as published by each vendor.
Taken from the documented limitations in our Roxy by unOpen.AI profile.
| Tool | Starting price | Free tier | Platforms | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roxy by unOpen.AI (this page) | $99 (Roxy) | No | — | Onboarding is through a waitlist and email and calendar integration is only on the $179 Pro tier. |
| ChatGPT | $20/mo (Plus (consumer)) | Yes | Web, Desktop, Mobile, API | Almost every tool (uploads, images, voice, deep research, Codex) has plan-dependent usage caps that OpenAI states can change over time, and the API is billed separately from every ChatGPT subscription. |
| Claude | $20/mo (Pro) | Yes | Web, Desktop, Mobile, API | All plans have usage limits that reset on a schedule; the paid chat subscription does not include API access, which is billed separately per token. |
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for writing, research, analysis, image generation and coding help.
Free stops at: Unlimited everyday text chats subject to abuse-prevention safeguards, Separate usage limits for file uploads,…
Free · paid from $20/mo US · checked Sep 30
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding and multi-step work, with free and paid plans.
Free stops at: Usage limits apply, Projects: up to 5
Free · paid from $20/mo US · checked Sep 30
Orchestration layer that routes questions across many AI models, including EU-sovereign ones.
Free stops at: 50 chats per week, 10 images per week
Free plan available US price unconfirmed
AI shopping and support chat assistant for Shopify, Magento and Shopware stores, priced by recovered shoppers.
Free stops at: 5 win-backs per month, 1 storefront, 1 language, 1 seat
Free · paid from $39.99/mo US · checked Sep 29
Multi-model chat that sends one question to several AI models side by side, plus a public AI Wiki of structured guides.
Free stops at: 60 Basic model prompts/month, 6 Advanced model prompts/month
Free · paid from $19/mo US · checked Sep 29
Runs a question through three frontier AI models that critique each other and returns a verified answer.
Free stops at: 1 free session on pricing page (homepage says 3 free sessions), 2 reasoning iterations
Free plan available US price unconfirmed
Sends one question to several AI models at once and returns a consensus answer with side-by-side comparison.
Free stops at: 3 LLM query runs
Free plan available US price unconfirmed
Mac desktop app (Mach Studio) that runs open models locally and drives apps and browser with an agent.
Free stops at: Local models, No account
Verified withsyzygy.com (opens Syzygy (Mach Studio) website in a new tab)
Free · paid from $20/mo US · checked Sep 29
Roxy shows no free access. ChatGPT and Claude both have free tiers.
The waitlist, a $99 per month minimum and email and calendar integration only on the $179 Pro tier.
ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro are each $20 per month.
Our data does not say so. That is how Roxy is described.
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