Best Alexa+ Alternatives in 2026
Alexa+ scores 8.3/10 on our tests. Here are 7 alternatives worth considering in the AI Chatbots & Assistants space.
Alexa+
Amazon's reborn consumer AI assistant -- rolls out to every Alexa device with memory, multi-turn agent tasks, and Fire TV navigation
Top Alternatives, Ranked
The chatbot that started the AI revolution. GPT-5.6 family (Sol/Terra/Luna) went GA 2026-07-09 -- Sol $5/$30 per 1M, new `max`/`ultra` effort modes, SOTA on BrowseComp (92.2%) + OSWorld 2.0. Same week: GPT-Live full-duplex voice (7/8) and the ChatGPT Work agent + unified desktop app (7/9)
AI-powered search engine that gives cited answers instead of a list of links
Google's free research assistant that turns your documents into an AI you can query -- and a podcast you can listen to
Microsoft's answer to ChatGPT -- free GPT-4 access with Bing search built in, but it feels like a corporate product
Apple's ground-up Siri rebuild, unveiled at WWDC 2026 (June 8) -- conversational, on-screen aware, searches your personal data across apps, gets its own app with synced history. Built on Apple Foundation Models developed in collaboration with Google's Gemini. Developer betas now; public beta in July; ships this fall with iOS 27. Not in the EU (iPhone/iPad) or China at launch.
AI-character roleplay chat platform -- once 200M+ monthly visitors, now in a prolonged user exodus after the 2026-02-18 'Moderatedpocalypse' mass-delete and escalating TRAIGA-compliance restrictions. The alternatives market (Janitor AI, Chai, DreamGen) is now the real story
Score Comparison
| Tool | Ease of Use | Output Quality | Value | Features | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexa+(current) | 9.5 | 7.0 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 8.3 |
| ChatGPT | 10.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 8.8 |
| Perplexity AI | 9.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 8.5 |
| NotebookLM | 8.0 | 7.0 | 9.5 | 6.5 | 7.8 |
| Microsoft Copilot | 8.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 7.5 |
| Poe | 8.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 7.5 |
| Siri AI (Apple) | 9.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 7.5 |
| Character.AI | 8.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.5 |
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