AI for Beginners
Brand new to AI and not sure where to start? Answer a few simple questions and we'll point you to the one assistant that fits what you want to do — honest, with sources, no hype. Start here.
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A question about you, not a leaderboard
"Which AI should I use?" is the first question everyone asks, and most answers online are leaderboards written for enthusiasts. This quiz takes a different route. It asks five or six questions about you (what you'll actually do, where you'll do it, what your budget is, how much you care about where your data lives) and matches your answers against a maintained capabilities matrix of six assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Le Chat and Perplexity.
You get one best match and two runners-up. Each one comes with an honest one-liner on what it's best at, its real strengths, how usable the free plan is, and (when you said it matters) how it handles your data in the EU. No winner-takes-all scoreboard: all six are good tools. The point is fit, not hype.
Three steps to your match
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Answer the questions
Picking an answer moves you straight to the next one, and the quiz adapts: say "coding" and it asks where your code lives; say "research" and it asks how much citations matter.
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Read your match
And the two runners-up. The reasons are spelled out on each card, so you can push back if something doesn't fit.
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Take the next step
Open the assistant's site and try the free plan, then use our plan picker to see if paying is worth it for you, and run anything sensitive through the paste checker before you share it.
How the quiz decides
The quiz doesn't improvise. Every answer is scored against a capabilities matrix we maintain in the open: each assistant's strengths, free-tier quality, and EU data options, with vendor sources linked at the bottom of this page. An automated scan re-reads those sources every week, and the "Last verified" date only moves when we actually re-checked. No vendor pays to appear, to rank, or to be linked. The order you see comes from your answers and the data, nothing else. The full process is on our how we test page.
Parts of the matrix are editorial judgment, not measurements. "Strong at writing" or "very good in your language" are our assessments, formed by using these tools weekly and re-checked periodically. Reasonable people can disagree, and models change fast. That's why you get three options rather than one verdict, and why every free tier is one click away: the cheapest way to settle a fit question is to try the thing. The quiz narrows your shortlist; the final call is yours.
Frequent questions
Isn't ChatGPT just the best one? +
It's the best known, and a genuinely good default. But "best" depends on what you do. If your day lives in Word and Outlook, Copilot is right there. If you need answers with checkable sources, Perplexity cites everything. If keeping your data with an EU company matters, Mistral's Le Chat changes the picture. The quiz exists exactly because one ranking can't answer a personal question.
Do I need more than one assistant? +
Plenty of people end up with two: one for daily work and one for a specific job, like research with citations or coding. Since every assistant in this quiz has a free tier, trying your runner-up costs nothing but ten minutes. Start with your best match, and add a second only when you hit a task it's weak at.
What about privacy? +
The quiz asks how much it matters to you that your data stays with an EU company, and weighs the answer using each vendor's published terms. That's where Le Chat and Copilot's EU commitments earn their points. Whichever assistant you pick, check what you're about to share before you paste it: our paste checker shows the exact data rules for your plan.
Why does the quiz ask about Word and Excel? +
Because integration beats raw capability when your work lives inside Office. Microsoft Copilot sits directly in Word, Excel and Outlook, so it can draft a document or summarize a thread right where you already are, with no copy-paste shuttle. If you don't use Microsoft 365, that advantage disappears, and the quiz scores accordingly.
How current is this quiz? +
Every factual field behind the scoring (strengths, free-tier quality, EU data options) lives in a capabilities matrix that an automated scan re-verifies weekly against vendor pages. The "Last verified" date at the bottom only moves when we actually re-checked. When a vendor ships something that changes the picture, the matrix changes, and so do the results.
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