Top 10 Free AI Websites to Work Smarter and Faster in 2025

General AI Websites

ChatGPT – Best Overall AI

From simple prompts to get a basic question answered to letting ChatGPT Agent (launched in July 2025) take over entire workflows, ChatGPT is now the go-to AI platform for most leaders.

With  2.5 billion prompts per day by over 500 million users, ChatGPT leads AI models by a mile. And for good reason: it is easy to use, fueled by powerful models, and rolls out updates quicker than Google, Microsoft, and others.

Why AI leaders love it

For just $20 per month or $30-60 on the business (Team and Enterprise) plans, you get access to the most cutting-edge AI models. You also get features that make some competitors look backward in comparison, like the above-mentioned Agent feature alongside Canvas, Custom GPTs, Tasks, Projects, and Advanced Voice.

Alternatives to ChatGPT

In some cases, ChatGPT doesn't cut it (alone.) Especially if you're already bought into the Google or Microsoft productivity suites, connecting to their AI can make more sense from a data, integration, and security perspective.

Key competitors to ChatGPT are:

• Microsoft Copilot: This platform, depending on your license and plan, integrates directly into your Outlook (improved search!), Teams (meeting transcriptions and Q&A), PowerPoint, Word, and more.
• Google Gemini: Mostly included in professional Google plans, Gemini brings AI into Google Drive (ask documents any questions), Slides, Docs, Sheets, and more.

Image Generation and Editing AI websites

Midjourney - Best for Creating Stylized and Realistic AI Art 

Midjourney is an AI image generator. It’s arguably one of the best of image generators since you can create visuals in any style, whether it’s in a creative illustration format or intentionally hyper-realistic. 

In its most recent update in January 2025, it launched its improved describe and moodboard blending features that simplify the user experience and make it even easier to get images that fit your vision.

Why AI leaders love it

Midjourney has a minimal learning curve for a high-quality payoff.

The user-friendly interface only needs a prompt for what you’d like it to create. You can get as specific as you need to generate the best image, plus you can choose the image size you need. Midjourney takes a brief 10 seconds to work before serving you four options you can download or edit again.

If you want to save time and minimize the amount of edits you need to make, our AI prompt tool can help.

Midjourney's Best Features:

Describe - Upload a picture you want to emulate in your generated image. Midjourney gives you a list of words and phrases to best describe the photo or style so you can create a more accurate prompt. 

Moodboard Blending - Skip the struggle of phrasing your prompts, you can blend existing moodboards with the style you want for your next image.

Text-to-Art Generation - Text-based prompts are used to create high-quality images with resolutions up to 2,048 x 2,048 pixels.

Style Customization - Generated art can be edited based on your preferences in style, ranging from hyper-realistic photos to dynamic illustrations. 

Outpainting - Actual images can be extended beyond their original borders.

Midjourney's Limitations

Subscription for Use - Midjourney no longer offers a free plan, something it discontinued after moving from a Discord channel to Midjourney.com.

Images are Public - All images the AI website generates are considered public. You can still keep generated content private, but it’s only available to high-tier subscriptions.

Midjourney's Pricing

All of this comes at a price though, and while $10 per month may not break the bank, if you don't frequently create images, one of the alternatives below may be a better option. Midjourney no longer offers a free plan, something it discontinued after moving from a Discord channel to Midjourney.com.

Click here to try Midjourney.

Alternatives to Midjourney:

• Adobe Firefly is an AI tool for artistic and realistic image generation.
  Generate an image with a prompt, edit elements of the images, and fill in the spaces you create. Firefly is easy to learn, especially if you're already using one of the Adobe Creative Cloud tools.
  Pro tip: If you lack inspiration, visit the Community Gallery, where you can find inspiration and opportunities to 'remix' AI art. Interestingly, Firefly further stands out by being trained only on licensed work, and even pays out the original creator.
• Canva Image Generator embeds new AI art in your working designs.
  While it isn't the 'best' image generator on the market (it's built on Dall-E and Imagen), it definitely saves you time on downloading your AI image from another platform and reuploading it to a (marketing) design on Canva. So, if you're already on Canva, next time, prompt an image rather than using stock.
  Pro tip: Don't have an editable version of an image, but you want to edit the text? Canva launched a new featured called Grab Text that lets you do just this! It's just one of the reasons Canva is the number 2 in our AI for Work Top 100 and the leading AI Marketing platform.
• Dall-E is the AI image generator embedded into ChatGPT.
  It also powers Microsoft Designer and all of Copilot's AI image-generating capabilities. It doesn't compare to Midjourney and Firefly, but it's handy for fast image generation inside your favorite AI tool.
  Pro Tip: Since October 2024, in ChatGPT, you can simply type /picture to start creating images with Dall-E. For more such tips, see our ChatGPT for Designers course.