ChatGPT vs Merlin vs Qwen

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
ChatGPT
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Competitor 1
Merlin
Competitor 2
Qwen
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for ChatGPT: Claude92% Gemini92% Perplexity AI88% Microsoft Copilot85% Grok82% DeepSeek82% Claude Code82% Cursor80%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
Your AI assistant for everything
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Competitor Merlin
getmerlin.in
AI assistant in your browser
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Competitor Qwen
qwen.ai
You're bouncing between creative work and technical tasks
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
5.6Bvisits/mo
1.2Mvisits/mo
35.1Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.5%
▼ 13.8%
▼ 3.9%
6-month growth
-1.6%
-9.1%
+12.5%
Global rank web
#7
#46,011
#1,613
Avg. last 3 months
5.5B
1.3M
36.5M
Bounce rate lower is better
30%
50%
32%
Pages / visit
4.3
2.5
3.9
Visit duration
6m 35s
4m 15s
5m 23s
Traffic sources
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 3%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 95% · ● Referral 4%
ChatGPTMerlinQwen
01.5B2.9B4.4B5.8BChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MQwen · 32.8MQwen · 32.8MQwen · 31.7MQwen · 31.2MQwen · 35.7MQwen · 37.6MQwen · 38MQwen · 36.5MQwen · 35.1M1M10M100M1B10BChatGPT · 5.8BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.7BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BChatGPT · 5.4BChatGPT · 5.5BChatGPT · 5.6BMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MQwen · 32.8MQwen · 32.8MQwen · 31.7MQwen · 31.2MQwen · 35.7MQwen · 37.6MQwen · 38MQwen · 36.5MQwen · 35.1MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$8per month · free tier available
$29per month · free tier available
$9.99per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreeGo $8/moPlus $20/moPro 5x $100/mo+1 more
Free FreePro $29/moTeams $15/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
CodeDocumentsTextWeb pages
VideoTextImagesDocumentsCode
Output
TextImagesCodeAudio
CodeImagesText
VideoTextImagesCode
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDesign & CreativeDevelopment & CodeEducation & Learning+21 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+20 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 5 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
19
13
8
Chatbots
Coding
Image generation
Writing
Summarizing
Copywriting
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Translations
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Chrome extensions
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Blogging
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Email writing
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Essay writing
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Grammar checking
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Image to text
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Large language models
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Research
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Search engine
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Social media
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Social media posts
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Video summaries
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Website building
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Code documentation
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Debugging
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Image editing
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Image to image
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Mind maps
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Productivity
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Refactoring
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Video generation
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Community on aitoolstime
Rating
★ 4.34 ratings
no ratings yet
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Upvotes
▲ 17
▲ 3
▲ 1
Saves
4
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Reviews
4
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Prompts
17
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Verified listing
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.