HotBot vs Merlin vs Gemini

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

Your tool
HotBot
vs
Competitor 1
Merlin
Competitor 2
Gemini
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for HotBot: Poe92% GlobalGPT85% Monica84% ChatGPT82% Nottoai82% Claude78% ChatPlayground AI76% LLM Council62%
Compare
3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool HotBot
hotbot.com
Most of HotBot works without signing up
Remove
Competitor Merlin
getmerlin.in
AI assistant in your browser
Make main Remove
Competitor Gemini
gemini.google.com
Google's most capable AI model
Make main Remove
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
320Kvisits/mo
1.2Mvisits/mo
2.6Bvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.7%
▼ 13.8%
▼ 2.6%
6-month growth
-34.3%
-9.1%
+0.8%
Global rank web
#151,652
#46,011
#17
Avg. last 3 months
328.6K
1.3M
2.7B
Bounce rate lower is better
40%
50%
28%
Pages / visit
2.6
2.5
4.1
Visit duration
1m 13s
4m 15s
7m 01s
Traffic sources
● Direct 85% · ● Referral 13%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 4%
HotBotMerlinGemini
0725.8M1.5B2.2B2.9BHotBot · 533.9KHotBot · 573KHotBot · 687.4KHotBot · 576.1KHotBot · 486.9KHotBot · 466.6KHotBot · 491.5KHotBot · 357KHotBot · 308.6KHotBot · 320KMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MGemini · 1.4BGemini · 1.7BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.6BGemini · 2.8BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.7BGemini · 2.6B100K1M10M100M1B10BHotBot · 533.9KHotBot · 573KHotBot · 687.4KHotBot · 576.1KHotBot · 486.9KHotBot · 466.6KHotBot · 491.5KHotBot · 357KHotBot · 308.6KHotBot · 320KMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MGemini · 1.4BGemini · 1.7BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.6BGemini · 2.8BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.7BGemini · 2.6BNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$7.95per month · free tier available
$29per month · free tier available
$4.99per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
–
–
API access
–
–
–
Plans
Free FreeWeekly $7.95/otherQuarterly $39.95/other
Free FreePro $29/moTeams $15/mo
Free FreeGoogle AI Plus $4.99/moGoogle AI Pro $19.99/moGoogle AI Ultra 5x $99.99/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextImagesDocumentsCodeAudio
TextWeb pagesDocumentsCode
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
Output
TextImagesCode
TextImagesCode
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsAI Chatbot
Chatbots & CompanionsDesign & CreativeDevelopment & CodeEducation & Learning+21 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
6
13
15
Chatbots
Coding
Writing
Image generation
–
Summarizing
–
Translations
–
Video summaries
–
Research
–
Chrome extensions
–
–
Chatting
–
–
Copywriting
–
–
Email writing
–
–
Image to image
–
–
Large language models
–
–
PDF analysis
–
–
Search engine
–
–
Social media
–
–
Social media posts
–
–
Video generation
–
–
Image editing
–
–
Mind maps
–
–
Productivity
–
–
Voice chatting
–
–
Community on aitoolstime
Rating
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
★ 4.33 ratings
Upvotes
▲ 2
▲ 3
▲ 11
Saves
0
0
1
Reviews
0
0
3
Prompts
0
0
4
Verified listing
–
–
–

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.