Merlin vs Typing Mind vs ChatPlayground AI vs MaxAI

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

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Merlin
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Typing Mind
Competitor 2
ChatPlayground AI
Competitor 3
MaxAI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Merlin
getmerlin.in
AI assistant in your browser
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Competitor Typing Mind
typingmind.com
TypingMind is a chat interface for AI models that you connect with your own API keys.
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Competitor ChatPlayground AI
chatplayground.ai
ChatPlayground AI is a comparison workspace where one prompt goes to several AI models at the same time and each answer appears in its own column.
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Competitor MaxAI
maxai.co
MaxAI is a browser extension and web app that adds an AI sidebar to whatever page you have open.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
1.2Mvisits/mo
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1.7Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 13.8%
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▲ 4.9%
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6-month growth
-9.1%
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+30.6%
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Global rank web
#46,011
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#25,525
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Avg. last 3 months
1.3M
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1.7M
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Bounce rate lower is better
50%
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36%
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Pages / visit
2.5
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6.3
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Visit duration
4m 15s
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4m 17s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
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● Direct 79% · ● Referral 13%
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MerlinTyping MindChatPlayground AIMaxAI
0431.8K863.6K1.3M1.7MMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MChatPlayground AI · 1.4MChatPlayground AI · 1.2MChatPlayground AI · 1.2MChatPlayground AI · 1.3MChatPlayground AI · 1.6MChatPlayground AI · 1.5MChatPlayground AI · 1.6MChatPlayground AI · 1.6MChatPlayground AI · 1.7M1M10MMerlin · 1.5MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.3MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.4MMerlin · 1.2MChatPlayground AI · 1.4MChatPlayground AI · 1.2MChatPlayground AI · 1.2MChatPlayground AI · 1.3MChatPlayground AI · 1.6MChatPlayground AI · 1.5MChatPlayground AI · 1.6MChatPlayground AI · 1.6MChatPlayground AI · 1.7MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$29per month · free tier available
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$14per month · free tier available
$12per month · free tier available
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro $29/moTeams $15/mo
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Free FreePro $12/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pagesTextCode
AudioCodeDocumentsText
Text
Web pagesTextImagesDocumentsCode
Output
TextImagesCode
AudioCodeText
Text
TextImagesCode
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsDesign & CreativeDevelopment & CodeEducation & Learning+21 more
Chatbots & CompanionsAI Chatbot
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeWriting & ContentAI Chatbot+2 more
Chatbots & CompanionsEducation & LearningProductivity & OfficeVideo Editing+7 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
13
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6
11
Chatbots
Writing
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Summarizing
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Chatting
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Translations
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Video summaries
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Coding
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Image generation
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LLM comparison
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Chrome extensions
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Model comparison
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ChatGPT
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Copywriting
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Document chat
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Paraphrasing
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Social media
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Social media posts
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Browser
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Chatbot building
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Document summarization
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Grammar checking
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MCP
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Mind maps
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PDFs
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Productivity
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Text to speech
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Voice chatting
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Web search
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Reviews
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Prompts
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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.