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Smalt AI vs ChatGPT,
Claude and Gemini.

The three big assistants are brilliant for one person thinking and writing. Smalt is an AI coworker for the whole team, built to take the job and hand back the finished thing.

The short answer

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini now do far more than chat: they work with files, browse the web, connect to other apps and take on longer tasks. Claude folded its Cowork mode into ordinary chat in September 2026. For one person, any of them is an excellent assistant, and the best one is often the one you already use.

Smalt is built for a company rather than a person: sales, marketing, operations and people teams handing it their recurring work, and getting back briefs, reports, decks, spreadsheets and emails ready to check.

Where the general assistants win

Breadth and speed for individual work: writing, thinking, explaining, analysing, coding. Each is backed by one of the largest AI labs, gains new capabilities quickly, and has a large community of guides and integrations around it.

Where Smalt is the right tool

  • Not tied to one lab. Each of the three runs on its own lab’s models. Smalt sends each step to whichever model suits it, open-source or frontier, and changes the line-up as better models arrive.
  • Built around team work. Call briefs from HubSpot, reconciliations from a .zip of invoices, onboarding from a Notion checklist, social performance from your own pages. See it by team.
  • Contact lookup built in. Finding the right person at a company, and which companies are hiring, is part of the product.
  • Approval before anything goes out. Emails, Slack messages and meeting invites wait for you to send, edit or discard them.
  • Enterprise self-hosting, and a team that builds with you. For data that has to stay on your infrastructure, and for processes bigger than one coworker. See services.

Plans are credit-based: a Free tier with 500 credits and no card, and paid plans from USD 18 a month.

Honest caveats

  • If you are one person who already uses one of these every day, start there. Smalt earns its place when a team wants one coworker across its tools.
  • All four products change month to month. Check each vendor’s own pages for what they can do today.

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