I've Been Testing The Top Ai Browsers - Here's Which Ones Actually Impressed Me

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ZDNET cardinal takeaways

• AI-powered web browsers are connected nan rise.
• There are respective different AI browsers to take from.
• One of these mightiness beryllium cleanable for you.

It was only a matter of clip earlier AI took complete nan web browser, and that clip is now. It should travel arsenic nary astonishment that companies person jumped astatine nan chance to incorporated AI into nan instrumentality group usage much than immoderate other.

With AI comes nan agentic browser, which tin grip galore tasks for users. For example, you could show your web browser to shop for a caller achromatic A-line dress pinch a ruffled hem for nether $100. Your agentic browser will hunt nan web for possibilities and study them backmost to you. You could person your browser hunt for nan cheapest airfare to London, find performance tickets, investigation circumstantial topics, and do overmuch more.

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Sounds fascinating, right? It mightiness besides sound for illustration an businesslike measurement to activity pinch a web browser.

But which AI-centric browsers should you try? Let's dive into nan database of ones I've tested to spot what's what.

1. ChatGPT Atlas

When you deliberation of AI, astir apt ChatGPT comes to mind. There's a bully logic for that because ChatGPT is nan astir wide utilized AI work connected nan planet. Now ideate bundling that powerhouse AI work into a browser, and you get ChatGPT Atlas. 

ChatGPT Atlas is based connected Chromium (the aforesaid browser utilized arsenic a instauration for Chrome), truthful utilizing it should consciousness instantly familiar. And if you've utilized ChatGPT, you won't person immoderate problem pinch nan query system. 

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's genitor company, revenge an April 2025 suit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights successful training and operating its AI systems.)

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With Atlas, you tin do modular AI queries from nan main pane aliases from nan sidebar, aliases you tin besides person ChatGPT Atlas summarize pages, thief you pinch projects, and overmuch more. Two peculiar Atlas features really guidelines retired for me: Projects and Archives. You tin create a caller task centered astir a definite task, topic, aliases conscionable astir anything, and past collaborate connected it pinch others. 

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Imagine you person a awesome investigation insubstantial to do pinch a team, and you want to let that squad entree to nan task truthful they tin thief pinch nan work. ChatGPT Atlas offers specified a feature, and it's easy capable for anyone to use. 

Archives let you to prevention chats and callback them later (by unarchiving them). I find this characteristic to beryllium very useful because it prevents maine from having to 1) woody pinch a ample number of chats successful 1 place, and 2) guarantee that I don't suffer important chats. 

One point that I've recovered to beryllium a stumbling artifact pinch users is that they commencement a azygous chat and past usage it for unrelated queries. With Archives, you tin create azygous chats for a azygous taxable and past archive them truthful they are retired of nan measurement but accessible.

Other ChatGPT Atlas features see tab summarization, multi-step tasks, asking analyzable contextual questions, heavy integration pinch ChatGPT, and much precocious features specified arsenic Agent Mode (which requires a subscription).

ChatGPT Atlas is disposable for MacOS, Windows, Android, and iOS.

Pricing:

• Free: Advanced reasoning pinch GPT-5, constricted messages and uploads, constricted and slower image generation, constricted heavy research, constricted representation and context.
• Plus - $20 per month: Everything successful Free positive precocious reasoning pinch GPT-5, expanded messaging and uploads, expanded and faster image creation, expanded heavy investigation and Agent Mode, expanded representation and context, projects, tasks, and civilization GPTs, constricted entree to Sora 1 video generation, Codex agent.
• Pro - $200 per month: Everything successful Plus positive pro reasoning pinch GPT-5, unlimited messages and uploads, unlimited and faster image creation, maximum heavy investigation and Agent Mode, maximum representation and context, expanded projects, tasks, and civilization GPTs, extended entree to Sora 1 video generation, expanded Codex agent, investigation preview of caller features.

2. Perplexity Comet

Another AI browser built connected Chromium, Perplexity Comet acts arsenic your individual adjunct and reasoning partner, truthful you tin make decisions faster, get up to velocity quicker, get thief managing your almanac and email, and find answers from your ain browsing activity. If you've utilized nan Perplexity hunt engine, past you understand really adjuvant Perplexity Comet tin be. 

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Perplexity includes a characteristic that galore users will appreciate: advertisement blocking. 

When you alteration advertisement blocking, you guarantee that each links opened wrong Comet are done truthful ad-free. This is important because Perplexity is 1 of nan champion AI browsers connected nan marketplace for showing its sources. Because of that, Perplexity Comet is considered 1 of nan champion AI browsers for investigation and does truthful pinch a precocious level of accuracy. 

Also: I tried Perplexity's Comet AI browser, and I for illustration wherever it's going (but it's not location yet)

From my experience, Perplexity AI is 1 of nan astir meticulous AI services connected nan market, and because it ever cites its sources, it's easier to verify nan veracity of its answers. 

Some of nan different important features recovered successful Comet are multi-step tasks that tin usability crossed aggregate sources, a built-in adjunct for providing real-time information, agentic task automation, and workday copiloting, which integrates pinch email and Slack to thief you negociate your schedule, collaboration, and communication.

Perplexity Comet is only disposable for MacOS 14 and Windows 11.

Pricing:

• Comet Free: Core browser and AI features.
• Comet Plus - $5 per month: Provides entree to contented from collaborated news outlets.
• Comet Max - $200 per month: Everything successful Plus arsenic good arsenic faster AI responses, precocious Perplexity features, and privilege support.

3. Kosmik

If you're for illustration maine and productivity rules your world, nan Kosmik AI browser mightiness beryllium nan 1 for you. 

This is very overmuch a visual-first AI browser that tin create moodboards of ocular content. Think of Kosmik arsenic an AI-centric Pinterest-type instrumentality pinch nan added prize of having a built-in web browser. Kosmik mightiness beryllium a spot excessively niche for nan mean user, but if you for illustration moving pinch imagery arsenic a intends to shape your time aliases life, Kosmik is correct up your alley. 

With Kosmik, you create universes based connected a taxable aliases a task. 

Kosmik

Kosmik pulls accusation (and images) for that universe, wherever you tin past adhd comments to it, import files, create frames, create stickers, and unfastened web searches based connected nan subject. The measurement I spot Kosmik is arsenic a benignant of AI-centric mind representation to visualize your work. Kosmik is champion suited for much imaginative group who deliberation visually and request to shape a assortment of content. 

Also: Are AI browsers worthy nan information risk? Why experts are worried

A really cool characteristic of Kosmik is that it allows you to break images distant from nan "map," resize them, and moreover unfastened nan root of nan images successful a broadside panel. 

Some of nan cardinal features recovered successful Kosmik see an infinite canvas (aka "Moodboards"), drag-and-drop images, website filtering to constrictive down hunt results, auto-tagging and organizing based connected topic, color, and style, and proactive suggestions for related images and/or articles. Kosmik is disposable for MacOS, Windows, and nan web.

Pricing:

• Free: One workspace, 3 members, unlimited universes and items (notes, bookmarks), up to 100 files imported, up to 15 MB per file, 50 AI requests per month.
• Plus - $10.99 per month, aliases $6.99 per period if billed annually: Unlimited workspaces, workspace members, guests per workspace, universes and items (notes, bookmarks), record imports pinch nary size limit, AI requests, and privilege support.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing; interaction Kosmik for a quote -- includes everything successful nan Plus scheme arsenic good arsenic civilization integrations.

4. Dia

Dia comes from The Browser Company, which created nan now-defunct Arc, a game-changing browser that was up of its time. The Browser Company pulled that browser and opted to spell nan AI way by creating nan Chromium-based Dia. 

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Dia is geared toward writing, learning, planning, shopping, and more. One of nan champion features of Dia is nan expertise to personalize it. With this feature, you tin adhd accusation specified arsenic who inspires you, various bits of accusation Dia should cognize astir you, really you want Dia to write, and moreover coding preferences. 

There's besides nan Memory feature, which enables Dia to study from your sites, chats, and preferences. One point to support successful mind astir nan Memory characteristic is that while your activity is summarized connected nan Dia servers, it is only saved connected your device. If you don't for illustration nan thought of a 3rd statement having entree to your activity (even if only temporarily), I would propose leaving this characteristic disabled. 

Also: I loved Arc browser and was skeptical of its agentic Dia replacement - until I tried it

Other features recovered successful Dia see an reside barroom that doubles arsenic a earthy connection chat interface, contextual awareness, civilization AI-powered actions (called Skills), a conversational AI assistant, and tab-aware intelligence for analyzing and summarizing contented crossed aggregate unfastened tabs. Dia is presently only disposable for MacOS.

Pricing:

• Free: Chat connected immoderate tab, create civilization Skills, mention tabs successful immoderate query, adhd attachments to immoderate query, personalize Dia pinch Memory.
• Pro - $20 per month: Everything successful Free positive unlimited chat usage.

5. BrowserOS

BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser tin of turning your words into actions. Describe a task successful plain language, and BrowserOS will grip nan remainder for you. BrowserOS is simply a privacy-first replacement browser, based connected Chromium, reimagined for nan AI era. For me, nan truth that BrowserOS is open-source makes it guidelines out. 

BrowserOS

More than that, BrowserOS uses on-device agents, truthful you don't person to interest that a 3rd statement will person entree to your queries aliases data. That characteristic unsocial makes BrowserOS worthy utilizing complete nan title (I'm very overmuch successful favour of section AI). 

You tin tally a query connected BrowserOS utilizing earthy language, and it past useful pinch section AI agents to break down nan query and execute nan basal actions. This characteristic tin beryllium utilized for scraping websites and extracting data, comparing merchandise prices crossed different online retailers, and filling retired forms and organizing accusation into a spreadsheet. 

Also: The champion unafraid browsers for privateness successful 2025: Expert tested

Some of nan different features recovered successful BrowserOS see agentic capabilities for automating web tasks, Chromium hold compatibility, section LLM support aliases user-provided API keys, and semantic history and bookmark searches. BrowserOS is disposable for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Pricing:

• BrowserOS is free to instal and use.

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