Analytics agency TelecomDaily has ranked, for the first time, the Russian services that give everyday users access to neural networks. Nine products were compared, and Beeline's beeGPT came out on top with 90.12 points out of 100. Sber's GigaChat was second with 87.94, and Yandex's Alice AI third with 73.83.
One important caveat: the study did not measure how smart the models are or how good their answers are. It looked at how easy it is to get started and how much you can do for free. In other words, it ranks the doorway to AI rather than the AI itself.
How it was scored
The services were checked against 46 parameters grouped into ten criteria, including the size of free access, how clear the limits are, ease of sign-up, availability without a VPN and the range of AI features. Each criterion was weighted using a survey of mobile subscribers, with 492 responses from more than 40 regions used in the final calculation.
What users care about
Free access with honestly stated limits matters most, named by 45% of respondents. Next come a convenient website and app (40%), working without a VPN (39%) and simple sign-up (37%). beeGPT pulled ahead because it does not use mobile data and picks a model for the task automatically, while GigaChat scored higher for an easy start.
The rest of the list
MTS's assistant came fourth with 71.03, VK's Marusya fifth with 70.55 and Elumenta × T2 sixth with 66.06. T-Bank's AI assistants scored 59.69, while MegaFon's Telegram bot (34.23) and Yota's Unlimited ChatGPT (22.33) closed the ranking.
Our take
The ranking shows where the competition really is: many models are similar, so the winner is whoever makes getting in easiest and keeps the limits clear. The same lesson applies to anyone building bots or AI features into websites: quick sign-up, transparent limits and zero setup matter as much as the model itself. Details are in the iXBT report.