
The gold standard conversational assistant with advanced reasoning and web search, but lacks a native multi-model sidebar.
The gold standard conversational assistant with advanced reasoning and web search, but lacks a native multi-model sidebar.
Monica records 4,512,775 monthly visits with -11.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. SmartProxy records 217 monthly visits with -99.2% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.

AI-ready residential proxies and web data at scale
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | monica.im | smartproxy.org |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.51M (4,512,775) | 217 (217) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -573.08K (-11.3%) | -27.7K (-99.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (9.1%) | 🇨🇭 Switzerland (57.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 2.5M | 95 |
| User Rating | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

All-in-one AI assistant across web, browser, desktop and mobile
Chat with a rotating roster of leading LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others, switching models per task without separate subscriptions.
Works on Chrome and Edge to summarize pages and YouTube videos, explain or translate selected text, and assist with writing directly inside any web page.
Rewrite, humanize or generate text, get full-page bilingual translation, and chat with or translate PDF documents.
Create images, convert image-to-image, animate stills, remove backgrounds or watermarks, and generate logos and avatars.

AI-ready residential proxies and web data at scale
Route requests through real residential IPs with smart rotation and free geolocation for higher scraping success rates.
Choose unlimited residential traffic, static residential, long-acting ISP, or static datacenter proxies depending on your workflow.
Dedicated scrapers and APIs for web data collection, plus integration guides for AI and automation platforms.
Target locations at country, state and city level, with detailed per-country pools such as Brazil, India, the US, Turkey and Mexico.

The gold standard conversational assistant with advanced reasoning and web search, but lacks a native multi-model sidebar.
The gold standard conversational assistant with advanced reasoning and web search, but lacks a native multi-model sidebar.
Exceptional analytical reasoning and artifact generation, but focused solely on Anthropic's models rather than multi-model aggregation.
Exceptional analytical reasoning and artifact generation, but focused solely on Anthropic's models rather than multi-model aggregation.

Excellent multi-model AI aggregator interface, but operates primarily as a web and mobile app rather than a sidebar.
Excellent multi-model AI aggregator interface, but operates primarily as a web and mobile app rather than a sidebar.

Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Virtually identical browser sidebar extension with multi-model chat and page summarization, but features a slightly different UI.
Virtually identical browser sidebar extension with multi-model chat and page summarization, but features a slightly different UI.
Feature-rich browser extension bundling frontier models for summarization and writing, but with a distinct credit system.
Feature-rich browser extension bundling frontier models for summarization and writing, but with a distinct credit system.

Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Cross-platform multi-model chat client with local file Q&A, but requires your own API keys for full power.
Cross-platform multi-model chat client with local file Q&A, but requires your own API keys for full power.
Powerful browser extension combining multi-model AI chat with robust web automation and data scraping capabilities.

Advanced chat frontend with custom agents and local storage, but designed as a web app rather than an extension.
Advanced chat frontend with custom agents and local storage, but designed as a web app rather than an extension.

SpecialistExcellent for rewriting and text refinement across the web, but lacks broad multi-model chat and research tools.
SpecialistExcellent for rewriting and text refinement across the web, but lacks broad multi-model chat and research tools.

Specializes in side-by-side multi-model prompting within a browser extension, but lacks Monica's all-in-one painting and video tools.
Specializes in side-by-side multi-model prompting within a browser extension, but lacks Monica's all-in-one painting and video tools.