Raycast AI
AI chat and commands baked into the Raycast launcher
Overview
Raycast AI adds chat, quick AI commands and access to GPT-5, Claude and other frontier models inside the Raycast launcher — previously Mac-only, now in public beta on Windows since May 2026. Bundled with the $8/mo Pro plan.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 50 trial AI messages total
- Basic AI chat after trial
- Extensions & window management
- Unlimited chat: GPT-4o-mini, Claude Haiku 3.5, Llama 3.3
- Cloud Sync
- Custom themes
- GPT-5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, o3, o3-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro
- New frontier models added through the year
- Team extension sharing
- Centralized billing
Use cases
What you can produce with Raycast AI
- Global-hotkey AI chat inside the launcher
- AI Commands: summarize, rewrite, translate selected text in place
- Access to frontier models (GPT-5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro) via Advanced AI add-on
- 1000+ Store extensions (raycast/extensions on GitHub)
- Windows public beta (Raycast 2.0, since May 2026)
- Clipboard history, window management, snippets, quicklinks
ASEAN Perspective
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Raycast AI is the AI layer bolted onto Raycast, the keyboard-first macOS launcher that's spent years eating into Alfred and Spotlight's user base — global hotkey, instant chat, and AI Commands that summarize, rewrite or translate selected text without switching windows. What makes it worth a separate look from plain Raycast is the model access: the $8/month Pro plan includes unlimited standard-model chat (GPT-4o-mini, Claude Haiku 3.5, Llama 3.3), and a $16/month all-in tier unlocks frontier models (GPT-5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro) as Raycast adds them. The big 2026 change is Raycast 2.0's Windows public beta, launched May 14 — AI chat is promised there "in the coming months" but isn't at full Mac parity yet, with Windows-specific commands and Slack/Linear/GitHub integrations still on the roadmap through Q4. Excellent for Mac power users already living in the launcher; Windows users should wait for AI features to actually land before paying for Pro.
What people say
Reviews of Raycast broadly, and its AI layer specifically, lean strongly positive but cluster on the same theme: it's evaluated as a launcher that happens to have good AI bolted on, not as a standalone AI product. G2 reviewers describe it as consolidating "dozens of repetitive actions into a keyboard-first command palette," with the AI features framed as one more reason to stay inside Raycast rather than the draw itself.
The extension ecosystem is the recurring differentiator across sources — the official raycast/extensions GitHub repository houses every Store extension and is actively maintained with public issue tracking for API bugs and developer-experience requests, which reviewers repeatedly cite alongside clipboard history, window management, snippets and quicklinks as reasons Raycast beats Spotlight or Alfred on daily workflow, independent of the AI chat.
On pricing specifically, reviewers flag the tier structure as a bit convoluted: the free plan caps AI at 50 trial messages total (not monthly), Pro at $8/month (annual) unlocks unlimited chat but only with "standard" models like GPT-4o-mini and Claude Haiku 3.5, and getting frontier models (GPT-5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro) requires stacking the $8/month Advanced AI add-on on top — $16/month total before any Teams pricing. That's a meaningfully different value proposition than a flat ChatGPT Plus subscription, and reviews split on whether it's worth it depending on how much of your day already runs through Raycast.
The other big theme in 2026 coverage is the Windows launch. Raycast 2.0 went into public beta on May 14, 2026, bringing app launching, window management, clipboard history, snippets and extensions to Windows 10/11 for the first time — but AI chat, Notes, and Cloud Sync are explicitly not yet at parity and are described as "coming in the coming months," with full feature parity targeted for Q4 2026. Early Windows coverage treats this as a genuinely big deal given years of Mac-only exclusivity, but is careful to note the AI half of the product isn't the part that shipped first.
Net: strong, consistent praise for the core launcher and extension ecosystem; the AI add-on pricing and Windows AI timeline are the two things reviewers want prospective buyers to check before paying for Pro or Advanced AI.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Raycast AI's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Raycast AI unless explicitly stated.
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