FPL AI Assistants Compared 2026/27: 5 Tools, One Team, the Same 4 Questions

Several FPL tools now let you ask an AI about your own team: who to captain, what to transfer, when to play a chip. They read your squad in different ways, some answer in predicted points and some don't, and their free allowances range from a few messages to a few hundred.

To compare them, we gave five of them the same team in the same gameweek and asked the same four questions. Here is what mattered, what each one costs, and what each one is good for.

Which FPL AI assistant is best for what

• FPL Cat: best for asking about your squad inside a free multi-week planner. Its captain and transfer answers came in the FPL Cat model's projected points, and it knew the Wildcard had been played. Up to about 150 messages a month free (five a day) with a sign-in. Try it free: https://fplcat.com/fpl-planner
• ChatFPL.ai: best for trying an FPL chatbot without a card. 20 free messages, then plans priced by the number of messages, and text answers that came back in a few seconds.
• Fantasy Football Fix's ChatFPL: best for a large free question allowance inside a full FPL toolkit. ChatFPL Lite gives a free account about 250 questions for life; transfer advice needs the paid Pro model.
• FPL Copilot: best for expected points and cards alongside the advice. Its captain, transfer and Isak answers each came with expected points, and it was the only assistant to name the one-transfer way to afford Isak. Chat is part of its Pro plan, with a 30-day trial.
• Official FPL Companion: best for asking about your team with no setup. It's on the FPL website and reads your squad, bank and chips from your FPL login.

How we tested

One team, one gameweek, four questions: who should I captain this week, what's one transfer from my weakest spot, should I Wildcard now or later, and can I buy Isak with my budget. The team had one free transfer and £0.5m in the bank, Haaland as captain, an injured João Pedro on the bench, and its Wildcard already played in Gameweek 3, so the Wildcard question tested whether an assistant reads chips from the team. Isak cost £9.2m: with three forwards per squad, only selling Haaland funded him in one transfer.

Every tool was tested on 4 November 2026, before the Gameweek 10 deadline. FPL Copilot's chat was used on its 30-day trial; Fantasy Football Fix's paid ChatFPL Pro was not tested. Each answer was seen once: assistants can answer differently another time, so read this as a snapshot.

Tool	How it read the team	What we needed
FPL Cat	Team ID or the full FPL link	A free account
ChatFPL.ai	Team ID saved in Settings	Account with a verified email
Fantasy Football Fix (ChatFPL Lite)	Team ID typed into the chat	A free Fix account
FPL Copilot	FPL team ID	An account on the 30-day trial (card required up front)
Official FPL Companion	Your FPL login: no team ID	An FPL account, logged in on the FPL website

The answers side by side

	Captain	One transfer	Wildcard (played in GW3)	Can I buy Isak?
FPL Cat	Haaland, 5.9 (the FPL Cat model)	João Pedro → Barry, +9.1 over six GWs	Knew: "already used… in GW3"	"Not this GW": two moves and a −4
ChatFPL.ai	"Safest pick, captain Konsa"	João Pedro → Evanilson	"Hold the wildcard for now"	Error message
Fantasy Football Fix (Lite)	Haaland, Groß or Tavernier, no numbers	General areas, no move	General checklist	Needs premium access
FPL Copilot	Haaland, 6.5 xPts	João Pedro → Calvert-Lewin, 21.5 xPts over GW10-14	Knew: "spent this half", next from GW20	"No, not without selling Haaland"
Official FPL Companion	Haaland, on form and fixtures	"The forward slot behind Haaland"; no move named	Knew: "only Bench Boost is still available"	"Sell both of your other forwards"; no points prediction

How to choose an FPL AI assistant

Most assistants sound confident. These are the things that decide whether one helps with a real decision, each with a quick test you can run on your own team and what we saw.

1. Does it have a model that predicts points?

Without projections, an assistant can describe form and fixtures, but it can't say whether a transfer beats rolling, whether a −4 pays for itself, or how far apart two captains are. Test: ask how many points a player is expected to score over the next few gameweeks.

• FPL Cat answered the captain, transfer and Isak questions in the FPL Cat model's points: "I expect 5.9 points before the captaincy is doubled, ahead of Tavernier (5.4) and Konsa (5.3)."
• ChatFPL.ai ranked by a figure it calls "xPNext", which matched each player's recent form in every answer we saw.
• Fantasy Football Fix's Lite chat gave projections when asked (Tavernier, per gameweek, for the next five), but not in its captain answer.
• FPL Copilot put expected points on every pick and showed them as cards: Haaland 6.5 xPts, Calvert-Lewin 21.5 over GW10-14.
• The Official FPL Companion works from form, goals, xG and fixture difficulty. Asked for Haaland's expected points over six gameweeks, it said they "cannot be given as an exact number".

2. Does it know your whole team?

Good advice needs your squad including the bench, your bank, free transfers and the chips you've already played. Test: ask about a chip you've used, or about a player on your bench.

• FPL Cat: "You've already used your Wildcard in GW3, so you can't play it now." It reads the squad, bank, free transfers and chips from your team ID.
• ChatFPL.ai knew the bank and João Pedro's injury, but advised "Hold the wildcard for now".
• Fantasy Football Fix's Lite chat read the starting eleven but not the bench, and gave a general Wildcard checklist.
• FPL Copilot: "your Wildcard is spent this half, and the next one opens after the GW19 deadline (from GW20)". (We asked twice: the first question mentioned GW3, so this is the answer from a new chat without that hint.)
• The Official FPL Companion reads everything from your FPL login: "only Bench Boost is still available".

3. Is it connected to your plan?

One transfer changes next week's free transfers and money, so advice is most useful where you can see the weeks that follow. Test: ask for a move, then ask what it means for the next gameweek.

• FPL Cat's assistant sits in its free multi-week planner and reads the plan on screen. It offers to add a suggested move to your plan ("Want me to add that move to your plan?") as a card you apply with one tap and can undo, and you see the following weeks change.
• ChatFPL.ai answered in the chat only in our session.
• Fantasy Football Fix's Lite chat answered in the chat only in our session.
• FPL Copilot has its solver and chip strategies next to the chat, and offers to make changes in your FPL account if you connect it with your FPL email and password.
• The Official FPL Companion answered in the chat only in our session.

4. Can it plan more than one move?

The hard questions need a route: two transfers to afford a player, a hit, the best week for a chip. Test: ask for a player you can't afford with one sale.

• FPL Cat said "Not this GW" for Isak: the best two-transfer route, João Pedro and Cherki for Isak and Manzambi, still fell 1.1 points short of the free-transfer plan after the −4. Asked "can I buy" a player now, it gives up to three different ways to afford him, each with its points over six gameweeks, the hit and the money left, and it names the one-transfer swap when one fits even if it scores lower: here, Haaland for Isak, which the FPL Cat model puts 12.2 points down over six gameweeks. (On the day we tested, it listed one route twice and missed that swap; both were fixed the same evening.)
• ChatFPL.ai's answer was an error message; we didn't retry.
• Fantasy Football Fix's Lite chat said it "can't provide specific transfer recommendations without premium access".
• FPL Copilot answered "No, not without selling Haaland", adding that the upgrade over N.Jackson "isn't worth a hit".
• The Official FPL Companion said Isak "only fits if you sell both of your other forwards", without costing the route.

5. Can you talk about the rest of the gameweek?

FPL isn't only transfers: injuries and press conferences, price changes, set pieces, how your gameweek went, your mini-league. Test: ask why a player is flagged, or how you're doing against a rival.

• FPL Cat's assistant also answers about injuries and team news, price changes, fixtures, set-piece takers, your gameweek review and your mini-leagues, and summarises what FPL accounts and r/FantasyPL say about a player. It works in the planner and on the home page.
• FPL Copilot's tools include mini-league win chances and price changes.
• The Official FPL Companion's suggested prompts covered bonus points, price rises and falls, xGI leaders, and double and blank gameweeks.

6. Does it understand football and the FPL rules?

An answer can read well and still break the rules (three forwards, three players per club, one Wildcard per half) or miss the football (an injury, rotation, a defender's low ceiling). Test: check that every player it names is in your squad, and that a route it suggests leaves a legal team.

In our test, captain advice ran from Haaland, who four of five picked, to a defender as the "safest pick"; one captain suggestion was a player not in the squad; and one way to afford Isak sold two forwards to buy one. There's also no single right answer to "weakest spot": three tools named the injured João Pedro, and even two of our own features disagreed (the assistant named João Pedro, the planner's recommendations on the same screen named Cherki for rotation risk). Prefer an assistant that shows the numbers behind its reasoning, so you can check them.

7. What does it cost?

Tool	Free	Paid plan adds	Monthly	Yearly
FPL Cat	Up to about 150 messages a month (five a day) with a sign-in; the planner	Unlimited messages (fair use), the full solved plan, Wildcards, up to 10 saved plans	£6.99	£54.99 (season)
ChatFPL.ai	20 messages once	100 messages a month	£7.99	–
Fantasy Football Fix	ChatFPL Lite: about 250 questions for life	ChatFPL Pro and Fix's other premium tools	£7.95	about £48
FPL Copilot	Expected points, fixtures, team rating; not the chat	The chat, the solver, chip strategies	£7	£55
Official FPL Companion	Everything, with an FPL account	No paid plan seen	–	–

The cheapest paid plan for each; ChatFPL.ai also sells a 500-message plan. Free trials: FPL Copilot 30 days, with a card; Fantasy Football Fix seven days. Prices from each provider's own pages on 4 November 2026; FPL Copilot's at its checkout on 26 October 2026.

Try the same four questions on your own team. It takes a few minutes per tool, and you'll see which one answers the way you plan.

Each assistant: access and prices

FPL Cat

FPL Cat's assistant sits in the FPL planner (and on the home page) and reads your squad, bank, free transfers and chips from your team ID or the full FPL link. It answers in the FPL Cat model's projected points and can put a suggested move straight into your plan; you make the transfers yourself on the FPL site.

FPL Cat, 4 November 2026: the assistant in the planner, answering the weakest-spot and Wildcard questions beside the plan. The recommendations box below names a different weakest spot (Cherki) from the assistant (João Pedro). Our own screenshot, cropped.

Access: up to about 150 messages a month free (five a day) with a sign-in, the full assistant. Pro, at £6.99 a month or £54.99 for the season, makes it unlimited with fair use, along with the rest of Pro's planner features. FPL Cat's free tools also work inside ChatGPT and Claude as a connector (how to set it up).

ChatFPL.ai

ChatFPL.ai is a standalone FPL chatbot. You sign up in the chat itself, verify your email, then save your team ID in Settings so it loads your squad, bank and flags on every message. Answers came back in about four seconds or less in our session, as text with player photos.

ChatFPL.ai, 4 November 2026: part of its answer on replacing João Pedro. Our own screenshot of the free trial, cropped.

Access (its home page, 4 November 2026): a free trial of 20 messages with no card, which its Settings page says "never reset"; Premium at £7.99 a month for 100 messages; Elite at £14.99 a month for 500. Sharing on social media earns bonus messages.

Fantasy Football Fix: ChatFPL

Fantasy Football Fix offers ChatFPL alongside its planner, Assistant Manager optimiser, price-change tools and projections. It's a different product from ChatFPL.ai. A free account gets ChatFPL Lite, with a "Lifetime allowance of 25 credits (equivalent to approximately 250 questions)", the largest free allowance we found. Specific transfer recommendations need ChatFPL Pro.

Fantasy Football Fix, 4 November 2026: ChatFPL Lite on a free account, after we typed the team ID. It listed the starting eleven; the four bench players weren't included. Our own screenshot, cropped.

Access (its premium page, 4 November 2026): ChatFPL Pro comes with Premium Plus at £7.95 a month, or £3.98 a month billed annually, with seven days free on the monthly offer. Premium Plus also includes Fix's other premium tools and its FPL Plus browser extension. We tested Lite only.

FPL Copilot

FPL Copilot is a set of FPL tools (an expected-points table, a transfer solver, chip strategies, mini-league win chances) with an AI chat on top. Give it your team ID and the chat answers with cards: a captain pick with expected points, top players for the position, a player comparison. If you connect your FPL account (your FPL email and password), it offers to make changes for you; we didn't connect one.

FPL Copilot, 4 November 2026: the captain and weakest-spot answers, each with a card of expected points. Our own screenshot on its trial, cropped.

Access: its own description says the expected-points table, fixture ticker, player comparison and team rating are free with no sign-up, and that "Chat is part of Pro" (fplcopilot.com/llms.txt, 23 October 2026). Pro was £7 a month or £55 a year at its checkout on 26 October, with a 30-day free trial that asks for a card up front. FPL Copilot also offers a connector for ChatGPT and Claude, according to the same page.

Official FPL Companion

The Premier League Companion, "powered by Copilot", is Microsoft's assistant built into the official FPL website, with an "FPL Companion" tab. It needs no team ID and no separate account: it reads your squad, bank and chips from your FPL login. Each answer ends in a table of the players it mentions, with price, points and next fixture.

Official FPL Companion, 4 November 2026: the Wildcard answer in the panel on the FPL website, logged in. Our own screenshot, cropped to the panel.

Access: free with an FPL account; we saw no message counter. We used it on the website, logged in.

Made an FPL AI assistant that isn't here? Submit it on our FPL tools page and we'll look at it for the next update of this comparison.

FPL AI assistant questions

Is there an AI assistant for FPL?

Yes, several. FPL Cat's assistant sits in its free planner. The official FPL website has the Premier League Companion, powered by Microsoft Copilot, which reads your team from your FPL login. Other independent options include ChatFPL.ai, Fantasy Football Fix's ChatFPL and FPL Copilot. They differ in how they read your team, whether they answer in projected points and how much is free.

Can AI pick my FPL team?

AI assistants can suggest transfers, a captain and a lineup for your squad, and some build whole squads. FPL Cat's planner can build a Free Hit squad, and FPL Copilot can make changes in your FPL account if you give it your FPL login. In our test the advice ranged from "keep Haaland" to a defender as captain, so check the reasoning, and the numbers behind it, before you act.

Is there an FPL app for ChatGPT?

ChatGPT on its own doesn't know your squad or this week's injuries. FPL Cat and FPL Copilot both offer connectors that give ChatGPT and Claude live FPL data and your team: see how to use FPL Cat in ChatGPT and Claude.

Does the official FPL app have AI?

The official FPL website has the Premier League Companion, powered by Microsoft Copilot, with an FPL Companion tab that answers questions about your own team. We used it on the website, logged in to FPL; we didn't check the mobile app.

Are FPL AI assistants free?

Most have a free allowance. FPL Cat gives up to about 150 messages a month (five a day) with a sign-in; Fantasy Football Fix's ChatFPL Lite about 250 questions for life; ChatFPL.ai 20 messages; the FPL Companion is free with an FPL account. FPL Copilot's chat is part of its Pro plan, with a 30-day trial. Monthly prices in this test ran from £6.99 to £14.99, with yearly or season prices on some.

Sources and dates: every assistant was asked on 4 November 2026 (Gameweek 10) with the same team; prices from each provider's own pages that day, except FPL Copilot's, seen at its checkout on 26 October 2026, and its access terms, from its own description of 23 October. Answers were seen once and are quoted exactly; longer answers are shortened. FPL Copilot was used on its trial; other paid tiers were not tested. Links identify the services discussed; this article contains no affiliate referral codes.