Best ChatGPT Plugins in November 2026: 12 Scored, and Why the Directory Search Misleads You

Disclosure: NOXI publishes this page and is one of the twelve plugins scored. That is why the rules, the weights and the source of every cell are printed, along with the nine plugins that finish above NOXI and the two rules where NOXI's cells are low.

Dropbox is first with 88. Notion takes 83, Todoist and Vercel 80 each, Figma and Google Drive 78, Stripe and Plus AI 75, GitHub 70. NOXI scores 65 and is tenth of twelve, ahead of Canva on 63 and Gamma on 48. Four of the nine plugins above it moved past it only when we opened their own vendor pages, and in that pass not one of NOXI's cells changed.

NOXI takes full marks on five of the seven rules: write actions, the Capabilities list on its own detail page, a named export format, free-plan reach, and a published server address. It scores 0 on findability, because it sits in none of the sixteen curated rails and at position 438 of 526 in Creativity, and 5 of 20 on breadth, because every action works on one object, a presentation.

This page is a census rather than a shortlist. Most pages ranking for this search were written in 2023 and still open with Zapier, which returned "No plugins found" in the signed-out directory on 1 November 2026. So we counted all thirteen categories, ran the searches, and opened twelve detail pages and twelve vendor pages.

Best ChatGPT plugins: the twelve at a glance

On seven documented rules checked on 2 November 2026, Dropbox scores 88 of 100 and Gamma 48, so the field spans 40 points. Three pairs finish level, and one printed chain settles all three before the table is written: G1, then G2, then G5, then G3, then G7, then G4, then alphabetical order by name.

Where NOXI sits. Tenth of twelve, on 65 points. The rule that places it there is findability, worth 20: NOXI is in none of the sixteen curated rails, and on its Creativity category page it is the 438th of 526 cards. You reach it by typing its name, which is the behaviour this page is about.

Who should pick what

Six jobs, six plugins, each with one documented fact.

• If your work already lives in a workspace wiki → Notion, because its own help page says the connection lets assistants "read from and write to your Notion pages" [3].
• If the files you need are already in a shared folder → Dropbox, because its help page says the feature is "available to customers on all Dropbox plans using ChatGPT" [2].
• If you want designs without leaving the chat → Canva, because its help page says the connection "is available for all Canva accounts, including Canva Free and Canva Education" [11].
• If you ship web apps and want deploy logs in the chat → Vercel, because its docs state "Vercel MCP is available on all plans" and name four object types [5].
• If you want a PowerPoint file named in the Capabilities list itself → Plus AI, whose list says "Create native PowerPoint presentations in PPTX format" [8].
• If you need a designed deck and an Arabic version of it → NOXI, whose own listing text says it writes slides "including right-to-left languages such as Arabic" [12].

Key numbers

ChatGPT apps, plugins and connectors: three names, three things

OpenAI's current word is plugin, and its help page defines the parts in one line: "An app connects ChatGPT to a service ... A plugin brings apps and skills together" [13].

So an app is one connection to an outside service, a skill is the instructions for using it, and a plugin is the bundle you install. "Connectors" and "Apps and Connectors" are the older names. Custom GPTs are a third thing again, and OpenAI's article records that "New GPT creation ended on October 26, 2026 for affected Enterprise workspaces" [13]. A custom GPT is not a plugin and is not scored here.

The identifier in a listing's address tells you who built it. plugin_connector_1p_ is a first-party connector, Developer OpenAI, as on Google Drive and GitHub. plugin_connector_ is third party, as on Vercel, Figma, Stripe and Canva. plugin_asdk_app_ is an Apps SDK app, as on Dropbox, Notion, Todoist, Plus AI, Gamma and NOXI. Nothing labels these groups, and the prefix is the only visible signal.

Every detail page is public signed out, which made this census possible, and installing is where the public ends: the Install link targets a sign-in page, which we did not follow. For the settings screens, our guide to Claude connectors, ChatGPT plugins and MCP walks through them.

Inside the ChatGPT plugin store: what the search actually does

The directory held 5,181 plugins across thirteen subject categories when we counted it between 14:25 and 14:34 local on 2 November 2026, and its search matches names rather than subjects.

That second half is the finding most lists miss. A signed-out search for design, run at 13:18 on 1 November 2026, returned 49 names, and neither Canva nor Figma was one of them, although Canva is the first card in Creativity and Figma the third. A search for email three minutes later returned 44 names with no first-party Gmail. The ceiling is 50 names on one search page, so a count of exactly 50 means "at least 50".

Browsing by category works better, and that is where the twenty-point findability rule comes from. Here is the whole directory, counted page by page.

Eight plugins arrived in fifty one minutes, which is why this count carries a time and not only a date. Three strips on the index are curated overlays rather than subjects, Popular with 46 plugins, New & Noteworthy with 17 and Small Business with 16, and they stay out of the sum.

The first cards on a category page are the only ones a browsing reader will see, so we read them. Productivity opens Google Drive, Notion, Dropbox, Outlook Calendar, Todoist, with SlideSpeak at 311. Developer Tools opens GitHub, Supabase, Remote Desktop Commander, Vercel, Lovable. Creativity opens Canva, Higgsfield, Figma, Runway and Adobe, with Gamma tenth.

The directory has two different ideas of where a plugin lives

Plus AI and Beautiful.ai both print the category "Productivity" on their own detail pages, and neither appears among the 608 names on the Productivity page. That is a second reason subject browsing fails: a plugin can claim a category the category page does not place it in. A rail card and a detail page can also carry different subtitles for the same plugin. Todoist's card says "Tasks, projects, and reminders" and its page "Planner & Reminders". The index and the pages are maintained separately.

How we scored: seven rules for a ChatGPT plugin

Each plugin is scored on seven plain-point rules totalling 100, applied identically to all twelve, from public pages opened signed out on 2 November 2026.

The breadth rule counts object types rather than tools, because tool counts are not published consistently, and the file rule asks for a document-like artefact, so tasks, deployments, issues and payments earn nothing.

What OpenAI itself states about plans and badges

• The directory "is available across ChatGPT plans", and "Installing or using an individual plugin depends on your plan, workspace, role, region, and its included capabilities" [13].
• The pricing table marks Free "Yes" on "Discover & use Plugins" and "No" on "Create & share Plugins" [14].
• "Custom MCP server connections and full MCP support are available for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise/Edu customers on ChatGPT web", Pro gets "read/fetch permissions", and on mobile the answer is "No - web only" [15].
• "Some plugins display an OpenAI Verified badge", and "A verification badge does not replace your organization's privacy, security, or vendor review" [13]. NOXI's listing carries no OpenAI Verified badge. Since this page explains that the badge exists, it says so.

No detail page in the directory prints a required plan, for any of the twelve, so this page never writes that a plugin requires a tier. Where a plan matters, the limit is on the vendor's side.

The three ties, and the rule that decided each

The printed tie-break chain is G1, then G2, then G5, then G3, then G7, then G4, then alphabetical order by name. Here is what it did.

Where the gaps come from

• Dropbox 88 and Notion 83, a gap of 5, and all of it is G4: Dropbox prints "Read, Write" under Capabilities, Notion's page has no Capabilities row.
• GitHub 70 and NOXI 65, a gap of 5. GitHub is ahead by 20 on G1 and 15 on G2, behind by 5 on G4, 15 on G5 and 10 on G7. So 35 minus 30 is 5.

How sensitive the order is

Three readings, printed because the weights are a choice and a reader may check what the choice is doing.

• Equal weights. Each rule normalised to its own maximum, then averaged: Dropbox 0.862, Notion 0.790, Todoist 0.786, Vercel 0.786, Plus AI 0.786, NOXI 0.750, Figma 0.719, Google Drive 0.719, Stripe 0.714, GitHub 0.643, Canva 0.576, Gamma 0.433. NOXI moves from tenth to sixth.
• Without G1, the joint heaviest rule. Out of 80: Plus AI 75, Dropbox 68, NOXI 65, Notion 63, Todoist 60, Vercel 60, Figma 58, Google Drive 58, Stripe 55, GitHub 50, Canva 43, Gamma 38. Plus AI leads and NOXI is third of twelve. The two plugins that do the most per installed plugin are the two the directory hides.
• Read G6 strictly, so a paid vendor plan or credits scores 0 instead of 5: Figma drops to 73, Plus AI to 70, Gamma to 43. GitHub takes the 70 tie from Plus AI on G1, and NOXI stays tenth.

We prefer the main table's reading, because this directory is hard to search, so where a plugin sits in it is not a detail. To weigh what a plugin does once found, copy the second.

The top ChatGPT plugins, scored on seven rules

Dropbox's 88 is 20 plus 20 plus 15 plus 5 plus 8 plus 10 plus 10, and every other total is built the same way.

Two more, scored on the same rules and left outside the twelve. Consensus takes 50, first of 475 in Education & Research, Capabilities reading "Search research papers, Read paper details", reads only, address printed. Its free-plan cell rests on the directory alone, because help.consensus.app and docs.consensus.app both returned 403. Beautiful.ai takes 75, with six named Capabilities including "Export to PDF and PowerPoint", and its free-plan cell is carried from our notes rather than a page opened today.

Which plugins can write, and which only read

The write rule separates nobody inside the twelve: all twelve score 15 of 15 on G3, and the rule only bites once you look outside the table.

That is a real finding rather than a flat cell. Two years ago a plugin meant a read-only lookup. Today Dropbox prints "Read, Write", Todoist "Read, Write, Interactive", Google Drive and GitHub "Interactive, Write", and Vercel a bare "Write". The rows with no Capabilities row earn their 15 from a vendor page instead: Notion's lets assistants "read from and write to your Notion pages", Figma's says "Create and modify native Figma content from your MCP client", and Stripe's writes "with any Stripe API POST, PATCH, PUT and DELETE method".

Where the rule does bite is the reference rows: Consensus reads and does not write, and the first-party Health plugin prints "Interactive, Read". So assume a plugin can change things unless its page says otherwise. OpenAI's behaviour is the backstop: "ChatGPT may ask for approval before reading information or completing an action" [13]. A plugin that can open a pull request or move money is a different decision from one that drafts a page.

Which ones hand you a file

Only two of the twelve name an export format you can walk away with, Plus AI and NOXI, and each takes the full 15 points for it.

Plus AI's Capabilities list says "Create native PowerPoint presentations in PPTX format". NOXI's says "Export presentations as PDF, PowerPoint or HTML". Those are the only two strings of their kind in the twelve pages we read, and they are why the two lowest-findability rows top this rule.

The 0 cells are not a criticism of those four. A deployment is the point of Vercel and a paid invoice the point of Stripe. The rule exists because many people want a deliverable: a deck for Thursday, a document to send. Watch the eight-point band, because a design that lives inside the vendor's editor still needs a second step before it reaches anybody. If slides are why you are here, our scored page on ChatGPT plugins for presentations compares the deck tools.

What a free ChatGPT account can and cannot do with plugins

A free ChatGPT account can browse and use plugins, and cannot make one: the pricing table marks Free "Yes" on "Discover & use Plugins" and "No" on "Create & share Plugins".

That single row is the clearest plan line in the system [14]. Around it the picture is deliberately conditional. The directory "is available across ChatGPT plans". Whether you can install one particular plugin "depends on your plan, workspace, role, region, and its included capabilities". Surfaces differ: "Some tools, interactive views, or apps may be available only on desktop, web, or mobile." In a managed account the decision is not yours, because Business workspaces enable apps by default while Enterprise and Edu start with a selected set an administrator manages.

The free question most people are really asking is about the vendor on the other side.

• Free for every account of that product, stated. Dropbox: the feature is "available to customers on all Dropbox plans using ChatGPT". Canva: it "is available for all Canva accounts, including Canva Free and Canva Education". GitHub: "The GitHub MCP server is available to all GitHub users regardless of plan type." Vercel: "Vercel MCP is available on all plans."
• An account is needed and no plan is named. Todoist's help page lists one prerequisite as "You'll need a Todoist account to sign in to." Notion, Stripe and Google Drive name no plan for the basic job either. All four score the full 10.
• Vendor credits or a paid vendor plan for the basic job. Gamma's help centre says "On the Free plan, all AI actions use credits, and credits do not refresh." Plus AI's pricing page prints no free plan, only that "All plans start with a 7-day free trial with 1,000 AI credits." Figma's help page puts its server behind a seat, which "requires a Dev or Full seat on a Professional, Education, Organization, Government, or Enterprise plan" [6]. Each scores 5.
• NOXI, 10 of 10. Free, no card, a monthly credit allowance that resets on the first, and no detail page prints a required ChatGPT plan [12].

Two things we will not print. Gamma's pricing page returned 403 on five attempts across 1 and 2 November 2026, so there is no Gamma price here. Plus AI's lowest plan shows a bare dollar sign with no currency code, so there is no Plus AI figure. If the free-plan question is yours, our ranking of what ChatGPT's free plan actually includes scores ten free plans.

Custom MCP servers, and the plan that gates them

Eight of the twelve print an MCP server address on their detail page, and connecting a server of your own is documented for Business and Enterprise or Edu customers on ChatGPT web.

Those two halves are easy to confuse. Installing a listed plugin is open across plans. Pasting in an address for a server nobody has listed is not: "Custom MCP server connections and full MCP support are available for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise/Edu customers on ChatGPT web." Pro gets "read/fetch permissions", and on mobile the page answers "No - web only". One instruction from every old tutorial is gone: "You don't need to turn on Developer Mode first" [15].

The eight that print an address are Dropbox, Notion, Todoist, Vercel, Figma, Stripe, Plus AI and NOXI. The four that do not are Google Drive, GitHub, Canva and Gamma, two of them first-party connectors. A printed address is useful even if you never paste it, because the same server usually works in other clients. NOXI's listing prints mcp.noxi.ai/mcp, the address you add by hand in Claude, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex from noxi.ai/connect. Our scored page on the best MCP servers ranks twelve of those servers.

Where NOXI sits, in plain numbers

NOXI scores 65 of 100 and finishes tenth of twelve, with full marks on five of the seven rules and two low cells: it is not where a subject browser lands, and it does one job rather than many.

Two facts about the listing, because they drift when other people write about us. NOXI is listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory. It is not featured, it appears in no curated rail, and the 438 is a plain number read off a public page. And the listing carries no OpenAI Verified badge. The badge exists, this page quotes OpenAI on what it means, and we do not have one.

The honest comparison with the nine plugins above is about reach. Dropbox, Notion, Google Drive, GitHub, Stripe, Todoist and Vercel sit in front of whole platforms, so their breadth cells are 20 where NOXI's is 5, and Canva and Figma are inside the rails where a browsing reader lands. NOXI is a single-job plugin you reach by name. Its listing documents reading your presentations and templates, creating designed decks from a topic, brief or outline, editing slides, exporting to PDF, PowerPoint or HTML, and showing previews in a card in the chat. Slides are written in the language you ask for, right-to-left languages such as Arabic included. On a phone the route is to edit by AI chat in your phone's browser.

What changed recently

Five dated movements, four on pages we opened on 2 November 2026 and one a deadline a vendor has published for later this month.

What these rules don't measure

Seven rules cannot describe a plugin you will use every week, and the gaps are wide enough that you should know them before copying the order above.

• How good the output is. Nothing here grades a draft, a design or a deck. A plugin can name five Capabilities and do all five badly.
• Latency, failure rate and rate limits. No vendor here publishes comparable figures, so there is nothing to score.
• How many tools each server exposes. GitHub, Stripe and Dropbox lead by a wide margin, and object types are a crude stand-in for it.
• Security and review burden. OpenAI's own line is the one to keep: a verification badge "does not replace your organization's privacy, security, or vendor review". Whether your employer allows third-party plugins is a question these rules cannot touch.
• What happens to your data. OpenAI's listing notice says "ChatGPT may share relevant chats and memories with this app", and on Free, Plus, Go and Pro, information from apps may be used to improve models if that setting is on.
• The quality of the underlying product. Canva, Figma and Notion are large, excellent tools whose plugin pages happen to be thin, and three of them lose 10 points purely for having no Capabilities row.
• Custom GPTs. A different object with a different story. People search for "best GPTs" and land on pages like this one, and the two should not be mixed.

What would change this ranking

Three named changes would move this table, each on a page anyone can open, and we will re-check all three on 1 December 2026.

• NOXI enters a curated rail, or the first twenty of its category. The pages to watch are the sixteen rails on chatgpt.com/plugins and the Creativity category page, where NOXI is 438 of 526 today. One of the two takes findability from 0 to 10, both take it to 20, so NOXI would score 75 and sit eighth, behind Stripe on the first rule of the chain, or score 85 and sit second behind Dropbox. Re-check 1 December 2026.
• The directory search starts matching subjects instead of names. The test is one query, chatgpt.com/plugins with q set to design. On 1 November 2026 it returned 49 names and neither Canva nor Figma was in them. If either appears, the second finding on this page is dead, the router above changes, and the weight on findability deserves a rethink. Re-check 1 December 2026.
• Zapier returns to the directory. A signed-out search for zapier returned "No plugins found" on 1 November 2026 at 13:22. If a Zapier plugin ships it would score high on breadth and write actions, belong in the twelve, and every 2023 listicle naming it would be right again. Re-check 1 December 2026.

Worked example: three plugins, no bills

Example Hana Okada is a fictional product marketer in Osaka, on a free ChatGPT account, who wants three plugins installed by Friday and is not going to pay for any of them. She starts in the search box, types design, gets 49 names, and not one is a tool she has heard of. She gives up on the search, opens the Creativity category, and finds Canva as the first card.

Her two rules are the two she can act on: a file has to come out, and the vendor has to be free. Out of the 25 points those two carry, Canva scores 8 plus 10 = 18, Notion 18, NOXI 15 plus 10 = 25, Plus AI 20 and Gamma 13. NOXI's 25 of 25 is the only full score.

Her three. Canva, because her team already works in it and the plugin is free on every Canva account. Notion, because the plugin can write to the wiki she maintains. NOXI, because the monthly deck is the chore she resents and it has to leave the chat as a file. Her deck arithmetic: one deck a month at about 70 minutes by hand, so 12 times 70 = 840 minutes a year, and 840 divided by 60 = 14 hours. Review date: 1 December 2026.

Build it: a deck inside ChatGPT with the NOXI plugin

If the chore in your week is the deck, this route needs nothing configured: NOXI is listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory, so you install it from the sidebar rather than pasting an address.

Installing or using a plugin "depends on your plan, workspace, role, region", in OpenAI's own words, so check what your account allows. The launch write-up for the NOXI plugin in ChatGPT has the rest, and our guide to making a PowerPoint in ChatGPT covers the routes that use no plugin.

A deck started from a brief is researched on the web first, and slides carrying figures get a source line. Attach a file instead and that research is off by default, so put the numbers in the brief. The PowerPoint file has real text boxes and embedded fonts, Arabic included, and no watermark. If the job is a written report, our ranking of the best AI for reports scores the document tools, and PowerPoint add-ins covers the tools inside the file.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best ChatGPT plugins?

On seven printed rules checked on 2 November 2026, Dropbox scores 88 of 100, Notion 83, and Todoist and Vercel 80 each. Figma and Google Drive take 78, Stripe and Plus AI 75, GitHub 70, NOXI 65, Canva 63 and Gamma 48. Every cell came from a public page.

What are the best ChatGPT apps?

Apps and plugins are not the same object. OpenAI says an app connects ChatGPT to a service, while a plugin bundles apps and skills and is the thing you install. So the twelve scored here are plugins, led by Dropbox on 88 points, and the apps sit inside them.

How many ChatGPT plugins are there?

The thirteen subject category pages listed 5,181 plugins between 14:25 and 14:34 local on 2 November 2026, eight more than the 5,173 counted on the same thirteen pages at 13:34, fifty one minutes earlier. Popular, New and Noteworthy and Small Business are curated overlays rather than subjects, so they stay out of the sum.

Are ChatGPT plugins free?

Browsing and using them is free; building one is not. OpenAI's pricing table marks Free "Yes" on discovering and using plugins and "No" on creating and sharing them. Installing any individual plugin "depends on your plan, workspace, role, region". Nine of the twelve vendors name no paid plan.

What are the best ChatGPT plugins for research?

Education and Research opens with Consensus, SciSpace, Sider Scholar, Acumen by Talarion, Scite and Wolfram, across 475 plugins. Consensus scores 50 on our seven rules: first in its category, an address printed, but it reads and does not write, so the write rule scores 0 of 15. Checked 2 November 2026.

What are the best ChatGPT plugins for writing?

Notion scores highest of the writing tools here at 83, because its help page documents reading from and writing to your pages. Google Drive takes 78 and reaches Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides, though it prints no address. Neither names an export format, so each takes 8 of 15.

What are the best ChatGPT plugins for business?

Dropbox leads the business set on 88 points, with actions on files, folders, shared links and file requests, free on all Dropbox plans. Stripe takes 75 and writes through any Stripe write method. Both sit in the Small Business rail, so a browsing reader finds them.

Why does the plugin search not find Canva?

Because the directory search matches plugin names, not subjects. A signed-out search for design returned 49 names on 1 November 2026, and neither Canva nor Figma was among them, although Canva is the first card of 526 in Creativity and Figma the third. Browse the category instead.

Can I use ChatGPT plugins on my phone?

Partly. OpenAI says you reach Plugins on the sidebar on ChatGPT web, desktop or mobile, and also that some tools, interactive views or apps may be available only on one of those. Connecting a custom MCP server of your own is answered plainly: "No - web only".

Does ChatGPT still have Zapier?

Not as a listed plugin. A signed-out directory search for zapier returned "No plugins found" on 1 November 2026 at 13:22, and the same answer came back for Expedia at 13:24. Both are still named as top picks by listicles written in 2023, which shows how old those pages are.

Sources & methodology

Every page below was opened signed out on 2 November 2026 unless another date is given, in a browser whose header showed "Log in" and "Sign up for free", with no cookie banner accepted and no Install link followed. Times are local, UTC plus four. Hana Okada is fictional, and the hours in her example are her estimate.

• [1] ChatGPT plugin directory, public pages read signed out on 2 November 2026 · The directory index and its sixteen rails; the thirteen subject category pages, including Creativity, Productivity and Developer Tools.
• [2] Dropbox · Dropbox detail page, read 14:38; The Dropbox app for ChatGPT, read 15:00.
• [3] Notion · Notion detail page, read 14:42; Notion MCP, read 14:30.
• [4] Todoist · Todoist detail page, read 14:36; Use the Todoist plugin in ChatGPT, read 14:55.
• [5] Vercel · Vercel detail page, read 14:38; Vercel MCP, page metadata 15 September 2026, read 14:30.
• [6] Figma · Figma detail page, read 14:38; Figma MCP server help article, read 14:30.
• [7] Google Drive · Google Drive detail page, Developer "OpenAI", read 14:36.
• [8] Stripe and Plus AI · Stripe detail page, read 14:42; Stripe MCP server, read 13:32; Plus AI detail page, read 14:44; Plus AI pricing, read 15:30.
• [9] GitHub · GitHub detail page, read 14:36; Use the GitHub MCP server, read 14:45.
• [10] Gamma and Consensus · Gamma detail page, read 14:44; How AI credits work, read 15:25; Consensus detail page, read 14:36. gamma.app/pricing returned 403 on five attempts across 1 and 2 November 2026; help.consensus.app and docs.consensus.app returned 403 on 2 November 2026.
• [11] Canva · Canva detail page, read 15:35; Connect ChatGPT to Canva, read 13:32.
• [12] NOXI · NOXI detail page in the plugin directory, read 14:36, and its position on the Creativity category page, read 14:27; noxi.ai/connect; NOXI product documentation on free credits, export formats and Arabic slides, read 2 November 2026.
• [13] OpenAI · Plugins in ChatGPT, read 2 November 2026; Connected apps in ChatGPT.
• [14] OpenAI pricing · ChatGPT plans, plugin rows read 2 November 2026.
• [15] OpenAI custom MCP · Connecting custom MCP servers in ChatGPT, read 2 November 2026.

Install the plugin that removes the chore you resent, and browse the category rather than trusting the search box. If that chore is the deck, connect NOXI to the assistant you already have open.