AI Chatbots in Sri Lanka — Is ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini Available?

This is a lookup tool, not a numeric calculator. It reads a small, hand-verified data table where each chatbot is one record. Every availability verdict is traceable to the provider's own supported-countries or availability page, cited in the row, and stamped with a single “last verified” date. Nothing here is scraped live or guessed.

The availability verdict follows three rules. A chatbot is marked Availableonly when Sri Lanka appears by name on the provider's official list — that is the case for ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic) and Gemini (Google), each confirmed on its own page. When a service loads and works from Sri Lanka but the provider publishes no formal country list, it is marked Works on the web rather than a firm yes — that covers Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Grok. A service is only ever marked Not available if it explicitly excludes Sri Lanka, and Unverifiedif its page could not be read at check time. The tool never upgrades a “web-only” service to “available” on a hunch.

The “paid plan with a Sri Lankan card” column is a yes/no on whether the provider takes a standard international Visa or Mastercard for its consumer plan. It carries no rupee pricing — plan prices and card FX maths live in the separate subscription-price tool. Under Central Bank of Sri Lanka rules, SL-issued cards transact abroad within the forex limit your issuing bank sets, so a “yes” here means the billing country is supported, not that any specific card will always clear.

The Sinhala / Tamil column is deliberately strict. It shows Official only where a provider documents the language as a supported interface language. The big models all reply in Sinhala and Tamil, but none list them as official UI languages yet, so they show as Unofficial — good enough for everyday chat and translation, with the usual slips on idiom and technical terms.

Two controls narrow the list. The “Best for” chips filter by what each chatbot is good at — general chat, coding, images, web search or study help. The “Only usable in Sri Lanka” toggle keeps services you can actually reach from here — that is any Available or Works on the web status, and drops anything not usable. Pick a single chatbot and you get a plain-language verdict, a signup checklist, and a step-by-step start guide instead of the comparison table. The result count is cross-checked two independent ways (8 of 8usable) and the tool shows that self-check under the results, mirroring how the tax calculator shows its “verified by the official formula” line.

Each chatbot's status is taken from the page below and linked again in its row in the tool.

• ChatGPT — OpenAI — ChatGPT supported countries
• Claude — Anthropic — supported countries
• Gemini — Google — where Gemini Apps are available
• Copilot — Microsoft — supported regions for Copilot
• Perplexity — Perplexity — official site
• Meta AI — Meta AI — official site
• DeepSeek — DeepSeek — official site
• Grok — xAI — official site
• Central Bank of Sri Lanka — foreign-exchange rules for international card payments

Availability was last cross-checked against these provider pages on July 9, 2026. Provider availability can change without notice — confirm on the official page (linked above) before you rely on a status.