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What does an AI agent actually cost?

Subscription price is the wrong lens. The real monthly cost is base + token spend + ops time. Tell us your setup; we'll rank every agent in our catalog by what you'd actually pay.

Estimated monthly cost · 7 agents

Cheapest fit: Zapier Agents at $600/mo
  • Zapier AgentsA80Cheapest fit

    7,000+ app integrations plus an AI agent layer — your existing automation stack, now with planning.

    Base $0Ops $600
    Free tier baseline.
  • Security and IT workflow agents with human-in-the-loop gates — the no-code platform for SOC + ITOps.

    Base $0Ops $600
    $600
    / month
    See Tines AI
    Community tier baseline.
  • Visual workflow automation with AI agents — drag-and-drop scenarios across 2,000+ apps.

    Base $0Ops $600
    Free tier baseline.
  • Build no-code AI employees for inbox, meetings and CRM updates.

    Base $0Ops $600
    $600
    / month
    See Lindy
    Free tier baseline.
  • Human-in-the-loop workflow agents that connect 100+ apps with approvals.

    Base $0Ops $600
    Free tier baseline.
  • Open-source workflow automation with first-class AI agent nodes — self-host or use cloud.

    Base $0Tokens $40Ops $1,800
    $1,840
    / month
    See n8n Agents
    Open source — base license is $0; you pay token costs and ops.
  • Build durable agents that act on your internal data — open framework.

    Base $0Tokens $40Ops $1,800
    $1,840
    / month
    See Fixie
    Open source — base license is $0; you pay token costs and ops.

How we estimate

Three components:

  • Base — the cheapest qualifying tier from the agent's published pricing, scaled to your seat count. For open-source agents this is $0; for sales-led agents we exclude it and flag a note.
  • Tokens — for open-source agents (or BYO-key plans), the estimated monthly token spend based on your volume and the workflow's typical per-action cost (e.g. ~$1.20 per coding PR, ~$0.10 per support ticket). Managed agents include tokens in their subscription, so this is zero for them.
  • Ops — engineering / admin hours per month at a loaded rate matched to your team size, times the typical hours required (more for self-hosted).

The model trades precision for honesty. Your specific token mix, dev rate, and integration depth will shift the numbers — but the relative ranking holds across reasonable parameter changes. See our full methodology.

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