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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 · 5 agents

Cheapest fit: Decagon at $600/mo
  • DecagonA72Cheapest fit

    Conversational support agents that resolve tickets like your best reps.

    Base $0Ops $600
    $600
    / month
    See Decagon
    Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote.
  • Branded customer-facing agents from the founders of Salesforce + Google.

    Base $0Ops $600
    $600
    / month
    See Sierra
    Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote.
  • Voice agents for contact centers — handles tier-1 calls end-to-end.

    Base $0Ops $600
    $600
    / month
    See Parloa
    Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote.
  • VapiB68

    Developer-first voice agents — build production phone agents with an SDK and dashboard.

    Base $0Ops $600
    $600
    / month
    See Vapi
    Pay-as-you-go tier baseline.
  • Resolution-based AI agent built into Intercom — pays for what it actually deflects.

    Base $1Ops $600
    Per resolution tier baseline.

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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