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 · 26 agents
Conversational support agents that resolve tickets like your best reps.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote.- Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote.
- Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote.
- VapiB70
Developer-first voice agents — build production phone agents with an SDK and dashboard.
Base $0Ops $600Pay-as-you-go tier baseline. - CrestaA80
Conversational AI agent assist for contact centers — coaches reps and automates after-call work in real time.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - ForethoughtA77
Autonomous AI support agent — resolves tier-1 tickets across email and chat with measurable deflection.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - Bland AIA73
Production voice agent infrastructure — build inbound, outbound, and IVR-replacement agents that scale.
Base $0Ops $600Usage-based tier baseline. - ElevenLabsA82
AI voice platform with Conversational Agents — production-grade voice cloning, TTS, and voice agents.
Base $0Ops $600Free tier baseline. - AdaA80
AI customer service agent — resolves tickets across chat, email, voice with measurable deflection rates.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - Retell AIA73
Production voice agent platform — LLM-native phone agents with low-latency streaming and per-minute pricing.
Base $0Ops $600Pay-as-you-go tier baseline. - Hume AIB67
Empathic voice interface — speech-to-speech model that reads emotion and responds in kind.
Base $0Ops $600 - PolyAIA73
Enterprise voice assistants for call centers — natural conversations that resolve customer calls.
Base $0Ops $600Per-seat × 4 seats. - WonderfulB67
Multilingual customer-support AI agents with local deployment teams in 30 countries.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - CognigyA73
Forrester Wave Leader 2026 — enterprise voice and chat agent platform (now NiCE Cognigy).
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - Kore.aiB70
Enterprise agent platform with prebuilt vertical agents for banking, healthcare, and retail.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - AbridgeC57
Clinical-documentation agent that turns doctor-patient encounters into compliant EHR notes.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - Sarvam AIB67
India's sovereign multilingual voice agent — Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and more.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - NablaC57
Ambient clinical agent for documentation, coding, and EHR workflows in 35+ languages.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - AidocC57
Always-on radiology agents that triage CT and MRI anomalies across hospital workflows.
Base $0Ops $600Sales-led pricing — estimate excludes a custom quote. - Intercom FinA75
Resolution-based AI agent built into Intercom — pays for what it actually deflects.
Base $1Ops $600Per resolution tier baseline. - TidioA72
AI customer support chat with the Lyro agent that auto-resolves common inquiries.
Base $24Ops $600 - SynthflowA77
No-code voice AI builder — design, deploy, and monitor phone agents without writing code.
Base $29Ops $600Starter tier baseline. - ChatbaseB67
Build custom AI chatbots trained on your data for support and lead generation.
Base $32Ops $600 - LiveChatB68
AI-powered live chat and helpdesk with AI agents and ticketing across channels.
Base $76Ops $600Per-seat × 4 seats. - CustomGPT.aiB67
No-code platform to build RAG chatbots trained on your content, with anti-hallucination.
Base $89Ops $600
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.