Monica
CE 86 free tierWhen the work happens in a browser tab and reach matters more than depth in any one job.
Entry plan$9.90 / seat
× 6 seats$59.40
Against your $102 ceiling−$42.60
Team cost$59.40 / mo
Verified
Reviewed by
Oleh Kem
Oleh KemPlans checked62 / 17 vendors
“Contact sales”10/62
Median entry$16.99/mo
Entry range$9.90-125
Publish a price14/17
Free tier10/17
Leader94 Fireflies.ai
AI productivity tools compared: pricing, content generation and APIs
Five separate markets share one label here, and the cheapest tool listed is not bidding against the priciest. Our check covered every published tier of all 17, scoring each vendor on how much of its price list it shows and naming the meter behind each bill.
What does an AI productivity tool cost, and which prices are comparable?
Cheapest paid entry here is $9.90 and the dearest is $125; the midpoint across the 17 is $16.99. That distance exists because one label covers five markets: answer engines, AI inside a workspace, meeting notetakers, deck generators and agent automation. Each runs its own meter, so a price only reads against its own group.
- Each group meters a different object: reports on the research side, minutes and storage on the notetakers, credits and cards per prompt on the deck tools, agent tasks on the automation platforms, and a seat plus a credit balance inside the workspace.
- Most of the gap between $9.90 and $125 separates a personal subscription from a team automation platform, not a cheap tool from an expensive one.
- 10 of them start free, and those starts are not equivalent: some meter by the day, some by the month, and one hands over a single allowance that never refills.
- The word unlimited turns up on every one of the five groups and almost always has a ceiling beside it. Transcription is unlimited against a storage cap; reviews are unlimited against a deep-review quota.
- Fourteen rows show a figure without a conversation. The rest are a quote-only enterprise platform and two products no longer on sale.
- Two of the 17 are off the market entirely, one deck tool and one wearable notetaker, and both price grids are historical.
Ranked by a transparency score: pricing transparency 60%, user satisfaction 40%. Capability is not scored. It is the condition grid below. Prices are read from vendor pricing pages and re-checked per product on the dates shown. ComparEdge sells no AI productivity tools and takes no payment for placement. How the score is built.
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AI productivity tools ranked: pricing, content generation and web access
Each tool carries one number onto the axis, the cheapest monthly price it publishes. What that number counts is not the same on every row: minutes on one, agent tasks on the next.
Sorted by transparency scorePriced tiers 52 / 62Full disclosure 6 / 17
How to read this table
Reading the console
One row per tool, and the mark sits at the cheapest monthly price that vendor publishes. The axis is log-scaled, so each decade to the right multiplies the price by ten rather than doubling it. Read the axis inside a group, not across it. These tools come from five different markets, so a notetaker sitting left of a deck generator tells you about billing, not about value. The number on the right is our reading of how much of a price list a vendor is willing to show, and the grid beside it is capability, which reads on its own.
- Price axis
- One shared logarithmic axis, $9.90 to $585. A tick further right is genuinely dearer. The tall tick is the cheapest paid tier.
- Diamond
- A flat platform fee, billed per month, not per seat.
- Granted
- Listed on the vendor’s own pages on the verify date.
- Conditional
- Present, but some tiers carry no published price.
- Not on the record
- Absent from the recorded feature set. It means unlisted, not incapable.
01Fireflies.aiFree tierAll tiers pricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access listedAutomation listedCollaboration listedAPI listed$18/u94Alternatives to Fireflies.ai
02GammaFree tierAll tiers pricedContent gen listedWeb access not on the recordAutomation not on the recordCollaboration listedAPI listed$12/u94Alternatives to Gamma
03Perplexity AIFree tierAll tiers pricedContent gen listedWeb access listedAutomation not on the recordCollaboration not on the recordAPI listed$10/u91Alternatives to Perplexity AI
04You.comUsage-priced, public rate cardNo free tierAll tiers pricedContent gen listedWeb access listedAutomation not on the recordCollaboration listedAPI listedSales only89Alternatives to You.com
05MonicaFree tierAll tiers pricedContent gen listedWeb access listedAutomation not on the recordCollaboration not on the recordAPI not on the record$9.90/u86Alternatives to Monica
06ConsensusFree tier1 of 5 tiers unpricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access listedAutomation not on the recordCollaboration not on the recordAPI listed$15/u79Alternatives to Consensus
07ZamsNo free tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access not on the recordAutomation listedCollaboration listedAPI listed$125flat78Alternatives to Zams
08Notion AIFree tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedContent gen listedWeb access listedAutomation listedCollaboration listedAPI not on the record$12/u76Alternatives to Notion AI
09ElicitFree tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access listedAutomation listedCollaboration listedAPI listed$75/u75Alternatives to Elicit
10LindyNo free tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedContent gen listedWeb access listedAutomation listedCollaboration listedAPI listed$49.99flat75Alternatives to Lindy
11Beautiful.aiNo free tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedContent gen listedWeb access not on the recordAutomation not on the recordCollaboration listedAPI not on the record$45/u74Alternatives to Beautiful.ai
12Otter.aiFree tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access not on the recordAutomation not on the recordCollaboration listedAPI not on the record$16.99/u72Alternatives to Otter.ai
13Mem AIFree tier1 of 3 tiers unpricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access listedAutomation not on the recordCollaboration not on the recordAPI not on the record$12/u66Alternatives to Mem AI
14Manus AIFree tierAll tiers pricedContent gen listedWeb access listedAutomation listedCollaboration listedAPI listed$20/u60Alternatives to Manus AI
15DataRobotNo published priceNo free tier0 of 2 tiers pricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access not on the recordAutomation listedCollaboration listedAPI listedSales only26*Alternatives to DataRobot
16TomeProduct discontinuedNo free tier0 of 2 tiers pricedContent gen listedWeb access not on the recordAutomation not on the recordCollaboration listedAPI listedRetired0*Alternatives to Tome
17LimitlessProduct discontinuedFree tierAll tiers pricedContent gen not on the recordWeb access not on the recordAutomation not on the recordCollaboration not on the recordAPI listedRetired0Alternatives to Limitless
GrantedSome tiers sealedNot on the recordCheapest paid seatFlat account fee, not per seat* score is user satisfaction alone: the vendor publishes no pricesScore ranks pricing transparency and user ratings, not capability. Capability is the grid.
17 vendorsMedian entry $16.99Coverage span 5 → 1 of fiveSealed tiers 10 / 62
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Shortlist an AI productivity tool by team size and what it really costs
The shortlist ranks by what the plan actually costs your team, not by list price. Flat plans are folded into a per-team number so they compare like for like. Only vendors rated 85 and up are eligible.
Seats
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Budget / seat
For 6 seats at $17 per seat, start with these
Ranked by monthly team cost, vendors rated 85 and up · Your ceiling for this team: $102 / mo
Perplexity AI
CE 91 free tierAnyone whose research day runs past a few deep queries, since the Pro tier meters Research at twenty a day and Labs at fifty a month rather than counting searches.
Entry plan$10 / seat
× 6 seats$60
Against your $102 ceiling−$42
Team cost$60 / mo
Gamma
CE 94 free tierPast a deck or two a month, when the per-prompt ceiling starts to bite: cards per prompt run from ten on Free to seventy-five at the top, with credits as the second meter.
Entry plan$12 / seat
× 6 seats$72
Against your $102 ceiling−$30
Team cost$72 / mo
Over your ceilingFireflies.ai $18 / seat
Not sure what to weigh? Five questions narrow it faster than the grid.Answer 5 questions
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Every tool's plans, verdicts and the date we checked each price
Open a record for every plan and the date we last checked it. Order follows our disclosure score, so printing every figure beats hiding one tier.
Transparency scorePricing transparency 60%User satisfaction 40%
Not a transcription budget, a storage budget: Pro sells unlimited transcription and then caps what you keep at eight thousand minutes a user. Sales and recruiting teams living in back-to-back calls get the most out of it. Enterprise publishes an annual figure only.
Critical gapHIPAA compliance sits behind the Enterprise tier, and lower plans carry more limited data privacy controls.
Plan table and expert take
Fireflies.ai: expert take
Unlimited transcription on the $18 Pro plan comes with a storage ceiling of eight thousand minutes a user, so the limit moved from what you record to what you keep. Enterprise publishes an annual rate of $39 and no month-to-month figure at all.
Where Fireflies.ai holds up
- Generous free plan with unlimited transcription & 800 mins storage
- Integrates with 40+ apps including most CRMs and dialers
- AI-powered Super Summaries provide actionable meeting notes
- Customizable topic trackers to monitor specific keywords
- Supports transcription in over 60 languages
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 745 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2019Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Pro | $18 | $10 |
| Business | $29 | $19 |
| Enterprise | Not published | $39 |
Past a deck or two a month, when the per-prompt ceiling starts to bite: cards per prompt run from ten on Free to seventy-five at the top, with credits as the second meter. Team tiers are annual only and carry seat minimums, two on Team and ten on Business.
Critical gapThe platform exhibits poor subscription cancellation flows and inconsistent user-interface navigation.
Plan table and expert take
Gamma: expert take
The four hundred free credits arrive once at signup, not every month, which makes the free tier a trial without a clock. Paid credits carry over on the $25 Pro plan but stop accumulating at eight thousand, and the team tiers are annual only.
Where Gamma holds up
- Generates entire, editable decks from a single prompt
- Embeds interactive web content like GIFs, videos, and apps
- Built-in analytics to track slide engagement and views
- Generous free plan with 400 one-time AI credits
- Responsive design works on any device, unlike slides
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 23 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2020Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Plus | $12 | $9.40 |
| Pro | $25 | $20 |
| Ultra | $100 | $90 |
| Team | Not published | $20 |
| Business | Not published | $40 |
Anyone whose research day runs past a few deep queries, since the Pro tier meters Research at twenty a day and Labs at fifty a month rather than counting searches. Pro also folds in a monthly allowance of API credits, which is a second product paid for inside a subscription.
Critical gapThe engine remains susceptible to hallucinations during complex, multi-step technical analysis.
Plan table and expert take
Perplexity AI: expert take
The $20 Pro plan and the $200 Max plan are the whole consumer ladder, with nothing between them. Verified students pay $10 on Education Pro for the same feature set, so the lowest published rate is one most buyers cannot claim.
Where Perplexity AI holds up
- Answers are grounded in a live web search with inline source citations, so every claim is traceable
- Runs on Perplexity's own Sonar models, with Pro adding frontier options like GPT-5.x, Claude Opus 4.8, and Gemini 3.1 Pro
- Pro search asks clarifying questions and queries multiple sources before it answers, which suits deeper research
- Collections keep months of research organized and queryable per topic instead of scattered across tabs
- File analysis lets you upload PDFs and spreadsheets and cross-check them against live web sources in one query
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 277 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2022Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Pro | $20 | $16.67 |
| Max | $200 | $166.67 |
| Education Pro | $10 | Not published |
| Enterprise Pro | $40 | $33.33 |
| Enterprise Max | $325 | $270.83 |
| Education/NPO Enterprise | $30 | Not published |
No longer a chat subscription, a pair of API meters: search billed per thousand calls, page extraction billed per thousand pages. It suits a build with a budget line rather than a browser tab, and there is no consumer tier left to fall back to.
Critical gapThe iOS application displays intermittent instability and inconsistent web search result accuracy.
Plan table and expert take
You.com: expert take
There is no subscription left to buy. You.com now meters two endpoints, the Search API at $5 per thousand calls and the Contents API at $1 per thousand pages. The product moved out of its own market into infrastructure billing.
Where You.com holds up
- One interface across Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro, so you compare models on the same query instead of paying three vendors
- Genius mode chains multiple reasoning passes for complex, multi-step questions rather than a single answer
- Research mode ties citations to each model output as it writes, so sources are inline, not bolted on afterward
- Custom Search restricts queries to domains you approve, which keeps an internal knowledge base out of the open web
- No ads on any tier, so results are ranked for relevance instead of what someone paid to surface
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 20 reviewsCapterra 4.3Founded 2020Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Search API | $5 / 1k calls | Not published |
| Contents API | $1 / 1k pages | Not published |
When the work happens in a browser tab and reach matters more than depth in any one job. Two currencies run inside the same subscription: basic model queries, five thousand monthly on Pro, and a far smaller pool of advanced ones alongside them.
Plan table and expert take
Monica: expert take
One subscription runs two currencies: basic model queries and a separate pool for advanced ones, five thousand and two hundred a month on the $9.90 Pro plan. The upper tiers sell both as unlimited, which is where the second pool stops being the constraint.
Where Monica holds up
- Multi-model access to Claude 4.5 Haiku, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, and GPT-5.4 mini from one sidebar, with GPT-5.5 on Ultra
- Context-aware AI actions on any selected text or image, anywhere you browse, behind a single hotkey
- One-click summaries of articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos without leaving the page
- Pro at $9.90/mo comes in under a single mainstream assistant subscription, so consolidating usually costs less than the tools it replaces
- Inline rewrite, tone, and translation drop straight into Gmail, Notion, or any web text box
4.4CE scoreG2 4.3 · 30 reviewsFounded 2023Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Pro | $9.90 | $8.25 |
| Max | $24.90 | $16.68 |
| Ultra | $99.90 | $82.90 |
Once literature reviews become a weekly job rather than an occasional one, because deep reviews are the only quota that moves: fifteen of them monthly on Pro, fifty on Teams, two hundred on the Deep Plan. Everything else on every tier is sold as unlimited.
Critical gapThe interface suffers from high interaction latency during complex, multi-step search workflows.
Plan table and expert take
Consensus: expert take
Everything here is sold as unlimited except the one thing worth counting. Deep reviews run fifteen a month on the Pro Subscription at $15 and two hundred on the Deep Plan at $65, and that quota is most of what separates the tiers.
Where Consensus holds up
- Synthesizes findings across many papers into one answer instead of leaving you to read hundreds of abstracts
- The Consensus Meter shows how much of the literature agrees, disagrees, or is divided on a claim at a glance
- Claim extraction isolates specific testable assertions from papers, so you can judge each one on its own
- Study-detail panels surface sample sizes, effect sizes, and methodology flags without opening every PDF
- Unlimited paper searches even on the free tier, with citation export in the formats academic writing actually needs
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 1,626 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2022Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free Tier | Free | Free |
| Pro Subscription | $15 | $10 |
| Deep Plan | $65 | $45 |
| Teams | $30 | $20 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Teams already pushing real automation volume rather than testing it, since the task slider only moves Pro and Team: Basic stays fixed at a thousand agent tasks whatever you drag. The step from Pro to Team is mostly headcount, one user against twenty-five, and AI workers are billed per worker on top.
Critical gapWith no free tier and a $125 floor, the platform is heavy for small teams running light workflows.
Plan table and expert take
Zams: expert take
A volume slider sets the price on Pro and Team, and it does not touch Basic at all: that tier stays at $125 a month for a thousand agent tasks however far you drag it. AI workers are billed per worker beside the platform fee.
Where Zams holds up
- Highly rated (4.6/5 on G2)
- 12 key features including AI Workers and agent-task automation
- Multiple pricing tiers (4 plans) to match different needs
- API access for custom integrations
- AI-powered features built in
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 70 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2019Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $125 | $100 |
| Pro | $495 | $333 |
| Team | $585 | $390 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
| AI Worker: Evan (Meeting Intelligence) | $50 | Not published |
Not the add-on, the tier: full AI access and agents sit on Business, while Plus buys basic writing help and stops there. It earns the money once the workspace already holds the documents you want answered from, and custom agents run against a separate pool of credits sold beside the seat.
Critical gapThe platform experiences significant latency when rendering large tables and complex databases.
Plan table and expert take
Notion AI: expert take
Notion bills a seat and then bills the AI separately. Agents and full access sit on Business at $24 a user, while Plus at $12 carries basic writing help only, and custom agents draw on a credit balance sold on top of whichever seat you hold.
Where Notion AI holds up
- AI works inline across your existing docs and databases, so there is no copy-paste into a separate tool
- Ask Notion turns your whole workspace into a searchable knowledge base you can question in plain language
- Auto-fill completes database properties from page content, and meeting notes turn into summaries and action items instantly
- Business bundles multi-model access to GPT-5.x, Claude Sonnet 5, and Gemini 3.1 into the workspace you already use
- Flat per-seat pricing for unlimited use, so heavy users are not metered on ordinary AI actions
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 11,845 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2023Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Plus | $12 | $10 |
| Business | $24 | $20 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Past the point where screening papers by hand stops being realistic. Automated reports and extraction columns are the meter, and the screening ceiling runs from five thousand papers on Pro to forty thousand at Enterprise. Academic buyers see a different price list from industry ones.
Critical gapElicit lacks the verification accuracy required for formal meta-research.
Plan table and expert take
Elicit: expert take
The $75 Pro plan drops to $49 a month on annual billing, and Scale moves from $279 to $169. Either price buys a quota of automated reports and extraction columns, and academic buyers see a separate price list from industry ones.
Where Elicit holds up
- Synthesizes direct answers from the top 8 papers
- Extracts structured data into customizable columns
- Matches concepts across papers, beyond keyword search
- Automates systematic review workflows like PICO
- Upload and analyze your own local PDF library
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 45 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2021Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | Free |
| Pro | $75 | $49 |
| Scale | $279 | $169 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Well-defined inbox and scheduling work, not open-ended agent building: the tiers sell standard usage, three times that and seven times that, without naming the unit anywhere. Mailboxes are the only countable thing across the tiers, two on Plus rising to five on Max.
Critical gapThe usage ladder never names its unit, so Pro's 3x and Max's 7x multiply a "standard usage" number no plan states.
Plan table and expert take
Lindy: expert take
The tiers are sold as standard usage, three times that and seven times that, and the unit is never named on the page. A budget cannot be built from that ladder; mailboxes, two on Plus rising to five on Max, are the only countable thing.
Where Lindy holds up
- AI phone agent handles inbound/outbound calls and scheduling
- Creates complex, multi-step workflows from natural language prompts
- Proactively manages and triages your email inbox automatically
- Builds custom 'Lindies' for specific roles like recruiter or SDR
- Integrates deeply with Google Calendar for intelligent scheduling
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 171 reviewsFounded 2023Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Plus | $49.99 | Not published |
| Pro | $99.99 | Not published |
| Max | $199.99 | Not published |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Teams that need slides to stay on brand without a designer policing them, since Pro is sold to individual users and collaboration begins on Team. The one-off presentation purchase costs exactly a month of Pro, so the published grid marks the point where buying once stops paying.
Critical gapThe automated layout engine prevents custom manual adjustments to slide elements and structural spacing.
Plan table and expert take
Beautiful.ai: expert take
The $45 Single Presentation buys one deck and costs exactly what a month of Pro costs, so the price list marks its own break-even point. Pro is sold to individual users, and anything collaborative starts on Team, which is the tier that carries an annual rate.
Where Beautiful.ai holds up
- Smart Templates auto-adapt layouts to new content
- Enforces brand consistency across all slides
- Vast library of pre-designed slides and icons
- Generative AI creates first drafts from a text prompt
- Intuitive interface for non-designers
4.5CE scoreG2 4.4 · 192 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2016Verified August 5, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | $45 | $12 |
| Team | $50 | $40 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
| Single Presentation | $45 | Not published |
Meetings that run long, not just often, because two ceilings apply at once: a monthly minute pool and a cap on any one conversation, thirty minutes on Basic and four hours on Business. Even the unlimited transcription on Business still meters imported files.
Critical gapThe system demonstrates poor multi-speaker transcription accuracy and inaccurate AI usage quota reporting.
Plan table and expert take
Otter.ai: expert take
Two meters run at once: a monthly minute pool and a ceiling on any single conversation, thirty minutes on Basic and four hours on Business. Annual billing more than halves the rate, taking Pro from $16.99 to $8.33.
Where Otter.ai holds up
- OtterPilot automatically joins, records, and transcribes calendar meetings
- Generates summaries, chapters, and action items with AI Chat
- Speaker identification with custom vocabulary for improved accuracy
- Generous free tier with 300 monthly transcription minutes
- Integrates directly with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams
4.3CE scoreG2 4.2 · 484 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2016Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | Free |
| Pro | $16.99 | $8.33 |
| Business | $24 | $19.99 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Mem, not the Notion add-on the slug suggests: a standalone note app that stops its free plan at twenty-five notes, twenty-five chat messages and twenty-five PDF pages a month. One paid tier sits above that, and the team tier is quoted rather than listed.
Critical gapReported lack of responsive technical support and stagnant development cycles create significant operational risk for professional users.
Plan table and expert take
Mem AI: expert take
The $12 Mem Pro tier is the only published number on the ladder. The free plan stops at twenty-five notes, twenty-five chat messages and twenty-five PDF pages a month, and the team tier is quoted rather than listed.
Where Mem AI holds up
- Automatically links related notes without manual tagging
- Smart Search understands natural language queries
- Mem Chat acts as a personal AI assistant for your notes
- Surfaces relevant past knowledge contextually as you type
- Integrates with SMS, WhatsApp, and Telegram for quick capture
4.4CE scoreCapterra 4.3Founded 2020Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Mem | Free | Free |
| Mem Pro | $12 | Not published |
| Mem Teams | Contact sales | |
Anyone running one long autonomous job rather than many short ones, because credits arrive in two pools: a monthly allowance and three hundred that refresh daily. A single large task drains the daily pool early, which makes the monthly allowance the one that decides what you can attempt.
Plan table and expert take
Manus AI: expert take
Credits arrive in two pools, a monthly allowance and three hundred that refresh daily, and one large task drains the daily pool long before the month ends. Concurrency is capped at twenty tasks on every paid tier, so paying more buys credits rather than throughput.
Where Manus AI holds up
- Genuinely autonomous multi-step execution: give it a goal and it works the whole task rather than answering one query
- Handles real research and analysis end to end, browsing, extracting, and synthesizing into a structured deliverable
- Can interact with websites and apps, filling forms and navigating rather than just generating text
- Spins up parallel sub-agents for jobs like competitive analysis, running several threads at once and merging the results
- Free tier with 300 daily refresh credits lets you test the agent on real tasks before paying
2.8CE scoreG2 2.7 · 7 reviewsFounded 2024Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Standard | $20 | $17 |
| Customizable | $40 | $34 |
| Extended | $200 | $167 |
| Team | $20 | $16.60 |
Three records under the line stand outside the ranking. DataRobot is an enterprise machine-learning platform that quotes each deployment privately, with no figure on either tier. Tome and Limitless are no longer sold at all, and their grids survive only as a record of what they once charged.
An enterprise machine-learning platform, not a personal tool, and priced like one: neither tier shows a figure, and the marketplace listing routes to private offers. It belongs in a procurement cycle, not in a subscription decision.
Critical gapThe platform produces model overfitting during automated blueprint generation cycles.
Plan table and expert take
DataRobot: expert take
Neither tier carries a figure, and the marketplace entry is a routing placeholder rather than a price. What is being sold is a yearly enterprise agreement sized to deployment and usage, which puts this in a procurement cycle rather than in a subscription decision.
Where DataRobot holds up
- Strong user ratings (4.3/5)
- 12 key features including AutoML and Feature engineering
- Growing user base (100K+)
- AI-powered features built in
4.4CE scoreG2 4.3 · 27 reviewsCapterra 4.3Founded 2012Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
| Pricing 5.0 (Classic MLOps) | Contact sales | |
A price record, not a product. Tome closed its presentation tool and turned the company into sales software, and decks that were never exported went with it. What is left in the table is a price history.
Plan table and expert take
Tome: expert take
Tome shut the presentation product down and turned the company into sales software. Decks nobody exported before the cutoff were deleted, the domain no longer resolves, and the prices recorded here describe something that cannot be bought.
Where Tome holds up
- Generated an entire narrative presentation from a single prompt, back when the product existed
- Built for a vertical, mobile-first format, which read better on a phone than a standard 16:9 deck
- Interactive web embeds from Figma, YouTube, and Loom appeared inline inside the story rather than as flat screenshots
- Custom domains made a shared Tome feel like a landing page or investor site instead of a generic doc
- Viewer analytics showed which pages held attention and where people dropped off
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 180 reviewsCapterra 4.4Founded 2021Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Tome Plus | Contact sales | |
| Tome Exclusive | Contact sales | |
Nothing on this row is currently for sale. New pendants stopped shipping once the acquisition closed, and existing subscriptions had their fees waived rather than renewed. The grid is historical, kept so anyone still hunting for the pendant learns what happened to it.
Plan table and expert take
Limitless: expert take
New pendants stopped shipping once the acquisition closed, and existing subscriptions had their fees waived instead of renewed, so nothing on this grid is a live offer. The plans below are a record, not a price anyone can pay.
Where Limitless holds up
- Pendant captures IRL conversations other apps miss
- On-device processing & redaction for enhanced privacy
- Automatically transcribes and summarizes meetings
- Surfaces relevant past conversations contextually
- Confidant feature lets you query your own memory
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 10 reviewsFounded 2023Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Unlimited | Free | Free |
04 / 07
Compare any two productivity tools: plans, limits and our score
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What the records say
Gamma starts cheaper: $12 / seat against $18 from Fireflies.ai, $6 apart at the door.
For 6 seats, Gamma bills $72 / mo and Fireflies.ai bills $108 / mo, $36 / mo between them.
Fireflies.ai carries 4 of the 5 capability columns on the record; Gamma shows 3.
Users rate them level: 4.7 on G2 apiece.
Both run a free tier, so either can be tried before the bill starts.
Both publish every tier they sell.
Pick Fireflies.ai for: Not a transcription budget, a storage budget: Pro sells unlimited transcription and then caps what you keep at eight thousand minutes a user.
Pick Gamma for: Past a deck or two a month, when the per-prompt ceiling starts to bite: cards per prompt run from ten on Free to seventy-five at the top, with credits as the second meter.
Fireflies.ai
CE 94 · G2 4.7Published plans, US$/mo
FreeFree
Pro$18
EnterpriseNot published
Team of 6$108 / mo
Verified July 16, 2026
Gamma
CE 94 · G2 4.7Published plans, US$/mo
FreeFree
Pro$25
BusinessNot published
Team of 6$72 / mo
Verified July 16, 2026
Both price lists on the category axis
Fireflies.ai
Gamma
Where they differ
Only Fireflies.ai has on the record
- Web access
- Automation
Only Gamma has on the record
- Content gen
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AI productivity questions: cheapest for one user, student pricing, APIs
Which AI productivity tool is cheapest if you are buying for yourself?
Monica's Pro plan at $9.90 is the lowest published paid rate here, and a verified student pays $10 on Perplexity's Education Pro. Neither figure means much alone: one buys a browser assistant, the other an answer engine, and those are different jobs. A free tier covers 10 of these, and that is usually the cheaper first move.
Which prices on this page can you honestly compare?
The ones inside the same group. Answer engines compare with answer engines, notetakers with notetakers, because within a group the meter counts the same thing the same way. Across groups it falls apart: an agent platform's monthly figure covers task volume, a notetaker's covers minutes and storage, and sorting those two by entry price ranks nothing.
Why are meeting notetakers so cheap next to research tools?
A transcript is a commodity and a literature review is not. Otter's Pro plan runs $16.99 and Fireflies charges $18 for its Pro tier, both selling machine time on audio. Elicit asks $75 for Pro and Consensus tops out on its Deep Plan at $65, and what those buy is a quota of automated reports and deep reviews, work a person would otherwise do by hand.
Why does a personal subscription get expensive the moment a team needs it?
Because most of these price a person, not an account. The number on the card is one seat, and it multiplies with the team. A few bill the account instead, and Lindy's Plus plan holds at $49.99 a month whatever the headcount. That is why a cheap seat overtakes a flat fee fast: Notion's Plus at $12 a user passes the Lindy figure by the fifth person.
Who pays less than the public price on these tools?
Students and academics, mostly, and the cut is not cosmetic. Perplexity sells Education Pro at $10 against $20 on Pro, gated behind academic verification. Elicit runs a separate academic price list beside its industry one. Consensus discounts for students and for clinicians with a valid identifier. The public number is a default, not the only rate.
Why is 'unlimited' never quite unlimited on these plans?
The limit moves rather than disappears. Fireflies sells unlimited transcription on Pro and then caps storage at eight thousand minutes a user. Otter's unlimited Business transcription still meters imported files. Consensus makes everything unlimited except deep reviews, the one thing worth counting. Read the word as a claim about one meter, with a second meter usually running underneath it.
Perplexity or Elicit: which one are you actually shopping for?
Different jobs behind a similar surface. Perplexity answers questions from live web sources and sells a consumer subscription, Pro at $20, capping deep research daily instead of capping searches. Elicit works over academic papers and sells report and extraction quotas, from $75 on Pro. If what you want out is a cited paragraph, take the first; if it is a screened table of studies, the second.
Otter or Fireflies: which bill grows faster in a busy month?
Otter's, if the calls run long. It meters a monthly minute pool alongside a ceiling on each individual call, so one four-hour workshop can press against both. Fireflies sells unlimited transcription on its Pro tier and moves the constraint to storage, eight thousand minutes a user. One counts what you record, the other counts what you keep.
Does DataRobot belong on a list with notetakers?
Not really, and its pricing is the tell. It is an enterprise machine-learning platform priced per deployment by private quote, with nothing published on either tier and a marketplace listing that routes to private offers. The label collects software that automates knowledge work, and software you can only reach through procurement is a different kind of decision.
Why is an agent's monthly bill so hard to predict?
The unit is either invisible or doubled. Lindy sells standard usage, three times that and seven times that, and never states what usage is. Manus runs two credit pools at once, a monthly allowance and a daily refresh. Zams meters agent tasks against a volume slider. None of that lets you multiply a rate by the work you plan to do.
Can one tool cover research, meetings, slides and inbox triage?
One tool can touch all four. None of them price all four. The browser assistants come closest by sitting over whatever page is open, and they trade depth for reach. Everything else here is built for a single meter, and a product that counts minutes has no way to count slide credits. Budget for two subscriptions, not one.
What becomes of your subscription when one of these is taken off the market?
It varies, and neither case here was graceful. Limitless stopped selling pendants once its acquisition closed and waived fees for existing customers instead of keeping the plans alive. Tome closed its presentation product entirely, and decks nobody exported before the cutoff were deleted. On a market this young, an export path is worth more than a discount.
Is workspace AI worth paying for when a browser assistant is already on the bill?
They answer from different places. Notion AI reasons over the documents and databases already inside your workspace, and full access sits on the Business tier at $24 a user. A browser assistant reads whatever page is open and knows nothing about your files. If the answers you need live in your own content, the workspace tier is the one earning its money.
The AI productivity bill that arrives after the subscription
The subscription is rarely the whole invoice on this page. Notion sells a seat and then meters AI credits against it. Zams charges for the platform and then charges again per AI worker. Consensus prices its search API per request, apart from any tier, and Perplexity's API bills apart from the subscription that quietly includes a little of it.
None of that shows on the tier you were comparing. The habit worth keeping is to ask what a plan excludes before asking what it costs, because on the metered half of this market the second number is the one that moves.
Academic and student pricing on AI productivity tools
A price on this shelf sometimes depends on who is asking rather than on what is being sold. The gate is a document, not a promo code: an academic email address, a student verification service, a clinician's registry number. Beautiful.ai hands students a full free year on that basis, and Otter discounts a seat for anyone on an .edu address.
Two things follow. A figure you cannot qualify for is not your price, so several of the discounts here are noise to a commercial buyer. And a tool that reads as expensive at list can be one of the cheaper options for a university, which makes the published number a starting point for the comparison rather than the end of it.
The verdict on AI productivity toolsSigned review · Updated
Name the job before you look at a price. What sits behind this label is five separate trades, and no arithmetic carries a figure from one of them to the next. A research quota, an hour of audio and an agent run are not the same purchase.
Then notice who is doing the asking. The same software carries one rate for a university and another for a company, and proof of who you are can halve a bill outright. Two rows on this page are no longer sold to anyone, which is the other lesson of the shelf: it buries products quickly. The score has nothing to say about which of the five jobs is yours. It measures whether a vendor states what the job it does will cost.
MethodWe read 62 plans across seventeen vendors, sorted them into their five sub-markets and dated every figure .
DisclosureCollection is tool-assisted; every verdict is written and signed by a human analyst.
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Not sure which? Answer one, take a shortlist.Pick the line that sounds like your team. Each one opens the vendor built for it.
Not a transcription budget, a storage budget: Pro sells unlimited transcription and then caps what you keep at eight thousand minutes a userFireflies.aiPast a deck or two a month, when the per-prompt ceiling starts to bite: cards per prompt run from ten on Free to seventy-five at the top, with credits as the second meterGammaAnyone whose research day runs past a few deep queries, since the Pro tier meters Research at twenty a day and Labs at fifty a month rather than counting searchesPerplexity AINo longer a chat subscription, a pair of API meters: search billed per thousand calls, page extraction billed per thousand pagesYou.comWhen the work happens in a browser tab and reach matters more than depth in any one jobMonicaOnce literature reviews become a weekly job rather than an occasional one, because deep reviews are the only quota that moves: fifteen of them monthly on Pro, fifty on Teams, two hundred on the Deep PlanConsensusStill weighing it? Answer 5 questions, take a shortlist.
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How this review is made. Prices are read from vendor pricing pages and re-checked on the dates shown against each product. Condition columns reflect the feature set recorded on the vendor’s own pages on that date. ComparEdge sells no AI productivity tools and takes no vendor payment for placement. Where a vendor publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating. Ranking is by transparency score: pricing transparency 60%, user satisfaction 40%. What a product can do is shown in the condition columns and carries no weight in the number.