The best AI agents tools
Top picks
ChatGPT
Answers questions, writes, researches, analyses and codes via web and desktop apps with built-in search and grounding.
Best for: Founders and teams who want one general-purpose AI assistant for writing, research, analysis and coding, from a casual user to a daily heavy user.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $8/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Botpress
Builds AI agents that automate customer support conversations using a visual interface and knowledge base.
Best for: Support teams and technical builders at SaaS, retail and fintech companies that want an AI agent to resolve tickets across webchat and messaging channels, working alongside an existing helpdesk.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $150/mo
- MCP server
- No
- API
- Yes
Dust
Builds custom AI agents grounded in your company data and all connected business tools.
Best for: Teams of any size that want custom AI agents grounded in their own tools and documents, with permissions and audit logs, without writing code.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From €24/mo
- MCP server
- No
- API
- Yes
Relevance AI
Builds and deploys AI agents and multi-agent workflows for automating business tasks at scale.
Best for: Go-to-market and operations teams that want to build their own AI agents for research, outreach and follow-up work, and need triggers, integrations and oversight without writing a full application.
- Free plan
- No
- Price
- From $19/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Claude
Answers questions, writes, researches, analyses and codes via web and desktop apps with built-in search and grounding.
Best for: Founders and small teams who want an AI assistant for long documents, writing, research, analysis and coding, with connectors to the tools they already use.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $16.67/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
The top 4 side by side
| 11 points compared | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $8/mo | $150/mo | €24/mo | $19/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Document/source grounding | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-agent workflows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| No-code builder | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Team workspaces | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image generation | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Self-hostable | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Web search with citations | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
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All AI agents tools
- Answers questions, writes, researches, analyses and codes via web and desktop apps with built-in search and grounding.
- Builds AI agents that automate customer support conversations using a visual interface and knowledge base.
- Builds and deploys AI agents and multi-agent workflows for automating business tasks at scale.
- Answers questions, writes, researches, analyses and codes via web and desktop apps with built-in search and grounding.
- Create AI agents that carry out business tasks across thousands of connected applications automatically.
- Google's AI model API for developers building applications with text, code, image and video generation.
- Build and deploy AI agents for Teams, SharePoint, and custom websites using a low-code designer.
- Builds AI agents that automate recurring work across email, calendar, CRM and Slack without code.
One platform over ERP, CRM and 5000+ systems: Chat with your data, Dashboards, Agents, Apps (build your own app by conversation), a data warehouse on your ERP, and the 3D Universe/Multiverse view. Self-service seats are waitlist-only; Pro includes onboarding and consultancy. Source: https://www.swoep.ai/ (read 2026-09-29).
How we rank
Every tool in a category is ranked by the same rule, worked out from the data we hold, not by who pays us. In order:
- How many of the category's shared features it has.
- Whether there is a free plan to start on.
- How open it is to AI: an API and an MCP server.
- Whether its pricing is public.
- Name, A to Z, when all else is equal.
When we add a tool or learn more about one, the ranking updates by itself.