Best AI Productivity Tools Under $30/mo

Both ways of paying for Plus fit here, yearly or month to month, so you can try it for a term without a yearly commitment. Plus lifts the free generation limits, keeps unlimited output history and unlocks the 50+ student tools and learning insights. Districts move to Enterprise for SSO, LMS and SIS integration and District Alignment, which grounds every tool in their own curriculum documents. Choose it over Diffit when you want student-facing tools, not only printed resources.

• +It has more than 80 AI teacher tools covering lesson plans, quizzes, slides, rubrics and differentiated materials.
• +Class Writing Feedback sends AI-generated feedback on written assignments in batches, based on your rubric, and is on every plan.
• −The free plan has standard generation limits, and Plus is needed to remove the generation cap.

Spending more buys nothing extra from Curipod, since its paid plans are school and district quotes sized to student count. The free plan already runs weekly writing lessons for unlimited students with instant feedback. Schools pay for scoring against their own rubric, reports, PDF download, text to speech, Clever and ClassLink sign-in, and ELA curriculum alignment. Choose it over MagicSchool when live writing practice, not a set of generators, is the goal.

• +Students get feedback the moment they submit, one exchange at a time, with no student AI chatbot.
• +The free plan allows unlimited student writers, and students need no account.
• −Rubric scoring, reports, PDF download, text to speech and single sign-on need a school plan.

Pro and Premium both land under this price, billed annually as Edcafe shows them. Pro adds slides with PowerPoint export, AI images, text to speech, file uploads as AI knowledge and 20 graders. Premium goes further with unlimited graders, 1,000 participants per activity, links to Canvas, Moodle and Blackboard, and a SOC 2 Type 2 report for schools. Choose Premium over MagicSchool Plus when you need LMS links on a personal budget.

• +The Free plan has no time limit and gives 100 AI generations a month, 3 chatbots and 3 assignment graders.
• +One source can become a quiz, lesson plan, slide deck, flashcards and a reading activity, including quizzes from YouTube videos.
• −The slides generator, AI images, text to speech and file uploads are not on the Free plan.

Premium for one teacher buys what Basic holds back: exports to Google Docs, Slides and Forms, Canva and Microsoft, standards alignment, curriculum grounding, full history and posting to Google Classroom. Basic already rewrites texts to any reading level free. Schools buy a flat annual license priced by enrollment. Students need no logins. Choose it over Brisk Teaching when you want print-ready leveled packets rather than help inside the documents you already edit.

• +It rewrites a text to a reading level or language, and Chat can adjust the level, swap activities or translate the content.
• +It builds activities, unit tests, slides with speaker notes and lesson kits from text, a PDF, a URL or a video transcript.
• −Exports to Google, Canva and Microsoft, standards alignment, curriculum grounding and full history need a paid plan.

At $4.17 a month billed yearly, Eduaide Pro leaves most of this budget unspent. It adds AI images, document chat, lessons from YouTube transcripts, one-step revisions, differentiation and longer inputs to a free plan of 24 credits. Above it sits a quoted school plan with volume discounts. There are no student accounts, and your content does not train AI models. Choose it over Edcafe Pro when you want 120+ resource types such as graphic organizers and games.

• +It has more than 120 tools, including lesson and unit plan generators and an Assessment Builder for standards-aligned quizzes and tests.
• +The free plan gives 24 generation credits a month and does not ask for a credit card.
• −Differentiation, one-step revisions, YouTube transcripts, document chat and AI images need Pro.

Team is where Wrike's AI starts: AI Essentials is unlimited under fair use, alongside dashboards, Gantt charts and custom fields. Business adds AI Elite, with Copilot and AI Agents, for five to 200 users, and is annual only. Choose it over monday when you want AI writing without a credit pot, and over Asana, whose entry AI is capped at five requests per user a month.

• +AI Essentials, covering writing, form and rule generation and Board AI, is included free and unlimited under fair use on every paid plan starting at Team.
• +Wrike offers a public REST API and its own MCP server for connecting AI assistants.
• −Wrike Copilot and AI Agents are part of AI Elite, which only starts on the Business plan.

Two steps fit inside this price. Plus gives unlimited blocks for teams, uploads and 30-day version history, with AI still a limited trial. Business is where the full AI arrives, with the agent, meeting notes and cross-app search, plus SAML SSO and private team spaces. Choose Business over ClickUp when your team already lives in Notion docs, and expect no trial of Business.

• +Docs, wikis and project databases are included in Notion at no extra cost.
• +Guests never require a paid seat on any Notion plan.
• −Notion's full AI, including its agent, meeting notes and cross-app search, is included only from the Business plan.

Paid monday starts at three seats, and Basic gives 1,000 AI credits a month across three tools, with no guests or automations. Standard brings guests and 2,000 credits, and Pro 3,000 credits across six tools. Its AI, from Sidekick to the agents and meeting notetaker, is a paid-plan feature. Choose it over Asana for board views and workflows built from one request, and budget for the seat minimum.

• +The free plan is free forever for up to 2 seats, with up to 3 boards and 3 Docs.
• +Sidekick can create workflows, automations, dashboards and forms from a single request.
• −Paid plans require a minimum of 3 seats.

Starter makes boards unlimited and private, raises AI to 25 credits per member each month, with 500 MCP calls daily. Business, also inside this price, brings full Sidekicks and Flows, guests, SSO and 50 credits. Choose Business over Notion when a canvas is where you think and agents on the board matter, since Starter leaves the agents a limited trial.

• +Miro runs on web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, with a public REST API and its own MCP server for connecting boards to AI tools.
• +Docs, tables, timelines and Kanban-style boards are included on every plan, including Free.
• −Sidekicks and Flows are only a limited trial on Free and Starter, and included in full from Business.

Team costs $24 per seat a month, or $20 billed annually, and lifts the free plan's 500 AI credits per editor to 15,000 per paid user, with AI fields that generate and transform text across records. Gantt and timeline views start here too. Business at $54 per seat adds 20,000 credits and SAML SSO but sits above this page. Billing is per seat, so a three-person team pays for three. Choose it over ClickUp when the work is structured records, not task lists.

• +AI credits come with every plan: 500 per editor on Free, 15,000 per paid user on Team and 20,000 on Business.
• +Views include table, list, board, calendar, timeline and gantt, plus a Form view on all plans.
• −The Free plan is capped at 1,000 records per base, up to 5 editors and 100 automation runs a month.

Starter drops the two-user ceiling and adds Timeline and Gantt views, unlimited automations, forms, custom fields and AI Studio Basic with 50,000 credits a month. The AI itself is thin: five requests per user a month, up to 50 per account. Choose it over Wrike when more than two people share the project, and expect to buy it for the structure rather than the AI.

• +Asana's free Personal plan allows unlimited tasks and projects with unlimited storage (100MB per file) for up to 2 users.
• +Unlimited free guest seats let clients and contractors collaborate from the Starter plan without adding to the license count.
• −The Starter plan's AI allowance is capped at 5 requests per user a month, up to 50 per account.

• +The AI assistants come included on Pro and Business, with no separate AI add-on.
• +Todoist runs on the web, Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS.
• −There are no documents, forms or built-in timer, and Todoist Automations is a waitlist beta.

Pro includes ten users and unlimited AI apps, agents and automations, metered by a monthly credit allowance, with more than a dozen models on offer. Business removes seat limits and opens the REST API and single sign-on. Free was one user. SOC 2 and full GDPR compliance are still in progress. Choose it over Notion when a small team wants to build agents and apps from a prompt.

• +Pro and up include unlimited AI apps, agents and automations, metered by a monthly credit allowance.
• +Taskade gives access to more than a dozen models, including Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
• −SOC 2 Type II and full GDPR compliance are still in progress.

Pro adds 8,000 minutes of storage per seat and 20 AI credits for premium features, on top of a free plan whose transcription is already unlimited. It is a plan for people who record a lot and want the archive kept. Conversation analytics such as sentiment and team insights wait on Business, where credits rise to 30. Choose it over Read AI when volume and live transcripts matter more than coaching.

• +The free plan includes unlimited transcription and live transcription at no cost.
• +It does not use personal information to train its AI models and contractually prohibits its vendors from doing so.
• −AI credits for premium AI features stay capped at 20 per seat on the Pro plan, rising only on higher tiers.

History is the first thing Pro fixes: the free plan's 30-day cap goes and full automations open into apps such as Salesforce and HubSpot, while the core AI notes and Ask Circleback were already free. That makes it the plan to buy when notes need to feed other tools. Choose it over Fireflies.ai when you want bot-free capture and in-person recording together, with a trial available before you commit.

• +The Free plan already includes AI meeting notes, action items and Ask Circleback, its cross-meeting search assistant.
• +Circleback records in-person conversations through dedicated mobile and Apple Watch apps, not just online calls.
• −Meeting and recording history is capped at 30 days on the Free plan; unlimited history requires the Pro plan.

Team gives 10 AI notes and 10 recordings per user each month for up to 20 seats, where free allowed five for the life of the account, and adds meeting automations, project-management integrations and API access. Unlimited notes start on Business, with CRM integration, and Solo suits one person who wants unlimited. Choose it over Circleback when recording permissions and no AI training on your data decide it.

• +Botless Recording captures, transcribes and summarizes meetings without a bot joining the call, working across Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom and Slack huddles.
• +Fellow's AI is never trained on your data.
• −The free plan gives only 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings for the life of the account, not a monthly allowance.

Starter is the plan to buy here. It removes the free plan's 45-minute cap per meeting and 30-day history, and adds advanced AI notes, custom prompts, a personal API and ten file uploads a month. Yearly billing lowers the price. Business is where CRM sync with HubSpot and Salesforce, AI coaching, team metrics and advanced MCP sit. Choose it over Fathom when you need bot-free desktop capture and in-person meetings recorded.

• +The desktop app records meetings without a bot, and it is on the free plan.
• +Grain transcribes and writes AI notes in over 130 languages.
• −The free plan limits each meeting to 45 minutes and keeps 30 days of history.

Unlimited transcripts take the place of the free plan's five reports a month on Pro, which also adds 100 file upload credits plus integrations with Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence and Zapier. Video playback and highlights wait on Enterprise, which needs five licenses. Choose it over tl;dv when coaching metrics and search across meetings, email and chat matter, and try the seven-day trial first.

• +The free plan includes 5 meeting reports a month with unlimited enterprise search and no credit card required.
• +Training on your content is opt-in and off by default.
• −Read Assistant joins video calls only as a visible bot; there is no bot-free recording for them.

Free recording was already unlimited, so Pro's gain is on the AI side: unlimited AI notes in place of 10 meetings, plus custom templates, action item assignment, over 5,000 integrations and unlimited storage. Business adds premium transcription, multi-meeting insights and scheduled reports. Choose it over Fathom when EU data storage and a bot-free desktop mode matter, and when the extra cost goes on AI notes alone.

• +The free plan gives unlimited video recording and unlimited transcription across more than 30 languages.
• +tl;dv does not train its AI models on your calls, and data is processed and stored in the EU.
• −The free plan caps AI meeting notes at 10 meetings and Ask AI at 10 queries (5 single-meeting, 5 multi-meeting), and keeps free data for up to 3 months.

Premium adds advanced call summaries, AI-written action items, a conversational assistant and a custom meeting bot to a free plan that already records and transcribes without limit. Team adds search across calls and shared playlists, with a two-user minimum. Choose it over Otter.ai when you want stronger summaries of video calls and are happy to opt out of training in settings.

• +The free plan includes unlimited recordings and transcriptions, plus clips, playlists and search across calls, at no cost.
• +A beta bot-free recording mode on Mac works alongside the standard bot that joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.
• −A live transcript during the call comes only with the beta bot-free mode on Mac; with the bot, notes arrive after the call, and in-person recording needs an iPhone.

Pro is where Notta becomes practical: 1,800 transcription minutes a month, recordings of up to five hours instead of three minutes, 100 file uploads and 100 AI summaries. Yearly billing cuts the price sharply. Business also fits this budget and removes the minute cap, adding video recording, a team workspace and CRM sync. Choose it over Otter.ai when your meetings run in many languages and you want a bot-free desktop option.

• +Notta Desktop records meetings on Mac and Windows without a bot joining the call.
• +Live transcription covers 58 languages.
• −The free plan caps each recording at 3 minutes.

Basic removes the free plan's five-meeting ceiling, giving unlimited meetings and storage, audio only, with webhook access and MCP integration. Video, unlimited recording length and custom note templates need Pro, and CRM sync waits on Business. You pay only for users who actually record a meeting. Choose it over Jamie when more than 100 languages and EU storage as an option matter.

• +The free plan never expires and gives 5 meetings for the life of the account.
• +Bluedot only charges for users who actually record a meeting, not every seat on the account.
• −The free plan is capped at 5 meetings for the life of the account, not renewed monthly.

Pro raises Starter's 300 monthly minutes to 1,200, with summaries, templates and Ask Plaud search across recordings, and yearly billing roughly halves it. Unlimited, which also fits here, allows up to 24 hours a day. Budget for hardware too, since recording in person takes a Plaud device, from $159. Plaud keeps audio only and trains on your data only if you opt in. Choose it over Notta when most conversations happen face to face.

• +Plaud Desktop captures Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams audio without a bot joining the call.
• +Transcription covers more than 112 languages.
• −Recording in-person meetings needs a Plaud device, which is sold separately from the membership plans.

Business drops the free plan's 30-day history window and adds advanced AI models, integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier, and API access, though AI chat, templates and folders were free already. Choose it over Otter.ai when you want notes built from your own typing with no bot on the call and no audio or video stored.

• +Granola never adds a bot to your call; it records straight from your computer's own microphone and meeting audio.
• +AI chat within and across meetings, plus customized note templates, are included from the free Basic plan.
• −The free Basic plan only keeps 30 days of meeting history; viewing anything older requires upgrading to Business.

There is no free plan, so Startup is the way in: unlimited real-time transcription, AI summary notes and recording storage, with bot or bot-free capture and CRM sync, for up to 25 paid seats. Organization adds custom notes and a group scheduler, while Conversation Intelligence is a separate add-on. Free Viewer seats can watch but not record. Choose it over Fathom when a sales team wants coaching tools.

• +Startup, the cheapest paid plan, includes unlimited real-time transcription, unlimited AI summary notes and unlimited recording storage.
• +Bot-less native recording is available alongside the standard meeting bot.
• −There is no free plan that records meetings, only a 14-day trial.

Plus doubles the free plan's 10 AI notes to 20 meetings a month, lifts the meeting limit from 30 minutes to two hours and adds three custom templates. Pro makes meetings unlimited with five-hour sessions and MCP for AI tools. It records audio only, and its SOC 2 audit is still in progress. Choose it over Otter.ai when European hosting and no training matter more than volume.

• +The free plan works forever and includes in-person meeting capture in more than 80 languages.
• +Jamie runs on your device, so no bot joins the call for online or in-person meetings.
• −The free plan allows only 10 AI notes a month, and Plus, the cheapest paid plan, raises that to just 20.

Only a seven-day trial stands in for a free plan here, with unlimited transcription, recording and AI notes, so Core is the way in: unlimited AI note taking, noise cancellation, a mobile app, 10 GB of storage and an hour a day of accent conversion. Advanced makes accent conversion unlimited and adds Salesforce integration and 60 GB. Choose it over Granola when you want audio and video kept and noise removed at the source.

• +Krisp works directly at the audio level on your device, so no bot needs to join the call by default.
• +Krisp never uses your meeting data to train its AI models.
• −There is no permanent free plan; the only no-cost option is a 7-day trial.

Pro replaces the free plan's 300 monthly minutes and three lifetime imports with 1,200 in-app recording minutes and meetings of up to 90 minutes. Business removes meeting limits, extends meetings to four hours and brings CRM sync. Recordings still train Otter's models, with no opt-out offered. Choose it over Fathom only when an Android app and live transcripts matter more than where your data goes.

• +The free Basic plan runs forever and includes live transcription and AI Chat across meetings.
• +Meetings can be captured with a bot that auto-joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, or without one through desktop and mobile apps, including in-person conversations.
• −Recordings and transcripts are automatically de-identified and used to train Otter's models, with no opt-out.

A trial limited to one meeting hour stands in for a free plan, so Basic is the entry: one user, unlimited meetings, notes and summaries, audio only, with up to five hours of uploads and a year of history. Video, custom templates and multi-meeting chat need Pro, which also caps a team at 40 users. Choose it over Avoma when you work alone and want in-person capture through a mobile recorder.

• +Sembly is SOC 2 Type II certified.
• +Meetings can be captured in person too, through the mobile app's audio recorder or by uploading MP3, WAV or MP4 files.
• −There is no free plan, only a Free Trial limited to 1 meeting hour total.

Pro lifts the free plan's 10 monthly transcripts to unlimited and AI credits from five to ten, which is still a cap. Unlimited credits start on Team, for one to twenty users. It stays a browser extension with no video recording, and data stays in the United States. Choose it over Otter.ai when you want a bot-free transcript with no training on your meetings, and pay only if you need more transcripts.

• +The Free plan is free forever for one user, with no credit card required.
• +Tactiq records without a meeting bot, joining as a browser extension or native Mac app instead.
• −AI credits stay capped at 10 a month on the Pro plan; they only become unlimited from the Team plan up.

Team lifts the free plan's 5 daily and 15 monthly credits to 50 a month with no daily limit, adds credit rollover and unlimited seats on one shared pool, and removes the Supernormal badge. Business adds SSO and audit logs. It keeps no audio or video recording, and transcription covers seven languages. Choose it over Granola when several people should draw on one credit pool.

• +The Free plan is free forever and includes the bot-free meeting notetaker with no card required.
• +Supernormal never joins meetings as a visible bot; it captures audio directly from your computer.
• −There is no video or audio recording, only live notes and a transcript.

Plus gives 2,000 credits a month that refresh daily, with frontier models such as GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5, where free runs on Julius's own Lite model with 25 credits a day. Pro lifts that to 5,000 credits, all models and SOC 2 compliance. Choose it over Rows when you want to put plain-language questions to databases and large files and read the code behind each result, and move up once credits run out mid-month.

• +Every insight comes with the underlying code Julius used to reach it.
• +Julius connects directly to databases and warehouses including Postgres, BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL, SQL Server and Supabase.
• −The free plan gives 25 credits a day after the first 100, enough for a few simple questions, and deletes uploaded files after an hour of inactivity.

• +The agent can find flights that match your calendar, schedule meetings and fill out forms on any site you are signed in to.
• +Pro and Max let you pick from models including GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Grok 4.7 for search.
• −The free plan has no agent queries and 1 Research query a month.

Pro opens deep research and the Computer agent, which completes tasks and acts on a schedule inside its own cloud sandbox, with persistent memory and more models than the automatic pick on free. Answers were already cited on free. Retention and training stay on until you turn them off, and shared projects with collaborators wait on Enterprise. Choose it over ChatGPT Plus when sourced research with an agent matters most.

• +Every plan, including Free, returns answers with inline citations to sources.
• +Perplexity orchestrates models from several AI companies alongside its own Sonar 2 model.
• −AI data retention and training are on by default for Free, Pro and Max, and must be turned off in settings.

Pro gives full Vibe access, with up to six times the free plan's messages, five times its web searches and forty times its image generations, plus agent tasks, all-day coding, a bigger monthly Studio credit allowance and chat and email support. Training stays on by default unless you opt out. Choose it over ChatGPT Plus when SOC 2 certification and editable memory matter and free caps are the problem.

• +The Free plan includes image generation, web search and limited coding sessions at no cost.
• +Mistral is SOC 2 Type II certified, and also holds ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification.
• −Vibe trains on your input and output by default across the Free, Pro and Team plans, subject to an opt-out.

• +One account reaches models including GPT-6.1-Sol, Claude-Opus-5.5, Gemini-4-Argon, Grok-4.7 and Mistral-Large-4.
• +Poe runs on the web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.
• −Third-party developer bots, marked with a half shield, may use your chats to train their own models.

Personal at $9.99 raises usage over the free app, and Premium at $19.99 adds Researcher for cited reports and Cowork for multi-step tasks, with extensive AI usage. Family, at $12.99, covers six people for the Office apps, but the AI benefits stay with the subscription owner. Microsoft 365 Pro at $99.99 is out of range. Choose Premium when you want cited research from an assistant tied to Word, Excel and OneDrive.

• +Copilot is free with a signed-in Microsoft account, and Microsoft 365 Personal and Premium come with a one month free trial.
• +It connects to OneDrive, Outlook.com, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts, and works with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and OneNote.
• −Researcher is on Microsoft 365 Premium and Pro, and Cowork is on those plans too.

Lite is the paid step here: longer conversations, Expert mode and image and video creation, over a free plan with image generation, voice and Grok Build included. Content still trains Grok unless you opt out, because the default flips only on Business. SuperGrok is what pushes you up, with conversations five times the free length. Choose it over Gemini's paid plans when video generation matters.

• +The free plan already includes image generation, voice mode and the Grok Build coding agent.
• +Grok is SOC 2 Type I and Type II compliant on every plan, including Free.
• −Real-time web and X search is limited on the free plan.

• +One subscription covers text models including Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini 4 Argon and Mistral Large 4, plus image, video and music models.
• +You can resend a prompt to another model to compare answers.
• −There is no free plan.

Plus and Pro are the two paid steps. Plus doubles the free plan's usage limits, and Pro quadruples them and brings the million-token context window that free holds at 32,000 tokens. Both are sold through Google One, and chats still train Google's models unless Keep Activity is off. Choose Pro over ChatGPT Plus when your documents are long and your work sits in Gmail, Calendar and Drive.

• +Gemini is free to use with any personal Google account, with Google's Flash models included.
• +Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month includes Gemini 4 Argon, Google's newest frontier model.
• −The free plan's context window is capped at 32,000 tokens, far below the 1 million tokens on Pro and Ultra.

Both Meta One plans fit here. Core adds more Meta AI usage, mostly image and video generation, and Premium expands it further, each bundled with Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook features you may not want. Neither is a team plan. The free app already has web search, deep research, file analysis and voice, so the money buys volume rather than new skills. Choose it over ChatGPT Plus if you want more image and video inside Meta apps you use daily.

• +Meta AI is free for everyday use with an existing Meta account, with no separate account to create.
• +It is available on meta.ai, iOS, Android, a Mac app in beta and inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Facebook.
• −Usage limits are being tested on more compute-intensive features, and people who hit a limit can buy a subscription.

Pro opens the Opus and Fable models and deep research, the two things the free plan holds back, while web search, code execution, voice and memory are already free. Claude doesn't generate photos or illustrations on any plan, and Anthropic trains on your conversations unless you opt out. Choose it over ChatGPT Go when writing and code matter and pictures do not.

• +The free plan already includes web search, file creation, code execution and memory across conversations.
• +Deep research is available from the Pro plan up.
• −The Opus and Fable models are only available from the Pro plan up.

Standard turns the free plan's limited monthly credits into 4,000 credits a month plus 300 refresh credits every day, and Customizable doubles the monthly pot. Credits are used according to task complexity, so the bill follows how much you hand over, and you cannot pick the model. Choose it over Perplexity when you want whole tasks done in a cloud sandbox, not cited answers.

• +A free plan with limited monthly credits covers the core features.
• +Each task runs in a cloud sandbox with internet access, a file system and code execution.
• −Tasks use credits according to their complexity, so the cost of a task is not fixed.

Plus costs $24.99 a month, or $19.99 billed annually, and brings 10,000 credits a month and 50 GB of AI Drive, against the free plan's 100 daily credits that end at a lifetime cap. Core chat and image models spend no credits within a fair-use limit. Super Agent works in its own sandbox with a real browser and builds slides, sheets and documents. Choose it over Julius AI when you want one agent to finish a task, not answer questions about data.

• +Super Agent runs in a dedicated sandbox with a real browser and can execute code.
• +Slides, sheets, docs, image, video and audio tools share one credit pool with the agent.
• −The Free plan gives 100 credits per day up to a lifetime allowance, and the daily refill stops when it is used up.

• +Standard offers a choice of Gemini, Grok, GPT, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Deepseek, GLM-5 and Qwen3 in one subscription.
• +Neon Do opens pages, fills in forms and completes tasks, and you can pause, stop or take over at any time.
• −Neon Do, Deep Research and model choice are on Standard only; the free tier has basic chat.

• +The free plan gives unlimited high-speed search with no credit card needed.
• +Every answer includes numbered footnotes that link to the original sources.
• −The free plan allows 3 file analyses a day and leaves out AI Slides, AI Designer, video and the API.

• +Data from Kagi Assistant is never used to train AI models, by Kagi or by the model providers.
• +Kagi Assistant offers more than 30 models, including Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok models, alongside Kagi's own Quick and Research assistants.
• −There is no free plan, only a one-time Trial of 100 searches and 100 AI interactions.

• +Browser Use and Computer Use automate tasks across logged-in websites, local apps and local files from one command.
• +Deep Search and chat are free on every plan, and reports come with verifiable sources.
• −The free tier's 1,000 Sparks are a one-time bonus, about 4 tasks, not a monthly allowance.

• +Andi Search is free with unlimited searches, and no account or credit card is needed.
• +Answers come with sources you can verify, drawn from Andi's own index of about 25 billion web pages.
• −There is no file upload; Andi reads web pages from search results only.

Starter takes you from five AI Agents to ten, from one Calendar Sync and Scheduling Link to three, and opens unlimited integrations, for teams of up to ten. Business raises agents to 100 per seat. It plans calendars only and leaves email alone. Choose it over Motion when you want scheduling alone at a lower price, and use the 14-day trial to see it work.

• +Reclaim has a permanent free Lite plan with 5 AI Agents and 1 Scheduling Link.
• +Its own MCP server lets ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot view and manage a user's calendar directly.
• −The free Lite plan schedules only one week ahead and gives 1 Scheduling Link.

A 14-day trial replaces a free plan, and then one Pro plan includes everything: the Sunny assistant, calendar timeboxing, the daily plan and shutdown ritual, an MCP server and integrations with Asana, Jira, Notion, ClickUp and many more. Yearly billing lowers the price. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM and audit logs. It does not record meetings or write email. Choose it over Motion when you want to plan your own day by hand with AI help.

• +Tasks can be imported from Asana, Jira, Linear, GitHub, Trello, Notion, Todoist, ClickUp and more, and emails from Gmail and Outlook become tasks.
• +It connects to Google, Outlook, Apple (iCloud) and CalDAV calendars for timeboxing.
• −There is no free plan, only a 14-day free trial.

• +Mem Chat answers questions across your whole workspace and drafts new content from past notes.
• +Voice Mode records and writes up meetings with no bot joining the call.
• −Every plan caps messages and new notes each month, with 25 of each on Free and 50 on Mem Plus.

Motion offers a seven-day trial and no free plan, so Pro AI is the entry: AI chat, projects and tasks, a calendar, docs, an auto-scheduling planner and an AI Notetaker, with 7,500 AI credits a month. Business AI doubles the credits to 15,000 and adds Gantt charts and time tracking. Choose it over Reclaim when you want tasks, docs and meeting notes in one app.

• +Motion's AI Notetaker joins Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls to transcribe, summarize and extract action items.
• +Auto-scheduling places tasks into the best available time slots based on priorities, deadlines and availability.
• −Motion has no free plan, only a free trial.

Every tier is paid. The Starter tier drafts and can send email for you, splits the inbox and books meetings from a message, on Gmail or Outlook. Ask AI and the Mail MCP server wait on Business, and your content trains its models unless you opt out. Choose it over Shortwave when you use Outlook as well as Gmail and want drafting from the first day.

• +Superhuman AI drafts and can send emails for you from the Starter plan.
• +Its Calendar creates events with the best date and time straight from an email and can add a booking link.
• −There is no free plan; every tier is paid.

The paid plans lift the free plan's Basic intelligence. Pro gives standard intelligence and quota, three years of AI search history and 50 threads per search, against 90 days and 15 on free, and Business adds more AI usage, five years of history and three AI filters. Only Gmail and Google Workspace accounts connect, and there is no single sign-on. Choose it over Superhuman when your mail is Gmail and you want a trial first.

• +Shortwave has a permanent free plan alongside its paid tiers.
• +Its AI Assistant drafts, triages and searches the inbox in your own writing voice.
• −Shortwave only connects to Gmail and Google Workspace accounts, not Microsoft 365 or Exchange.

Pieces Pro starts with a seven-day trial that needs a card, backed by a 14-day money-back guarantee, and there is no free plan. The plan covers memory capture kept on your own computer by default, switching among Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and local models, advanced code search and an MCP server. It is not a task manager or email client. Choose it over Motion when you want recall of what you saw and copied, not scheduling.

• +Pieces keeps your captured memory on your own computer by default, rather than in the cloud.
• +It lets you switch between Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and local models under one Pro plan.
• −Pieces has no free plan, only a 7-day trial that requires a card to start.

Pro removes the watermark and the free plan's 25-video cap, and adds a brand kit, MP4, PPT and PDF export and blurring of sensitive information. Commercial use starts on paid plans. Choose it over a general video tool when the job is software how-to guides, and pay for Pro first if the watermark is what holds you back.

• +AI automatically converts screen captures into narrated, step-by-step video guides without requiring a video production professional.
• +Supports multi-language translation across 50+ languages, making it viable for global teams.
• −Resolution specifics for MP4 and other export formats are not published, leaving teams unable to evaluate output quality before committing.

No plan is on sale: the chat app has no paid consumer tier, so it is the free baseline against which every paid plan here can be measured. Developers can pay per token for the API, and the model weights are published. Privacy is the cost: your inputs and outputs feed training until you opt out, and there is no GDPR commitment. Choose it over Grok Lite when spending nothing outweighs image creation.

• +The chat app is free, with no paid consumer plan.
• +The weights of DeepSeek V4, V3 and R1 are published on Hugging Face.
• −DeepSeek trains on your inputs and outputs unless you opt out.

• +The assistant reads your open tabs and connected apps including Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Notion and Figma.
• +From chat, Dia can create calendar invites, search and draft emails and fill in forms.
• −The free plan is the browser alone, with no AI features once the trial ends.