Autonomous agent teams with their own browsers, shells and memory that deliver sites, decks, videos and dashboards
Paid AI tools for Chatbots, Assistants & Agents
As of , EffectHub lists 59 paid AI tools for Chatbots, Assistants & Agents; paid plans start at $2.99 a month.
Paid tools charge from the first day. No free tier, and any trial is recorded separately.
10 of them expose an API.
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Paid AI tools for Chatbots, Assistants & Agents
Zecoba
68Pay-per-token ChatGPT-style interface with GPT-3.5/GPT-4 modes, a prompt store, plugins, and an API for developers.
Native Mac app that lets you select any part of the screen and chat with your own AI model about it.
One markdown chat interface for multiple AI models, with prompt templates and cost previews, billed via your own API keys.
Single workspace for 20+ AI models from multiple providers, with browser-side redaction of sensitive data.
One-time-purchase macOS utility that runs ChatGPT commands on selected text in any app, using your own API key
Pancake
69Credit-metered outbound agent that finds ICP-matched leads from buying signals and drafts outreach you approve before it sends.
AI Chat
77One subscription that puts ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok behind a single chat window
Hosted platform for building and deploying AI agents
Grok Bot
69Cloud computer-use agent from xAI that operates apps and sites on its own to finish multi-step tasks.
A $599 physical device that runs browser-using AI agents locally instead of in the cloud.
Sintra
50Role-shaped AI assistants for support, social, email and SEO, sold as one subscription.
Desktop infinite canvas for AI chat where conversations branch spatially instead of scrolling in one thread.
Builds retrieval chatbots from company documents, sites and helpdesk content
Junior
77AI coworker in Slack or Teams that researches accounts, drafts outreach, and updates CRM on its own.
Marblism
77Seven named AI workers - assistant, social, sales, web, SEO, receptionist, legal - on one hourly budget.
Max
59Slack-native AI coworker that pulls context from 25+ tools to draft tasks, reminders and daily briefings.
Creates an AI clone of a specific employee that answers routine questions for them in 160+ languages.
PDFConvo
69Chat with uploaded PDFs for summaries and answers, sold as a single $2.99 monthly plan.
Panvoxx
69One Swedish-built subscription that fronts ten AI models for writing, images, documents and code
Live AI gaming companion that watches your screen and talks with you while you play.
amaiko
66An AI colleague inside Microsoft Teams that drafts documents, writes meeting minutes, and triages your inbox.
AllyHub
69Builds AI agents that collect, watch and report on web data from social platforms, marketplaces and ordinary websites on a schedule
Assindo
71Phone-based assistant that screens and places calls, runs web research and posts to social accounts
BoltAI
69Native Mac client for 300+ models on your own keys
Chatbase
71Support agents trained on your documents and embedded as a widget
FastBots
69Trains a chatbot on your site or documents and puts it on the web, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack
Puts one question to five independent frontier models and reports consensus, confidence or open dissent.
Langdock
68Enterprise AI workspace: model-agnostic chat, agents and workflows with EU hosting and admin governance
Machato
73Native macOS app for chatting with ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs outside a browser tab.
MindMac
69One-time-purchase Mac client for OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and local models, with an inline mode
Nebula
69Team workspace where people and AI agents share channels, calls and tasks, with Claude Code and Codex working alongside colleagues.
Turns documents, databases, and websites into a searchable knowledge base with cited answers.
Custom AI personas from Pika Labs that video-call, message, and post across a dozen apps with a persistent memory.
QuickGPT
82Mac menu bar and Dock app that opens the ChatGPT web interface from a keyboard shortcut, with custom CSS and JavaScript.
Encrypted access to GPT, Claude, Gemini and other models inside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, the browser and Telegram.
Builds and runs a workforce of custom agents for sales, support and back-office work without code.
VibeBot
69Describe a Discord bot in plain English and it writes, hosts and runs the bot on your server
88Agents
71Agency chatbot builder that deploys to a web widget, Slack, email or a REST API on your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini keys.
Atua
77macOS utility that calls your own AI keys from any app via a hotkey — one $29 lifetime license
Sends one prompt to several of 30+ AI models at once, including GPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek, for side-by-side comparison.
Builds a chat clone of a coach from their own content
Hemelion
69Sells a one-time structured report that compares 2-3 options or maps recurring decision patterns.
Kindroid
81AI companion app with layered memory, generated selfies, custom voices and video calls, on phone and web.
Lindy
69AI teammates that work inside email, calendar, meetings and a browser, built from triggers and skills without code
Lorka AI
59Single subscription for chatting with, and comparing answers from, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and other AI models.
Magai
69One subscription covering many chat, image and video models
One workspace to run the same prompt across GPT, Claude, and Gemini side by side, with mindmaps and notes.
Floating ChatGPT window and iOS keyboard that works inside any Mac or iPhone app
aiOS
69Text an assistant from iMessage, WhatsApp or Telegram and it runs marketing, support and sales jobs
Blue
69Native Mac app that sends whatever is on screen to ChatGPT from an option-space shortcut
Mac menu-bar app for ChatGPT, voice-to-text, and quick AI actions using your own API keys, sold as a one-time purchase.
Website chat agent that qualifies leads and books meetings
Polsia
87Runs a set of AI agents that plan, build, market and support a small company, aiming for minimal daily input.
Runs 140+ open-weight chat models on iPhone, iPad and Mac with no account and no cloud call
Brings ChatGPT into Slack workspaces with file, URL, and Google Workspace document support.
Search+
69Chat with large PDF collections and get answers with the source passage cited back
SuperAGI
73Suite of AI apps and agents for CRM, sales outreach and marketing, bought per seat with a credit allowance
Suprmind
69Puts five frontier models in one thread where each reads the previous answers before adding its own
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As of October 26, 2026, EffectHub lists 59 paid AI tools for Chatbots, Assistants & Agents; paid plans start at $2.99 a month. (EffectHub, “Paid AI tools for Chatbots, Assistants & Agents”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/paid-ai-tools/chat-assistants-agents)
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