What chatbot tools cost to run
39 tools in this category publish a monthly price. The median is $19, from $4.00 to $400. What follows is what the model underneath would cost at four shapes of work, and what that leaves for everything the company actually built.
One person using an assistant through a working day.
The median seat, $19, on the light workload
The same seat price, the same work, three model choices. Nothing about the product changed between those rows. That gap is the reason to ask a vendor which model is underneath and whether it can change without telling you.
Every chatbot tool that publishes a price
Entry price against the light workload on Gemini 3.1 Pro. Where the price is a range, the figure is the lowest published monthly number.
| Tool | Entry price | Model cost | Left over |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tettra | $4.00 | $11 | $-6.56 (-164%) |
| Kagi | $5.00 | $11 | $-5.56 (-111%) |
| Raycast | $8.00 | $11 | $-2.56 (-32%) |
| Taskade | $8.00 | $11 | $-2.56 (-32%) |
| Monica | $8.99 | $11 | $-1.57 (-17%) |
| Komo | $10 | $11 | $-0.56 (-6%) |
| MaxAI.me | $10 | $11 | $-0.56 (-6%) |
| Sider | $10 | $11 | $-0.56 (-6%) |
| ChatDOC | $13 | $11 | $2.43 (19%) |
| Lumo | $13 | $11 | $2.43 (19%) |
| AskYourPDF | $15 | $11 | $4.43 (30%) |
| Le Chat (Mistral) | $15 | $11 | $4.43 (30%) |
| Mistral AI | $15 | $11 | $4.43 (30%) |
| ManyChat | $15 | $11 | $4.44 (30%) |
| Freshdesk AI | $15 | $11 | $4.44 (30%) |
| PDF.ai | $15 | $11 | $4.44 (30%) |
| Latenode | $17 | $11 | $6.44 (38%) |
| Freshchat | $19 | $11 | $8.44 (44%) |
| Manus | $19 | $11 | $8.44 (44%) |
| Merlin AI | $19 | $11 | $8.44 (44%) |
| Claude | $20 | $11 | $9.44 (47%) |
| Gemini | $20 | $11 | $9.44 (47%) |
| Poe | $20 | $11 | $9.44 (47%) |
| Replika | $20 | $11 | $9.44 (47%) |
| Chaport | $23 | $11 | $12 (54%) |
| Genspark | $25 | $11 | $14 (58%) |
| Tidio | $29 | $11 | $18 (64%) |
| Microsoft Copilot | $30 | $11 | $19 (65%) |
| Grok | $30 | $11 | $19 (65%) |
| Comm100 | $39 | $11 | $28 (73%) |
| Chatbase | $40 | $11 | $29 (74%) |
| Gallabox | $44 | $11 | $33 (76%) |
| Lindy | $49 | $11 | $38 (78%) |
| Botpress | $50 | $11 | $39 (79%) |
| Zendesk AI | $55 | $11 | $44 (81%) |
| Respond.io | $79 | $11 | $68 (87%) |
| Userlike | $90 | $11 | $79 (88%) |
| ChatGPT | $200 | $11 | $189 (95%) |
| Landbot | $400 | $11 | $389 (97%) |
A model, not an audit. We do not know which model any of these run on or how much work a seat does, and the figures exclude caching, batching and volume discounts, all of which push a real bill down.