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What will your AI & automation stack actually cost?

Deterministic burn-rate math for 18 AI and automation SaaS tools — every tier, overage block and seat limit priced at your exact volume — plus the published per-token rates of 2 LLM APIs.

Tools priced tier-by-tier
18
Head-to-head cost comparisons
3
Biggest annual saving found
$537
ElevenLabs vs Murf AI at 300 voice minutes/mo

Multi-tool stack estimator

Pick what you run today and your monthly volume per category. We price the cheapest plan of each tool and show what an optimized stack would burn instead.

Your current AI & automation stack

  • 50,000 tasks

    $433.50/mo

    Cheapest option in this category

  • 300 voice minutes

    $54.22/mo

    Cheapest option in this category

  • 10,000 uploaded contacts
  • 150 infra / workload units (1k equiv)

    $39/mo

    Cheapest option in this category

Current stack
$623.72/mo
Optimized stack (cheapest per category)
$620.72/mo
Annual burn you can cut
$36/yr

Category directory

Workflow Automation & LLM APIs

Cheapest plan at 50,000 credits/mo

  • Make.com

    Visual multi-step branching workflows, where routers and filters cost no credits.

    $43.22/mo

  • n8n Cloud

    Long multi-step workflows and AI agent loops, since a run costs one execution however many steps it has.

    $60/mo

  • Zapier

    Non-technical teams running under 2,000 tasks/mo that require niche legacy integrations from Zapier's 9,000+ app directory.

    $433.50/mo

  • OpenAI API

    Pay-per-token access to OpenAI's GPT models, for apps and agents you build yourself.

    Per-token rates

  • Claude API

    Pay-per-token access to Anthropic's Claude models, for apps and agents you build yourself.

    Per-token rates

AI Voice & Video Generation

Cheapest plan at 300 voice minutes/mo

  • ElevenLabs

    Studio-grade narration, voice cloning, and low-latency conversational voice APIs with the lowest entry price ($6/mo).

    $54.22/mo

    Alternatives
  • HeyGen

    Realistic AI digital twins, automated UGC video ads, and multilingual lip-sync localization.

    $149/mo

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    Alternatives
  • Synthesia

    Corporate L&D training modules, compliance videos, and enterprise knowledge bases.

  • Murf AI

    Timeline-synced voiceover studio production with built-in stock music and slide timing controls.

  • AdCreative.ai

    High-volume performance marketing teams generating conversion-scored display and social video ads.

    $249/mo

AI Chatbots & Cold Outbound

Cheapest plan at 10,000 uploaded contacts/mo

  • Instantly.ai

    Scaling cold email outbound with unlimited warmup inboxes and zero per-seat penalties.

  • Smartlead.ai

    Cold email agencies managing isolated client sub-accounts and webhook pipelines.

  • Tidio + Lyro AI

    E-commerce stores wanting turnkey Shopify order-lookup AI chat and human helpdesk handoff.

    $140/mo

  • Landbot AI

    Visual no-code conversational landing pages and WhatsApp lead qualification funnels.

    $70/mo

  • Respond.io

    Omnichannel WhatsApp, Instagram, and TikTok messaging teams needing unified CRM routing.

    $199/mo

Scraping, No-Code Apps & Infra

Cheapest plan at 150 compute units/mo

  • Apify

    Turnkey cloud web scrapers from the Apify Store (Google Maps, TikTok, LinkedIn and more) and headless browser automation.

    $30/mo

  • Bright Data

    Enterprise-grade residential proxy networks, CAPTCHA-solving Web Unlocker APIs, and high-concurrency SERP scraping.

    $75/mo

  • Softr.io

    Client portals and internal dashboards where the bill scales with app users rather than compute.

    $119/mo

  • Bubble.io

    Full-stack no-code SaaS MVPs before migrating high-volume workloads to code or flat-rate platforms.

    $39/mo

  • Cloudways (Managed VPS Stack)

    Self-hosting n8n, scrapers and web apps at a flat monthly server cost.

    $24/mo

Full comparison matrix

Every same-category head-to-head, with the computed winner at default volume (1 seat, monthly billing).