Best AI Agents for Startups
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What are AI Agents for Startups?
AI agents are autonomous systems designed to perform specific tasks by simulating intelligent behavior. They can perceive their environment, make decisions, and take actions to achieve particular goals based on their programming or learning. These agents can be rule-based, relying on pre-set instructions, or machine learning-based, adapting their behavior over time through experience. AI agents are used in various applications, from virtual assistants to self-driving cars and even decision-making systems in business. Their capabilities range from simple automation to complex problem-solving and predictive tasks. Compare and read user reviews of the best AI Agents for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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AI Agents within Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform are designed to automate tasks by leveraging machine learning models that can handle complex decisions and interactions. These agents can be trained to process natural language, understand context, and take autonomous actions based on data. By automating critical business processes, companies can enhance productivity and improve customer satisfaction. New customers receive $300 in free credits, enabling them to experiment with creating their own AI agents and test their performance on real-world tasks. With Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform's powerful infrastructure, businesses can deploy these agents across various domains, from customer service to operations, all while maintaining flexibility and scalability.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits)
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Zendesk
Zendesk
Zendesk is an AI-powered service solution that’s easy to set up, use, and scale. It works out-of-the-box and adapts quickly, enabling businesses to move faster. Built on billions of CX interactions, Zendesk AI supports the whole service journey—from self-service to agents to admins—helping teams resolve issues faster and operate efficiently at scale. Zendesk empowers agents with tools, insights, and context to deliver personalized service on any channel—social messaging, phone, or email. It unifies personalized conversations, omnichannel case management, AI workflows, automation, and a Marketplace of 1200+ apps. Easy to implement, it frees teams from relying on IT or costly partners. Serving over 130K global brands in 30+ languages, Zendesk simplifies business complexity to create meaningful customer connections. Headquartered in San Francisco, it operates worldwide.Starting Price: $25/agent/month -
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ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign’s AI agents are specialized assistants that autonomously handle tasks like content creation, segmentation, campaign building, SMS, translations, and reporting. Describe your goal in plain language and agents generate strategies, assets, and automations—then learn from your feedback to keep improving over time.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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ClickUp
ClickUp
ClickUp Super Agents are AI teammates that work autonomously inside your workspace. Assign tasks, message directly, and @mention them just like human colleagues. Agents operate 24/7 with infinite skills and memory, handling everything from intake review and project planning to weekly updates and data analysis. Build custom agents with specific instructions, tools, and knowledge bases. Agents adapt to workspace changes and learn from interactions. Unlike chatbots or copilots, Super Agents take real action: creating tasks, updating fields, posting comments, and routing work. The future of work is humans and AI agents collaborating seamlessly.Starting Price: $7/user/month -
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Forethought
Forethought
Forethought delivers the world’s most advanced AI Agents built to think, act, and get smarter with every interaction. No matter the question, “Where’s my refund?”, “How do I update my plan?” or “Why isn’t this working?” - there’s a purpose-built AI Agent ready to help. From chat to voice to SMS, every conversation gets a smart, personalized response powered by your policies, tone, and data. This isn’t just plug-and-play automation. It’s AI with a strategic plan. Forethought helps businesses roll out a multi-agent system across the entire customer experience. With Forethought, your teams can stop piecing together tools and start running a smarter, faster operation. One that delights customers every step of the way. -
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Jotform
Jotform
Jotform AI Agents are advanced automated customer service tools designed to provide real-time assistance across multiple channels, including phone, chat, voice, and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Messenger. Trusted by over 25 million users worldwide, Jotform enables businesses to integrate AI-driven agents into their workflows without any coding. The AI agents can handle tasks like guiding users through form-filling, answering queries, and automating tasks such as scheduling and sending emails. With over 7,000 templates to customize the agent’s appearance and interaction style, businesses can personalize their AI agents to reflect their brand. Jotform's AI-powered Agents ensure efficiency by providing 24/7 support, reducing response times, and improving customer satisfaction with multi-language support and real-time monitoring.Starting Price: $34 per month -
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Retool
Retool
Retool is the AI-native enterprise app development platform where teams build and ship production-ready apps — at AI speed, with enterprise governance built in. Describe what you need and get a working app, import React-based apps from Lovable, Replit, or Claude Code, or connect your AI agent via MCP. However your team builds, every app lands in Retool with RBAC, SSO, audit logging, and your existing permissions already in place. Retool connects to databases, APIs, LLMs, and external tools out of the box. Teams can build AI agents, dashboards, workflows, and full-stack apps — with a visual editor for speed and direct code access for precision. Trusted by over 10,000 organizations including Amazon, Stripe, DoorDash, and OpenAI to get AI-built apps safely to production.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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11x
11x
11x is building the autonomous digital workforce for GTM teams to accelerate growth. With two digital workers live today, 11x helps sales, marketing, and growth teams create, qualify, and convert pipeline across every channel in one unified platform. Alice is the outbound digital worker creating demand. She runs your full outbound motion in one workflow from prospecting to enrichment to multi-channel engagement and booking meetings on autopilot. Julian is an inbound digital worker capturing demand 24/7. He handles discovery, qualifies leads, and books meetings across phone, chat, SMS, email, and WhatsApp. Inbound intent is converted into qualified pipeline instantly. Trusted by teams worldwide, from high-growth startups to large enterprises, including Xerox, UST, Gupshup, Sage, Checkr, Armanino, and Rho. Backed by a16z and Benchmark, 11x is automating GTM workflows so humans can focus on what they do best: creating, innovating, and building relationships.Starting Price: $3,000/month -
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LM-Kit.NET
LM-Kit
The AI agents feature in LM-Kit.NET lets developers create, customize, and deploy agents for text generation, translation, code analysis, and other tasks without major code changes; a lightweight runtime and API layer coordinates multiple agents so they can share context, divide work, and run concurrently, while optional on-device inference cuts latency and keeps data local, and broad hardware support lets the same agents run on laptops, edge devices, or cloud GPUs to balance performance, cost, and security.Starting Price: Free (Community) or $1000/year -
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StackAI
StackAI
StackAI is an enterprise AI automation platform to build end-to-end internal tools and processes with AI agents in a fully compliant and secure way. Designed for large, regulated organizations, it enables teams to automate complex workflows across operations, compliance, finance, IT, and support without heavy engineering. With StackAI you can: • Connect knowledge bases (SharePoint, Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, databases) with versioning, citations, and access controls • Publish AI agents as chat assistants, advanced forms, or APIs integrated into Slack, Teams, Salesforce, HubSpot, or ServiceNow • Govern usage with enterprise security: SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google), RBAC, audit logs, PII masking, data residency, and cost controls • Route across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or local LLMs with guardrails, evaluations, and testing • Deploy in multi-tenant cloud, dedicated cloud, private cloud, or on-premiseStarting Price: $0 -
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Dialpad Support
Dialpad
Not every "AI agent" actually acts. Dialpad's AI Agents reason through customer issues in real time and drive them to resolution — not just transcribe or summarize, but genuinely complete the task. They operate across voice, digital, and human handoffs in one connected platform, turning every interaction into compounding intelligence. Secured by Dialpad's Guardian layer for governance and oversight, and proven out through Dialpad's Proving Ground before enterprise-wide deployment.Starting Price: $15/user/month -
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Bright Data
Bright Data
Bright Data provides production-ready web infrastructure for AI agents that need reliable, scalable access to the public internet. The Agent Browser gives AI agents a cloud-based browser with built-in CAPTCHA solving, fingerprinting, automatic IP rotation, and stealth mode — supporting 1M+ concurrent sessions and 400M+ daily actions. The Bright Data MCP Server connects LLMs and copilots directly to live web data. The platform supports LangChain, LlamaIndex, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium integrations. With a 98.5% average success rate and 99.99% uptime, it powers agentic workflows for knowledge base construction, data enrichment, and real-time research at enterprise scale.Starting Price: $0.066/GB -
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Checksum.ai
Checksum.ai
Checksum is a continuous quality platform that autonomously generates, runs, and maintains tests so engineering teams can ship AI-generated code without trading speed for reliability. Unlike copilots that wait for prompts, Checksum works as a background agent, detecting what needs testing, generating production-ready Playwright, and healing broken tests automatically. Seventy percent of failures resolve autonomously, keeping suites green without manual effort. Built on fine-tuned data from 1.5+ million test runs, Checksum covers every layer of the SDLC: end-to-end, API, and CI testing from a single platform. Tests are delivered as standard Playwright code, submitted as a PR to your repo. No vendor lock-in. Checksum integrates natively with Cursor, Claude Code, and 100+ coding agents via /checksum slash commands, so code is tested before a human ever reviews it. AI handles generation and healing on Checksum's cloud: no LLM tokens. The result: ship faster, with confidence. -
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Sendbird
Sendbird
Sendbird’s AI Agent Platform enables businesses to deploy powerful, omnichannel AI agents that deliver seamless, human-like customer service across SMS, email, WhatsApp, and social media. With capabilities for proactive engagement, context retention, and advanced reasoning, these AI agents go beyond simple task automation to handle complex customer queries and enhance satisfaction. The platform’s no-code interface makes it easy to set up AI agents, while its integrations with customer support tools like Zendesk and Salesforce ensure smooth handoffs to human agents when needed. Designed for scalability and ease of use, Sendbird’s AI Agent Platform is a reliable solution for businesses aiming to improve operational efficiency and customer experience.Starting Price: $399/month -
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Claude Code
Anthropic
Claude Code is an AI-powered coding agent designed to work directly inside your existing development environment. It goes beyond simple autocomplete by understanding entire codebases and helping developers build, debug, refactor, and ship features faster. Developers can interact with Claude Code from the terminal, IDEs, Slack, or the web, making it easy to stay in flow without switching tools. By describing tasks in natural language, users can let Claude handle code exploration, modifications, and explanations. Claude Code can analyze project structure, dependencies, and architecture to onboard developers quickly. It integrates with common command-line tools, version control systems, and testing workflows. This makes it a powerful companion for both individual developers and teams working on complex software projects.Starting Price: $20/month -
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OpenAI Codex
OpenAI
Codex is an AI-powered coding agent from OpenAI designed to help developers build, manage, and ship software more efficiently across the entire development lifecycle. It acts as an intelligent pair programmer that can understand codebases, generate features, and deliver production-ready pull requests. Codex can safely execute commands in sandboxed environments while assisting with debugging, refactoring, and testing. A key advancement is its computer use capability, allowing it to operate your computer by seeing, clicking, and typing across applications. This enables Codex to interact with tools that don’t have APIs, making it useful for tasks like frontend testing and app navigation. The platform also includes an in-app browser and integrations with various developer tools for a more unified workflow. Codex supports automation by handling ongoing tasks such as monitoring, issue triage, and follow-ups.Starting Price: $20/month -
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OpenClaw
Molty
OpenClaw is an open source autonomous personal AI assistant agent you run on your own computer, server, or VPS that goes beyond just generating text by actually performing real tasks you tell it to do in natural language through familiar chat platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and others. It connects to external large language models and services while prioritizing local-first execution and data control on your infrastructure so the agent can clear your inbox, send emails, manage your calendar, check you in for flights, interact with files, run scripts, and automate everyday workflows without needing predefined triggers or cloud-hosted assistants; it maintains persistent memory (remembering context across sessions) and can run continuously to proactively coordinate tasks and reminders. It supports integrations with messaging apps and community-built “skills,” letting users extend its capabilities and route different agents or tools through isolated workspaces.Starting Price: Free -
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Coworker.ai
Coworker.ai
Coworker is an AI-powered platform that acts as a smart teammate for your company, powered by OM1, a breakthrough memory architecture. It helps teams answer complex questions, plan projects, and execute tasks seamlessly by securely connecting to over 40 enterprise apps. With OM1's memory system, Coworker brings deep company context to every task, automating workflows and reducing administrative work across departments. Whether you're managing engineering, marketing, operations, or sales, Coworker ensures faster execution, improved collaboration, and intelligent decision-making, making your work smarter and more efficient.Starting Price: $29.99/user/month -
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Parloa
Parloa
Parloa is an AI agent platform designed to help businesses manage customer conversations instantly across high-volume support environments. It helps companies reduce wait times by using AI agents that can handle millions of conversations in any language. The platform is built to create personalized customer experiences, resolve issues faster, and improve engagement over time. Parloa supports use cases across financial services, utilities, ecommerce, retail, healthcare, media, entertainment, and information technology. Businesses can use it for tasks such as appointment scheduling, refunds, recommendations, ID checks, billing questions, password resets, order support, and patient assistance. With tools for designing, testing, scaling, optimizing, securing, and integrating AI agents, Parloa helps organizations turn customer support into stronger customer relationships. -
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Box
Box
Box helps growing businesses manage and get more value from their content on one secure AI-powered platform. Combining file sharing, document management, workflow automation, e-signature, and AI tools in one place, Box empowers teams to reduce tool sprawl and improve visibility across all their files. Organizations use Box for secure internal and external collaboration, knowledge management, contract lifecycle management, onboarding, controlled documents, and audit-ready archiving. For teams adopting AI, Box is designed to connect AI to business content with permissions, governance, and auditability in one file system. The platform also supports compliance and security needs with features such as access controls, retention, classification, and protections for regulated environments, including support for requirements such as HIPAA and FINRA.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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Movestax
Movestax
Movestax revolutionizes cloud infrastructure with a serverless-first platform for builders. From app deployment to serverless functions, databases, and authentication, Movestax helps you build, scale, and automate without the complexity of traditional cloud providers. Whether you’re just starting out or scaling fast, Movestax offers the services you need to grow. Deploy frontend and backend applications instantly, with integrated CI/CD. Fully managed, scalable PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis that just work. Create sophisticated workflows and integrations directly within your cloud infrastructure. Run scalable serverless functions, automating tasks without managing servers. Simplify user management with Movestax’s built-in authentication system. Access pre-built APIs and foster community collaboration to accelerate development. Store and retrieve files and backups with secure, scalable object storage.Starting Price: $20/month -
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Melaya
Melaya Labs LLC
Melaya is a platform for building and running AI agents across business tools, browsers and Android apps, with six connected products: - Melaya Agents: A visual builder for workflows and multi-agent teams. Combines models, tools, memory, schedules and approval steps in replayable runs. - Melaya Assistant: One conversational workspace for working across connected business systems, using approved tools and shared context. - Melaya Device Control: AI agents that operate real Android apps through accessibility, without root or a dedicated API integration. - Melaya Browser Control: Agents that navigate and act inside your browser, with selected tabs, site permissions, live observation and manual takeover. - Melaya MCP Server: Gives existing AI assistants including Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, access to Melaya’s tools, browser control, mobile agents and workflows through one connection. - Melaya Marketing: A unified suite for AI SEO audits, backlink building, advertising and analyticsStarting Price: $0 -
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Ovellan
Ovellan
Ovellan is an AI customer service agent and website chatbot for businesses, webshops, and local service providers. It answers customer questions 24/7 using information from your website, documents, help center, and knowledge base. Businesses can use Ovellan to automate repetitive customer support, capture and qualify leads, book appointments, and help visitors with product, service, order, and support questions. The AI support agent can remember relevant customer details and earlier conversations, helping returning visitors receive more personal support without repeating themselves. Ovellan works as customer service automation, an e-commerce AI chatbot, a lead generation chatbot, and an appointment booking assistant in one platform. It is built for online stores, agencies, clinics, and service businesses that want faster response times, consistent answers, and less repetitive support work while keeping business content and customer data separate from instructions.Starting Price: $29/month -
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Dedoctive
Collaboration Tools Ltd
Dedoctive provides auditable AI for defensible decisions. It grounds outputs in trusted evidence, provides full source-level provenance, and governs workflows with human-in-the-loop guardrails. Dedoctive turns complex documents, data, tables and images into verified, source-linked knowledge. It then lets teams build governed AI workflows with human-in-the-loop guardrails where every answer is grounded in validated sources, every step can be inspected, and every statement links back to its evidence. This makes AI outputs usable, checkable, and defensible in settings where generic AI tools are not enough. Dedoctive a neuro-symbolic AI platform combining curated knowledge models, controlled BPMN workflows, full provenance links, Response Maps, multi-format ingestion, custom reports, and formal diagrams. It works with large language models without requiring model training, while giving organisations greater control over what the AI uses, how it reasons, and how outputs are verified.Starting Price: Free micro-pilot -
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Ask Kaia
360factors
Kaia is a purpose‑built, AI‑powered compliance expert trained exclusively on federal banking regulations and related regulatory data, accessible through a simple browser interface that maintains the security and confidentiality of your business data. It enables banks and credit unions to ask any questions about regulations (for example, Truth in Lending, BSA/AML, or CRA) in natural language and receive clear, accurate, context‑sensitive responses with actionable recommendations. Users can instantly draft new policy and procedure documents aligned with the latest requirements, upload existing policies for automated analysis against current regulations, receive suggested updates, and generate revised drafts, then export everything in editable Microsoft Word format for easy customization. Kaia remembers previous questions and corrections within the same topic or regulatory thread to provide increasingly precise guidance over time. -
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Brightcall
Brightcall.ai
Brightcall is an AI-powered communication platform designed to help businesses convert more leads and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Our AI Agent provides 24/7 automated conversations that qualify prospects, answer questions, schedule appointments, and handle support with natural, human-like accuracy. Speed To Lead ensures every new inquiry is contacted within seconds through instant calls, dramatically increasing conversion rates. The Multiline Dialer boosts outbound productivity by connecting agents with more live prospects using intelligent multi-line calling, call detection, and real-time reporting. Built for sales teams, contact centers, and fast-growing businesses, Brightcall delivers reliability, scalability, and automation that streamline operations, reduce costs, and maximize results across the entire customer journey. -
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Airtable
Airtable
Airtable is an AI-powered workflow platform that helps teams unify data, build apps, automate processes, and collaborate in one connected workspace. The platform enables users to create production-ready applications with no-code components and conversational AI app building. Airtable agents can work across large sets of records, reason over operational data, and orchestrate actions across workflows. The platform supports teams in product, marketing, project management, operations, sales, design, and creative work. Enterprise capabilities include scalable infrastructure, advanced permissions, RBAC, AI controls, provisioning, audit logs, data loss prevention, e-discovery, and data residency. Built for organizations of all sizes, Airtable helps teams connect workflows, embed AI into operations, and build business applications faster.Starting Price: $20/user/month -
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Zapier
Zapier
Zapier is an AI-powered automation platform designed to help teams safely scale workflows, agents, and AI-driven processes. It connects over 8,000 apps into a single ecosystem, allowing businesses to automate work across tools without writing code. Zapier enables teams to build AI workflows, custom AI agents, and chatbots that handle real tasks automatically. The platform brings AI, data, and automation together in one place for faster execution. Zapier supports enterprise-grade security, compliance, and observability for mission-critical workflows. With pre-built templates and AI-assisted setup, teams can start automating in minutes. Trusted by leading global companies, Zapier turns AI from hype into measurable business results.Starting Price: $19.99 per month -
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Zoho Desk
Zoho
Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to your customers the minute they reach out to you with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widgets let you be within arm's reach when customers can't find what they're looking for in your Help Center. Your customers can get in touch with your agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so your agents can respond and help them find answers faster. If a customer has an issue that requires more time and attention, agents can convert the chat conversation into a ticket, in a single click. This lets agents save all the context of the chat conversation, with no time lost. Leave your chat tickets to the trusted experts in your team. With Zoho Desk, you can assign tickets from various channels to specific agents or teams. This way, your agents can work more efficiently, and customer interactions are in safe hands.Starting Price: $12.00 per user per month -
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Tidio
Tidio
Tidio is a leading customer service platform that combines live chat, chatbot automation, and AI agents to help businesses deliver fast, effective customer interactions at scale. Recognized for its robust automation capabilities and user-friendly design, Tidio is trusted by over 800,000 of businesses worldwide. Engage visitors via real-time chat and unify conversations across email, Messenger, Instagram, and more—all from one dashboard. Track, manage, and resolve issues efficiently with built-in ticketing tools that complement chatbot and live agent workflows. Use the no-code visual chatbot builder to create custom flow to collect leads, answer FAQs, and automate communication. Deploy the conversational AI agent, Lyro and resolve up to 64% of customer support queries using natural language understanding. Easy to deploy and operate—no coding skills required. GDPR-compliant and secure. Proven scalability for eCommerce, SaaS, and service industries. 7-day free trial available.Starting Price: $0
