Updated every week. Prices checked October 2026.
AI Tools Compared.
AI employees, sales agents, courses, and installers, side by side with HANK.
Every AI tool promises to save you time. Few tell you who does the work, who checks it, or what happens when it's wrong. I read their pricing pages so you don't have to, and I tell you what each one does well.
Four questions I ask every AI tool
Who does the work?You, after a course? You, managing bots? Or does it run?
Who checks the work?If the answer is you, you just hired a new job for yourself.
Who owns it?Rented software disappears the day you stop paying.
What's the guarantee?A free trial is not a promise. Read the refund terms.
Head-to-head
The comparisons
By category
The short version
| AI course | AI coworker in Slack | $24 AI staff app | Sales AI agent | HANK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | You, after the course | You brief it and review it | You manage a crew of bots | You run it | We install it. HANK runs it. |
| Who checks the work | You | You | You | You | HANK inspects before anything goes out |
| Pricing | Course fee | Credits that run out | Low monthly, capped hours | Monthly actions that don't roll over | $1,000 once + your own Claude plan |
| Who owns it | Their method | Rented | Rented | Rented | Files on your own Drive |
| Setup | Homework | Login and learn | Login and learn | Login and learn | Installed on a 90-minute call |
| Guarantee | Refund only if you finish every build | Free starter credits | Short refund window | Free to start | The 90-Minute Promise: refund, keep HANK, 30 days of support |
On the watch list
Who I'm tracking
New head-to-heads land here as they're written. Know a tool I should look at? Tell me.
AI employee apps
- Marblism
- Sintra
- Viktor
- Lindy
- Gumloop
- Relevance AI
- Artisan
- Manus
Sales AI agents
- Rox
- Reply.io Jason AI
- HighLevel AI Employee
- Podium AI Employee
AI courses
- The Uncommon Business A2A
- AI Advantage
- Dan Martell AI Freedom Summit
- The Rundown University
- The AI Exchange
- AI Automation Society
AI installers
- Justin McKelvey
- Sandlabs
- Noem.ai
- Zaapi
- Morningside AI
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