General-Purpose AI Agent: all 13 products
Takes a task described in plain language and carries it out on the web or in your accounts, rather than answering a question about it. We found 13 products that do this, from 13 companies. All 13 can be bought with a sign-up form. Nine of 13 publish a price. Monthly plans in US dollars run $18 to $30, typically $20.
The 13 products
| Compare | Product | What it does on its own | Built for | How you buy | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Takes a job you hand it, works in your Chrome browser and picks scheduled work back up on its own. In the vendor’s words: “Hand off and schedule tasks” Source for the vendor’s words (opens in a new tab) Where it says AI does it: “Build and deploy agents at scale with a suite of composable APIs” Source for where it says AI does it (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $20 a month | |
| Perplexity AI | Runs a browsing session for you and finishes the errand you asked for. In the vendor’s words: “Ask Comet to book a meeting or send an email, based on something you saw.” Source for the vendor’s words (opens in a new tab) Where it says AI does it: “AI that shops” Source for where it says AI does it (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Not published | |
| Fellou | Plans and carries out multi-step jobs across sites, showing its plan first so the owner can step in. In the vendor’s words: “Fellou independently plan and execute complex web and desktop based tasks across multiple apps” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 29, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Not published | |
| Google | Takes a task and monitors, tracks and executes it on the owner’s behalf, from the Pro plan up. In the vendor’s words: “Give it a task and it can monitor, track, and execute on your behalf, keeping your focus on the actions that are truly crucial.” Where it says AI does it: “Gemini Spark is your 24/7 personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, takes action on your behalf, and is under your direction.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $19.99 a month | |
| Genspark | Places real phone calls to businesses and carries out the errand you described. In the vendor’s words: “Genspark searches for the business, verifies the phone number, and places a real phone call using a natural-sounding AI voice.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Free tier | |
| Lindy | Takes jobs across your connected tools, runs them on the schedule you set and reports back in Slack or email. In the vendor’s words: “Lindy connects to all your tools, knows everything about your company, and does real work for the whole team.” Where it says AI does it: “The AI teammate that will 3x your output.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 29, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $29.99 a month per user | |
| Manus AI | Takes a multi-step goal and works through it across websites without being watched. In the vendor’s words: “…it will plan, navigate, click, and execute the entire workflow across various sites” Where it says AI does it: “Manus is a sophisticated AI Agent that doesn’t just chat” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Not published | |
| Microsoft | Runs agents that fire on a trigger and work through a business process on their own. The autonomous agents meter in Copilot Studio credits on top of this seat. In the vendor’s words: “…configure triggers that allow agents to autonomously execute business processes” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $18 a month per user | |
| NinjaTech AI | Runs research, coding and data jobs on its own computer and hands back the finished file. In the vendor’s words: “Autonomous AI agent with it’s own computer. For research, coding, data analysis, creating websites, slides, spreadsheets and more.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 26, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Not published | |
| OpenClaw | Runs on your own machine and does web and file work from a chat message. In the vendor’s words: “Browses the web, fills forms, reads and writes files, runs shell commands.” Where it says AI does it: “The AI that really does things.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | Free tier | |
| Opera · : Norway | Works through tasks inside the browser and runs the agents you point at a job. In the vendor’s words: “It works on your tasks, interprets the web, manages tabs, acts when you command” Source for the vendor’s words (opens in a new tab) Where it says AI does it: “This AI agentic browser is built to act” Source for where it says AI does it (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $19.90 a month | |
| Runable | Takes a business goal, builds what is needed for it and keeps the recurring work running afterwards. In the vendor’s words: “One AI agent to turn an idea into a business, run the work, and keep it growing.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 24, 2026 | Small business | Sign up yourself | Free tier | |
| Skyvern | Logs into websites, fills the forms and pulls the documents the way a person would. In the vendor’s words: “Skyvern automates these workflows natively in the browser, just like a human would.” Where it says AI does it: “AI agents to automate workflows on any website.” Source (opens in a new tab) · checked Sep 26, 2026 | Any size | Sign up yourself | $29 a month |
What to know before you buy
- These carry out a task you describe in plain words, on the web or in your accounts. Most ask before anything consequential, such as buying, publishing or sharing personal data, so expect to be asked.
- The agent is often on a higher plan than the headline price, and one caps agent use at 40 messages a month on its $20 plan.
- Credit-based plans have daily caps and unused credits that do not roll over. Check how much real work a month of credits buys.
- In reviews, credits running out faster than expected is the recurring complaint.
More from our research
How real (from our first round of research)
The acting is real and easy to check, because the big vendors publish the sentence themselves: one writes that this is the first time users can ask its product to take actions on the web, and another that its agent will plan the job, find its way around, click and carry the whole thing through across several sites. All 12 we checked in the first round carry a vendor sentence showing the thing acts, but only a handful act with nobody watching: one requires explicit user confirmation before consequential actions and another asks before high-risk actions such as publishing, purchasing or sharing personal data, so the number you could start and then leave alone is closer to 4 than 12.
Watch for
The claim is usually true, and the plan you have to be on to get it is the catch. One vendor’s agent sits on a $19.99 plan, another’s is billed in $200 credit packs on top of an $18.00 per user seat, and a third caps agent mode at 40 messages a month on its $20 plan against 400 on the tier above. Newer products are billed in credits, with a daily cap and unused monthly credits that do not roll over, so credits you paid for and did not use are lost at the end of the month. The vendors publish their own failure rates, covered in Trust and control.
What reviewers raise
Billing, credits and support dominate rather than what the agent can do. Credits running out faster than expected is the recurring complaint about the product itself.
What builders say
What holds these agents in real use is plain code that checks each step before anything that cannot be undone happens, described in Trust and control.
Questions to ask in the demo
- Does an AI do this, or does a rule? If the answer is “when X happens it sends Y”, you are buying automation, and it should not cost AI prices.
- Does it send, or does it draft? Ask for the sentence on their page that says it acts on its own.
- Does it do it on its own on this plan, or on the one above? The setting that lets it act without you is often a tier up from the entry price.
Quick answers
How many AI products are there for a bit of everything?
We found 13 products from 13 companies that do this themselves. 13 can be bought with a sign-up form and 0 through a sales call.
How much does a General-Purpose AI Agent cost?
Monthly plans priced in US dollars run $18 to $30, typically $20 a month. 9 of 13 publish a price. Check the monthly cap and what extra use costs.
Which ones are built for small businesses?
One says on its own site that it is built for small businesses: Runable. Most others name no size and may still suit you.
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Cite this
General-Purpose AI Agent: all 13 products. The AI Agents Report, Iterategy, 2026. https://iterategy.com/research/ai-agents/jobs/general-purpose-ai-agent/