how much does an ai agent cost each month?

product prices are only the starting point

as of 12 november 2026, these are the monthly prices unless another billing period or currency is stated. credits from different products are not interchangeable units. this table compares prices, not equal capability or equal work.¹²³⁴⁵⁶

the n8n price is in euros because that is the currency its pricing page showed us. do not silently compare it dollar-for-dollar. manus credits, n8n executions and an ai provider's tokens measure different things.

what dusk charges and what it leaves to you

dusk bot is free for personal use on your computer, with every feature. work use needs a work license. if you host it on your own server, dusk charges nothing for that server option, but the hosting company still has a bill and you maintain the machine.¹⁷¹³

dusk cloud plus is $20 a month or $200 a year, with two bot computers awake at once. pro is $50 monthly or $500 yearly, with five awake at once and a work license for one person. team plans start at $100 monthly. ai usage is billed by your ai provider, not included on dusk's bill.¹

example budget, not a typical bill: cloud plus at $20 monthly plus claude pro at $20 monthly totals $20 + $20 = $40 before any other charges or tax. a bot that works around the clock uses your ai plan around the clock; for heavy use, a bigger ai plan or an api key works best.¹ that's just two prices added up, not what the plan will handle.¹⁸

ai plan prices are another line item

as of 12 november 2026, claude pro is $20 monthly, max $100 and ultra $200 before tax. max and ultra list monthly api credits, so account for those before adding api usage to the total.⁸

chatgpt plus is $20 monthly according to openai's help page. xai's x subscription lists plus at $8, premium at $30, super at $100 and ultra at $200. standalone supergrok was folded into that subscription for new customers on 12 october 2026; existing subscribers can keep their plan.⁹¹⁰

these are vendor plan prices, not statements that each plan permits every third-party automation setup. check your provider's current terms and the current bill for your country.

api usage needs a workload, not a guess

as of 12 november 2026, sonnet 5.5 costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. grok 4.7 lists $2 input and $6 output per million, with doubled long-context rates above 200,000 tokens.¹¹¹²

example token subtotal: for an invented sonnet workload with 2 million input and 0.5 million output tokens, (2 × $2) + (0.5 × $10) = $9. that's only the token cost for this made-up example. the same bot may do very different amounts of work in two months.¹¹

the claude plan versus api guide works through more calculations. count the actual usage before predicting a bill from the number of bots.

make a budget you can compare later

write three lines: product charge, hosting charge and ai charge. mark which are bundled so you do not count them twice. then add any annual commitment and the point where usage charges begin. keep the original currency next to every number.

if the bot only works while you sit at your laptop, hosting may be unnecessary. if it must deliver before you wake, compare the machine cost in the always-on calculator. for product-specific tradeoffs, the manus alternative guide and poke alternative guide give the decision more context.

a plan can be affordable and still be the wrong fit if its output needs too much supervision. try one small job before budgeting around a whole collection of agents.