How Many AI Agent Tools Publish a Full Price List? 30 of 92

Of the 92 AI agent tools in The Agents Index that record a pricing ladder, 30 publish a price for every tier they sell. The other 62 have at least one tier you cannot put a number on without contacting the vendor.

The interesting part is where the missing number sits. Pricing pages in this category start out helpful and then stop. There is a Free tier, a $20 tier, maybe a $60 one, and then the last column says Custom and the button says Contact sales. That last column is usually the one an actual deployment lands in.

The Agents Index holds a structured pricing table for every listing, tier by tier, with whatever the vendor displays for each one. On 19 August 2026 that came to 297 tiers across 92 tools. So we counted how far down the page the numbers actually go.

The headline count

	Tools, of 92
Publishes a figure for every tier	30
Publishes some tiers, leaves at least one unpriced	54
Publishes no price at all	8

The middle row is the normal shape of this market: a self-serve ladder you can read, with an enterprise rung at the top that you have to ask about. Across all 92 tools we recorded 297 pricing tiers, of which 69 (23%) carry no figure.

The hidden price is almost always the top rung

Among the 54 tools that publish some prices and hide at least one, 49 hide exactly one tier, and in 50 of the 54 the hidden tier is the last one on the ladder. Of the 69 unpriced tiers in the whole index, 47 are named some version of Enterprise.

That consistency is worth planning around. If a tool in this category publishes any price at all, you can usually read the entire ladder except the top of it, and the top is where a company-wide rollout lands.

The four exceptions show how narrow the pattern is. Botpress and Zendesk AI Agents both have the unpriced Enterprise rung and then a priced row after it: a self-hosted open-source build in one case, a per-resolution rate in the other. Kilo Code does the same thing across two product lines, listing an unpriced Enterprise platform tier ahead of a priced gateway rate and three inference-credit packs. OpenCode has no enterprise tier at all, and the row without a figure is its pay-as-you-go credit product.

Six vendors do put a number on the top rung

Naming a tier Enterprise or Custom is not the same as hiding it, and seven tiers in the index are named one of those two things and carry a price anyway. They belong to six vendors: GitHub Copilot at $39, Perplexity with two priced Enterprise tiers at $40 and $325, Gemini Code Assist at $45 per user per month billed annually, Junie from $60, Vellum from $50, and Synthflow AI, whose Enterprise tier is published as From $30,000.

Six vendors out of 92 is not a trend. It is worth naming because it shows the hidden top rung is a choice rather than a constraint: a company can publish a floor for its enterprise tier and some do.

The eight that publish nothing

Eight tools in The Agents Index display no price on any tier: Ada, Artisan, Decagon, Glean, Moveworks, PolyAI, Qualified and Sierra. Every tier we recorded for each of them reads Custom, and between them they account for 10 of the 69 unpriced tiers.

This is a deliberate sales model rather than an oversight, and it is worth being precise about what it means. It is not that these tools are expensive. We do not know what they cost, which is the point. All eight sell through a negotiated contract, and all eight independently carry Free Tier: No in our datasheets, so there is no self-serve path to a number either.

If you are building a shortlist with a budget attached, these eight cannot be costed from public information at all. That is a scheduling fact as much as a financial one: each one is a sales conversation before it is a comparison.

Seven of the eight sit in the three categories that sell to a buying committee rather than to an individual: support agents, sales and marketing agents, and agent platforms. The exception is PolyAI, a voice agent.

Where the unpriced tiers cluster

Category	At least one unpriced tier	Publishes every price
Sales & marketing agents	7 of 8	1 of 8
Agent platforms	11 of 15	4 of 15
Voice agents	8 of 11	3 of 11
Support agents	6 of 9	3 of 9
Research & data agents	7 of 11	4 of 11
Coding agents	16 of 24	8 of 24
Agent frameworks	8 of 14	6 of 14
Agent tools & infrastructure	1 of 2	1 of 2

Sales and marketing agents are the least readable category in the index: 7 of the 8 leave something unpriced, and the one exception is Warmly. Coding agents are the largest category and land mid-table, with 8 of 24 publishing a complete ladder, though not one coding agent hides its prices entirely.

(Sierra and Botsify each belong to two categories and are counted once in each, so these rows describe 94 category memberships across 92 distinct tools. Both have an unpriced tier, which is why the first column sums to 64 rather than 62.)

The licence does not predict the price list

Agent frameworks are the most transparent category of any real size, and even there only 6 of 14 publish a complete ladder. A framework’s core is usually free and open source, so there is nothing to hide at the bottom of the page. The opacity is entirely in the managed tier bolted on top.

The licence itself does not move the number much. Of the 32 tools we can confirm are open source, 21 have at least one unpriced tier, against 40 of the 59 we can confirm are closed source. That is 66% against 68%, a gap of two tools’ worth on these sample sizes. Whatever decides how much of a price list a vendor publishes, it is not whether the code is open.

For one tool, MindStudio, we could not determine the licence from public sources. It is excluded from both figures rather than counted as closed.

What “unpriced” means here, exactly

A tier counts as unpriced when the vendor displays no figure for it. The full vocabulary we found across those 69 tiers is short, and every instance is one of these: some form of Custom (60, counting Custom pricing and three contact-sales variants), Usage-based (3), Pay-as-you-go (2), On Request (1), Azure/Foundry consumption (1), Existing capacity (1) and Free tier + paid (1).

Three clarifications, because each cuts against an obvious reading:

Free counts as published. A tier displaying Free or $0 tells you exactly what it costs, so it sits in the priced column. This is not a count of tools that charge money. The single Free tier + paid entry is the exception and counts as unpriced, because it confirms a free entry point exists without saying what the paid half costs.

Usage-based is not automatically unpriced. A tool that publishes $0.99 per resolution or $0.07 per minute has told you its rate, and it counts as priced even though the bill varies. Only the five tiers that name a usage model without naming a rate, the Usage-based and Pay-as-you-go entries above, fall in the unpriced column.

A floor price counts as published. Nine of the 297 tiers are written as From $X, which tells you the least it can cost and not the most. We count those as priced, because a floor is a figure a buyer can budget against, and we say so here rather than burying the choice.

Method, and what this number is not

Counted on 19 August 2026 against the 93 published listings in The Agents Index. 92 of those 93 record a pricing ladder, so every denominator on this page is 92, or a category subtotal of it. The one exclusion is Goose, which currently carries no pricing tiers at all. It is left out rather than counted as publishing nothing, because an empty record is a gap in our research and not a finding about the vendor.

Tier data is read from each vendor’s own public pricing page and re-checked as part of our normal listing maintenance. Both ends of the range are read the same way: the fully published ladder at cursor.com, and the single unpriced tier at sierra.ai. We record what the page displays, so a price available only by logging in, or quoted in a sales deck, is not in this count. Currency is not normalised: three of the 297 tiers are priced in euros rather than dollars, and they count as priced.

This is a census of our index, not a survey of the market. The Agents Index is a curated selection rather than a complete enumeration of every AI agent product that exists, so read every figure here as being about these 92 tools, on this date. The counts move as the index grows and as vendors change their pages, which is why this page states the date it was counted.

If you want the underlying field, every listing’s datasheet shows its tiers directly, alongside the deployment, pricing-model and entry-price figures these counts sit next to.