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AI Agent Pricing Index, October 2026
Price in Agent platforms
$37a month
Pricier than 13 of the other 21 agents with a monthly price.
Price checked 9 September 2026.
What we checked on Pickaxe
Done-for-you service
Pickaxe is software a buyer runs, but its own team will do the building: Custom Support offers a free 15-minute consultation, hands-on workspace and agent configuration, integration setup and even backend changes, sold as paid one-on-one sessions from $30 rather than a managed engagement.
Custom Support is hands-on, one-on-one help from the Pickaxe team. Instead of figuring everything out through trial and error, you work directly with…
Runs autonomously
Standard agents only act when a user writes to them; unattended scheduled runs arrive with Agentic Runtimes, which the docs mark as beta and gated behind a call with the vendor.
agents can run on a schedule, kicking off tasks automatically at set intervals (hourly, daily, weekly, or any cron expression) without anyone needing…
Multi-agent
Agents can be chained: one agent is connected as another's Action so a triage agent routes to specialists, which is also the vendor's recommended way past its four-action guidance.
create a waterfall setup — a primary agent that routes to other agents, each with their own focused set of actions
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Agent permissions
Control is up-front rather than interactive: you scope what an agent may do with trigger prompts and by choosing whether an Action runs through your account or the end user's, with no documented approval prompt before it fires.
Each action has its own trigger prompt where you specify the exact conditions that should cause it to fire.
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Claude
Anthropic is one of the providers in the model catalogue and Claude models appear as selectable options per agent, billed through Pickaxe credits rather than your own Anthropic account.
Build with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and more, all in one platform.
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GPT
OpenAI is named first among the catalogue's providers and GPT and ChatGPT model cards are selectable in the builder, with cost per model shown on the same page.
On the page: Models page, hero copy above the model grid
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Open models
Open-weight families such as GLM, DeepSeek and Kimi are offered in the catalogue, but they run on Pickaxe's infrastructure and are billed in credits, so you are not running the weights yourself.
Z.ai's flagship open model for complex reasoning, coding, tool use, and long-context agent workflows.
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Model choice
You choose the model per agent and can swap it at any time without rebuilding the agent, and the vendor makes not being locked to one provider an explicit selling point.
Building on Pickaxe means you're never locked in — when a better or cheaper model comes along, you can switch to it in seconds without changing…
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In your editor
There is no Pickaxe editor extension; instead the hosted MCP server exposes the workspace as tools inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code, which needs a workspace API key that Gold bills per request.
Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, or any other MCP client straight to your Pickaxe workspace.
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On the command line
A published CLI drives the whole account from a terminal, creating agents, syncing knowledge bases and configuring deployments, and is built for a coding agent to run on your behalf.
A powerful command-line interface that gives you full control over your Pickaxe account.
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In a browser
Everything is built in a browser: a visual agent builder plus hosted portals, pages and direct links your customers open on the web, optionally on your own domain.
Design, configure, and deploy custom AI agents in minutes. Set role instructions, choose from 50+ models, connect knowledge bases, and add actions —…
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How it meters
Billing pairs a flat monthly plan fee with dollar-denominated credits consumed per generated output: Gold at $37 a month includes $15 of credits and Pro at $147 includes $50, credits replenish every 30 days without stacking, and API calls on Gold are metered at one cent per request.
On the page: Compare all features table, Credits row across the Gold, Pro and Business columns
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Price per 1,000 requests
$10 per 1,000 requests in Gold, its cheapest mode.
Agent & Workspace API | 1¢/req
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Free credit
$5 of free usage, a month.
Every user gets $5 of usage when they sign up for a free account. This allowance replenishes monthly, on the 30-day anniversary of their sign-up date.
Free tier
A free account can be used without a sales call and carries a $5 monthly usage allowance that replenishes every 30 days, so agents can be built and run before any payment; paid plans raise that allowance to $15 or $50 a month.
On the page: How much usage do I get? section
API access
A REST endpoint per agent exists on every paid plan, but on entry-level Gold each call is billed at a penny on top of the plan, and it is only included from Pro upward.
Agent & Workspace API at 1¢/req
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MCP server
Another agent can drive the workspace through a hosted MCP server at a single address, authenticating with a workspace, personal or deployment key, and can run any agent without deploying it first.
On the page: Pickaxe MCP Server docs page, opening paragraph
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Bring your own key
Model inference is always resold through Pickaxe credits: the vendor rules out bringing your own model keys, so you cannot put spend on your own provider account.
Pricing flows through Pickaxe credits — no BYOK, no surprise model-provider invoices.
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A company can buy it
A Business tier is sold to companies with collaborators, custom credit packages and dedicated support, though it is bought through a call and carries a six-month minimum commitment.
For companies and teams building custom solutions together.
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Seat model
Not seat-priced: a flat plan fee with a collaborator ceiling per workspace, one on Gold, four on Pro, five or more on Business, so extra builders mean a tier change rather than an extra seat.
Include up to 1 collaborator per Workspace
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Pooled budget
One balance for the whole workspace: every end-user interaction is drawn from the owner's credits, which is why per-user wallets and access-group limits exist to cap them.
Yes, when an end-user of your tool uses your agent, it counts against your credits.
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Admin controls
Owners restrict what agents may do for whom: access groups decide which deployments a user reaches, each user gets a usage budget, and users can be banned by email or IP.
Assign a per-user wallet — a usage budget in credits or uses.
Audit log
What is recorded is end-user activity: conversations, action runs and spend per user, which the vendor calls an audit trail. No immutable log of administrative actions is documented.
Complete interaction tracking, usage pattern monitoring, and detailed analytics. Maintain the audit trails your compliance team needs for procurement…
Single sign-on
SSO is tier-gated and end-user-facing: signed-token Embed SSO from Pro, 'advanced SSO' only on Business, and the vendor never names SAML or OIDC on any page.
Advanced SSO & user management
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Opt out of training
The terms reserve the right to train on prompts and outputs and exempt only Pro members for as long as they stay on Pro; uploaded documents are always excluded, and there is no self-serve toggle.
Pickaxe will not train models on any data generated by members of the Pro tier during the time that they retain Pro tier membership.
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Getting out
The CLI pulls a local copy of agents, deployments and documents, and bought credits never expire, but plan credits reset each cycle without stacking and nothing is refundable on cancellation.
Any additional credits that you buy will never expire and roll over to any month.
Certifications
The vendor claims a SOC 2 examination plus GDPR and CCPA compliance, with reports offered to enterprise customers through a Trust Center whose link did not resolve when tested.
SOC 2 examined, GDPR and CCPA compliant, with enterprise SSO and end-to-end encryption.
Pickaxe price and terms
Terms
- Free plan
- YesYesA free account carries $5 of usage allowance that replenishes every 30 days from the signup date
The terms in full
paid Gold and Pro plans raise that monthly allowance to $15 and $50. The pricing page itself lists only the three paid plans.
What needs a higher plan
- Business
- A company can buy it, Single sign-on
- Pro
- Opt out of training
For AI agents
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Partly
Pricing page, captured
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Pickaxe alternatives
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7 more alternatives
8 of the 9 publish a price.
- DustFree, then about $34 a seat a monthPlatform for building and running company agents on connected tools, data and 20+ models.
- GumloopFrom $37 a monthMultiplayer AI agent builder: teams build agents over their apps while IT keeps governance and spend control.
- DifyFree, then $59 a monthVisual platform for agentic workflows and RAG, on Dify Cloud, your VPC or self-hosted.
- ManusFree, then $20 a monthGeneral-purpose AI agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks on its own cloud computer.
Questions about Pickaxe
- How much does Pickaxe cost?
- Pickaxe is free to use. From pickaxe.co/pricing, checked 29 October 2026.
- Does Pickaxe have an API or an MCP server?
- It has a limited API. It has an MCP server.
- What have we checked on Pickaxe?
- 27 facts, under these headings: What it does, how much it does unattended, which models it runs on, where you use it, what it costs to run, buying it for a team, what happens to your code.
- How do we check Pickaxe?
- We hold 27 facts on Pickaxe, quoted from 14 pages. Facts and price last checked 29 October 2026.
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