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AI Agent Pricing Index, October 2026
Price in Research & data agents
$20a month
Cheaper than 5 of the other 8 agents with a monthly price.
Price checked 26 September 2026.
What we checked on Undermind
Done-for-you service
Mostly self-serve software, but the Enterprise page also offers a delivered custom research platform built by Undermind's own team within weeks.
Fast deployment: Within weeks, our team delivers custom builds tailored to your unique needs and data sources
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Runs autonomously
The deep search plans its own query sequence, follows citations and authors and decides itself when to stop, with no human step between submission and result.
Runs a deep literature review from an open-ended research goal and produces a ranked list of papers with a written synthesis. Plans its own searches,…
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Multi-agent
Undermind is the research layer another agent orchestrates over MCP; it does not advertise several Undermind agents coordinating on one task.
MCP integration: Undermind plugs in as a literature research layer for the agentic systems your teams are building
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Agent permissions
Scope is agreed up front through follow-up questions rather than by approving individual actions; no per-action permission model is published.
Undermind asks follow-up questions to understand exactly what you need.
Claude
Published Claude connector, one-click setup, plus documented Claude Code CLI install.
Open Undermind in Claude’s connector directory. If the button does not open it, paste https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/undermind into your…
GPT
Named as the reasoning engine only in the January 2024 whitepaper, which the homepage itself labels the v1 engine; no current page names any model provider.
It uses a language model (GPT-4) as a reasoning engine at key steps in a structured exploration process.
Model choice
The vendor assigns models by plan rather than letting the buyer choose: Free gets strong models, Pro gets the latest ones, and no model picker is documented anywhere.
The latest, most powerful AI models
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In your editor
Documented MCP setup covers Cursor, VS Code and GitHub Copilot in VS Code, so the research tools run inside the editor you already use.
This adds Undermind to VS Code as an MCP server.
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On the command line
There is no Undermind CLI of its own; terminal use comes through agent CLIs such as Codex and Claude Code, which you configure with the MCP endpoint.
codex mcp add undermind --url https://mcp.undermind.ai/mcp --oauth-client-id codex
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In a browser
The primary product is a browser web app that organisations can deploy to teams without any engineering work.
Easily deploy Undermind's AI-based literature research capabilities to your teams, available right in the web browser.
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Self-hosted
Every delivery shape on the site is Undermind-hosted: a web app, a hosted MCP endpoint and an enterprise cloud with its own access controls; no bring-your-own-infrastructure option is offered.
Secure Cloud Encryption in transit and at rest, with strict access controls. Trusted by dozens of leading research companies and verified by…
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Open source
Closed source: the Terms forbid derivative works and reverse engineering, and no repository, licence or source distribution is published anywhere on the site.
you shall not modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Site
How it meters
Billing is per person per month on a plan, with compute rather than credits as the differentiator between Free, Pro and Enterprise tiers.
per person per month, billed annually
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Free tier
A standing $0 plan exists with self-serve signup, no sales call, though it searches abstracts and metadata rather than full texts.
Free For exploratory research $0
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API access
An Undermind API with programmatic queries and batch processing is offered to organisations via sales; no public API documentation or self-serve key is published.
Programmatic queries via API
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MCP server
A hosted MCP server at mcp.undermind.ai exposes deep search, PDF reading and workspace tools, and the Free plan row already includes agent connection.
Yes. Undermind provides an MCP server, so you can connect the AI assistants and coding agents you already use.
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Bring your own key
No tier offers your own model keys, your own inference or your own cloud; the top tier's published differentiators are compute, org login, onboarding, admin, terms, pricing and support.
Increased compute Sitewide organizational login Onboarding seminars Admin dashboard Custom terms/SLA/security review Custom pricing Dedicated support
A company can buy it
A Team plan with centralised billing is purchasable directly, and Enterprise agreements with custom terms are offered above it.
Centralized billing
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Seat model
Team is priced per person per month with a seat-count selector on the card, and the published rate is the same whether you buy Pro or Team seats at academic annual pricing.
On the page: Pricing section, Team plan price cell subtitle
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Pooled budget
There is no shared balance to pool: entitlement is a per-user rate limit on searches and requests, not a team allowance.
Rate limits may apply to the use of our services, restricting the number of searches or requests per user within a given timeframe to ensure fair…
Admin controls
Enterprise adds an admin dashboard and member management on Team, but no page describes constraining what the agent itself may do.
On the page: Pricing section, Enterprise plan feature list under 'All features in Team, plus:'
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Audit log
Admins receive usage reports on member accounts, but no audit log of administrative action appears in the Enterprise feature list or the security overview.
may receive reports regarding use of the Site by those Accounts, and may use any other administrative controls the applicable plan provides.
Single sign-on
Enterprise offers sitewide organisational login and says an existing enterprise IdP can stay the sign-in path, but SAML and OIDC are never named.
SSO with your existing enterprise IdP
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Opt out of training
A no-training guarantee is stated for enterprise R&D data, covering model providers too, but the vendor makes no equivalent statement for Free, Pro or Team users.
Your company's proprietary R&D data stays isolated, is never used to train AI models, and our model providers never retain or train on it.
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Data residency
United States storage, with SCCs for EEA/UK/Swiss transfers; no choice of region is offered.
We process and store personal data in the United States.
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Getting out
You own inputs and outputs and can demand complete deletion at any time, but no bulk export path is documented and workspace files are only reachable through the app or MCP tools.
You own your inputs and outputs, we provide the software. Request complete removal of your organization's data at any time.
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Certifications
No SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR certification is claimed; the published assurance is third-party penetration testing with a letter of attestation under NDA.
Documentation: Letter of Attestation / pentest report available under NDA.
Undermind price and terms
Terms
- Free plan
- YesYes
The terms in full
Free plan at $0 for exploratory research: strong AI models for chat, deep searches and reports, shared workspaces, agent connection, and 'Standard rate limits on chats and searches'. Search covers abstracts and metadata only - full-text search of open access and preprint articles requires Pro.
What needs a higher plan
- Enterprise
- Done-for-you service, API access, Admin controls, Single sign-on, Opt out of training
For AI agents
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- PartlyEnterprise
Where these prices come from
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Undermind alternatives
All 9 alternatives- This spot is openBe the first agent people see on Undermind's page.
- First on your rivals' pages
- Top of your category
- First in the home page list
- First in search results
- In comparisons and guides
- In the weekly newsletter
- Visits and AI reads each month
7 more alternatives
All 9 publish a price.
- ManusFree, then $20 a monthGeneral-purpose AI agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks on its own cloud computer.
- GensparkFree, then $24.99 a monthAll-in-one AI workspace with an autonomous Super Agent plus agents for slides, docs, media and code.
- SpecStreamFrom $19 a monthResearch engine that builds list datasets from the live web, priced per matching row.
- GPT ResearcherFreeOpen-source autonomous research agent that writes cited long-form reports from web and local sources.
Questions about Undermind
- How much does Undermind cost?
- Undermind is free to use. From undermind.ai/#pricing, checked 26 September 2026.
- Does Undermind have an API or an MCP server?
- It has an API on Enterprise. It has an MCP server.
- Is Undermind open source, and can you host it yourself?
- It is not open source. You cannot host it yourself.
- What have we checked on Undermind?
- 27 facts, under these headings: What it does, how much it does unattended, which models it runs on, where you use it, whose machine it runs on, what it costs to run, buying it for a team, what happens to your code.
- How do we check Undermind?
- We hold 27 facts on Undermind, quoted from 10 pages. Facts and price last checked 26 September 2026.
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