7 Best AI Agents for Small Business: Uses and Pricing

AI can write an email or a marketing plan, but there is a lot more you can delegate now. The best AI agents for small business connect to your apps, carry out work, and keep recurring jobs moving without making you copy everything into a chat.

For everyday admin, I like Lindy. Okara focuses on marketing, while Marblism gives you ready-made AI employees. Gumloop is the pick for custom automations, and Manus handles complete projects. For an ongoing AI team, look at Grok Bot, or Vellum if you want to choose the models behind it.

These are different ways to get work off your plate. An assistant that manages your inbox solves a different problem from an agent that builds a business app. Here is what each one does, where I would use it, and what it costs.

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Best AI agents for small business: quick comparison

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What can AI agents do for a small business?

An AI agent can use connected tools to carry out a task instead of stopping at a written answer. That might mean researching an incoming lead, passing it to the right person, and attaching the background information they need.

Some agents specialize in one part of your business, such as marketing. Others act as a general assistant, build reusable workflows, or coordinate a team of agents with different jobs.

The useful distinction is how you want to delegate. You can describe a task in plain English, choose an existing employee role, build an automation around your own process, or hand over an entire project. The seven tools below cover those different approaches.

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1. Lindy: best for everyday admin

Lindy connects to the apps your business already uses. You can talk to it directly or mention it in Slack, and it uses context from those connected tools to carry out the task.

That removes a frustrating part of using a regular chatbot: gathering information from several apps, pasting it into the conversation, and explaining the situation again. With Lindy, you describe what you need in plain English, and it can work across multiple apps to get it done.

Its strongest fit is the admin that fills up your day. Lindy can manage your inbox, draft replies in your voice, schedule meetings, record calls, and help with follow-up. For recurring work, you can set up scheduled routines rather than asking for the same thing every morning.

It also keeps context across conversations, so each request does not start from scratch. Key actions, including sending emails or publishing something, can still require your approval.

I like Lindy for business owners and small teams whose work is spread across a bunch of apps. You already have the software; you need help keeping up with what is happening inside it. If meeting records are your main priority, our guide to the best AI meeting note takers covers more focused options.

Lindy starts at about $30 per user per month with 3,000 credits. More demanding tasks use more of that allowance, so the value depends on the work you delegate, not just the number of requests.

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2. Okara: best for AI marketing

Okara calls itself your AI CMO, or chief marketing officer. Its appeal goes beyond writing social posts: it helps identify marketing work worth doing, then helps you do it.

For search visibility, Okara can track questions people ask AI search engines and see whether your brand appears. When competitors show up instead, it suggests content for those questions. You get a specific topic to work on rather than staring at a blank content calendar.

It can also help fix your website. When its SEO audit finds a technical problem, a coding agent can write the change and send it to GitHub for review. You do not have to figure out the entire fix yourself before anything can happen.

There is an influencer agent too. It finds creators on X, handles outreach, and tracks campaign submissions and payments. That gives you a way to promote your product through creators without personally managing every conversation.

Okara is the most expensive starting subscription in this list, with paid plans from $108 per month and a free way to try it. I still think the price is worth it for a business that can use these capabilities. Content opportunities, technical SEO work, and creator campaigns are substantial jobs.

Choose Okara when marketing is the bottleneck. Lindy is a better fit for broad daily admin; Okara is more focused on getting your business found and promoted.

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3. Marblism: best for ready-made AI employees

Marblism is worth a look if keeping your social accounts active is the job you keep putting off. It also helps with sales and answering the phone through prebuilt employee roles.

Sunny can create social posts, make visuals using your brand assets, and schedule the content. Stan finds potential customers, researches them, and writes personalized outreach. He can follow up and handle the back and forth too.

Rachel answers your business phone. She can manage your calendar, book an appointment during a call, or transfer the call to you when someone needs you. A customer does not have to wait until you finish another job and call them back.

I love that you do not have to build an agent for every role. That can be overwhelming, especially if you are running the business yourself. Marblism gives you defined jobs that are ready to go, while keeping you in control with approval over the work.

The tradeoff is the approach. If you want to start with recognizable roles, Marblism simplifies the setup. If you want to design an automation around a very specific process, Gumloop gives you more control over how that process works.

Marblism starts at $44 per month when billed monthly. Annual billing brings the price down to $24 per month. It is an approachable option for a business owner who wants help across several functions without designing every agent from scratch.

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4. Gumloop: best for custom AI workflow automation

Gumloop is for the business owner who keeps thinking, "Surely I should not be doing this manually again."

You decide what the agent should do and connect the relevant apps. That lets you fit an automation to the way your business works, rather than changing your process to suit a predefined employee role.

Take incoming leads. An agent can research the company, send the lead to the right person, and attach the background information. Your team receives a researched lead instead of another name they have to investigate before responding.

Customer feedback is another good example. Gumloop can group related problems, create support tickets, and spot patterns across reports. That is useful when feedback is arriving in pieces and someone has to organize it before the team can act.

Gumloop gives you a lot of freedom, but it also asks you to decide what the workflow should accomplish. Marblism is simpler if you want an existing role. Gumloop makes more sense when you already know which repeated process you want to automate.

The Pro plan starts at $37 per month with 20,000 credits. Usage depends on the models you choose and the tools your agents use. Those credits are not directly comparable with another platform's allowance, so focus on the cost of running your workflow.

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5. Manus: best for complete projects

Manus is an AI agent you can hand an entire project to. It can research, create files, and build things, so you get work back that you can use.

Say you have a spreadsheet of sales data. Manus can analyze it, make charts, and put the results into a webpage or presentation. You can move from a file full of numbers to something you can explain to your team without assembling each part yourself.

It also goes beyond a simple landing page when you ask it to build a website. Manus supports working apps with logins, databases, and payments. You can export the code too, so you are not locked into Manus long term.

That makes it interesting for business owners who want custom tools for themselves or their team. You can have it build web apps and mobile apps around what you need. Our comparison of AI vibe coding tools for business apps covers more options if app building is your main goal.

The difference from Gumloop is the kind of work you hand over. Gumloop fits a repeated process across apps. Manus fits a bigger project with a deliverable, such as an analysis, presentation, or custom application.

Manus costs $20 per month with 4,000 credits. You can upgrade to 8,000 credits for $40 per month. I would look at it when the work does not happen on a fixed schedule and you want an agent that can handle the project as a whole.

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6. Grok Bot: best for an always-on AI team

Grok Bot is an always-on home base for a team of AI agents. They have a computer in the cloud, so they can keep working when you close your laptop.

You can have a chief of staff coordinating specialists: one handles your inbox, another works on research, and another follows up with customers. They can message each other and share context, which saves you from copying information between separate conversations.

Unlike a fixed set of prebuilt employees, Grok Bot can create its own agents, or you can ask for specific ones. You can show a bot how to do a job, have it save the process as a routine, and let it remember the corrections you make for future runs.

That is what makes this approach powerful for ongoing business operations. You are building a team that learns how you want particular jobs done and continues running those jobs, rather than repeatedly starting a fresh conversation.

Access requires the $30 per month SuperGrok plan. I think that is a reasonable price for the kind of business work it can handle.

The catch is model choice. You are locked into Grok. If you build your system there and later want an OpenAI model behind it, you cannot simply switch. If that matters to you, Vellum is the next option to consider.

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7. Vellum: best for choosing your AI models

Vellum lets you choose the models behind your assistant, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Switching models does not mean starting over: your memories, files, and ongoing work stay in the same workspace.

You can assign different jobs to different models too. A stronger model can handle research while a cheaper one handles simpler background tasks. That gives you control over which model does the work instead of making one choice for your entire business.

Vellum can work across your apps, keep recurring jobs running, and delegate parts of a request to another agent. Research can happen alongside drafting, with the results coming back to your main assistant.

Whenever an exciting new model comes out, I want to use it. I need a system that can adapt rather than keeping me locked into one provider. That is why Vellum's model flexibility matters to me.

Vellum offers free self-hosting, with your own model usage paid separately. Its cloud subscriptions start at $30 per month, and higher subscriptions give you a more powerful computer.

The cloud route is the easier fit for most business owners. Self-hosting makes sense if you know how to set it up and want to run it yourself. Compared with Grok Bot, Vellum is the choice when keeping control over your model stack is a priority.

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Which AI agent should you choose?

Choose Lindy if your immediate problem is email, meetings, and admin spread across apps. Choose Okara if you need marketing help, especially with search visibility, SEO work, and creator outreach.

For a ready-made set of business roles, use Marblism. For a specific process you want to design yourself, use Gumloop. Manus is the better fit when you want to hand over a complete project and get a finished deliverable back.

If you want an ongoing team of agents, Grok Bot gives you that home base within the Grok ecosystem. Choose Vellum when you want the workspace and recurring work to stay intact as you change models.

Start with the job that is taking the most attention from your business. You do not need all seven subscriptions to get useful work done. If most of your work happens in the browser, you can also explore my picks for AI Chrome extensions for productivity.

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Frequently asked questions

How are small businesses using AI agents?

Small businesses can use AI agents to manage inboxes, schedule meetings, research leads, follow up with customers, create social content, answer calls, organize feedback, and complete research or app-building projects. The right tool depends on whether you want an assistant, a prebuilt employee, a custom workflow, or a broader agent team.

How much do AI agents for small business cost?

The paid options here start at $20 per month for Manus, around $30 for Lindy, Grok Bot, and Vellum cloud, $37 for Gumloop Pro, $44 for monthly Marblism, and $108 for Okara. Marblism's annual plan lowers its monthly equivalent to $24. Credit allowances, per-user charges, and separate model usage affect the total cost.

Do you need coding skills to use an AI agent?

You can delegate to Lindy in plain English or use Marblism's prebuilt employee roles without building an agent for every job. Gumloop gives you control over connected workflows. Vellum's cloud option avoids self-hosting, while running it yourself requires knowing how to set it up.

Which AI agent is best for marketing?

Okara is the marketing-focused pick for search visibility, content opportunities, technical SEO work, and influencer campaigns. Marblism is a good fit when your priority is having ready-made agents create and schedule social posts or handle sales outreach.

Can I switch the AI model my agents use?

Vellum supports model choice across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google while retaining your workspace context. Grok Bot keeps you inside the Grok model ecosystem. If you want to adopt new models without rebuilding your setup, that is a meaningful difference.