# Research & Analysis — AgentsIndex

> Source: https://agentsindex.ai/blog (curated, sourced)

Data-driven research and analysis on the tools in this index, sourced reports built to be cited.

38 reports. Each links to its answer-first markdown twin.

- [AI agent tools that let you take your data out](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-agent-tools-that-let-you-take-your-data-out.md) (2026-10-23) — ClineFlow, AgentMail and Automater let you take your data out in full, while UI Discovery, AgentQL, Arcmira and Wash Bodega do so only in part.
- [Aissist.io review (2026): pricing, pros and cons](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/aissist-pricing-use-cases-alternatives.md) (2026-10-22) — Aissist.io resolves tickets inside your helpdesk, billed per interaction with a free plan; it suits smaller support teams but has no public API.
- [superbot review (2026): pricing, pros and cons, alternatives](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/superbot-pricing-use-cases-alternatives.md) (2026-10-22) — superbot runs errands, admin and scheduled tasks on your computer, free to start with paid credit plans, for busy people, but promises no uptime.
- [The best agent tools and integrations for developers](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/the-best-agent-tools-and-integrations-for-developers.md) (2026-10-18) — Arcade.dev, AgentQL and Chroma fit developers building agents best, each free to start; check where free plans stop and how agents sign in.
- [Daytona vs E2B vs Modal: Which Sandbox for Agent Code?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/daytona-vs-e2b-vs-modal.md) (2026-10-16) — Daytona, E2B and Modal compared on sandbox pricing, concurrency, GPU support and open-source status, plus why Daytona's flagship repo is now archived.
- [ChatGPT vs Claude: Which One Should You Use?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude.md) (2026-10-13) — ChatGPT vs Claude compared on free-tier features, pricing, and context window. Which one to pick depends on what you actually need.
- [Hyper review (2026): an autonomous coding agent that ships verified pull requests](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/hyper-review-autonomous-coding-agent.md) (2026-10-13) — Hyper plans, tests and delivers pull requests to your GitHub repository from an isolated cloud sandbox, with a verification check on each one and a hard spending cap on every run.
- [AI Marketing Agents: Which Produce Work You Can Ship](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-marketing-agents-that-ship-real-work.md) (2026-10-10) — Five AI marketing agents ranked on one test: does a human approve the output before it reaches a customer, or does it post on its own? Pricing and gaps.
- [ERIUS PHONE review (2026): pricing, pros and cons](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/erius-phone-ai-agent-android-device.md) (2026-10-09) — ERIUS PHONE rents AI agents real cloud Android phones they drive by API, priced monthly per phone in euros, but it offers no webhooks.
- [VeraDial vs CallingYouNow vs DialNexa vs Workforce Wave](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-receptionist-for-small-business-compared.md) (2026-10-07) — VeraDial, Workforce Wave, DialNexa, and CallingYouNow compared on real pricing and integrations, plus why VoiceFleet isn't a live product.
- [AI Design Agents for Teams Without a Designer](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-design-agents-for-teams-without-a-designer.md) (2026-10-04) — Gamma vs. Beautiful.ai for decks, and three ad-creative generators compared by cost per asset, verified against each vendor's own pricing page today.
- [Security AI Agents: What They Monitor and What They Miss](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/security-ai-agents-what-they-monitor-and-miss.md) (2026-10-01) — AI security agents do four jobs: runtime gateways, red-teaming, SOC detection and governance. Each has a published blind spot, so pick by the job.
- [Beam AI, Stack AI, Gumloop and More: Which Can You Buy?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/agent-automation-platforms-which-can-you-actually-buy.md) (2026-09-28) — We checked all six pricing pages today. Only BuildShip has a real self-serve ladder. The other five gate you behind a sales call or a $500+/month floor.
- [Which Browser Automation API Should You Build an Agent On?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/browser-automation-api-comparison.md) (2026-09-25) — Skyvern, Browserbase, Browser Use, Playwright MCP, Hyperbrowser, and TinyFish compared on credential handling, session isolation, and audits, not speed.
- [LiteLLM vs Portkey vs Helicone for Production Traffic](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/litellm-vs-portkey-vs-helicone-ai-gateway.md) (2026-09-22) — LiteLLM, Portkey and Helicone AI Gateway compared on license terms, real cost at volume and maintenance, now that Palo Alto Networks owns Portkey.
- [Search, Crawl or Extract: Which Web Data API to Use](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/search-vs-crawl-vs-extract-web-data-api.md) (2026-09-19) — Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Apify, Crawl4AI and AgentQL compared by job and by price at real usage, plus what Cloudflare's AI-crawler block means for them.
- [Agent-to-App Platforms: Composio, Nango, Merge and More](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/agent-to-app-connectivity-platform-comparison.md) (2026-09-16) — Composio, Nango, Arcade.dev, StackOne and Merge price usage three different ways. Which one is cheap for your workload, and which two are off the table.
- [Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel or Spellbook: Which Legal AI Tool?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/harvey-vs-legora-vs-cocounsel-vs-spellbook.md) (2026-09-13) — Harvey and Legora compete for the same enterprise buyer, CoCounsel is sold by practice area, and Spellbook reviews contracts in Word. Which fits which job.
- [No-Code AI Agent Builders: What You Give Up vs Code](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/no-code-ai-agent-builders-ownership-tradeoff.md) (2026-09-10) — Some no-code builders hand you exportable code; others keep your agent only in their database. Which is which, and what happens if the vendor shuts down.
- [Which AI Medical Scribe Now That Epic Ships Its Own?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-medical-scribe-vs-epic-native-ambient-ai.md) (2026-09-09) — Epic's Chart with Art is live at 300+ health systems. Here's how Abridge, Ambience, and Nabla actually compare now that Epic's native scribe has shipped.
- [AI Model Providers Compared: What One Workload Costs](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-model-providers-compared.md) (2026-08-28) — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, DeepSeek, Mistral and more compared on real per-token cost, context windows, and the rate limits that bite in production.
- [Vector Database or Memory Layer: Which Does Your Agent Need?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/vector-database-vs-memory-layer.md) (2026-08-19) — Vector databases and agent memory layers solve different halves of one problem. Which to pick, and the point where Postgres stops being enough.
- [AI Sales Agents a Small Team Can Actually Afford](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-sales-agents-small-team-budget.md) (2026-08-17) — What a 1-5 person sales team pays for an AI SDR in 2026: the real self-serve floor, the seat-minimum traps, and who stopped publishing prices.
- [AI Recruiting Tools and the EU AI Act: What Applies Now](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-recruiting-tools-eu-ai-act-deadlines.md) (2026-08-16) — The hiring high-risk deadline moved to 2 December 2027, but the emotion-recognition ban is already live. What four AI recruiting vendors disclose.
- [Workflow Automation for AI Agents: Where Free Tiers End](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/workflow-automation-where-each-platform-stops-being-free.md) (2026-08-15) — Zapier, Make, n8n, Activepieces, Pipedream and Trigger.dev meter in six different units. Which free tier survives real agent work, which runs out first.
- [AI coding agents compared: what each one is actually good at](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-coding-agents-what-each-is-good-at.md) (2026-08-14) — Every major coding agent now costs $20. We compare what that money actually buys, which projects are still maintained, and which tool fits which job.
- [AI Support Agents: What Each Costs per Resolved Chat](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/ai-customer-service-agents-cost-per-resolution.md) (2026-08-13) — Published prices for 21 AI support agents, converted to one comparable number: cost per conversation the AI closed on its own. Verified 13 Aug 2026.
- [Which AI Agent Frameworks Are Really Open Source?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/open-source-ai-agent-frameworks-licence-check.md) (2026-08-13) — Licenses, stars and last-commit dates for 15 AI agent frameworks, plus the four ways "open source" stops being true once you ship.
- [TinyFish Review: One API for Search, Extraction and Agents](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/tinyfish-review-web-automation-api.md) (2026-08-13) — TinyFish: one API for live web search, page fetching, cloud browsers and multi-step agents. What it does, how its pay-as-you-go pricing works, who it fits.
- [Best AI Coding Agents in 2026: 10 Tools Compared](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/best-ai-coding-agents.md) (2026-07-09) — The 10 best AI coding agents in 2026, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex and GitHub Copilot among them, compared by SWE-bench score, pricing and fit.
- [Best Free AI Agents: 10 Tools With Real Free Tiers](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/best-free-ai-agents-real-free-tiers.md) (2026-07-01) — Ten free AI agents with real free tiers and no trial bait, with current pricing and the limits and use cases that matter.
- [Google's A2A Protocol: How AI Agents Talk Across Frameworks](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/google-a2a-protocol-ai-agents.md) (2026-04-16) — Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol launched in April 2025 and grew past 150 supporters. How it works, how it differs from MCP, and its security findings.
- [Best AI Agents for Sales: Three Kinds and How to Choose](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/best-ai-agents-for-sales.md) (2026-04-10) — AI agents for sales split into 3 categories, not one. Compare 11x.ai, Artisan Ava, Apollo.io, Clay, and Coldreach AI by use case, price, and ROI.
- [Multi-Agent Systems: How They Work and When to Use Them](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/multi-agent-systems.md) (2026-04-06) — Multi-agent systems in 2026: hub-and-spoke, flat mesh and hierarchical designs, the MCP and A2A protocols, ROI benchmarks and how to pick an architecture.
- [AG2 vs CrewAI: A Full Comparison and the AutoGen Rebrand](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/autogen-vs-crewai.md) (2026-04-04) — AG2 (formerly AutoGen) vs CrewAI on architecture, pricing, benchmarks and enterprise readiness. CrewAI has 1.3M monthly installs; AG2 is free under MIT.
- [Types of AI Agents: A Complete Guide From Theory to Practice](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/types-of-ai-agents.md) (2026-03-29) — Ten types of AI agents: the five classical types from Russell and Norvig and five modern LLM-based ones, with examples and when to use each.
- [Cline vs Cursor: Which AI Coding Agent Should You Use?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/cline-vs-cursor.md) (2026-03-27) — Cline vs Cursor: an open-source agent you bring your own key to, against a proprietary AI IDE. Pricing, MCP Marketplace, background agents, which to pick.
- [CrewAI vs LangGraph: Which Framework Should You Build With?](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/crewai-vs-langgraph.md) (2026-03-21) — CrewAI gets a prototype running in about 20 lines of code. LangGraph leads in production with 34.5M monthly PyPI downloads. Which fits your use case.