# Beam AI, Stack AI, Gumloop and more: which can you buy?

> Source: https://agentsindex.ai/blog/agent-automation-platforms-which-can-you-actually-buy

Comparison [Workflow automation](https://agentsindex.ai/categories/workflow-automation)

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.

[Team AgentsIndex](https://agentsindex.ai/authors/agentsindex) Published 28 Sep 2026 6 min read [Editorial policy](https://agentsindex.ai/editorial-policy)

![Beam AI, from $50 a month vs Stack AI vs Gumloop, from $37 a month vs BuildShip, from $19 a month.](https://agentsindex.ai/img/1024/heroes/agent-automation-platforms-which-can-you-actually-buy/f187f749fd35/list-16x9-800.webp)

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1. [Six vendors, one question: can you actually pay for this without talking to a salesperson?](#six-vendors-one-question-can-you-actually-pay-for-this-without-talking-to-a-salesperson)
2. [What each vendor will actually sell you today](#what-each-vendor-will-actually-sell-you-today)
3. [The two that won’t sell you anything self-serve](#the-two-that-wont-sell-you-anything-self-serve)
4. [The two with a paid floor, but no free tier and no middle rungs](#the-two-with-a-paid-floor-but-no-free-tier-and-no-middle-rungs)
5. [The one with an 80x cliff](#the-one-with-an-80x-cliff)
6. [The one with a real ladder](#the-one-with-a-real-ladder)
7. [Which one to actually buy](#which-one-to-actually-buy)

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## Six vendors, one question: can you actually pay for this without talking to a salesperson?

Our [earlier comparison of Zapier, Make, n8n, Activepieces, Pipedream and Trigger.dev](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/workflow-automation-where-each-platform-stops-being-free) covered the classic “connect app A to app B” automation tools: you wire the steps, the platform executes them. Beam AI, Stack AI, Gumloop, BuildShip, Toolhouse and Relevance AI are a different animal: you describe the outcome, and an LLM plans and executes the multi-step work itself. That’s a real capability difference, and it shows up in the pricing too. Agent-native platforms sell fewer, bigger plans, and several of them don’t sell self-serve at all.

We checked all six pricing pages today. The honest finding: three of the six will not let you buy anything meaningful without a sales call, one has a floor of $500/month, and one jumped its paid floor from $50 to $3,990/month with nothing in between. Only one has a real graduated ladder a small team can climb.

In this article

- [Gumloop](https://agentsindex.ai/gumloop) No-code builder for AI agents that connect to company apps, run on triggers and produce files.

## What each vendor will actually sell you today

| Vendor | Free tier | Cheapest paid, self-serve | Next step | Ceiling before “Custom” |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [BuildShip](https://agentsindex.ai/buildship) | None | Starter, $19/month (20,000 credits) | Pro, $59/month (100,000 credits) | Business, $449/month (300,000 credits) |
| [Gumloop](https://agentsindex.ai/gumloop) | None | Pro, $37/month (20,000 credits) | None | Enterprise (custom) |
| [Beam AI](https://agentsindex.ai/beam-ai) | 20 tasks/month | Pro, $50/month (200 tasks) | None | Scale, $3,990/month |
| [Stack AI](https://agentsindex.ai/stack-ai) | 500 runs/month | None | None | Enterprise (custom) |
| [Toolhouse](https://agentsindex.ai/toolhouse) | None (14-day trial, no card) | Business, $500/month (25,000 credits) | Business Max, $1,200/month (80,000 credits) | Enterprise (custom) |
| [Relevance AI](https://agentsindex.ai/relevance-ai) | None | None | None | Enterprise (custom, “Talk to sales” only) |

Sources: [beam.ai/pricing](https://beam.ai/pricing), [stack-ai.com/pricing](https://www.stack-ai.com/pricing), [gumloop.com/pricing](https://www.gumloop.com/pricing), [buildship.com/pricing](https://buildship.com/pricing), [toolhouse.ai/pricing](https://toolhouse.ai/pricing), [relevanceai.com/pricing](https://relevanceai.com/pricing). All checked 28 September 2026.

The credit and task units aren’t comparable across vendors: a Beam AI “task” is not a BuildShip “credit” is not a Gumloop “credit” (which is itself a composite of model tokens, tool calls, and compute time, billed at $0.005 each). What’s comparable is the shape of the ladder: how many rungs exist between free and a sales call, and how far apart they’re spaced.

## The two that won’t sell you anything self-serve

Relevance AI’s pricing page has exactly one plan card: Enterprise, and the only button on it is “Talk to sales.” No number appears anywhere on the page, not a starting price, not a per-seat figure, nothing. That’s a deliberate positioning choice: Relevance AI sells itself as an “embedded deployment team” that gets a company live with its first agents over six weeks, which is a consulting engagement, not a self-serve SaaS purchase.

Stack AI is more subtle because it does have a free tier: 500 runs/month, 2 projects, 1 seat, community Discord support. But there’s nothing between that and Enterprise. The pricing page’s own comparison table shows two columns: Free and Enterprise. If your free 500 runs run out and you need more without buying an entire enterprise contract (dedicated infrastructure, SSO, on-prem deployment, a solutions engineer), Stack AI has nothing to sell you.

## The two with a paid floor, but no free tier and no middle rungs

Gumloop dropped its free plan. The pricing page shows one paid tier (Pro at $37/month billed monthly, 20,000 credits) and then Enterprise. Gumloop’s own documentation is explicit that what looks like a free trial isn’t one in the traditional sense: “every new account starts with a 14-day free trial of Pro,” but the trial “requires a card… and rolls into a paid Pro subscription when it ends unless you cancel first.” That’s a paid product with a card-gated trial, not a free tier, and there’s no second self-serve paid plan: Pro is the only rung before a custom Enterprise quote.

Toolhouse’s floor is steeper. Its marketing copy says “start free,” but the cheapest plan actually on the pricing page is Business at $500/month for 25,000 credits and 50 “workers.” There’s a genuine 14-day trial with no credit card required, which is more generous than Gumloop’s, but once it ends the entry price to keep using the product is $500/month. Nothing lower is offered. Business Max at $1,200/month is the only rung before Enterprise.

## The one with an 80x cliff

Beam AI has the most dramatic gap in the group. Free gets you 20 tasks/month, enough to test the product, not to run anything real. Pro is $50/month for 200 tasks. Then the next tier, Scale, is $3,990/month, a roughly 80x jump in price for a plan Beam AI describes as adding “high-volume task execution” and three base integrations. There is no rung between a plan built for evaluating the product and one priced for enterprise-scale deployment.

## The one with a real ladder

BuildShip is the only vendor here with graduated, self-serve pricing a small team can actually climb: Starter at $19/month (20,000 credits, 20 flows, 10 AI agents), Pro at $59/month (100,000 credits, 150 flows, 50 agents), Business at $449/month (300,000 credits, 300 flows, 100 agents), then Enterprise. It dropped its own free tier at some point after our records were last checked (the current floor is the $19 Starter plan, not $0), but three priced tiers with roughly 3x, then 7.6x spacing between them is a real ladder compared to everyone else’s one-rung-then-a-cliff structure. Credits also top up separately at $0.0001 each ($10 per 100,000) on any plan, so a team that outgrows its monthly allowance isn’t forced to upgrade the whole plan just to finish a burst of work.

## Which one to actually buy

If the honest answer to “is there an affordable way into agent automation here” matters more than any single feature, BuildShip is the buyable option: three real self-serve price points, a top-up mechanism for usage spikes, and no sales call required until you’re past 300,000 monthly credits. Gumloop is the second-best buyable option: $37/month is affordable and self-serve, but it’s genuinely one tier; if you outgrow 20,000 credits, the next stop is a custom quote, not a next rung.

The other four are built for a different buyer. Beam AI and Toolhouse both want you to either stay small (20 tasks, or a short free trial) or commit to four-figure monthly spend. There’s no product built for the team in between. Stack AI and Relevance AI are, functionally, enterprise sales motions with a free trial or a demo bolted on the front; neither is set up to take a credit card from a mid-size team that wants to pay $200/month and scale from there.

None of this is a knock on the product quality of any of these six. Stack AI’s document-workflow focus, Relevance AI’s GTM-agent specialization, and Beam AI’s SOP-automation angle are all real, defensible positions for an enterprise buyer with a procurement team. But if the question is “can I swipe a card and start automating today without a sales call,” BuildShip is the answer, Gumloop is the fallback, and the other four are asking you to either stay tiny or pick up the phone.

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Last checked 11 November 2026

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