TL;DR
- Our ai agent pricing sits at $99 + GST per month. Flat. No hidden tiers, no per-seat nonsense.
- No contract means you can leave any month. That keeps us honest and keeps you in control.
- 10 free calls hard-stops the trial. Enough to prove value. Not enough to abuse the infrastructure.
Our ai agent pricing is $99 + GST per month, no contract, with a hard stop at 10 free calls on any trial. Every part of that decision was deliberate.
Why does ai agent pricing need to be a flat monthly number?
Complexity in pricing is a trust killer, especially for Aussie SMBs who've been burned by SaaS before.
Most voice AI platforms have pricing that reads like a phone plan from 2009. Per-minute rates. Per-seat fees. Overage bands. Usage-based tiers that look cheap until the invoice arrives.
We built for finance brokers, insurance operators, and small accounting firms. These are people running lean teams. They need to know what something costs before they say yes. Not after.
Flat monthly. One line on the invoice. That's the whole point.
For context on what infrastructure actually sits behind a production voice AI build, see how the signup pipeline turns a URL into a live agent. The underlying cost discipline starts there.
Why $99 and not something higher or lower?
$99 + GST lands below the "do I need to get sign-off" threshold for most operators, while covering real infrastructure costs.
There's a psychological line in B2B purchasing. Below it, an operator pays with a card and gets started. Above it, they need a meeting, a proposal, maybe a finance approval.
$99 + GST clears that line for most small businesses. It's not trivial, so they take it seriously. But it's not so large that it triggers procurement drag.
It also reflects an honest view of what a predictable infrastructure cost should look like for a single-agent deployment. We're not subsidising access at a loss. We're not padding margin either.
If you want to see what cost discipline looks like applied to a real client build, the breakdown in how we cut a finance broker's lead qual cost from $42 to $1.20 shows the same thinking applied at the call level.
Why no contract?
No contract is a discipline tool. It forces us to ship something worth keeping every single month.
Long contracts in AI automation are a red flag. If a vendor needs a 12-month lock-in to make the unit economics work, the product isn't good enough yet. They're buying time to fix it on your dime.
No contract means you can leave at the end of any billing month. That's intentional. It keeps us accountable in a way that a contract never could.
The ACMA's guidance on unsolicited communications is worth reading if you're thinking about voice AI and compliance. We're across it. You should be too. Clients who understand their obligations make better partners.
No lock-in also matters for a sector like finance broking or real estate, where business conditions shift fast. Locking operators into annual terms during a rate cycle or a regulatory change is not a good look.
Why hard stop at 10 free calls?
10 calls is enough to show whether the agent works for your lead type. It's not enough to run a production workflow indefinitely on a free account.
Trials without limits create two problems. First, the infrastructure runs at a loss. Second, the operator never commits deeply enough to actually evaluate the tool properly.
A hard stop at 10 calls forces a real decision. You've heard the agent in action. You've seen how it handles your leads. Now decide.
Here's what the 10-call trial is designed to test:
- Does the agent handle your most common inbound question without breaking?
- Does it transfer or escalate correctly when a caller wants a human?
- Does the call data land in your CRM the way you expected?
- Does it sound like something you'd be comfortable putting your business name on?
- Is the setup effort worth the output for your volume?
That's a genuine evaluation. Not a demo. Not a slideshow. Real calls on your actual leads.
Why does this pricing structure actually work?
It removes the usual blockers: complexity, lock-in risk, and trial abuse, without removing the commitment signal.
Most operators who've looked at voice AI before have had a bad experience. Either the pricing was opaque, the contract was too long, or the trial was so limited it told them nothing.
This structure is designed around how Aussie SMBs actually make purchasing decisions. Quick to start. Easy to evaluate. Simple to justify internally. No nasty surprises.
AI agent pricing that's honest about its own limitations earns more trust than pricing that hides behind complexity. That's the whole model.
Key Takeaways
- $99 + GST per month is flat, predictable, and sits below the approval threshold for most small operators.
- No contract keeps the vendor honest. If the product stops delivering, you stop paying. That's how it should work.
- The 10-call hard stop gives you a real evaluation, not a gimmick, and protects the infrastructure from being treated as free forever.
If you're running a finance, insurance, accounting, or real estate business and want to know whether this ai agent pricing structure makes sense for your setup, DM AUDIT and I'll send you the five questions we use to figure that out before we build anything.
Originally published at theautomate.io.
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