How Much Does AI Chatbots Software Cost in 2026?
AI Chatbots software is billed as a flat monthly fee, typically $0 to $300 per month across 10 tools; billed per user, typically $0 to $325 per user/month across 6 tools. 14 of the 20 tools we track offer a free tier.
What you will actually pay
- Cheapest paid plan: Microsoft Copilot at $1.99 per month.
- Typical spend: $45 per month, the median across the 10 tools billed as a flat monthly fee in this category.
AI Chatbots pricing, cheapest first
| Product | Price range | Billing unit | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral AI | $0–$24.99 | user/month | Yes |
| HuggingChat | $0–$50 | month | Yes |
| Runway ML Chat | $0–$76 | per editor per month | Yes |
| Google Gemini | $0–$99.99 | month | Yes |
| You.com | $0–$110 | month | Yes |
| Character.ai | $0–$119.88 | month | Yes |
| ChatGPT | $0–$200 | user/month | Yes |
| Claude | $0–$200 | user/month | Yes |
| Poe | $0–$249.99 | month | Yes |
| Perplexity AI | $0–$325 | user/month | Yes |
| HuggingFace Chat | $0.03–$20 | month | — |
| Microsoft Copilot | $1.99–$25.2 | month | — |
| Le Chat (Mistral) | $5.99–$24.99 | month | — |
| Grok | $8–$300 | month | — |
| Chatsonic | $19–$299 | month | — |
| Jasper Chat | $59–$69 | month/ seat | — |
All 20 ai chatbots products · Compare every tier side by side
01 How much does ai chatbots software cost?
AI Chatbots software is billed as a flat monthly fee, typically $0 to $300 per month across 10 tools; billed per user, typically $0 to $325 per user/month across 6 tools. 14 of the 20 tools we track offer a free tier.
02 What is the cheapest ai chatbots software?
The lowest paid entry point we track is Microsoft Copilot at $1.99 per month. 14 tools also offer a free tier, including Character.ai, ChatGPT, Claude — free plans are usually capped on seats, usage or features rather than being time-limited.
03 Why do ai chatbots prices vary so widely?
Because the tools are not billed the same way. 10 are billed as a flat monthly fee at $0–$300 per month, and 6 are billed per user at $0–$325 per user/month. Those numbers are not directly comparable — a $50 per-user plan and a $50 flat plan cost very different amounts at 20 seats, so compare within a billing model, not across them.
04 Is there free ai chatbots software?
Yes — 14 of 20 ai chatbots tools we track have a plan at $0: Character.ai, ChatGPT, Claude, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, and 8 more. Check whether each is a permanent free plan or a time-limited trial before committing; each product profile records which.
05 How does CostBench verify these ai chatbots prices?
Every price on this page is read from the vendor's own public pricing page and re-checked on a schedule, with the verification date recorded per product. Ranges show the 90th-percentile high rather than the maximum, and outliers more than 20× the category median are held out of the headline range so a single enterprise contract value cannot distort it — those products still appear in the table below with their verified prices.