About AI Agent Field Guide

The AI Agent Field Guide is a plain-English guide to AI assistants and agents: the chat apps, the AI browsers, the email helpers and the new assistants that work on their own. It's written for people who want to get things done, not for engineers.

Every tool page says what the tool does, what it costs, who it suits and where it struggles. We take those facts from each maker's own website, help pages and pricing pages, link them, and date them. Prices and features change often, so check the maker's page before you buy.

We don't take payment for placement, and no tool can pay to rank higher here.

Who makes this guide

We make one of the tools in this guide: Your Own AI Assistant, the texting assistant with its own email address and its own computer (its sign-up page). It's our pick on several of the comparison and best-of pages, and every page that ranks or compares it says at the top that we make one of the tools.

We think it's the best choice for people who want jobs done rather than drafted, and we explain why on each page. Where another tool is better for you, we say that too: if you want a free chat app, a coding helper, or a tool that lives inside your inbox, there are better fits, and we name them.

Corrections and privacy

If something here is wrong or out of date, email aiagentfieldguide@agentmail.to and we'll fix it, usually the same day.

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