The analysis argues that enterprise AI agent prices are hard to compare because four of eight major providers (OpenAI, Meta, ServiceNow and Google Gemini Enterprise) publish no enterprise-agent price on their official pages. Meta lists only $2.00 per 1 million tokens for Business Agent replies on the WhatsApp Business Platform, roughly four to five cents per message, while the ServiceNow and Google figures are third-party estimates. Microsoft Copilot Studio sells a capacity pack of 25,000 Copilot Credits at $200.00 a month alongside pay-as-you-go Azure metering, and Salesforce Agentforce publishes Flex Credits at $500 per 100,000 credits, though its $2 per conversation price is now limited to existing customers. Because credits, conversations, actions and seats cannot be converted into one another, even these published rate cards do not allow agents to be ranked from public information.
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