Cofounder vs Relevance AI

Cofounder

• Solo founders and small teams launching an early-stage software company
• Founders who build the product themselves and want help with go-to-market
• Handing outreach, content and recurring operations to agents with approvals

Relevance AI

• Sales and support teams automating research, outreach and CRM updates
• Building multi-agent workflows on a visual canvas without code
• Organizations that want to bring their own model API keys

Cofounder

• There is no lasting free plan: after the 7-day trial, Cofounder Pro starts at $120 a month, and the terms bill usage-based charges in arrears.
• The Team Plan, planned at $100 per seat, is not yet available; the pricing page offers only a waitlist.
• The documentation says Cofounder is not intended to build or rebuild your core product, database, authentication or hosting stack.
• You cannot bring your own API key or a Codex or Claude Code subscription, according to the pricing FAQ.

Relevance AI

• The Free plan has been retired for new and existing accounts, so every organization needs a paid plan.
• Plan Actions reset at each renewal, and extra Actions cost $80 per 1,000.
• Calling and meeting agents and the analytics dashboard start at Team; SSO, RBAC and audit logs are Enterprise only.
• The website's pricing page lists only Enterprise; Pro and Team prices are published in the documentation.

Cofounder

Departments of agents

Work is split across departments, each with agents that have their own instructions, integrations and skills. Default agents cover engineering, marketing, design, sales, support, operations and finance.

Approvals before risky actions

Agents run several tasks in the background at once, and actions the vendor treats as potentially dangerous, such as incorporating an LLC or opening a bank account, wait for your approval.

Managed GitHub, Vercel and Supabase

Cofounder sets up and manages GitHub, Vercel and Supabase projects for you. Pro and Team users can claim ownership at any point, after which Cofounder no longer manages the configuration.

Sales and marketing work

Agents research customers, find and enrich prospects, send outreach from inboxes provisioned for them, run email campaigns and publish social posts, drawing on shared company context.

Routines

A routine is a repeating job for one agent, such as a daily status update, a weekly metrics review or a monthly cleanup checklist. An agent can have several.

CLI, MCP server and REST API

Besides the web app, your own agent can run a company through Cofounder's hosted MCP server, the cofounder command-line tool or the REST API, with API keys for scripting.

Relevance AI

Agents and Tools

Agents complete tasks on their own using Tools, which are assembled in a no-code builder from API calls, LLM prompts and custom code. Both are unlimited on every plan.

Workforces

A visual canvas connects specialist agents into a team, with AI-driven handoffs, fixed sequences or conditional logic deciding how work moves between them.

Invent

A built-in agent that works through a business process with you, then creates the Agents, Tools, Triggers and Workforces for it and proposes improvements after launch.

Chat on web and mobile

Agents and Workforces can be @mentioned in a chat interface at chat.relevanceai.com, in a desktop app, and in native Android and iOS apps.

Integrations and triggers

Native integrations ship with ready-made actions and triggers, and a Pipedream connection extends the catalog to 2,000+ services. Custom API calls cover the rest.

Actions and Vendor Credits

Plans count Actions, one each time an agent runs a Tool, separately from Vendor Credits, which pass model and tool costs through with no markup.

Cofounder

• Free TrialFree

  for 7 days

  Design system builder, landing page hosting, and strategy and analysis tools.

• Cofounder Pro$120

  per month, listed as a starting price

  For a founder running a company: SEO and ICP analysis, multiple agents, outbound and an email inbox, social post publishing, and an LLC incorporation add-on.

• Team Plan$100

  per seat; coming soon, billing period not shown

  Planned plan adding multiplayer access, SOC 2 and priority support. It is not on sale yet; the pricing page offers a waitlist.

Relevance AI

• Pro$19

  per month, billed annually; $29 billed monthly

  2,500 Actions and $20 of Vendor Credits a month, unlimited agents, tools and workforces, 2 build users, 1 project and your own API keys.

• Team$234

  per month, billed annually; $349 billed monthly

  7,000 Actions and $70 of Vendor Credits a month, 5 build users, 45 end users, 5 shared projects, calling and meeting agents and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom Actions and Vendor Credits, unlimited users and projects, agent evaluations, SSO, RBAC, audit logs and a dedicated account manager.

Cofounder

No public discounts listed.

Relevance AI

• Annual discount

  Save 33% with annual billing

  Relevance AI's documentation says annual billing saves 33% over the monthly rate: Pro is $19 a month instead of $29, and Team is $234 instead of $349.