Else vs Sail Research
A side by side look at Else and Sail Research: pricing, features and what each one is best for.
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| Visit Else | Visit Sail Research | |
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| What it costs | ||
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Pricing details | Pay as you go with no subscription: top up a balance of $5, $20 or $100 that never expires, and each task spends from it at the rate of its tier. New accounts start with a free balance, no card needed. | Usage-based pricing per million tokens with no seat or subscription fee, and $5 of free credits monthly - rates vary by model and completion window, for example GLM-5.2 runs $0.80 input and $3.00 output per million tokens on asap, dropping to $0.40 and $1.80 on flex - cached input is billed separately - enterprise volume pricing is custom |
| Price range | Usage based, no flat monthly plan | Usage based, no flat monthly plan |
| Free option | Free trial only | Free tier |
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| What it is | ||
| What it does | Else is a pay-as-you-go AI agent: hand off reports, research, slides or a website, set a spending limit and get an itemized receipt. Top-ups start at $5. | Inference built for agents that run for hours, pricing latency tolerance as a dial and pairing it with persistent VM sandboxes for long-horizon workloads. |
What it costs
- Pricing
- Paid
- Pricing details
- Pay as you go with no subscription: top up a balance of $5, $20 or $100 that never expires, and each task spends from it at the rate of its tier. New accounts start with a free balance, no card needed.
- Price range
- Usage based, no flat monthly plan
- Free option
- Free trial only
- Plans
- Starter$5 once
- Everyday$20 once
- Power$100 once
What it is
- What it does
- Else is a pay-as-you-go AI agent: hand off reports, research, slides or a website, set a spending limit and get an itemized receipt. Top-ups start at $5.
What it costs
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Pricing details
- Usage-based pricing per million tokens with no seat or subscription fee, and $5 of free credits monthly - rates vary by model and completion window, for example GLM-5.2 runs $0.80 input and $3.00 output per million tokens on asap, dropping to $0.40 and $1.80 on flex - cached input is billed separately - enterprise volume pricing is custom
- Price range
- Usage based, no flat monthly plan
- Free option
- Free tier
- Plans
- Free$0/mo
- Pro$250/mo
- EnterpriseContact sales
What it is
- What it does
- Inference built for agents that run for hours, pricing latency tolerance as a dial and pairing it with persistent VM sandboxes for long-horizon workloads.
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What each one is actually like to use, tested by hand rather than summarised from the vendor’s own page.
