Carly AI Pricing and Carly AI Cost per Seat With Credit Add-Ons

Carly AI costs $35 a month for one person on the Personal plan and $35 per seat a month on the Organization plan. Both prices are shown with "/month" on usecarly.com/pricing, and the page has no annual billing toggle or annual discount. That is $420 a year for one person and $420 per seat per year for a team. Enterprise is priced on a call.

Some directories describe the $35 as "billed annually". Carly's own pricing page does not say that, and its page description reads "AI agents from $35/month. Organization at $35 per seat/month." We use the vendor's wording here and treat $35 as a plain monthly price.

Two things on the Organization card are not in the $35. Business SMS and calling and the AI receptionist are add-ons billed separately from seats, and Carly asks you to book a call to set them up. No price is published for either.

The line that decides most purchases is simple. The Free plan gives you workflows and a calendar view but no agent of your own. The Personal plan is the full assistant for one person. Organization is the same assistant shared across a team, with one credit bucket and one bill.

Carly works with both Google and Microsoft calendars and mailboxes on every paid plan, and it speaks 80-plus languages. Unlike drafts-only assistants, Carly sends email itself: it reaches out, coordinates times with people outside your company and follows up, and sending email from its own account costs no credits.

Credits are how Carly estimates the work its agents do. The more complex the job, the more credits it uses, and Carly says plainly that there is no exact formula, because an agent can write its own code to turn a 100-action request into one action. What Carly does publish is the price of more credits, and that lets you work out a per-credit cost.

The last column is our arithmetic: the add-on price divided by the extra credits it buys. The Organization plan sells the same add-ons at the same prices (+200 credits for $30 up to +15,000 for $1,450) into its pooled bucket. Volume brings the rate down by about a third from the first step to the last.

Several things cost nothing at all. Carly lists four: an agent sending email from its own account, deterministic workflows with no AI step, and every Carly tool call made from Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client. When a workflow does use AI, to summarize, classify or draft, each call costs a flat 0.025 credits however much text it reads. That is 40 AI steps per credit, so the 200 included credits cover 8,000 AI workflow steps a month, and at the $0.15 add-on rate one AI step costs well under half a cent.

For workflows, very few. For agents that run recurring tasks on their own, potentially thousands. Carly's FAQ prices its own workflow examples, and every one of them fits inside the included 200 credits.

Run all six at once and you use roughly 38 credits a month. The allowance goes somewhere else. Carly's guidance says people spend the most credits in their first month, because setup is credit-intensive, and that recurring scheduled tasks are "the biggest eater of credits". It recommends running recurring tasks no more than daily and moving anything repeatable into a workflow instead.

So the honest way to size Carly is to start on Personal, watch the burn for a month after setup, and buy the add-on that matches your steady state. Credits are prepaid, and Carly states there is no auto-charge: if you run out, you buy more, and nothing is billed that you did not choose.

One line in Carly's FAQ changes the budget for heavy users: "If you want to use Carly without worrying about credits, we recommend the 7,500 credit/mo add-on." On the Personal plan that add-on is $825 a month, so the setup Carly itself suggests for carefree use costs $860 a month for one person, or $10,320 a year.

The middle rows are our estimates of where typical usage lands, not Carly figures; only the prices are Carly's. The point is the spread. The same product is a $420 a year tool or a five-figure line item depending on how many autonomous recurring tasks you give it, so set a credit budget before you hand the agent standing instructions.

The Organization plan charges $35 for every seat, so the base bill grows in a straight line. These are our calculations on Carly's published price, before any credit add-ons.

Carly does not print how large the included pooled allowance is per seat, so we left it out and priced add-ons on top. The useful part of Organization is that one bucket serves everyone and the admin sees usage per member, so a few heavy users do not force everyone onto a bigger add-on. Shared agents also mean you build an agent once and the whole team uses it, instead of each person paying for and configuring their own.

Carly competes with inbox assistants, email clients and agent builders, and they all bill differently. This table uses each vendor's own pricing page for the entry plan a small team would buy.

Carly and Lindy are read from their pricing pages on October 19, 2026, Fyxer and Superhuman on October 15 and Marblism on October 14. Lindy's entry price is $29.99 for 3,000 credits per active user, and 5,000 credits is the $49.99 step of its ladder. Carly's per-credit add-on rate ($0.097 to $0.15) is about ten to fifteen times Lindy's $0.01 top-up rate, but the two vendors define a credit differently, so compare workloads, not credit counts. For Fyxer's full credit table see Fyxer pricing, and for Marblism's hour tiers see Marblism pricing.