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Bardeen vs Cassidy vs Relay.app: The AI Worker Price Trap

AI workers from Bardeen, Cassidy and Relay.app bill around $49 a month to run browser tasks. SCiNESTA includes persistent AI workers that run across your whole business for $93 a year.

SCiNESTA ResearchOctober 18, 20267 min read
Bardeen vs Cassidy vs Relay.app: The AI Worker Price Trap

An AI worker is a step past simple automation: instead of following a rigid recipe, it reads the situation and decides. Bardeen runs them in your browser, Cassidy runs them on your company docs, Relay.app chains them into flows. All three land near $49 a month per seat, and all three stop at the edge of their own sandbox.

Workers that can only see one room

A browser worker cannot make a phone call. A docs worker cannot move a deal through your pipeline. When the task crosses systems, the worker hands the job back to you, which is the exact chore you paid to remove.

SCiNESTA AI workers: full building access

SCiNESTA gives you workers that run on the same data and channels as everything else. A worker can watch a form submission, qualify the lead in the CRM, send the SMS, book the call, and ring the phone if the lead answers warm. No browser extension, no reconnecting tools, no per-seat worker fee.

  • Workers triggered by real events: forms, calls, pipeline changes, schedules
  • Access to CRM, email, SMS, phone, calendar and docs in one place
  • Human handoff when judgment is needed, then back to work
  • Included in the $93 annual plan

The honest trade-off

Bardeen is genuinely good at scraping a page inside your browser. If your entire job happens in a tab, it is a fine tool. For work that touches the customer, you want a worker that can actually reach the customer. Read how SCiNESTA workflows run or get started.

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