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How do I build my first agent without being technical?

Start inside the assistant you already pay for, and reach for a builder only when the job has to run across several apps. On Claude Pro ($20 a month) you can hand off a task in plain English and schedule it to repeat, and Tasks in Gemini does the same on Google AI Pro, ₹1,950 a month in India. To join your apps, Zapier (free for 100 tasks a month) has Agents, now moving into AI by Zapier; Lindy works from Slack and email with $50 of free credits for 7 days, then from $29.99 a month; and n8n suits long workflows or running it on your own server. If you do write code, OpenAI's Agents SDK, Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK and Google's ADK are the standard libraries. Give the first agent one narrow, low-risk job, such as labelling your inbox or drafting meeting briefs, watch every run for a week, then widen what it can touch.

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  • Claude plans and pricing

    Anthropic · Tool · Nov 2026

    Anthropic's own plan page: Free, Pro at $20 a month ($17 billed yearly), Max from $100 and Ultra at $200; Claude Code, Research and Claude in Chrome are on Pro and above, not on Free.

  • Manage your tasks and workflows in Gemini Apps

    Google · Guide · 2026

    How to give Gemini a goal or a scheduled job, what it can do, and the requirement of a Google AI Pro or Ultra plan on a personal account.

  • Google AI plans (India)

    Google · Tool · Nov 2026

    Google's plan page in rupees: free Gemini with Deep Research and Gemini Notebook, Google AI Plus at ₹399 a month, AI Pro at ₹1,950 and Ultra from ₹6,500.

  • Build an agent in Zapier Agents

    Zapier · Guide · Oct 2026

    Zapier's step-by-step: write instructions, connect the apps it finds, set a trigger and test; notes that Agents are moving to AI by Zapier.

  • Zapier pricing

    Zapier · Tool · Nov 2026

    Free for 100 tasks a month; Professional from $19.99 a month.

  • Lindy pricing

    Lindy · Tool · Nov 2026

    $50 of free credits that last 7 days, then Team from $29.99 a month for 3,000 credits.

  • n8n pricing

    n8n · Tool · Nov 2026

    Priced per workflow run rather than per step, with agents and MCP on every plan and a self-hosted option.

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