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What are the best AI agents I can use today?

For most people, the agent inside the assistant they already use. ChatGPT Work takes a multi-step job and returns a document, sheet or deck (limited on Free, more on Plus at $20 a month), and Pro, from $100, adds a dot, an always-on agent with its own computer. Claude takes a long task from any conversation and keeps working after you close the laptop, with a schedule for repeat work, on Pro at $20 ($17 billed yearly). Tasks in Gemini watches prices, clears newsletters and runs jobs on a schedule on Google AI Pro, ₹1,950 a month in India. To act on websites, Perplexity's Comet browser is free to download and Claude in Chrome comes with every paid Claude plan; Manus and Perplexity Computer run long jobs on cloud computers of their own. For business workflows across apps, look at Zapier, n8n or Lindy. Rule: pick the one where your work already lives, give it one narrow job, and check what it did before it touches money or messages.

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