OpenHelm vs Relevance AI
Choose Relevance AI if you want to build your own agents and multi-agent workforces, especially for sales and operations, with 2,000+ integrations and calling agents. Choose OpenHelm if you want a ready-made crew for a live product, with content, SEO, bug fixing and support already set up as jobs.
Facts checked . OpenHelm wins 4 rows, Relevance AI wins 4.
| OpenHelm | Relevance AI | Better at it | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, then from $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($11 monthly) | Pro $19 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly); Team $234 billed yearly ($349 monthly); Enterprise custom | OpenHelm |
| Billing model | Per seat with pooled AI credits; runs on your own subscription or a local model use none | Actions plus vendor credits; extra actions cost $80 per 1,000 | OpenHelm |
| Building your own agents | Chat creates agents and jobs, each with an outcome contract | A full builder for agents, tools and workforces | Relevance AI |
| Integrations | MCP servers, CLIs and connections through the Contextely plugin | 2,000+ integrations | Relevance AI |
| Calling and meeting agents | Not offered | Included on Team and up | Relevance AI |
| Ready-made product crew | One template provisions strategist, publisher, SEO, support and bug-fixing agents | You design the workforce yourself | OpenHelm |
| Working in code | Commits posts and fixes to your repository and verifies them live | Not its focus | OpenHelm |
| Evaluating runs | A separate evaluator checks every run against the job's outcome contract | A/B testing and analytics on Team; agent evaluations on Enterprise | Tie |
| Triggers | Once, interval, cron, after another job, inbound email or webhook | Enterprise triggers for Salesforce, Snowflake and Zendesk | Tie |
| Enterprise controls | Roles and row-level security; no SOC 2 or ISO certification | SSO, RBAC and audit logs on Enterprise | Relevance AI |
Choose Relevance AI if
- You want to design your own agents and workforces from scratch.
- Your use case is sales, go-to-market or operations.
- You need calling or meeting agents.
- You rely on integrations such as Salesforce, Snowflake or Zendesk.
Choose OpenHelm if
- You run a live product and want its growth and upkeep handled from day one.
- You want agents that publish to your repository and fix bugs through to production.
- You want simple per-seat pricing, and no credits spent when runs use your own subscription.
- You want every run checked against an outcome contract.
Price. As published on the day we checked.
- OpenHelm
- Free, then from $9 per seat a month billed yearly ($11 monthly). Runs on your own Claude Code or Codex subscription use no credits. Live prices
- Relevance AI
- Pro $19 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly) with 2,500 actions and $20 vendor credits. Team $234 billed yearly ($349 monthly) with 7,000 actions and $70 vendor credits. Enterprise is custom.
Relevance AI bills Actions (each time an agent runs a tool) and vendor credits (model and tool costs) separately.
Questions
How much does Relevance AI cost?
Relevance AI's docs list Pro at $19 a month billed yearly ($29 monthly) and Team at $234 billed yearly ($349 monthly), with Enterprise priced on request. Extra actions are $80 per 1,000.
Is OpenHelm a Relevance AI alternative?
If you want a ready crew for a live product, yes. If you want a blank canvas for sales or operations agents, Relevance AI gives you more to build with.
Can I build my own agents in OpenHelm?
Yes. Chat creates agents and jobs, and every job carries an outcome contract that a separate evaluator checks. The product growth template is simply the first one we ship.
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