Page 2 of our ai tool comparisons. The tools small business owners actually shortlist, put side by side on price and on what each plan really includes. Each one opens with a table, so you can get the answer without reading the whole page.
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Wave costs nothing and Xero starts at $25 a month. The decision is not price, it is scope: Wave has no inventory and no multi-currency, and Xero caps its cheapest plan at 20 invoices.
AWeber gives you 500 subscribers free. ActiveCampaign gives you nothing free and holds its real automation behind the $49 tier. Which trade makes sense for a small list.
IFTTT costs a few dollars a month, Zapier around twenty. They are not really competing for the same job. Here is which one your automation actually belongs on.
Power Automate is cheaper per seat and includes desktop RPA. Zapier connects to thousands more apps with far less setup. The deciding factor is whether your business already runs on Microsoft 365.
Wave is free forever for invoicing and bookkeeping. QuickBooks just raised Plus by 41 percent and Advanced by 70 percent. Where the free option is genuinely enough, and where it is not.
Canva and Adobe Express both offer a real free plan and a cheap Pro tier. The actual difference shows up in AI credit limits and where team pricing gets unpredictable.
A side-by-side of the three most common small-business automation platforms, on price, app support, and how much technical comfort each one assumes.