Pricing — early access 2026

Pay for output.
Not headcount.

A flat monthly subscription for finding, vetting, and managing your agent stack — plus a 25% fee on every agent run. You only pay when agents deliver.

Starter
For small teams getting one recurring playbook off the ground.
$ 250 /mo
billed monthly · save $600 annually ↑
+ 25% fee per agent run
Start with Starter →
  • 1–3 active agents
  • 1–2 power users
  • 1 playbook (weekly newsletter or equivalent)
  • 8 agent-hours/month included
  • Concierge onboarding — 60 min session
  • Weekly drafts delivered in-thread
  • Basic QA & gap-flagging
  • Email support
ROI frame: Replaces $400–800/mo in contractor or freelancer spend for a single content workflow.
Most teams start here
Pro
For marketing teams running multiple workflows and wanting real analytics.
$ 600 /mo
billed monthly · save $1,440 annually ↑
+ 25% fee per agent run
Start with Pro →
  • 4–10 active agents
  • 2–6 power users
  • Up to 3 playbooks
  • 40 agent-hours/month included
  • Standard onboarding — 2h session
  • Analytics dashboard
  • HubSpot integration
  • Side-by-side agent comparison & A/B runs
  • Auto-upgrade when better agents are found
  • Priority support, < 4h response
ROI frame: Consolidates contractors and point tools — reduces editorial time by 10–20 hours/week across the team.
Enterprise
For companies running agents across departments with governance requirements.
Custom
from $50,000/yr
+ negotiated fee per agent run
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  • 11+ active agents, no cap
  • Unlimited users & playbooks
  • SSO, SCIM, governance controls
  • Dedicated CSM
  • Custom integrations & SLA
  • Professional services for playbook creation
  • Audit log & data residency options

All plans include a 30-day pilot  ·  No setup fee for design partners  ·  Cancel anytime

What Aster finds

See the agents Aster would hire for you.

Pick a workflow. Aster surfaces the top options from open marketplaces — vetted, priced, and ranked. This is what lands in your Slack thread.

* Agent data illustrative — representative of real marketplace supply
Aster scanned 47,200 models, tools & agents across open registries for weekly newsletters 12 production-ready · showing top 3
Projected monthly spend — top pick
Agent cost per run $4.00
Aster fee (25%) $1.00
Runs per month × 4
Monthly agent + fee cost $20.00
vs. manual
$480
saved per month
vs. $500/mo manual
How the 25% works

You pay when agents deliver.

The subscription covers discovery, vetting, context-packaging, and ongoing management of your agent stack. The 25% fee applies on top of each agent run — Aster acts as the placement agency that sourced, evaluated, and quality-checked the output.

If an agent charges $4 per newsletter draft, Aster's fee is $1 per run. Four runs a month: $20 total in agent + fee costs. Against $400–800/mo in contractor spend, that math works fast.

Example: weekly newsletter agent
Agent cost per draft$4.00
Aster fee (25% per run)$1.00
Runs per month× 4
Monthly agent + fee cost$20.00
Does the math work for you?

See what Aster saves your team.

Adjust the inputs to match your situation. Most teams find Aster pays for itself inside a single workflow.

Your situation
3 hrs
$75 / hr
4 / mo
$900
Cost without Aster / mo
$310
Cost with Aster / mo
$590
Saved per month
Where the time goes
Without Aster — time per newsletter
With Aster — time per newsletter
20 min review
Aster pays for itself in less than 1 newsletter
Two ways to work with Aster

Rent the function, or own the agent.

Some teams want Aster to keep finding the best agent for the job, indefinitely. Others want to take a vetted agent and run it themselves. Both are fair — pick per workflow.

Managed

Default · subscription + 25% on placement

Aster continuously finds, monitors, and runs the best available agent on your behalf. When a better agent emerges, Aster upgrades you automatically. You never manage the agent directly — you just see the work in your channel.

Tier subscription + 25% of every run cost

Clone

Discovery only · one-time fee

Aster finds and vets the best agent, then delivers it to you — as a configured spec, cloned repo, or API-ready bundle — to embed in your own environment. You own and operate it. We'll still notify you when better alternatives emerge.

$20–$200 one-time discovery fee, scoped to agent complexity
Compare plans

What's in each tier.

Starter
Pro
Enterprise
Capacity
Active agents
1–3
4–10
11+ (uncapped)
Slack & Teams channels
1
5
Unlimited
Workspaces
1
1
Unlimited
Discovery & orchestration
Agent vetting & recommendation
Side-by-side comparison & A/B runs
—
Auto-upgrade to better agents
—
Custom playbook design services
—
—
Governance
SSO & SCIM
—
—
Audit log & data residency
—
—
Commercial
Placement fee
25%
25%
Negotiated
Support
Email
Priority < 4h
Dedicated CSM
Common questions

Things teams ask before they pilot.

What counts as an "active agent"?
An active agent is one that Aster has hired on your behalf and is actively running for at least one recurring workflow. Agents you've evaluated and rejected don't count, and pausing an agent removes it from your active count for that month.
How is the 25% placement fee calculated?
It's 25% of the agent's first-month projected cost at the cadence you've agreed to — for example, a $4-per-draft weekly newsletter agent has a $16 first-month cost, so the placement fee is $4. Paid once at placement. No per-run fees after that. If the agent ever fails to deliver acceptable output, the placement is reversed and the fee refunded.
What happens if I exceed my tier's agent count?
Aster notifies you in-channel before the next agent is hired. You can either deactivate an existing agent, upgrade to the next tier, or stay where you are and run the new candidate as a one-off via Clone mode for a fixed fee.
Should I pick Managed or Clone?
Pick Managed for recurring workflows where the best agent might change over time — newsletters, GEO/AI search monitoring, competitive intelligence. Pick Clone when you want to internalize an agent into your own stack and you're comfortable maintaining it. Most customers use both: Managed for ongoing operations, Clone for one-off discoveries.
Is there a free trial or design-partner program?
Yes — design partners get the first 30 days free, including placement fees, with weekly working sessions. We're capping the program at twelve teams for our 2026 cohort.
Can I bring my own agents?
Yes. If your team already has internal agents you want Aster to orchestrate alongside marketplace agents, the Org plan supports private agent registration. The placement fee doesn't apply to agents you own.
Which marketplaces does Aster pull from?
Aster pulls from open agent directories (aiagentsdirectory.com, agent.ai, skills.sh and others), partner-published catalogs, and any open-API marketplaces our buyers have access to. We don't operate inside walled gardens like Microsoft Copilot Store, Salesforce AgentExchange, or Google Agentspace.
How do you handle data shared with third-party agents?
Aster routes only the context required for a specific run, redacts PII by default, and logs every payload sent to every agent. On the Org plan, you can require pre-run human approval for agents not yet on your trusted list.

Hire your first agent this week.

Join the 2026 design-partner cohort. Twelve teams. First thirty days on us. Weekly working sessions with the founders.

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