TobyBot vs Relevance AI: set a goal or build an agent
Relevance AI has your team build and test agents with evals. TobyBot is an agentic bot: it starts from a goal you type and writes the plan.
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Which one fits your team
Both are good tools. The right one depends on how your team likes to work.
Choose Relevance AI when
- You want to build each agent yourselves, on a visual canvas or by describing it to its builder, and test it with an evaluation suite that blocks a change if it fails.
- You want a vendor team to help you get started. Its site describes an embedded deployment team that gets you live and then trains your people.
- Your work runs on a high volume of events from connected apps, and you want a managed queue that paces the tasks.
Choose TobyBot when
- You would rather set the goal and have TobyBot write the plan than design the agent first.
- You want the price on the page: Pro is $59 a month, Team is $299 a month and the plan limits are published.
- You want to watch every tool call and result as it happens, pause a running task and run on TobyBot cloud or self-host on the Enterprise plan.
What Relevance AI and TobyBot cost
TobyBot publishes its plans. Here is what you get, then how Relevance AI shows its pricing today.
TobyBot
- Pro $59 a month, 2 users
- Team $299 a month, 10 users
- Enterprise Contact us. TobyBot cloud or self-hosted.
How Relevance AI prices
Its pricing page shows one plan, Enterprise, with no price and a Talk to sales button. It lists unlimited bots, tools, users and projects, evaluations and a dedicated account manager.
Its documentation pricing page describes more: Pro from $19 a month and Team from $234 a month on annual billing, with Enterprise on custom terms. It counts usage in actions and vendor credits.
The two pages do not match, so ask Relevance AI which applies to you. TobyBot counts actions, triggers and AI credits, so the numbers are not like for like and we do not rank the two on price.
Full plan details are on the TobyBot pricing page.
How TobyBot and Relevance AI compare, question by question
| Relevance AI | TobyBot | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you start | Your team. It offers a visual canvas, a builder you describe the agent to, and a route for engineers who work from a coding tool over MCP. | You set the goal. TobyBot writes the plan, and you save the result as a bot. |
| How a task starts | A schedule, an event in a connected app, a webhook or a custom signal. | A request you type, a schedule, a webhook or a new Gmail message. |
| What you see while it runs | Production monitoring that samples live runs and scores them against your evals. | The plan as one card for each step. Every tool call and result shows as it runs, and you can pause. |
| Tools and connectors | Native connectors, MCP support and custom connectors. | Native Google, Microsoft, Meta and LinkedIn connectors, Telegram as a channel, and any other system through an MCP server. |
| Models | Any major provider, or your own, with evals to compare cost and quality. | Open models and API providers, including any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and models self-hosted through Xinference. Don't see the model you need? Talk to us about adding it. |
| How work is checked | Evaluation suites run before a change publishes, then sampling in production. | Run logs and traces for every run, and every step visible while it runs. |
| Pricing | Enterprise with Talk to sales on its pricing page. Tiers from $19 and $234 a month in its documentation. | Pro $59 a month, Team $299 a month, Enterprise talk to sales. |
A renewals update from one goal
Finds the latest thread with each accountReturns the last message and who sent it.GmailResult ready. Save it as a bot and schedule it for Monday morning.
Moving from Relevance AI to TobyBot
Move one job first. Keep the rest where it is until you trust the result.
- Pick one agent you run today
Write the job in a few sentences. Say what it does, which tools it touches and when it should start.
- Connect the tools and paste the job
Connect the same tools with the native connectors, or through an MCP server for anything else. Paste the job as a request and read the plan TobyBot writes.
- Save it and run both for a while
Save the result as a bot, add the schedule or webhook, and compare its output with the old one before you switch it off.
TobyBot and Relevance AI: frequently asked questions
Is TobyBot or Relevance AI better for a business team?
It depends on how your team likes to work. Relevance AI suits teams that want to build and test each agent themselves, with evaluation suites and a vendor team alongside. TobyBot suits teams that would rather set the goal and let it write the plan, with the price published. You can also run the same job through both before you decide.
How much does Relevance AI cost?
As of November 2026 its pricing page shows one Enterprise plan with Talk to sales and no price. Its documentation describes Pro from $19 a month and Team from $234 a month on annual billing. Check with Relevance AI which applies to you. TobyBot costs $59 a month for Pro and $299 a month for Team.
Is TobyBot one of the Relevance AI alternatives for running a team of agents?
Relevance AI connects agents on a canvas and calls the result a workforce. In TobyBot every workspace ships with five roles: support, growth, planner, knowledge and studio. The planner breaks a request into steps and hands each step to the right role.
Does TobyBot have evals like Relevance AI?
Relevance AI's evaluation suites are a real strength, and they are built into how it publishes changes. TobyBot checks work another way. It shows every step, tool call and result while a task runs and keeps run logs and traces. If a test suite that blocks every change is a must for you, put Relevance AI on the shortlist.
Can I use my own model keys?
Yes on both. Every TobyBot plan lets you bring your own LLM key. Relevance AI's documentation lists bringing your own LLM on its plans too.
Do I need to write code to use TobyBot?
No. Most work starts with a goal. Connecting an internal system through an MCP server is a technical step, so someone on your side may need to set that up once.
Keep reading
TobyBot vs Gumloop
Another builder that starts from a canvas, compared with TobyBot's starting from a goal.
TobyBot pricing
Pro, Team and Enterprise, with the limits for each plan.
The TobyBot AI agent builder
How you build an agent by setting the goal.
Sources
- Relevance AI pricing page (as of November 2026)
- Relevance AI documentation, pricing (as of November 2026)
- Relevance AI product page (how agents are built, triggered and tested)
- Relevance AI home page (deployment team)
- Relevance AI workforce documentation
Competitor details as of November 2026.
Bring one Relevance AI agent.
Book a demo and we will set its job as a goal in TobyBot while you watch.