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First Employee vs Runtype

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First Employee compared with Runtype
DetailFirst Employee logo First EmployeeRuntype logo Runtype
What it doesAn AI employee that builds your business and keeps working on it The fastest way to ship agentic products
StageNot given Startup
FoundedNot given Not given
Based inUS Not given
Pricing modelFreemium Freemium
PricingFree to build. $19/month (monthly) or $182/year (annual, -20%) for nightly shifts. Additional company: $12 once. Domain registration: at cost. Pay as you go: Free with $5 in free credits, then $5 per 1,000 executions. Team plan: $399/month (or $3,999/year with 2 months free), includes 300,000 executions per month and $50/month credits. After included executions, $3 per 1,000 executions. Enterprise: Custom pricing for platforms, agencies, a
Key features
  • Automatic company naming and market research
  • Multi-page website with contact forms published in three minutes
  • Receipt ledger for every action taken
  • Approval gates for spending, email, ads and charges
  • Nightly shifts with task queueing
  • SEO-checked pages before publication
  • Move to own domain at cost
  • Full API included with no surcharge
  • Integrations with Slack, GitHub, Linear, Google Workspace
  • Deployment to 13+ surfaces including web chat, API, email, SMS
What makes it different
  • Receipted AI work: every action recorded with tools, changes, model, tokens and links
  • No revenue share on self-managed; money never held by the company
  • Free website build that stays live forever
  • Full transparency: no model training on your business data
  • Immediate approval control over all customer-facing and spending actions
  • Fast cycle from prototype to production with infrastructure decisions pre-made
  • Unified platform for agents, flows, models, integrations and deployment surfaces
  • No vendor lock-in with bring-your-own-cloud deployment
  • Production-ready infrastructure without custom engineering
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)20 no change since last check29 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)012
Citation Flow (Majestic)2322
Referring domains (Majestic)3951

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