Pine AI vs Bardeen
Plans, free access, limits and intended use side by side, taken from each vendor’s own pages. No score and no winner: the facts show where the two differ.
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AI assistant that phones companies to cancel, dispute and negotiate bills for you
Scrape, enrich and qualify lead lists in Chrome.
- Free access
- Pine AI: Free access
- Bardeen: Free access
- Paid from
- Pine AI: USD 9.00 per week billed monthly; $6.10 per week billed annually
- Bardeen: USD 10 per month
- Plans listed
- Pine AI: 7
- Bardeen: 5
- Public API
- Pine AI: Not confirmed
- Bardeen: Not confirmed
Where Pine AI and Bardeen differ
- Pricing checkPrices confirmed for Pine AI; pricing review due for Bardeen.
- PlansPine AI lists 7 plans and Bardeen lists 5.
Head to head
Each value from the tool’s profile and the vendor’s own pages
| Pine AI | Fact | Bardeen |
|---|---|---|
| Access and price | ||
| Free access availableFree · USD 0 | Free accessSame | Free access availableFree allowance |
| USD 9.00 per week billed monthly; $6.10 per week billed annuallyPro | Lowest listed paid plan | USD 10 per monthBasic · billed monthly · 100 credits |
| Free plan with daily credits; Pro from $6.10 a week billed annually; Plus $99.9 a month billed annually ($139 monthly); Enterprise custom | Pricing model | 100 free credits; paid Basic and Premium |
| 7 | Plans listedDiffers | 5 |
| Not confirmed | Public API | Not confirmed |
| Not confirmed | Card to start | Not confirmed |
| Not confirmed | Open source | No |
| What it is for | ||
| US consumers and small teams who want an assistant to make support calls, cancel subscriptions and negotiate bills, and who will check how credits and the 25% savings fee apply to their plan | Built for | Building and enriching lead lists from websites |
| Automation | CategorySame | Automation |
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| How current | ||
| Profile sources checked | ||
| Prices confirmed · Nov 1, 2026 | Pricing checkDiffers | Pricing review due · Sep 24, 2026 |
Official source check for both tools. No hands-on testing and no score: “Differs” marks a documented difference, not a better tool.
Plans and prices
Pine AI
Prices confirmed · Nov 1, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- ProUSD 9.00 per week billed monthly; $6.10 per week billed annually
- PremiumUSD 18.20 per week billed monthly; $12.30 per week billed annually
- PlusUSD 99.9 per month billed annually; $139 per month billed monthly
- MaxUSD 174.9 per month billed annually; $249 per month billed monthly
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- TeamUSD 291.6 per month billed annually; $419 per month billed monthly
- EnterpriseCustom
Bardeen
Pricing review due · Sep 24, 2026- Free allowanceFree100 credits
- BasicUSD 10 per monthbilled monthly · 100 credits
- Premium (monthly)USD 50 per monthbilled monthly · 1,000 credits
- Premium (annual)USD 480 per yearbilled annually · 12,000 credits
- EnterpriseContact providerbilled annually
Strengths and limits
Pine AI
Strengths
- A free plan with daily credits: New users get 200 credits at signup and 50 a day on login, accumulating to 500, so small requests can be tried without paying.
- Fee depends on a confirmed result: On Free and Pro Monthly the 25% bill-negotiation fee is charged only after savings are confirmed, and the hold is released if the attempt fails.
- Credit rules are published: The guides give the spend order, the add-on price and the usual 300 to 1,000 credits for a call.
Limits to plan around
- Results are not guaranteed: The Usage Policy says using Pine creates no obligation to achieve savings, refunds or resolutions.
- Failed attempts can use credits: The bill negotiation guide says calls, research and follow-ups in an unsuccessful attempt still draw credits.
- Pricing pages disagree on the top tier: The plan guide names Team while the credits and payments guides name Enterprise, and weekly personal prices sit beside monthly work prices.
Bardeen
Strengths
- Clear per-row pricing: The pricing page lists a credit cost per output row for each action, with a worked 64-credit example.
- Free CSV export: Importing data, utilities and CSV downloads do not consume credits.
- No shared passwords: The scraper acts in your own browser, so logged-in pages can be read without handing over credentials.
Limits to plan around
- Credits expire: Unused credits expire at the end of each billing period, so allowances do not accumulate.
- Basic is scraper-only: Premium scrapers, enrichment and team features are marked as not included on Basic.
- Chrome-bound workflow: Scraping runs through the Chrome extension, and the security page describes browser-closed runs on Bardeen's servers only for paid services.
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