Zapia Alternative: 6 Assistants Compared On Price, Limits And Licence Terms

If you are looking for a Zapia alternative, you have probably hit one of three walls. The assistant answers questions well but does not do the work. The plan you are on is capped in a way nobody mentioned at signup. Or Zapia Max, the agentic version in every screenshot you have seen, turns out to still be a waitlist rather than a product you can buy today.

Every price, limit and licence term below was read on the vendor's own site in August 2026, and every tool gets a catch, ours included.

Why People Leave Zapia, In One Licence Term

Start with the thing almost no comparison page mentions, and that you can check in about ninety seconds. Meta's own WhatsApp Business Solution Terms state that providers and developers of artificial intelligence technologies, including large language models, generative AI platforms and general-purpose AI assistants, are strictly prohibited from accessing or using the WhatsApp Business Solution when that technology is the primary, rather than incidental or ancillary, functionality being made available. The same terms then carve out an exception: those technologies may be made available to WhatsApp users who have registered phone numbers with a European Economic Area or a Brazil country code.

Read that twice if your number starts with a Mexican, Colombian, Argentine or Chilean country code. The channel that makes a WhatsApp-first assistant feel effortless is not one the assistant owns. It is licensed, and the licence has a geography clause in it.

This is not hypothetical. OpenAI stopped serving ChatGPT over WhatsApp in January 2026 and published a notice telling people to continue their conversations in its own apps instead. An assistant that reached tens of millions of people through a phone number lost that door in a single policy cycle.

So the real question behind a Zapia alternative search is not which chatbot is smartest. It is whether your assistant survives if that one channel closes, reprices, or excludes your country code. Everything below is judged on that, and on what the vendor actually charges you against.

What Zapia Actually Charges You For

Zapia publishes three tiers on its own site: a Free plan at $0 a month, Pro at $9.99 a month, and Ultra at $99.99 a month, both paid tiers offering seven days free. What is worth noticing is the axis the price moves along. It is not seats, not messages and not credits. It is scheduled tasks. Pro advertises up to 50 scheduled tasks; Ultra raises that to up to 100 and adds what the page calls ten times advanced intelligence and early access to new features.

Scheduled tasks are a fine meter for an assistant that reminds you about a bill. They are a strange meter for a business, because the work that matters is rarely scheduled: it is triggered by an email arriving or a call ending.

The second thing to check before you upgrade is Zapia Max itself. Its page on zapia.com is a waitlist: it invites you to join the list or enter an early access code. If you came here after reading about Max monitoring prices, replying to email and handling bookings, that is a roadmap, not a purchase.

Third, read the commercial terms. Cancellation generates no refund; you simply keep access until the end of the period already paid for. Brazilian users are the exception, with a right to cancel within seven calendar days at no charge. The terms also reserve the right to terminate access with twenty-four hours' notice and disclaim any guarantee of continuous or error-free operation.

Fourth, the data picture. Zapia's privacy policy says its servers are in the United States, that audio, PDF, video and image files processed for summaries or transcriptions are kept for a maximum of ninety days, and that personal information is not retained more than thirty-six months after account termination.

None of that is scandalous. It is a well-run consumer product with consumer economics, and it tells you precisely who it was built for. If that is not you, here is what to look at.

How These Zapia Alternatives Were Chosen

Three rules. Every price, plan name and limit came from the vendor's own domain, usually a pricing page or the terms of service, never a review site. Anything published only inside an app store is flagged rather than guessed. And every tool gets a catch, because a list where five products are perfect and one is ours is an ad.

Luzia: The Closest Like-For-Like In Latin America

Luzia is the most direct comparison to Zapia here: a free assistant reachable through WhatsApp, Telegram or its own web, iOS and Android apps, built by a Madrid-registered company and grown mostly in Spanish-speaking markets. If you liked Zapia's shape and want it from a different vendor, try this first.

Luzia is unusually transparent about money in its terms of service, which matters because the price is localised rather than global. The reference prices it publishes for Luzia+ are 1.99 USD weekly, 4.99 USD monthly and 39.92 USD annually for what it calls the rest of different geographic areas, alongside local rates such as 14,999 COP monthly in Colombia, 24.9 BRL in Brazil and 99 MXN in Mexico. The annual figure works out at roughly 3.33 USD a month, so as with most consumer subscriptions the yearly commitment is the discounted rate and the monthly one is the convenience premium. New subscribers get a three-day free trial, and Luzia notes that prices may vary with promotions, taxes and the conditions of each app store.

What Luzia+ buys is specific: use of the application without advertising, and double the limits on chat interactions and tool use compared with the free version. That is a useful admission in both directions. The free tier is ad-supported and rate-limited, and the paid tier is a multiplier on the same product rather than a different one.

One clause is worth knowing before you build a habit on it: Luzia's terms say availability has no territorial limitation except for Belarus, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Syria, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela. For an assistant marketed across Latin America, an explicit Venezuela exclusion is better found in the terms than on the day it stops working. Account deletion is irreversible, done in-app or with the /deleteMyData command on WhatsApp or Telegram.

The catch: the free tier carries advertising and halved limits, the paid price depends on which app store and country you are in, and Venezuela is excluded by the terms.

Poke: Proactive Texting, Now Joining Cognition

Poke is for people whose complaint about Zapia is depth rather than channel. It lives in Messages, WhatsApp and Telegram, connects services like Notion, Gmail, Google Calendar and Oura, and acts proactively rather than only when spoken to. Its recipes set up integrations and automations you can share, with a developer surface for custom ones.

Pricing is published plainly on poke.com: Free at $0 a month with no credit card, Pro at $19 a month billed monthly, and Ultra at $199 a month billed monthly, with a yearly toggle on the same page. Every plan gets all of Poke, in the vendor's own words; what the money buys is model quality, rate limits and automation headroom. Ultra is explicit that heavier usage is billed pay-as-you-go beyond your credits, which tells you the underlying meter is consumption even though the headline is a flat subscription.

The other thing on the homepage right now is corporate: Poke has announced it is joining Cognition. Acquisitions are not automatically bad news, but if your assistant holds your calendar, inbox and reminders, a change of roadmap owner is a fact to price in.

The catch: the jump from Pro to Ultra is a ten-times price step, real headroom sits at $199 a month with pay-as-you-go usage beyond your credits, and the company has just been acquired.

Martin: The Assistant That Picks Up The Phone

Martin takes the opposite bet from a WhatsApp-only assistant: it is reachable by phone call, text message, email and Slack, with an iOS app and a voice mode. If you wanted Zapia because talking is faster than typing, Martin is the closest thing here, and it handles calendar work and inbox drafting on its own initiative.

Its pricing page is a textbook case of why you should read the small print under the number. Pro is listed at $30 a month, billed yearly, or $49 a month billed monthly. Basic is $21 a month billed yearly, or $35 a month billed monthly. The advertised figure is the annual rate in both cases, so paying month to month costs about 63 percent more on Pro and 67 percent more on Basic. There is a seven-day free trial.

The limit that shapes the experience is not a credit balance, it is concurrency. Basic lets you give Martin two tasks at a time with limited proactive actions and basic models; Pro advertises unlimited proactive actions and custom tasks on the most advanced ones. For a scattered day, two-at-a-time is the difference between an assistant and a queue.

The catch: the headline price is the annual commitment, monthly billing is roughly two thirds more expensive, and the entry tier limits you to two concurrent tasks.

Lindy: Seats And Credits At The Same Time

Lindy belongs here for the people whose Zapia frustration was really an automation frustration. It is a builder: you assemble agents that trigger on events, call your tools and run without you. Configure it once and it will run a repeatable process better than anything else on this list.

Its pricing is also the most demanding to model. Plus is $29.99 a month per user with 3,000 credits per user per month, Pro is $99.99 a month per user with 15,000 credits, and Max is $199.99 a month per user with 35,000 credits, with an Enterprise tier behind a conversation. Credits measure the work Lindy does; the page puts everyday requests in the range of 2 to 250 credits and complex builds at 1,000 to 2,500 credits. Every seat adds its credits to a shared pool, and credits refresh at the start of each billing cycle and do not roll over.

That is two meters running at once: per person on the account and per unit of work performed, with anything unconsumed wiped monthly. For a team with steady volume that is fair. For a solo founder whose week is either dead quiet or completely feral, you either waste the allowance or blow through it.

The catch: per-seat pricing stacked on top of non-rolling monthly credits, and a build-it-yourself model that assumes you have time to design the workflow before it saves you any.

Sintra: Twelve Helpers On A 250-Credit Budget

Sintra sells a team rather than an assistant: named helpers for social media, support, copywriting, SEO, sales, recruiting, data and executive assistance, with a personalisation layer it calls Brain AI and support for over a hundred languages. For an owner who wants output rather than plumbing, it is the least technical product here.

The pricing page shows the same bundle at three commitment lengths, each listed against a struck-through price: a one-month plan at $97 a month shown at $48.50, a three-month plan at $59 a month shown at $23.60, and a twelve-month plan at $52 a month shown at $15.60, all with a fourteen-day money-back guarantee. Every one of those plans includes all twelve helpers, fifteen or more integrations, and the same 250 monthly credits. Individual helpers are listed separately at $39 a month each.

So the meter is credits, and it does not increase with the plan. One month or twelve, you get the same 250 units of work per month; the commitment only changes the price. Do not assume the annual plan is a bigger plan. It is the same plan, cheaper, for longer.

The catch: every tier is capped at the same 250 monthly credits, the cheapest per-month rate requires committing a year up front, and the displayed prices are promotional rates against a higher list price.

Notis: One Assistant Across Every Channel You Already Use

Disclosure: Notis is our product. Treat this section as the vendor making its case, and check the pricing yourself.

Notis was built around the failure mode at the top of this article. Rather than betting on one messaging channel, it answers on the ones you already use, WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack and email, from a single account with the same memory, integrations and skills behind each door. The Notis CLI puts that same agent inside Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. If one channel changes its rules, the assistant does not disappear, because the account was never a phone number.

The work goes deeper than answering. Notis connects to more than a thousand integrations, so one voice note after a call can update the CRM record, draft the follow-up, add the task to Notion and set the reminder in a single pass. Long-term memory means you are not re-explaining your business every Monday, and automations fire on events rather than only on a schedule.

Pricing is published as Pro at $20 a month, Pro+ at $59 and Ultra at $149, with the Notis CLI free forever and no credit card required for it. The meter is tasks: Notis charges against the model usage behind each completed task, which averages around nine cents, so the $20 plan covers roughly 230 tasks a month, $59 roughly 680 and $149 roughly 1,700. Quick asks cost less and heavy research runs cost more, but you can compute your own bill instead of guessing at credit conversion rates.

The catch: the free plan is the CLI only, so the messaging channels that make Notis worth having start at $20 a month; long-term memory connectors are Ultra-only; and Notis is managed cloud with no self-hosting option. On compliance, the sub-processors are certified but Notis itself is not.

What Each Tool Actually Charges Against

Comparing headline prices across these products is meaningless until you know what the number is attached to. Here is the same information stated as meters.

• Zapia: scheduled tasks. Free, $9.99 Pro with up to 50 scheduled tasks, $99.99 Ultra with up to 100.
• Luzia: interaction and tool limits, doubled on Luzia+, priced per app store and country from 1.99 USD weekly or 39.92 USD a year.
• Poke: rate limits and model quality, $0, $19 or $199 a month billed monthly, with pay-as-you-go usage beyond your credits on Ultra.
• Martin: concurrent tasks and proactivity, $21 or $30 a month on annual billing, $35 or $49 month to month.
• Lindy: seats and credits together, $29.99 to $199.99 per user per month with 3,000 to 35,000 non-rolling credits.
• Sintra: a flat 250 monthly credits at every commitment length, from $15.60 a month on twelve months to $48.50 on one.
• Notis: completed tasks metered on real model usage, about nine cents each, inside a $20, $59 or $149 monthly allowance.

Two patterns fall out of that list. The cheapest advertised number is almost always an annual commitment, with Martin the clearest example at 63 percent more for the privilege of paying monthly. And flat subscriptions with hidden consumption meters, whether credits, rate limits or pay-as-you-go overage, are now the norm. The honest question is not what it costs but how much work you get before it stops.

Which Zapia Alternative Fits You

• You want the same free, Spanish-language, WhatsApp-shaped assistant from a different vendor: try Luzia, and check the territorial clause first.
• You want proactive texting with real app integrations and are relaxed about new ownership: try Poke.
• You would rather talk than type, and you want the assistant to answer the phone: try Martin, on annual billing.
• You have a repeatable process and time to build it: try Lindy, and model the credits before committing seats.
• You want done-for-you marketing output with no setup: try Sintra on the twelve-month plan.
• You want one assistant with one memory across WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack, email and your coding agent, and you want to see the per-task cost: try Notis.

The Bottom Line

Zapia is a good consumer assistant with clear, cheap plans and a real market. If your needs are reminders, lookups and the occasional summary in Spanish or Portuguese, it delivers, and so does Luzia.

The reason to look for a Zapia alternative is structural rather than emotional. The agentic tier is still a waitlist, the paid plans are metered against scheduled tasks rather than the work you actually need doing, cancellation is non-refundable outside Brazil, and the whole experience is delivered over a channel whose own terms restrict general-purpose AI assistants to European and Brazilian phone numbers. Whichever tool you pick from this list, pick one whose value does not evaporate the day a platform updates its policy.