7 Best Town Alternatives in 2026, Compared

Town is an AI executive assistant you reach at its own email address. You forward it work, it handles scheduling, briefings and follow-ups, and it connects to the tools you already use. For a single busy executive that shape works well.

It’s a poor fit for two situations. If the work needs to be visible to a team rather than briefed to one person, an assistant with a private mailbox is the wrong container. And if most of what needs handling arrives on Slack, Teams or WhatsApp rather than email, an email-addressed assistant only sees part of it.

We compare the seven on what they actually do, which channels they read, and what they cost. We checked prices against each vendor’s own pricing page on August 4, 2026, and we say when a tier is the entry point rather than the headline number.

Key takeaways

• Town costs $59 per seat monthly, or $49 billed annually on its Pro tier.
• Most alternatives are still email-first. If team chat is where your work arrives, that narrows the list quickly.
• The real fork is personal versus team. An assistant that briefs one person and a system that tracks work for several are different products, and most of this category is the former.
• We build one of these, so read our entry with that in mind. Everything else here comes from each vendor’s own published material.

1. this+that

Best for: teams that want work tracked across every channel, not briefed to one person.

Connect Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and WhatsApp Business, and this+that reads what arrives and pulls the tasks out of it automatically. Nobody forwards anything to an assistant address. The task lands in a shared list with an owner, carrying a link back to the message it came from.

Beyond extraction, workflows act on messages as they arrive: draft a reply, create a task, update another tool, hold it for approval before anything is sent. Those drafts are grounded in the Brain, a knowledge layer that fills from the team’s own messages rather than from an onboarding questionnaire.

Price: free for 30 days, including 3,000 credits. then $35 per user per month, or $29 billed annually, with 3,000 credits a month per person, no card. After that, $35 per user monthly, $29 billed annually.

Where it is weaker: it does not answer phones, and the Brain starts empty, so it is more useful in week three than on day one.

2. Town

Best for: an individual executive who wants a capable assistant to delegate to.

The product Town does best is briefing and scheduling for one person. Give it an address, forward it work, and it handles the coordination. It’s a good version of that idea, which is why it is the page you’re reading alternatives to.

Price: $59 per seat monthly, $49 billed annually, on Pro.

3. Martin

Best for: individuals wanting a personal assistant at the lowest entry price here.

Martin is a personal AI assistant rather than a team work layer. The distinction matters if more than one person needs to see what was promised to a customer.

Price: $35 monthly, $21 billed annually, on its Basic tier.

4. Carly

Best for: people who want to run automations by emailing an agent.

Carly is an AI agent you email like a teammate, and it builds and runs multi-step workflows: triaging mail, booking meetings, updating records, connecting other apps. Closest in ambition to a workflow tool of anything on this list, with the forwarding model of an assistant.

Price: $35 monthly on the Personal tier.

5. Serif

Best for: relationship intelligence across Gmail and Outlook.

Serif focuses on what your correspondence says about your relationships rather than on running processes. Useful if the gap you feel is context about people, not tasks going missing.

Price: $30 monthly on Lite.

6. Superhuman

Best for: individuals who want the fastest possible email client.

Superhuman sells Mail on its own from $25 per member billed annually, and also inside a four-product suite where the cheapest tier including Mail is $33. It’s email-only, so team chat sits outside its view entirely.

Price: $40 per member monthly, $33 billed annually, on Business.

7. Jared, Bond and Mira

Three newer entrants worth knowing rather than ranking. Jared is an AI teammate that lives in Slack, which inverts Town’s email-first model. Bond focuses on briefing an executive. Mira positions itself as an AI COO operating in chat.

None of the three publishes pricing we could verify on August 4, 2026, so we’ve not quoted figures. Check directly before comparing on cost.

How to choose

Start with where the work arrives. If it’s overwhelmingly email, most of this list will serve you and the decision comes down to price and taste. If a real share arrives in Slack, Teams or WhatsApp, the list shortens sharply, because an assistant that reads one channel cannot track a commitment made in another.

Then ask who needs to see it. An assistant that briefs one person is a different product from a system that keeps a team’s work visible, and the two get confused because both are sold as AI assistants. Town is firmly the first kind. If that is what you want, Town is a reasonable answer and you can stop reading.

Frequently asked questions

What does Town cost?

$59 per seat monthly, or $49 per seat billed annually, on the Pro tier as published on August 4, 2026.

Does Town read Slack or Teams?

Town’s model is an assistant with its own email address that you forward work to. If your work arrives in team chat, check current channel coverage with Town directly, since this is the dimension where these products differ most and change most often.

What is the closest alternative to Town?

For the same shape, an assistant briefing one person, Martin and Bond are nearest. For a different shape, work tracked across a team and every channel, this+that and Jared are the ones to look at.

Is there a free option?

this+that is free for 30 days, including 3,000 credits. then $35 per user per month, or $29 billed annually, with 3,000 credits a month per person with no card required. The others on this list are paid, with entry tiers between $30 and $59 monthly.