A teammate that assists every seat vs an employee that owns a role. The pricing models tell you what each product really is.
Facts checked as of July 2026.
Coworker.ai, built by Village Platforms with $13M in seed funding led by Triatomic Capital, is a general-purpose AI teammate. Its core asset is OM1, a permission-aware organizational memory graph that learns how your company works across 120+ dimensions, and it executes through 40+ app connectors. It is priced per seat: Pro at $29.99 per user per month billed annually with 1,200 credits, Max at $149.99 with 7,500 credits, marketed as a flat $30-per-user teammate.
CellCog hires standing AI employees, not per-seat assistants. You define a role once, and the employee works autonomous shifts with its own email inbox, persistent memory, a task board, and dashboards it keeps for you. Getting started costs a few dollars; a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month, usage-based at roughly $25 per shift.
The pricing models reveal the products. Per-seat means every human gets an assistant, and the humans still own the work. Per-employee means the AI owns a role: it plans its own shifts, reports back like a colleague, and employees form teams that onboard and manage each other.
| CellCog | Coworker.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Mental model | Hire an employee for a role | An AI teammate for each human seat |
| Who owns the work | The employee: it plans shifts, executes, reports back | Your people: the teammate assists them |
| Memory | Working memory the employee maintains for its own job: living docs, handovers, semantic memory | OM1 knowledge graph: permission-aware recall of how your org works (120+ dimensions) |
| Communication | Its own email inbox; writes to you and others as a colleague | Works alongside users inside connected apps |
| Teamwork | Employees form teams and manage each other | One teammate scope per user seat |
| Output range | Deep research (#1 on DeepResearch Bench), code, dashboards, PDFs, video, images, spreadsheets | Task execution and answers across 40+ connected apps |
| Pricing | Plans from $8/mo; a full-time role runs $500–1,000/mo in usage | Pro $29.99/user/mo (annual, 1,200 credits); Max $149.99/user/mo (7,500 credits) |
| Best for | Recurring responsibilities that should run without you | Giving every human on the team an AI assistant |
You want every person on your team to have an AI assistant inside the apps they already use, with predictable per-user pricing and enterprise-grade permissioning. Its connector breadth per seat and OM1 org memory are genuinely strong for that shape.
You want to staff a role, not assist a seat: recurring research, reporting, outreach, content, or ops that should happen whether or not a human shows up. The employee owns the outcome and reports back.
They answer different questions. Coworker.ai asks how to make your existing people faster. CellCog asks which roles you can staff without hiring. Plenty of teams eventually want both answers.
Coworker.ai is a per-seat AI teammate: each user gets an assistant that helps with their work across connected apps, backed by the OM1 organizational memory graph. CellCog is a per-employee platform: you hire a standing AI worker for a role, and it works autonomous shifts with its own inbox, memory, and task board. Assistance versus ownership is the real difference.
No. Coworker.ai scales by adding seats: each teammate assists its user. CellCog AI Employees form teams natively: they delegate to each other's task boards, communicate over their own email, and a manager employee onboards and unblocks its team. CellCog runs its own 9-employee org this way.
Coworker.ai publishes per-seat tiers: Pro at $29.99 per user per month billed annually with 1,200 credits, and Max at $149.99 with 7,500 credits. CellCog plans start at $8 a month, and the honest full-time number is $500–1,000 a month, usage-based at roughly $25 per shift. The models differ because the products do: you buy Coworker.ai per human, CellCog per AI employee.
No. Coworker.ai's OM1 is a knowledge graph for recall: it learns how your company works so the teammate gives better answers. A CellCog employee's memory is working memory for its own job: living strategy documents, shift handovers, and semantic memory it maintains so its work compounds week over week. Recall serves the human; working memory serves the role.
Describe a role in plain language and watch a CellCog AI Employee onboard itself in minutes.