- What autoremind.ai Does
- The Two Plans
- When the Free Plan Is Enough
- When to Upgrade
- What You're Not Paying For
- How the Pricing Compares to Alternatives
- Privacy and Security
- FAQs
You found autoremind.ai and want to know three things: whether it costs anything, what you get without paying, and when paying makes sense. Short answers first. Free for three reminders, forever. $4 a month for ten. Upgrade when three is not enough.
What autoremind.ai Does
autoremind.ai sends AI-written follow-ups on a schedule. You describe what you are waiting on in plain English, and it writes the messages and sends them from your own Gmail, in the original thread, or through Slack.
Each unanswered attempt reads firmer than the last: professional first, firm if ignored, urgent if there is still no reply. When the other person replies to an email follow-up, the sequence pauses and you get told.
Setup takes under a minute. There is no workflow builder and nothing to map out.
Try it on yours
Edit the sentence and press Continue. Free for 3 reminders, no card.
The Two Plans
There are two plans, and they differ mainly in how many reminders run at once.
| Free | Starter | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0, no card | $4 a month, billed monthly |
| Live reminders at once | 3 | 10 |
| Messages per reminder | Up to 4 | Up to 4 |
| AI-written messages and tone escalation | Yes | Yes |
| Sends from your Gmail, or Slack | Yes | Yes |
| Reply detection without inbox access | Yes | Yes |
| File attachments | No | 1 file, up to 5MB |
| Analytics | Basic | Full |
| Support | Standard | Priority email |
| Expires | Never | Cancel any time |
The free plan is not a cut-down demo. Each of the three reminders does everything a Starter reminder does, apart from attachments.
When the Free Plan Is Enough
Three live reminders covers a lot of people. A freelancer with one or two late invoices at any given time may never need more. So may someone chasing a single approval or a quiet prospect.
It is also the right way to test the product. Put a real overdue invoice on it and watch what happens. The first message is polite. If nobody answers, the next one is noticeably firmer. You see the whole sequence, on a real conversation, before spending anything.
When to Upgrade
Upgrade when you want a fourth reminder running and do not want to wait for one of the three to finish. Starter runs ten at once for $4 a month.
The other reason is attachments. If you want the invoice or the contract to go out with the follow-up, that needs Starter.
Nothing is lost either way. Reminders you set up on the free plan keep running after you upgrade, and if you cancel Starter later you drop back to three.
The arithmetic is simple. If one follow-up gets one overdue invoice paid, $4 has already been covered many times over. Full details are on the pricing page.
For how autoremind.ai compares with other follow-up tools, see the best follow-up reminder tools for freelancers and small teams.
What You're Not Paying For
Worth being direct about what autoremind.ai is not.
It's not a full CRM. It's not a sales engagement platform. It's not Outreach.io or Mixmax. Those tools cost significantly more, require configuration time measured in hours, and are built for enterprise sales teams who need pipeline forecasting and rep coaching on top of follow-up sequences.
autoremind.ai is for the freelancer who has three unpaid invoices and doesn't want to spend an afternoon building a sequence. It's for the SDR at a 40-person company who needs replies, not a platform. It's for the project manager whose approval request has gone unanswered for a week.
If you're evaluating AI follow-up tools specifically for sales workflows, the best AI follow-up email tools comparison lays out the options clearly.
How the Pricing Compares to Alternatives
The competitors worth comparing are all more expensive on a per-feature basis once you account for what they don't do.
FollowUp.cc runs $23 to $36 per month. It's Gmail-only. You write your own follow-up copy. No AI message generation, no tone escalation.
Boomerang for Gmail costs $4.98 to $49.98 per month. It reminds you to follow up. It doesn't write the message for you. No tone escalation.
Mixmax starts at $29 per user per month and reaches $105 per user per month. It requires manual template configuration before anything fires. Built for outbound sales, not internal follow-ups or invoice chasing.
Saleshandy advertises around $25 per month, but the real cost with required add-ons lands between $130 and $200 per month. Email only. No Slack. No AI tone escalation.
autoremind.ai gives you 3 reminders free, with no card and no time limit. Starter is $4 a month when you want ten running at once, which is less than the entry price of every tool above.
For freelancers specifically, the best automated follow-up reminder tools for freelancers in 2026 article goes deeper on which tools hold up for invoice follow-up use cases.
Privacy and Security
autoremind.ai never reads your inbox. When you connect Gmail, it asks only for permission to send. It connects through OAuth 2.0, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and complies with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
That matters because reply detection is normally the reason follow-up tools ask to read your mail. autoremind.ai detects replies a different way: each follow-up lists a tracked reply address next to yours, so it learns that someone answered without seeing a word of what they wrote. Why follow-up automation should not need access to your inbox explains how that works.
FAQs
Is autoremind.ai free? Yes, for up to three live reminders at a time. There is no credit card and no expiry. Starter is $4 a month when you want ten running at once.
Does the free plan require a credit card? No. Sign in and start. You only enter payment details if you choose to upgrade to Starter.
Is the AI the same on the free plan as on Starter? Yes. Both plans get the same AI-written messages, the same tone escalation, up to four messages per reminder, and reply detection. Starter changes how many reminders run at once and adds file attachments.
What happens when a reminder gets a reply? For email follow-ups, autoremind.ai notices the reply and pauses the sequence, then notifies you. You can resume it or close it.
Does autoremind.ai read my inbox to detect replies? No. It only has permission to send. Each follow-up lists a tracked reply address next to yours, so autoremind.ai learns that someone answered without ever seeing your inbox or what they wrote.
What channels does autoremind.ai support? Email, sent from your own Gmail in the original thread, and Slack. Both work on the free plan.
Is there an annual plan? No. Starter is billed monthly at $4 and you can cancel whenever you like.
Start with the invoice or approval you are chasing right now at autoremind.ai. The first 3 reminders are free, no card needed.