Franz

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  "name": "Franz",
  "url": "https://meetfranz.com",
  "logo": "https://agentery.com/logos/CP-24TY6Z-256.png",
  "niche": "ai-workspace-platform",
  "category": "developer-tools-infra",
  "short_summary": "Unifies messaging, email, and Signal in one desktop workspace, and an AI assistant catches you up across channels, summarizes threads, and drafts replies",
  "task_performed": "Unifies messaging, email, and Signal in one desktop workspace, and an AI assistant catches you up across channels, summarizes threads, and drafts replies",
  "inputs_accepted": [
    "Messages from email",
    "WhatsApp",
    "Slack",
    "Signal",
    "Discord",
    "Telegram and other services",
    "voice notes",
    "user prompts"
  ],
  "outputs_produced": [
    "Cross-channel summaries",
    "drafted replies",
    "action items/tasks",
    "voice note transcriptions",
    "morning briefings"
  ],
  "integrations_available": [
    "WhatsApp",
    "Slack",
    "Gmail",
    "Signal",
    "Discord",
    "Telegram",
    "Microsoft Teams",
    "Instagram",
    "Email",
    "OpenAI",
    "Anthropic",
    "Ollama"
  ],
  "protocols_or_interfaces": [],
  "industry_fit": [
    "general business (consultants",
    "recruiters",
    "founders",
    "operators)"
  ],
  "autonomy_level": "assistant",
  "human_approval_needed": "unclear",
  "pricing_model": "freemium",
  "price": {
    "observed": true,
    "billing": "freemium",
    "source_kind": "vendor",
    "currency": "USD",
    "lowest_monthly_usd": 13.44,
    "monthly_usd": 13.44,
    "headline": "Free plan; paid from €12/mo; €5/mo equivalent billed annually",
    "commercial": {
      "entry_offer": {
        "line": "Pro",
        "monthly_native": 12,
        "monthly_usd": 13.44,
        "commitment": "monthly",
        "basis": "€12/month",
        "billing_verified": true
      },
      "annual_option": {
        "line": "Pro (annual billing)",
        "monthly_equivalent_native": 5,
        "total_native": 60
      },
      "currency": "EUR",
      "notes": [
        "add-on / component (not a whole-product price): Franz Cloud AI add-on €4/mo",
        "other prices: Lifetime €239 (one-time)",
        "prices in EUR as published; USD figures are conversions at 2026-10-25"
      ],
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        {
          "name": "Starter",
          "price": "Free",
          "kind": "free",
          "billed": "monthly"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pro",
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          "kind": "base_subscription",
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        },
        {
          "name": "Pro (annual billing)",
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          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "annually"
        },
        {
          "name": "Max",
          "price": "€24/mo",
          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "monthly"
        },
        {
          "name": "Max (annual billing)",
          "price": "€10/mo equivalent billed annually",
          "kind": "base_subscription",
          "billed": "annually"
        },
        {
          "name": "Lifetime",
          "price": "€239",
          "kind": "one_off",
          "billed": "one_off"
        },
        {
          "name": "Franz Cloud AI add-on",
          "price": "€4/mo",
          "kind": "add_on",
          "billed": "monthly"
        }
      ]
    },
    "summary": "Free plan; paid from €12/mo; €5/mo equivalent billed annually. Franz offers a permanent free Starter tier, monthly or annual Pro and Max subscriptions, a discounted limited-launch Lifetime license, and an optional €4/month Cloud AI add-on.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source_url": "https://meetfranz.com/pricing",
    "checked_at": "2026-10-29T01:57:27.980Z",
    "amount": 13.37,
    "display": "From $13.37/mo",
    "plans": [
      {
        "name": "Starter",
        "price": "Free",
        "period": "month",
        "persona": "individual",
        "highlights": [
          "3 messaging services",
          "1 workspace",
          "Local-only AI privacy"
        ],
        "promo_note": null,
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Pro",
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        "period": "month",
        "persona": "pro",
        "highlights": [
          "Unlimited messaging services and workspaces",
          "Bring your own model or run locally",
          "Smart Translate, Privacy Shield, app lock, dictation and 1Password"
        ],
        "promo_note": null,
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": "€5/mo equivalent"
      },
      {
        "name": "Max",
        "price": "€24/mo",
        "period": "month",
        "persona": "pro",
        "highlights": [
          "Everything in Pro",
          "Franz Cloud AI with 5M tokens per month",
          "50 web research runs per month"
        ],
        "promo_note": null,
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": "€10/mo equivalent"
      },
      {
        "name": "Lifetime",
        "price": "€239",
        "period": "one-time",
        "persona": "team_sme",
        "highlights": [
          "One payment with no subscription",
          "All future Franz updates included",
          "Unlimited services and workspaces"
        ],
        "promo_note": "Founder price · limited launch; returns to €239 when launch period ends",
        "price_promo": "€199",
        "price_annual": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Franz Cloud AI add-on",
        "price": "€4/mo",
        "period": "month",
        "persona": "individual",
        "highlights": [
          "Optional hosted Franz Cloud AI",
          "Can be added to Lifetime",
          "Not required for using your own model"
        ],
        "promo_note": null,
        "price_promo": null,
        "price_annual": null
      }
    ],
    "source": "render+llm"
  },
  "trust_or_rating_signal": [
    "Over a million downloads",
    "a decade on desk",
    "USED BY PEOPLE AT LEADING COMPANIES WORLDWIDE",
    "Built in the EU",
    "France-hosted zero-retention cloud"
  ],
  "evidence_quality": "high",
  "entity_type": "tool",
  "regulated_data_suitability": "possibly suitable (GDPR stated)",
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://meetfranz.com"
  ],
  "last_checked": "2026-10-29",
  "profile_checked": "2026-06-16",
  "price_checked": "2026-10-29",
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    "docs": "https://elevenlabs.io/documentation",
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    "a2a": null,
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      "endpoint": null
    },
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    "install": null,
    "repository": null
  },
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    "both_offered": false,
    "hosted_endpoint": null,
    "install": null,
    "note": "No deployment evidence held — Agentery has no endpoint, install instruction or directory attribute for this listing.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": null,
    "note": "No named licence found in the retained page text or source attributes. A public repository alone does not establish an open-source licence.",
    "evidence": null
  },
  "evidence_checks": {
    "price": {
      "source_url": "https://meetfranz.com/pricing",
      "last_observed_day": "2026-10-29",
      "age_days": 1,
      "verified_day": null,
      "note": "from the listing's current price record; no separate page-text verification is held"
    },
    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
  },
  "product_group": {
    "group_id": 67,
    "group": "Messaging and communications automation",
    "change_90d_pct": 0.81,
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      "pro": 36.24,
      "team / small business": 63,
      "enterprise": 195
    },
    "note": "Change of the group's price index over the last 90 days. Call get_group_fair_price with group_id for tier and payment-model detail.",
    "page": "https://agentery.com/aepi/groups/67"
  },
  "liveness": {
    "probed": true,
    "alive": true,
    "endpoint_kind": "site",
    "latency_ms": 301,
    "uptime_7d": 1,
    "checked_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:29.197Z",
    "consecutive_failures": 0,
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  },
  "price_extras": {
    "free_tier": null,
    "unit_cost": null
  },
  "reported_success": null,
  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
}