Both put a talking avatar in front of your visitors. They are priced differently, built for different buyers, and one of them is ours. Prices below came from their own pricing page on 2026-09-18.
The short answer. Smara costs less per minute at entry and in the middle plans: $0.073 against €0.175, and $0.055 against €0.100.
| Product | Plan | Per month | Minutes | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smara | Starter | $29 | 400 | $0.073 |
| Beyond Presence | Starter | €49 | 280 | €0.175 |
| Smara | Growth | $99 | 1,800 | $0.055 |
| Beyond Presence | Growth | €149 | 1,490 | €0.100 |
Their price covers the whole conversation, as ours does, so these are comparable numbers.
A European real-time avatar platform priced in euros, with ten conversations at once on the entry tier and a clear enterprise compliance story.
Ten concurrent sessions on the first paid plan, where most rivals give one or three. On-premise deployment, SOC-2 and GDPR support at enterprise, and rates quoted down to €0.03 a minute at scale.
At comparable tiers we are cheaper per minute and our extra minutes are roughly half to a quarter of theirs. We also offer on-premise, and because our engine needs no GPU it can run on ordinary hardware inside a building rather than requiring accelerators.
Underneath, the thing that makes our price possible is that the engine runs without a GPU. That is also why the same software can run inside a clinic or a law firm's own building, why the stream fits a 100 kbps connection, and why we can charge four cents for an extra minute rather than thirty-seven.
She can also operate the page she is on: point at what she is describing, fill in a booking form from what you told her, and finish the job rather than describe it.
Where we are weaker: we are newer, we are one product rather than a platform, and if you need a hundred simultaneous conversations today, several of the names here have been doing this longer.
You are a European company, procurement will ask about SOC-2 and GDPR, and you need many simultaneous conversations from day one.
You want an avatar on a normal business website that greets visitors, answers their questions and completes tasks, installed with one script tag, at the lowest running cost per minute of any complete product here.
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