Skywork AI Review 2026: Pricing, Plans & SkyClaw

Skywork AI is an all-in-one AI workspace that turns one prompt into slides, documents, spreadsheets, websites, images, videos or podcasts, backed by its own deep research. In 2026 it added SkyClaw, a cloud agent that keeps working on long tasks 24/7. There is a free tier with daily credits, and paid plans start at $19.99 a month.

Skywork AI in 30 seconds

• What it does: researches a topic, then builds the deliverable: a slide deck, report, spreadsheet, web page, poster, image, video or podcast. You can edit each output in the app.
• Price: Free; Basic $19.99 to $24.99 a month depending on where you subscribe, or $149.99 a year; Plus $49.99 a month; Ultra $249.99 a month.
• Free tier: 120 login credits a day. New sign-ups may also see a limited-time trial with more daily credits.
• Best for: consultants, analysts, marketers and teachers who need researched decks and documents fast. Not for: anyone who needs predictable costs per task or polished design control.

Skywork AI Pricing (2026)

Skywork doesn’t publish a public price table; skywork.ai/pricing opens the app, and prices appear after you sign in. The figures below come from Skywork’s own listings: its Shopify app page, its App Store in-app purchases and its membership guide, checked October 19, 2026.

Plan	Price	Credits	What you get
Free	$0	120 login credits a day	Core agents, 1 project, 10 downloads a month, files up to 10 MB
Basic	$19.99-$24.99/mo, or $149.99/year	15,000 a month + 120 a day	Unlimited downloads, 50 GB knowledge base, scheduled tasks, shared SkyClaw
Plus	$49.99/mo	28,000 a month + 120 a day	Your own 24/7 SkyClaw, model choice (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi), Cloud PC, 1 TB knowledge base
Ultra	$249.99/mo	Highest limits	Fastest model access, first access to beta features, 8 devices, 3 TB knowledge base

What credits buy: Skywork doesn’t publish a fixed cost per deck or report, and it says usage varies by feature, model and task. Run a few typical jobs on the free tier and watch your balance before you pick a plan.

Hardware bundles: Skywork also sells yearly plans bundled with its Skywork Note voice recorder, for example Basic yearly plus Note for $229.99. These activate only when you pair the device, so don’t buy one if you only want the software.

What’s new in Skywork in 2026

• SkyClaw: a cloud-based team of agents that runs long tasks in the background and keeps going when you close the app. Plus and Ultra get a dedicated, always-on instance.
• Skills: reusable workflows for documents, slides, sheets, web pages, images, video, audio and research. Skywork released official Skills on GitHub in March, and you can save your own.
• Scheduled tasks and chat delivery: set recurring jobs, such as a daily market summary, and send the results to Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE or Discord.
• Model choice: Plus and Ultra can pick the model per task, including recent ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek models.
• More output types: website generation and publishing, AI image editing and a video agent with dozens of video models.
• New plans: Skywork reworked its membership tiers several times this year and added Ultra in March.

Skywork AI pros and cons

What works: one prompt can produce a researched deck, a report and a podcast on the same topic, the research shows its sources, and SkyClaw plus scheduled tasks turn it into a background assistant instead of a chat box.

What doesn’t: pricing is hard to pin down, with different prices on different storefronts and no fixed credit cost per task. Plans have changed often in 2026. Design control is lighter than in a dedicated presentation tool, and some App Store reviewers complain about slow support.

Best use cases

• Consultants and analysts: research a market and get a first draft of the deck and report in one go.
• Marketers: turn one research brief into a campaign deck, landing page copy and a short podcast.
• Teachers and researchers: build lesson slides, literature reviews and study guides with sources attached.
• Ops and founders: schedule recurring research and reports and get them in Slack or WhatsApp.

Top alternatives to Skywork AI

• Genspark: the closest rival, a “super agent” that also builds slides, sheets and pages from one prompt.
• Manus: a general-purpose autonomous agent that is better for long, multi-step web tasks than for polished documents.
• Gamma: pick it when you mainly need good-looking presentations and simple web pages.
• Flowith Neo: a canvas-style agent workspace for long research and creation projects.
• More options: our guides to the best AI presentation makers and best AI agents for productivity.

TechPilot.ai’s verdict on Skywork AI

Skywork is a capable research-to-deliverable workspace, and SkyClaw, Skills and scheduled tasks make it more useful in 2026 than it was at launch. The weak spot is pricing: prices differ by storefront, the credit cost of a task isn’t published, and plans keep changing. Use the free daily credits to test your real tasks first. If the outputs save you hours, Basic billed yearly at $149.99 is the cheapest way in; Plus makes sense only if you need model choice or a dedicated SkyClaw.