What else you could buy instead.

MeMachine costs $149 a month and is wrong for a lot of businesses. These pages are an attempt to say which ones, in public, before you pay us.

We sell one thing to one kind of buyer: the owner of a local service business — a restaurant, a roofing company, a yoga studio, a salon, a detailer — who should be running Meta ads with their own face in them and currently is not. Everything below competes for that person’s money, and several of the options are genuinely better for people slightly unlike them.

• C-02 MeMachine vs Creatify The closest competitor we found. Cheaper than us, broader than us, and it has a competitor ad tracker and a Meta launcher in the same seat. Where it wins, and the one thing it does not do. Read →
• C-01 MeMachine vs Arcads AI actors, and AI clones of your own face. Enormous volume, low cost per asset, nobody real on screen. Including the honest answer to “why not just clone myself?” Read →
• C-05 MeMachine vs doing it yourself Ads Manager is free and CapCut is cheap. The comparison we lose hardest on price, and the one we are most comfortable making. Read →
• C-04 MeMachine vs hiring an agency Written by someone who runs one. Agencies are the right call at a certain stage — this explains which stage, and when to leave us for one. Read →
• C-06 MeMachine vs hiring a UGC creator A real human on camera, which beats any AI tool. Just not the human your customer is about to let into their house. Read →
• C-03 MeMachine vs AdCreative.ai A creative factory for teams producing at volume across many brands. If assets are your bottleneck, it is the right machine and we are not it. Read →

if one of these is better for you, buy that one.

The short version, if you would rather not read six pages

How these pages are written

Three rules, and they are the same rules the product runs on.

• No invented numbers. Every price is either read from the company’s own site on a stated date, or labelled as a third-party report. Where sources disagreed badly, we left the number out rather than pick the flattering one.
• No invented performance claims. We have not found a credible head-to-head study showing a real owner’s face beats a well-made AI actor on cost per lead, so we do not claim one. The argument here is about trust and locality, which is a thing we can actually defend.
• The other option gets its best case made. If a competitor read one of these pages and called it unfair, the page is wrong and we would want to fix it. The address is at the bottom.