An invideo alternative for AI micro dramas

At a glance

• Built for

  agent-media: One person making a series from an AI chat.

  invideo: Producers and teams running a season with a crew of agents and an editor.

• Where you make it

  agent-media: Inside Claude, ChatGPT or Codex.

  invideo: In invideo agent, with real-time multiplayer for a team.

• What you bring

  agent-media: One line, or a premise. The interview fills in the rest.

  invideo: An idea, locked episodic scripts, or a full show bible; your own footage and grade too.

• Cast and sets

  agent-media: Two leads plus up to six recurring characters and up to eight locations, cast once.

  invideo: Approved character sheets and recurring locations lock as the base for every episode.

• Finished output

  agent-media: Finished 9:16 episodes, 15 to 60 seconds, with voices, score and burned-in captions.

  invideo: Approved takes delivered into Premiere Pro bins for the grade, grain and mix.

• Price

  agent-media: $49, $149 or $499 a month in video seconds.

  invideo: Per seat in credits: Starter $20 a month or $10 billed yearly (400 credits), Plus $60 or $30 (2,000), Max $150 or $75 (5,000).

Why people look for an invideo alternative

invideo's microdrama page describes a serious production tool: "Direct a crew of creative agents that turns your idea, script, or show bible into a finished microdrama season." It saves your bible to project memory, returns a season plan to approve, locks character sheets and locations, generates shot by shot against those locks and hands approved takes to Premiere Pro through a direct integration. Several agents can work at once, and a showrunner agent keeps continuity across the season.

That is a lot of machinery if you are one person with an idea. You may not have an editor or a Premiere Pro seat, you may not want to think in credits per seat, and you may already spend your day in Claude, ChatGPT or Codex. That is the case agent-media is built for.

How agent-media works instead

agent-media works inside the AI chat you already use: Claude, ChatGPT or Codex. You ask for a series, it interviews you in short rounds of multiple-choice questions, pitches three concepts if you have no idea yet, writes a story bible and a season grid, casts two leads and up to six recurring characters, and shows you each episode's script with its price before it films. Episodes are vertical 9:16, 15 to 60 seconds, at 480p or 720p, with captions burned in and no watermark.

When an episode is done it records who knows what, so the next script picks up where the last one stopped. You say make the next one, read the script and its quote, and approve. There is no timeline to edit and nothing to export to another app: the episode comes back as a finished vertical video, ready to post, and public series can appear on our series page.

Pricing, side by side

invideo prices per seat in credits. Its pricing page lists Starter at $20 a month, or $10 a month billed yearly, with 400 credits per seat and access to Agent Two Lite only; Plus at $60, or $30 billed yearly, with 2,000 credits; and Max at $150, or $75 billed yearly, with 5,000 credits. Unused credits do not roll over to the next month, and the microdrama page notes that cost scales with how much you generate.

agent-media plans are monthly: $49 for 300 seconds of video at 480p or 150 at 720p, $149 for 900 or 450, and $499 for 3,600 or 1,800. There is no free trial; if you have not filmed an episode within 7 days, your first payment is refunded.

When invideo is the better choice

Be honest about the job:

• Stay with invideo if you have a team, a show bible and editors who finish in Premiere Pro, or you need to match generated scenes to footage you shot.
• Choose agent-media if you are one person, want finished episodes without an edit, and want to make the series in Claude, ChatGPT or Codex.
• Choose agent-media too if you want each episode's full script and price in front of you before it is filmed.

Watch an agent-media episode

Episode 1 of Boss Lady: an intern takes the head seat at the board table with her colleagues' proxies, and her boss finds the catch. Voices, score and captions included.

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