OpenArt vs agent-media

At a glance

• What it is

  agent-media: A short drama series maker: interview, season plan, cast, scripts and filmed episodes.

  OpenArt: A web maker that "turns a story, a script, or a novel chapter into a vertical short drama", part of the OpenArt suite.

• Where you make it

  agent-media: In Claude, connected once with a browser sign-in. No API keys, nothing to install.

  OpenArt: In the browser. OpenArt MCP also makes images and videos from Claude, Cursor, Kimi and other MCP clients.

• How you make one

  agent-media: In a conversation. You approve the season plan, the cast, and each episode's script and price before anything is filmed.

  OpenArt: Enter a logline, script or chapter; pick genre, episode length and vertical format (its assistant Ori can ask or choose); review in Scenes or Timeline, give spoken notes, export.

• Cast

  agent-media: Two leads plus up to six friends or rivals, cast once and kept in every episode; up to eight locations.

  OpenArt: Leads keep face, wardrobe and styling across episodes from a reference image or the Characters library.

• Episodes

  agent-media: Vertical 9:16, 15 to 60 seconds, 480p or 720p, captions burned in, no watermark.

  OpenArt: Multi-episode vertical dramas that end on hooks, with dialogue or voiceover lip-synced to the cast and captions. Aspect ratio and length range: not stated on OpenArt's pages.

• Price

  agent-media: Episode 1 for $1; a 10-episode micro drama for $49 one-time. Monthly: $49 for 300 seconds, $149 for 1,200.

  OpenArt: Per seat per month: Starter $13 (4,000 credits), Plus $27 (12,000), Pro $44 (24,000), Wonder $175 (106,000). The page does not make clear which billing period these figures belong to.

• Series over MCP

  agent-media: Yes. The interview, cast, scripts and episodes all happen over MCP in Claude.

  OpenArt: OpenArt MCP makes images and videos. Its page does not say it makes series or episodes, and says "Character is on the roadmap".

What OpenArt's drama generator does

OpenArt says its drama generator is for short-drama studios, creators and storytellers, writers and novelists, and brands and marketers. You start from a logline, a script or a novel chapter, and add a reference image or a saved character to lock the leads. Then you choose the genre, the episode length and the vertical format, and its assistant, Ori, can ask you about them or choose for you. Finally you review the episodes in Scenes or the cut in Timeline, give spoken notes, and export.

The page describes multi-episode serial dramas that end on hooks, with dialogue or voiceover lip-synced to the cast and captions, and names romance, revenge, billionaire, fantasy and thriller among its genres. It says the leads keep their face, wardrobe and styling from episode to episode. It does not name an aspect ratio or a range of episode lengths.

Both connect to Claude, in different ways

OpenArt MCP and CLI make images and videos inside Claude, Cursor, Kimi and other MCP clients, with an OAuth sign-in and no API key. It spends the same credits as the website, and every plan lists access to it. The MCP page does not say it makes series or episodes, and it says "Character is on the roadmap", so consistent characters are not in the MCP yet.

agent-media's connection is the whole production. Your series is planned, cast, written and filmed from the conversation in Claude, and each episode is remembered for the next one.

How agent-media makes a series

agent-media works inside Claude. You ask for a series, and 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 with a cliffhanger for each episode, casts two leads and up to six friends or rivals, and builds up to eight locations. You approve the season plan, the cast, and each episode's script and price before it is filmed. Episodes are vertical 9:16, 15 to 60 seconds, at 480p or 720p, with captions burned in, no watermark and the same cast every time.

You connect Claude once with a browser sign-in: no API keys and nothing to install. The connect steps appear in the app after checkout. The interview offers 3, 5 or 10 episodes, or anything from 1 to 20, and a script you have not filmed yet can still be rewritten.

How the price is counted

OpenArt sells its suite per seat, in credits. Its pricing page shows Starter at $13 a seat a month with 4,000 credits, Plus at $27 with 12,000, Pro at $44 with 24,000 and Wonder at $175 with 106,000, and an annual toggle that says "UP TO 27% OFF". It does not make clear which billing period the figures belong to. Plus can add 5,000 extra credits for $15 a month.

On agent-media, Episode 1 of your own show is $1: one 30-second episode at 480p. A micro drama, ten 30-second episodes at 480p with the same cast, is $49 one-time, Episode 1 included, and a new show is another $49. Making many shows? Monthly plans are $49 for 300 seconds at 480p and $149 for 1,200, with half the seconds at 720p. If you have not filmed an episode within 7 days, your first payment is refunded in full.

Which one to pick

A short way to decide:

• Pick OpenArt if you have a script or a novel chapter to adapt and want to work in a browser, with Scenes and a Timeline.
• Pick OpenArt if you also want images and other video tools in the same subscription.
• Pick agent-media if you want to make the whole series from Claude, in a conversation, without a timeline to edit.
• Pick agent-media if you want to see each episode's full script and its price before anything is filmed.
• Pick agent-media if you want to pay per show: Episode 1 for $1, then ten episodes with the same cast for $49 one-time.

Watch an agent-media episode

Episode 1 of The One I Left, a second chance romance: a man walks into his ex's flower shop and orders white roses for his wedding. Five lines, two leads, and the same pair in every episode.

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