Showrunner vs agent-media

At a glance

• What it is

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

  Showrunner: "A new medium for serialized AI storytelling": watch AI shows and make your own.

• 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.

  Showrunner: Pitch it in a sentence, pick a look, then direct the scenes. Genres include comedy, anime, fantasy, sitcom, horror, sci-fi and live action.

• Cast

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

  Showrunner: "Build a character once, then bring them back across scenes and episodes."

• Scenes and episodes

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

  Showrunner: Scene estimates are for 15-second scenes at 720p. Aspect ratio: not stated on Showrunner's pages.

• Where you make it

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

  Showrunner: In its web app. An iOS app is listed as coming soon to the USA. An API or MCP is not stated.

• Price

  agent-media: Episode 1 of your own show for $1; a 10-episode micro drama for $49 one-time.

  Showrunner: Plans in credits: Creator 52 credits a month (about 3 to 8 scenes), Filmmaker 156 (about 10 to 26). Dollar prices are not shown on the pages we read.

What Showrunner does

Showrunner's home page reads "Watch AI shows. Make your own." Its about page calls it "a new medium for serialized AI storytelling", "built for serialized storytelling, not 5-second clips". To make a show you pitch an idea in a sentence, pick a look, and direct the scenes, while Showrunner builds the world and the cast. Its genres include comedy, anime, fantasy, sitcom, horror, sci-fi and live action.

Characters are built once and brought back across scenes and episodes. Other people can remix your show, and Showrunner says "When fans pay to remix your show, that money comes back to you." It runs as a web app, with an iOS app listed as coming soon to the USA.

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.

Working from Claude

Showrunner's pages do not mention an API or MCP, and its terms forbid using automated tools on the service. You make your show on its website.

agent-media is built to be used from Claude. Your series is planned, cast, written and filmed from the conversation, and each episode is remembered for the next one.

How the price is counted

Showrunner shows its plans in credits: Creator with 52 credits a month, which it puts at about 3 to 8 scenes, and Filmmaker with 156, about 10 to 26 scenes. The pages we read did not show dollar prices.

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. 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 Showrunner if you want to direct each scene yourself and publish where fans can watch and remix your show.
• Pick Showrunner if you want genres such as anime, fantasy or sci-fi in its own looks.
• Pick agent-media if you want to make a whole series from Claude, in a conversation, with a season plan and a cliffhanger for each episode.
• 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 Runway, a workplace sitcom: a startup with six months of runway and six minutes of Wi-Fi. Eight short lines, two leads, and a last line that sets up the next bad idea.

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