One page: what each of the six 2026 newcomers is (Manus AI, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK/Swarm, Google ADK + Vertex AI Agent Builder, n8n, Zapier); the buy-to-build spectrum; the head-to-head comparison; the pricing-unit warning (credits vs tasks vs tokens); and the decision rules — choose by who builds it, then model and cloud.
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The book · Volume 7 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Real-Time Pipelines and Agents to Serving, Cost, Compliance, and Verticals
This sheet compares the six 2026 agent-tooling newcomers on one page and gives the rules for picking one by who builds it, which works for a first shortlist. Volume 7 treats agents as engineering in depth: loop primitives, frameworks, memory and tools, plus serving infrastructure and cost per stream-hour once the agent runs on real video. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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