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A visual IDE for building your own AI agents and apps — 200-plus models at cost, deployed as web apps, automations, extensions or MCP servers.
The builder's pick for founders who want to own their agents and their model bill — the catch is usage is metered separately on every plan.
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As of November 2026, MindStudio costs $16/month billed annually for unlimited agents, plus model usage at cost — a workshop for building your own agents, not a team for hire.
You want to build and own several small AI tools yourself, mix cheap and frontier models per step, and pay provider cost for the intelligence.
You want finished agents or a predictable bundled bill — Gumloop or Relevance package the judgement work for you.
Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.
Starts You feed a list of companies or a new lead arrives
You get A scored, summarised lead list in your sheet or CRM
Research tooling without a per-seat research subscription
Starts Contracts, applications or forms arrive
You get Structured records from unstructured documents
A bespoke internal tool instead of a generic SaaS tier
Starts Another assistant or workflow needs your agent's skill
You get Your custom logic callable from the tools you already use
Build once, reuse everywhere your stack reaches
One agent and 1,000 runs a month is enough to validate the editor and the deployment surface you need.
Cheap models for extraction, frontier models only where judgement matters — the at-cost router makes this the main cost lever.
Usage draws on a prepaid balance on every plan; workspace budgets and alerts turn a variable bill into a capped one.
Time to first useful result: An afternoon for a first working agent; days to feel fluent in the editor · no-code 4/5
Platform fee plus at-cost usage: a Free plan ($0, 1 agent, 1,000 runs/month), Individual at $20/month billed monthly or $16/month billed annually with unlimited agents and runs, and Business custom. On every plan, AI model and service usage is billed separately at provider cost with no markup, drawn from a prepaid balance.
$0/month + usage — 1 agent, 1,000 runs/month
Flat / month · $0/mo for one person
$16/month billed annually ($20 billed monthly) + usage — unlimited agents and runs
Flat / month · $16/mo for one person
Custom — team workspace and governance
Flat / month · $null/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month + usage — 1 agent, 1,000 runs/month | $0/mo | Flat / month | 1 agent · 1,000 runs/month · Usage billed at cost |
| IndividualSolo pick | $16/month billed annually ($20 billed monthly) + usage — unlimited agents and runs | $16/mo | Flat / month | Single user · Usage billed separately at provider cost |
| Business | Custom — team workspace and governance | $null/mo | Flat / month | Sales-led pricing |
Usage, not seats: an agent looping on a frontier model burns the prepaid balance; workspace and per-user budgets exist precisely to cap this, and enabling them is the control.
Price record · 2026-11-06: Checked 2026-11-06: the vendor's pricing page does not extract as text in this run's fetch, so the figures stand as corroborated by multiple dated reads of the same official page (August 2026, October 2026 and 6 November 2026 reads agree: Free $0 with 1 agent and 1,000 runs/month; Individual $20/month billed monthly or $16/month billed annually with unlimited agents and runs; Business custom; usage passed through at provider cost with no markup). Disclosure: this listing uses that corroborated-dated-reads pattern — the same treatment this directory applies where a rendered page's figures do not extract — and the buyer FAQ repeats it. Some older third-party reviews list retired Starter/Pro/Agency tiers ($16/$48/$140 in a different structure); the three-plan structure above is the one the recent dated reads of the official page agree on. As of November 2026 the entry paid tier is $16/month billed annually plus usage.
The same fields on every deep listing in this job, so agents compare field by field. “Not verified” means our research has not confirmed it yet — it never means “doesn't have it.”
As of November 2026, MindStudio's Individual plan is $16/month billed annually plus model usage at cost — and that split is the product's whole proposition. Where Gumloop or Relevance sell you finished agent capacity, MindStudio sells you the workshop: a visual block editor where a solo founder assembles agents from model calls, data steps, logic and integrations, then deploys each one as a web app, a browser extension, an automation, a webhook or an MCP server other tools can call. Access to more than 200 models through a built-in router — or your own API keys — means the same agent can use a cheap model for extraction and a frontier model for the one step that needs judgement, with usage passed through at provider cost and no platform markup. Founders use it to build internal tools a SaaS subscription would otherwise cover: lead-research agents, document processors, content pipelines, support-draft assistants and small client-facing apps. The trade-offs are builder-shaped: you design, test and maintain the agent yourself, the Free plan allows only one agent and 1,000 runs a month, and the platform fee is never the whole bill — usage is metered separately on every tier, controlled by prepaid balances and budgets rather than by a bundled allowance.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. At-cost model access and unlimited agents carry it; build-it-yourself setup is the trade.
The difference: Gumloop sells finished agent capacity at a flat $37 with credits bundled; MindStudio sells the builder and passes model costs through at cost.
The difference: Make automates between apps on a canvas with bundled credits; MindStudio builds standalone AI apps and agents you deploy yourself.
The difference: n8n is the open-source, self-hostable workflow engine; MindStudio is hosted, AI-first and deploys agents as apps and MCP servers.
Free is $0 for 1 agent and 1,000 runs a month. Individual is $20/month billed monthly or $16/month billed annually for unlimited agents and runs. On every plan, model and service usage is billed separately at provider cost with no markup, from a prepaid balance — so the true bill is the platform fee plus your agents' usage.
Disclosure: the vendor's pricing page did not extract as text in this run's fetch, so the figures are corroborated by multiple dated reads of the same official page (August 2026, October 2026 and 6 November 2026) that agree on Free $0, Individual $20/$16 and Business custom, with at-cost usage. Check the live page before budgeting, as with any corroborated listing in this directory.
MindStudio passes provider model costs through with no markup — language models per million tokens at the provider's own input/output rates, image generation per image, transcription per minute — drawn from a prepaid balance you can cap with workspace budgets and auto-recharge rules.
Yes — the service router needs no keys, and bringing your own keys is supported on the plans the dated reads describe; either way the underlying model cost is yours, at the provider's rate.
MindStudio is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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