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Runway’s pricing reset changes your AI video budget

LangChain shipped managed agents with A2A/MCP support; Replit added custom MCP endpoints.

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v2-fresh-142 · 2026-08-17 · daily change-intelligence on agentic tools

Runway’s pricing reset changes your AI video budget

Runway’s pricing page now has a new Free/Standard/Pro/Max structure, so the buying question is no longer just model quality but which tier actually fits your production burn and credit usage. Replit also updated its Starter/Core/Enterprise plans and expanded integrations support with custom MCP endpoints, while LangChain launched LangSmith Engine with managed-agent messaging and native A2A/MCP support. Put together, today’s read is about stack decisions, not feature trivia: pricing is getting reworked at the same time integration paths are being made more explicit. If you run video, coding, or agent orchestration in production, check the current plan limits and the MCP route before you lock your setup.

See what changed on Runway's listing

What changed on the ground

Changes we detected on each tool's own pages — pricing, features, platform reach — via our daily crawls. Often ahead of any press coverage; each links to the scored listing.

Runway Pricing change
8/36 · Guided Assistant
Runway revamps pricing tiers and expands included model access — Runway’s pricing page now shows a new Free/Standard/Pro/Max structure with revised monthly credit amounts, updated annual pricing, and rollover terms for Max.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Tradehand Repositioning
13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Tradehand pivots from trade certificate software to an AI office platform… — Tradehand’s site now positions the product as an AI receptionist and back-office platform for UK trades, replacing the earlier certificate-software framing.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Replit Agent Pricing change
12/36 · Guided Assistant
Replit updates pricing tiers and adds MCP integration support — Replit’s site now shows revised Starter/Core/Enterprise plan details, including new credit and access limits, alongside expanded integrations support such as custom MCP endpoints.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
LangChain Feature launch
10/36 · Guided Assistant
LangChain launches LangSmith Engine and managed agents, with MCP support… — The site now promotes LangSmith Engine as a new product launch, adds managed-agent messaging, highlights native A2A/MCP support, and rewrites LangSmith pricing and usage details.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
GitHub Copilot Pricing change
20/36 · Domain Specialist
GitHub Copilot updates pricing with new Pro, Pro+, and Max plans — GitHub Copilot’s landing and plans pages were updated with a new pricing structure, including Pro at $10/user/month, Pro+ at $39/user/month, and Max at $100/user/month.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Inworld AI Feature launch
9/36 · Guided Assistant
Inworld AI launches Realtime TTS-2 and cuts voice AI prices across its stack — The site now prominently advertises Realtime TTS-2 as live, introduces new model tiers like TTS-2 Flash, and rewrites product pages around expanded realtime voice, STT, and router capabilities.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-08-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.

Score activity

Perplexity Research Re-scored down (9→7)
7/36 · Guided Assistant
Score re-evaluated after: Can Perplexity's Computer for Counsel really beat Westlaw? Gunderson Dettmer says 80% of attorneys already use it.
Trigger: Tech Times — "Can Perplexity's Computer for Counsel really beat Westlaw? Gunderson Dettmer says 80% of attorneys already use it.".

Biggest movers this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week jump in outbound-click interest

  • OpenHands · +63.3% week-over-week. OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is a fully autonomous open-source AI coding agent. MIT-licensed core, plans + executes Python actions via CodeAct, uses browser + terminal + files. ~72% on SWE-bench Verified with Sonnet 4.5 via the OpenHands Software Agent SDK (arXiv:2511.03690).
  • Codex CLI · +34.6% week-over-week. Codex CLI is OpenAI’s coding agent that runs on your computer from the terminal. It can also be used in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or as a desktop app.
  • Devin Desktop · +21.9% week-over-week. Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf, and distinct from Cognition's cloud agent Devin) is an AI-native desktop app for developers. It keeps the full IDE — editor, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, debugging — and adds a command centre for running and coordinating multiple coding agents in one place. Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
  • Cline · +1.7% week-over-week. Cline is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that can inspect your project, edit files, run terminal commands, and use a browser while asking for permission at each step. It is aimed at developers working on real codebases who want more than code completion.

Biggest declines this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week drop in outbound-click interest

  • Wingman by Emergent · -75.8% week-over-week. Wingman is a messaging-first autonomous AI agent by Emergent. It connects to your email, calendar, Slack, CRM, and GitHub, then handles scheduling, research, sales support, and admin tasks through WhatsApp and Telegram conversations.
  • OpenClaw · -55% week-over-week. OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that goes beyond chat and can run tasks, remember context, and act across connected tools. It is aimed at people who want an agent they can message like a coworker and let keep working in the background.
  • Claude Code · -49% week-over-week. Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal. It understands your entire codebase, makes multi-file edits, runs commands, manages git workflows, and uses MCP for tool integration. Built with a Unix philosophy — it reads, plans, edits, and verifies in a loop. The fastest-growing product in the coding agent category.
  • Factory AI · -44.1% week-over-week. Factory provides Droid, an AI agent you can use in coding workflows and IDE integrations like Zed. It connects through login or API key setup and charges usage with Standard Tokens across multiple models.

Agenticness Leaderboard

This week's most-clicked tools, re-ranked by rubric score. The score is the editorial signal; the popularity is what drew the directory's traffic here this week.

  • Cursor · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

Cursor is a developer-focused AI environment that adds agents, context, and automation around your repositories. It combines an editor-like interface, a CLI, and a cloud agent API to automate code review, bug fixing, CI hygiene, and more. Designed for individual developers and engineering teams who want AI to take real actions in their code and infrastructure, not just chat.

  • Cline · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

Cline is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that can inspect your project, edit files, run terminal commands, and use a browser while asking for permission at each step. It is aimed at developers working on real codebases who want more than code completion.

  • OpenHands · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) is a fully autonomous open-source AI coding agent. MIT-licensed core, plans + executes Python actions via CodeAct, uses browser + terminal + files. ~72% on SWE-bench Verified with Sonnet 4.5 via the OpenHands Software Agent SDK (arXiv:2511.03690).

  • Req2Ops · 4/36 · Reactive Tool · L0

Req2Ops turns client briefs, emails, and PDFs into structured project plans. It helps teams capture missing details, organize work, and identify next actions before development starts.

What operators are searching for this week

A week's demand signal — what operators are typing into the directory's search. Suggestion-chip defaults + off-topic / greetings filtered.

  • "AI for customer support"
  • "A want to automate my Instagram stories and posts"
  • "agentic photo editing optimizer"
  • "AI agent for Instagram marketing"
  • "ai agents for maintaining graph databases"

Learn: Safety: are there guardrails, permissions, and a way to undo what it did?

Safety is about whether an agent can act without turning every mistake into a mess. A real agent needs guardrails, scoped permissions, and a clear way to roll back changes or review what happened. Without that, the tool may look agentic while only hiding a chatbot behind buttons. The key test is simple: can you see what actions it’s allowed to take, and can those actions be limited by account, folder, file, or approval level? If a tool can send email, change data, or trigger workflows, check whether it asks before doing so and whether it keeps an audit trail. If not, treat it as risky automation, not a trustworthy agent.

How our 9-dimension rubric works →

One tool worth testing

LangChain — Test LangChain for agent orchestration and observability if you need a managed path from prototype to deployed agents. Today matters because the site now promotes LangSmith Engine as a new launch, adds managed-agent messaging, and highlights native A2A/MCP support alongside rewritten pricing and usage details. Use it in a 30-minute pilot to compare against your current orchestration layer on setup time, tool integration, and whether the managed-agent flow reduces glue code without hiding enough state to debug quickly.

Our pick: n8n

The use case: workflow automation.

Tops our independent /36 — strongest on action and reliability, ahead of Zapier. Pricing: Per-execution (not per-step).

Ranked by our 9-dimension Agenticness rubric — not by who pays us (nobody does). The full scorecard, true-cost pricing, and the reliability evidence behind every score are in the report.

Read the full report →

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