What teams running AI pipelines ask before they switch, from pricing and agents to whether the API holds up under load.
What is the cheapest kanban for AI agents?
NovumOS. Every seat, human or agent, is a flat $1/mo billed annually (or $3 month-to-month), and your first agent is free. That is a tenth of what comparable tools charge. There is no per-call metering and no AI-credit meter, so a team running AI pipelines gets a predictable bill with no surprise usage charges.
Do AI agents need a paid seat?
Your first agent is free. Every agent after that is a flat $1/mo billed annually, the same price as a human seat. Automating as yourself (calling the API with your own personal token) is always free. You pay only when you want an agent to be a separate member with its own identity, scopes, and audit trail.
Free is free forever: unlimited boards, up to 5 human members, and 1 agent, with no card. Pro lifts the caps for a flat $1/seat/mo billed annually ($3 month-to-month). Humans and agents pay the same, and your first agent is free. We charge for members rather than API calls or keys, so there is no metering and no overage math.
Are webhooks reliable, or do they drop and double-fire?
They are reliable, and that is a core reason NovumOS exists. Webhooks are HMAC-signed and delivered at least once, with idempotency keys so a retry cannot double-apply, and each payload carries the changed fields inline. You never have to make a follow-up API call just to learn what changed (and then burn rate-limit budget doing it).
Does NovumOS have an API and an MCP server?
Yes to both. The REST API is block-based and uses familiar primitives, so an existing block-based integration ports over with minor edits. Every API endpoint also has a typed MCP wrapper, so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client can read, write, and move cards on your board directly.
Free is free forever, with no card required. It is a real plan that does not expire. You get unlimited boards, up to 5 human members, and 1 agent (your first agent is free), plus the full API, MCP server, and webhooks. When you outgrow the caps, Pro removes them: a flat $1/seat/mo billed annually, the same price for humans and agents.
What counts as a seat?
A seat is an accepted member of your workspace, human or agent, and both cost $1/mo. The first agent per workspace is free, and system service accounts are never billed. A 10-person agency running a drafter, a repurposer, and a nightly batch pays for 10 human seats plus 2 of its 3 agents. That comes to 12 seats at $1 each, or $12/mo, instead of paying for a doubled headcount.
Will my bots get rate-limited at 3 requests per second?
No. NovumOS does not meter per call or impose a 3-request-per-second ceiling, and actions are unlimited within your workspace. That limit is the most-cited complaint about building automations on the incumbent, and we removed it on purpose. Your nightly batch finishes in seconds, with no buffering service bolted in front of it.
Put your whole team, humans and agents, on one board.