The things teams running AI pipelines ask before they switch — about pricing, agents, and an API that 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 meters, so a team running AI pipelines pays in predictable dollars, not surprise usage bills.
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 — hitting 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 — a flat $1/seat/mo billed annually ($3 month-to-month), the same price for humans and agents, with your first agent free. We charge for members, not for API calls or keys, so there is no metering and no overage math.
Are webhooks reliable, or do they drop and double-fire?
Reliable, by design — it is a core reason NovumOS exists. Webhooks are HMAC-signed, 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, not a trial. 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 — a human or an agent, both $1/mo. The first agent per workspace is free, and system service accounts are never billed. So a 10-person agency running a drafter, a repurposer, and a nightly batch pays for 10 human seats plus 2 of its 3 agents — 12 seats at $1 each, just $12/mo, not 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 — actions are unlimited within your workspace. That limit is the most-cited complaint about building automations on the incumbent, and removing it is the point: 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.