mpai vs Woven Video: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of mpai and Woven Video — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

mpai

mpai (open source)

Free

Terminal-native, open-source tool that lets a teammate join your live Claude Code or Codex session over a private tailnet.

Live Session Join: A teammate opens your in-flight Codex or Claude Code conversation from their own terminal without losing context.
Named Identity Prompting: Every prompt is attributed to the person who typed it, so audit trails show who steered the agent.
Private Tailnet Transport: Sessions travel over a Tailscale-style overlay network — no public relay, no third-party server.
Terminal-Native, No New IDE: Works with the CLI agents you already run; nothing changes about your editor or model.
Ephemeral Rooms: Start a short-lived room (e.g. 5-minute) for a quick pair session and it closes on its own.
Access Controls and Audit: Presence, transcript, list, and prompt routes all share the same access check with an audit log.
Open Source: Full source is on GitHub; self-host end to end.

Pair Debugging: Hand a stuck agent session to a teammate so they can prompt from their own terminal without cloning context.
Code Review of Agent Work: Reviewer joins live to steer or challenge the agent instead of reading the diff cold.
Onboarding: Senior engineer takes a junior through a real agent session in real time.
Long-Running Task Hand-off: Pass a multi-hour Codex refactor to the next shift without losing the running conversation.
Security-Conscious Teams: Collaborate on agent work without routing traffic through a hosted SaaS relay.

Woven Labs

Paid

Native macOS AI video editor: ask for the edit in chat, then fine-tune it on a real multi-track timeline.

Chat-Based Editing: Describe the edit in plain language and Woven applies it to your footage on the timeline.
Real Multi-Track Timeline: Fine-tune any AI-made edit manually with a full timeline instead of a black-box result.
Caption Styles: Word-by-word highlight, progressive build-up, or classic subtitles for short-form video.
Transitions and Text Animation: Fade, whip, flash, glitch and zoom transitions plus pop, typewriter and loop text effects.
Built-in Sound Effects: A library of 35 sound effects with keyboard triggers to add whooshes, pops and impacts.
Agent Integration: Paste a setup prompt into Claude Code or Codex so the agent can request edits that appear in Woven.
Media Generation: Generate images, video and music with Woven-hosted models using monthly credits.

YouTube Production: Cutting long-form videos by describing edits instead of scrubbing manually.
Short-Form Content: Producing Reels, TikToks and Shorts with captions and effects.
Podcast Clips: Turning podcast recordings into captioned video clips.
Gaming Videos: Editing gameplay footage quickly with sound effects and transitions.
Product Demos and Ads: Assembling polished promo videos with AI presenters and generated media.
Agent-Driven Workflows: Letting a coding agent request edits through the connected editor.