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What is the difference between InVideo Boards and InVideo Agent One, and which should I use?

Last updated July 14, 2026

invideo Boards is built for product videos and short-form content — quick, lightweight output. The invideo agent is invideo's film-production workflow: it holds persistent project context across every scene, runs specialized sub-agents, and routes each shot to models like Veo, Kling, and Seedance 2.0. Use Boards for short-form deliverables; use the invideo agent for any multi-scene project where consistency matters.

invideo Boards: short-form and product video creation. Boards is the path to take when the deliverable is a product video or a short-form social clip — it sits separate from invideo's film workflow. You're producing self-contained short output, not directing a production, so there's no need for persistent characters, locked visual styles, or shot-by-shot iteration.

The invideo agent: agentic multi-scene film production. The invideo agent is a different kind of tool: it holds persistent project context — characters, locations, visual style, shot breakdowns — across every generation, so you set direction once and it carries scene to scene instead of you re-describing everything per clip. You can spin up sub-agents for crew roles — a creative producer agent that holds the script and shot breakdown, a DOP agent per scene, a storyboard agent for pre-visualization — and the invideo agent routes each shot to the right generation model automatically; Veo, Kling, and Seedance 2.0 are all available inside invideo, so you never choose a platform per model. Documented productions run through it include a 2-minute brand promo finished in 3 days for ~$1,500 and a 3-minute animated episode made by a 2-person team in 2 days for ~$950.

The decision rule. Choose Boards when the job is short-form: product videos, social clips, one-off promos with no recurring cast or continuity requirements. Choose the invideo agent when the project spans multiple scenes and needs consistency — narrative short films, brand films, episodic content, anything with recurring characters, a locked visual style, or a shot list. If your project would suffer from a character looking different between shot 4 and shot 12, that's the invideo agent's territory.

Cost and credit control. Credit consumption is the main variable with the invideo agent, and you can control it: Always Ask mode gives you shot-by-shot approval of every prompt and attached reference before any credits are spent, and you can instruct the invideo agent to show you the written prompt for review before triggering generation at all. Across documented productions, all-in costs ran $750–$5,000 depending on team, length, and iteration count — $315–$750 per finished minute across four productions with known length and cost — so budget for iteration rather than assuming one generation per shot. invideo plans range from Plus at $20/mo to Elite at $1,000/mo; match the tier to your expected generation volume, and start small to calibrate your own per-minute cost before scaling.

Watch some of these to see what works for you:

See the invideo agent auto-prompt and maintain consistency across an entire spy film
Honest test of the invideo agent: what works and what still needs fixing
Full invideo agent film pipeline: from story outline to finished spy-thriller clips

One agent that reads your treatment once and holds every directive across every shot, every scene. No re-prompting. No drift. So now, you direct, and the Agent remembers.

— invideo's creative team

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