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OpenAI's visual tool for assembling and configuring agent workflows on its developer platform.
OpenAI plans to shut down Agent Builder on November 30, 2026, so teams that built on it need another place to run their agent loops. The three OpenAI alternatives differ mainly in who runs that loop and who stores its state.
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OpenAI's new Managed Agents platform charges only for the tokens and tools agents consume, with no added API fee. Buyers get a simple bill for a runtime whose shutdown controls, promised to Congress, are still being built, according to Tech Times.
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OpenAI's Agents API, in public beta since September 10th, runs the Codex harness on OpenAI's own infrastructure. The documentation says data residency is US-only and Zero Data Retention is unsupported, whichever sandbox you pick.
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The published floor is six months for generally available models, three for Codex and chat variants, and as little as two weeks for anything with preview in the name. The dated entries in the log sit on the floor.
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Claude now sits behind Atlas, Agentforce and Slack by default, with a Bedrock path inside the Trust Boundary for regulated buyers. The dependency arrives with the product.
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