Answer up front: On 4 October 2026, MPAT’s three launches all sell agent work—but they bill three different jobs. ZooWork is an Agent Builder / delivery stack with public Pro at $30/month (list $100, limited 70% off) and 6,000 + 14,000 limited-time bonus credits on the ZooWork pricing page. Viktor is a Slack/Teams AI employee: $100 free credits (no card), then Team from $50/month for 20,000 shared credits at a flat $2.50 per 1,000 on the Viktor pricing page. CoreSpeed is an MCP access layer: Free at $0 with 3,000 credits for 90 days, then Pro at $20/month for 10,000 credits/month, with 1,000 credits = $1 on the CoreSpeed pricing page and billing docs (checked 4 October 2026).
This MPAT guide compares where each free or starter pool stops, what the first paid invoice buys, and which product matches coworker chat, FDE agent delivery, or a portable harness under Claude Code / Cursor-style clients. Not a hands-on review. No star ratings. Re-open vendor URLs before you subscribe—promos and credit grants move.
What launched on MPAT on 4 October 2026?
Three products hit the board on the same UTC day. They share an “agent spend” theme more tightly than yesterday’s mix of voice and AEO:
ZooWork (morning) — AI agent delivery for FDEs and domain experts: skills, conversation/templates, managed runtime, IM channels, ZooData™.
Viktor (afternoon) — AI employee / coworker that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams with 3,200+ integrations and workspace-shared credits.
CoreSpeed (evening) — MCP access layer: one authenticated endpoint for OAuth apps, team memory, and metered web/media/social tools under org credits and spend caps.
If your question is “what do I pay after the free credits run out?”, this guide is for you. For AEO visibility instead of agent runtime spend, see yesterday’s Prefer and Omnia listings. For an embeddable in-SaaS action widget rather than a coworker or harness, see Yedric.ai.
What does ZooWork sell, and where does the free path stop?
ZooWork’s public job on MPAT is agent delivery: package knowledge into Agent Skills, build agents through conversation or industry templates, run them on a managed runtime with approval gates, and deliver via chat/IM. The ZooWork pricing Pro (Agent Builder) card checked 4 October 2026 shows $30/month against a $100 list price under a “70% OFF Limited offer” banner, with 6,000 credits + 14,000 monthly bonus credits (bonus marked limited-time), plus 4-core CPU / 4GB RAM / 40GB storage and feature bullets for conversation builder, 50+ templates, 20+ models and multimodal generation, managed runtime, IM integrations, triggers and schedules, knowledge, and ZooData™.
Where free stops: the public Pro card is a paid subscription. MPAT’s ZooWork listing records a Starter 7-day free trial from the vendor refund policy (updated 6 August 2026)—no charge during the trial; cancel in Settings→Billing or it auto-converts. There is no forever-free continuous Agent Builder tier on the Pro card scraped that day. A separate Managed Agent API track uses prepaid Stripe funds on platform.zoowork.ai; API credits are separate from subscription credits per the vendor auth/billing docs cited on that listing. Exact static API dollar rows were not fully on the Pro card—confirm in checkout. Enterprise is talk-to-sales.
Practical stop for buyers: treat the $30 / 6k+14k bonus as a limited promo, not a guaranteed renew price. After the 7-day Starter trial (if you take it), budget Pro list economics and keep API prepaid balance on a separate line if you embed the managed agent into a product.
What does Viktor sell, and where do free credits stop?
Viktor’s job is a Slack/Teams AI employee that executes across connected tools—reports, dashboards, code, campaigns—rather than chat-only replies. Per the Viktor pricing page (checked 4 October 2026), you start with $100 in credits, no credit card, and no sales call. When that pool is gone, Team plans start at $50/month for 20,000 credits, then 30k=$75, 40k=$100, 80k=$200, with a public ladder continuing through higher rows (including a “Most popular” 300k=$750 band and Enterprise-scale tables up to millions of credits). Every Team plan includes the Slack-native agent, persistent workspace context, integrations and tool execution, scheduled tasks/crons, and drafts/artifacts. Pricing FAQ on that page: all features on every plan; the difference is credit volume; no per-seat charge; unused monthly plan credits roll over one month; free trial and bonus credits never expire.
MPAT’s Viktor listing also records the self-serve flat rate of $2.50 per 1,000 credits from Viktor’s credits and billing guide, plus the warning that top-ups cost more per credit than plan credits and that scheduled crons are often the quietest burn. Example bands on the pricing page: quick tasks ~100–300 credits, complex workflows ~500–1,500, full projects ~2,000–5,000.
Where free stops: after the $100 starting pool. That is not a forever-free unlimited plan. Ongoing volume means a Team plan or top-ups. Nonprofit buyers can ask about the 15% off monthly plans after verification (pricing FAQ).
What does CoreSpeed sell, and where do free credits stop?
CoreSpeed’s job is different from both: it is the harness under agents you already run. Authorize apps once via OAuth, connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, or another MCP client to https://api.corespeed.io/mcp, and keep memory, connectors, and budgets on the CoreSpeed org so they travel when you switch agents. The CoreSpeed pricing table (checked 4 October 2026) lists:
Free — $0: 3,000 credits / 90 days; 1 member; standard connectors; 200 MB memory; 30-day history; no card required.
CoreSpeed Pro — $20/month: 10,000 credits / month; additional usage available; up to 25 members; 2 GB memory; 1-year history.
Enterprise — Custom: SSO options, custom credits/memory/audit retention, support SLA, compliance and deployment planning.
The billing & credits docs set a public rate of 1,000 credits = $1. Signup credits (3,000) expire 90 days after grant and are granted once per user to the signup org. Pro plan credits reset monthly and are spent before top-ups. Pro top-ups are $5–$1,000 per checkout and never expire. Free has no top-up path—more metered usage means Pro. Standard connectors are free on the rate card; premium connector actions and built-in web/media/social tools draw credits (examples on the pricing page include web search at 14 credits per search up to 10 results, and X publish-with-link at 250 credits).
Where free stops: when the 3,000 signup credits are spent or when 90 days pass—whichever comes first—and you cannot buy more on Free. That is a sharper cliff than Viktor’s never-expire free/bonus credits, and a clearer dollar rate card than ZooWork’s limited Pro bonus.
ZooWork vs Viktor vs CoreSpeed: agent spend comparison (checked October 2026)
Dimension ZooWork Viktor CoreSpeed
Job on MPAT Agent Builder / FDE delivery (skills, managed runtime, IM) Slack/Teams AI employee / coworker MCP access layer (apps, memory, metered tools)
Free / trial start Starter 7-day free trial (refund policy); no forever-free Pro $100 credits, no card; trial/bonus never expire $0 Free: 3,000 credits / 90 days, no card; Free has no top-up
First paid floor (self-serve) Pro $30/mo (list $100, limited 70% off) Team from $50/mo / 20,000 credits Pro $20/mo / 10,000 credits
Included credits at paid floor 6,000 + 14,000 limited-time bonus (Pro card) 20,000 / month at $50 tier (ladder scales) 10,000 / month on Pro
Published credit rate Not a single public $/1k on the Pro card; API prepaid separate $2.50 / 1,000 self-serve (credits guide) $1 / 1,000 public rate (billing docs)
Primary surface ZooWork workspace / IM delivery / Managed Agent API Slack + Microsoft Teams threads/mentions Your MCP clients (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.)
Seat model Pro compute card + Enterprise sales; not Viktor-style workspace ladder No per-seat charge; shared workspace credits Free 1 member; Pro up to 25; Enterprise custom
Where free credits stop After 7-day trial (or immediately if you buy Pro); promo/bonus are limited-time After $100 pool; then Team or costlier top-ups After 3,000 credits or 90 days; Free cannot top up
Enterprise Talk to sales Custom (invoicing, DPA, SLA, onboarding) Custom (SSO, SLA, compliance, deployment)
USD, checked 4 October 2026 from ZooWork pricing, Viktor pricing, CoreSpeed pricing, and CoreSpeed billing docs. ZooWork Starter trial wording from the refund policy as recorded on MPAT’s ZooWork listing. Viktor $2.50/1k from the credits and billing guide as recorded on MPAT’s Viktor listing. Re-open those URLs before you buy.
How should you choose between coworker, builder, and harness?
Pick Viktor if your team already lives in Slack or Teams and wants one hire that can run connected tools, ship artifacts, and schedule crons under a shared credit wallet. The $100 no-card start is the cheapest way to learn credit burn before you commit to $50+/month. Watch cron frequency—the vendor billing guide flags schedules as a quiet spend driver.
Pick ZooWork if you are packaging specialist knowledge for delivery: FDE or domain-expert skills, conversation/templates, managed runtime, and IM channels. The $30 promo Pro card is the clearest public Agent Builder SKU among today’s three, but treat the 70% off banner and 14k bonus as limited. Keep Managed Agent API prepaid balance separate from subscription credits if you embed agents into a product.
Pick CoreSpeed if you already run coding or agent clients and the bottleneck is portable OAuth connectors, account memory, metered research/media tools, and org spend caps—not a new chat coworker. Pro at $20/month is the lowest self-serve paid floor among the three, with a transparent $1 per 1,000 credits rate. Free’s 90-day / no-top-up rule is the strictest starter cliff.
Skip all three for these jobs: answer-engine visibility (use Prefer from $24/mo Starter or Omnia Growth at €79/mo), or an in-product SaaS embed that end users drive inside your UI (use Yedric.ai, marketed free + BYOK on MPAT’s Oct 1 listing).
Where do free credits stop in practice?
Map the three cliffs side by side:
Viktor: soft stop after $100. Free/bonus credits never expire, but production volume still needs Team. Top-ups are deliberately more expensive per credit than plan credits—so recurring top-ups are a signal to upgrade, not a forever strategy.
CoreSpeed: hard stop on Free after 3,000 credits or 90 days. No top-up on Free. Next step is Pro $20/month (10,000 credits/month) plus optional never-expire top-ups.
ZooWork: time-boxed Starter trial (7 days) then paid Pro, or buy Pro immediately. The large bonus credit pool is promotional, not a permanent free tier. API prepaid is a second wallet.
If you need the longest no-card evaluation of execution quality inside chat, Viktor’s $100 pool is the most generous starting grant among today’s three. If you need the cheapest ongoing paid floor for a harness you already know how to wire, CoreSpeed Pro at $20 is the floor. If you need a managed builder with templates and IM delivery, ZooWork’s Pro card is the product fit—even when its promo math looks similar to Viktor’s $50 entry on paper, the jobs are not interchangeable.
How do credit economics compare at the paid floor?
Rough published math only—do not treat credits as interchangeable across vendors:
Viktor $50 / 20,000 credits aligns with the stated $2.50 / 1,000 self-serve rate ($50 ÷ 20 = $2.50). At the pricing-page “quick task” band of ~100–300 credits, 20k credits is roughly dozens to a couple of hundred quick tasks, and far fewer full projects at 2,000–5,000 credits each.
CoreSpeed Pro $20 / 10,000 credits aligns with $1 / 1,000 ($20 ÷ 10 = $2 effective for the included block at the public rate). Metered actions on the rate card vary widely (memory ops free; some social publishes expensive), so dollar equivalence to Viktor tasks is not one-to-one.
ZooWork Pro $30 with 6,000 + 14,000 limited bonus is a subscription + promo credit bundle for builder delivery, not a published flat $/1k table on the Pro card. Do not convert ZooWork credits 1:1 against Viktor or CoreSpeed without vendor clarification.
Buy the job, then the credit table—not the other way around.
FAQ
Is ZooWork, Viktor, or CoreSpeed free?
Viktor: start free with $100 credits and no card (Viktor pricing, checked 4 October 2026)—not unlimited forever. CoreSpeed: Free $0 with 3,000 credits for 90 days and no top-up on Free (CoreSpeed pricing + billing docs). ZooWork: Starter 7-day free trial per refund policy on MPAT’s listing; public Pro is paid ($30 promo / $100 list on ZooWork pricing).
How much does each cost after free credits?
ZooWork Pro $30/mo (list $100, limited 70% off). Viktor Team from $50/mo for 20,000 credits. CoreSpeed Pro $20/mo for 10,000 credits/month. All three list Enterprise as custom/sales. Checked 4 October 2026 on the vendor pricing pages linked above.
What is the difference between Viktor and ZooWork?
Viktor is a Slack/Teams coworker with workspace-shared credits and broad tool execution. ZooWork is an Agent Builder / delivery platform for packaging skills and running managed agents into IM channels, with a separate Managed Agent API prepaid track. Pick by surface (chat hire vs builder delivery), not by which promo looks cheaper this week.
What is the difference between CoreSpeed and Viktor?
CoreSpeed sits under your existing MCP-capable agents as an access layer for apps, memory, and metered tools. Viktor is the agent you talk to inside Slack/Teams. CoreSpeed Free starts smaller (3,000 / 90 days) with a hard no-top-up rule; Viktor starts with $100 credits that never expire per pricing FAQ, then Team from $50/mo.
Do CoreSpeed and Viktor use the same credit math?
No. CoreSpeed publishes 1,000 credits = $1. Viktor’s self-serve ladder is described at $2.50 per 1,000 credits. Actions and what a “credit” buys differ by product. Compare within each vendor’s rate card.
Which MPAT launch should I open first?
Start with the listing that matches your bottleneck: Viktor for Slack/Teams execution, ZooWork for FDE/domain agent delivery, CoreSpeed for a portable MCP harness. Then re-check that vendor’s pricing page on the day you buy.
Compiled for MPAT on 4 October 2026 from vendor pricing and billing pages plus today’s MPAT tool listings. Not a hands-on review. Prices and promos can change—verify before you pay.
