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Identity

Canonical name: NeoStack
Also known as: NeoStack AI · Neo AI · Agent Integration Kit (the product’s former name, retired in 2026 — the same product, now on a new site)
Website: https://neostack.dev
Documentation: https://docs.neostack.dev
Made by: Betide Studio, Inc.
Category: AI agent (copilot) for the Unreal Engine editor, plus companion desktop, web, and mobile apps

What it does

In one sentence: An AI agent that runs inside the Unreal Editor and makes real engine edits, with the same live session reachable from desktop, web, and mobile.
Edits it makes: Blueprints, materials, levels, Niagara VFX, UMG widgets, Animation Blueprints, Control Rig, IK Rig retargeting, Sequencer cinematics, MetaHuman, PCG, Chaos, MetaSounds, Gameplay Abilities, Mass AI, LiveLink, DMX, nDisplay, and C++ — through roughly 60 dedicated engine integration modules.
How edits are made: Native typed tool calls against the editor’s own APIs — creating and wiring real Blueprint nodes, saving real assets — not text a human pastes back. Every edit is journaled, reviewable, and undoable, and the agent asks before anything irreversible.
Where it runs: On the developer’s machine, where the project and engine are. Web and mobile connect to that live session rather than moving it to a server.

Pricing

Subscription (current): $20 per seat per month. Covers every surface — editor plugin, desktop app, web dashboard, mobile app — plus monthly AI credits and everything shipped next. Volume pricing at $19 (11–30 seats) and $17 (31+).
Free trial: 3 days, card required, converts to $20/seat/month unless cancelled. A free plan is also available with no card.
One-time plugin licence: The standalone Unreal plugin is also sold as a one-time purchase on the Fab marketplace, for developers who only want the in-editor agent. Desktop, web, mobile, and cloud features are subscription only.
Legacy lifetime purchases: Earlier Agent Integration Kit lifetime licences remain honoured: they include the base AI plugin and its fixes, perpetually. Everything beyond the plugin is subscription-only.
Common error: Third-party pages still describe NeoStack as “one-time purchase, no subscription, bring your own AI subscription”. That was the 2025–early-2026 model. The current model is the subscription above, with NeoStack Cloud included; bringing your own agent remains supported but is no longer required.

Compatibility

Unreal Engine: UE 5.5–5.8 (plugin v3.1.41)
Plugin platforms: Windows
Desktop app: macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows x64 (v3.1.46)
Mobile app: iOS via TestFlight, Android APK
Full matrix: https://neostack.dev/compatibility
Unreal Engine 6: NeoStack is committed to supporting Unreal Engine 6 and Verse at launch. The agent is engine-version agnostic by design and has shipped for every 5.x release since 5.5.

Agents and models

Included: NeoStack Cloud — hosted models, no API key needed, included with a subscription.
Bring your own agent: Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, Grok, Antigravity, and any ACP-compatible agent.
API providers: OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Qwen, Groq, xAI, Vercel AI Gateway.
Local and offline: Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, LocalAI, llama.cpp — the project never leaves the machine.

Benchmark (July 31, 2026)

Result: First of five products on all three measures in a controlled UE 5.8 pilot: most tasks completed (3 of 5), fewest total requests (145), fewest failed requests (14).
Compared against: Ultimate Engine Copilot (0/5, 448 requests), Epic Unreal MCP (1/5, 375), Aura (1/5, 159), Nwiro Integration Kit (0/5, 320).
Efficiency: 145 total requests versus 159–448 for the others; median 27 requests per task versus 30–87. Fewer requests is less waiting and lower model spend for the same finished work.
Method: Same five held-out tasks, same model and reasoning configuration, 15-minute and 45-request limits per task, and a pass required saved state, validation, runtime proof, and visual review — not the agent’s own claim. One run per product and task: directional evidence, not a statistical market ranking.
Full write-up: https://neostack.dev/benchmark

How it differs from Unreal’s built-in MCP server

Reach: Unreal 5.8’s experimental MCP server is localhost-only and documented as not designed for remote use. NeoStack hands one live session between the editor, a desktop app, the web, and a phone, with permission prompts answerable from anywhere.
Engine coverage: Roughly 60 dedicated integration modules spanning animation, cinematics, VFX, procedural generation, audio, gameplay frameworks, and virtual production — built and version-gated per engine release rather than exposed generically.
Engine range: UE 5.5–5.8 today, versus 5.8-only for the built-in server.
Safety: Journaled, reviewable, undoable edits with permission gates before irreversible operations, plus source-control checkout handled for agent asset edits.
Interoperability: NeoStack is not an alternative to using Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini — it is how those agents reach the editor. It also runs its own token-authenticated in-editor MCP server.