Coze is an AI agent development platform launched by ByteDance in 2024, available globally at coze.com. It enables building, testing, and deploying AI bots and agents with a visual interface and a growing plugin ecosystem.
**Agent Building**
Coze's bot builder allows configuring AI agents with custom system prompts, knowledge bases (documents, URLs, or databases), plugin tools, and memory. The interface is approachable for non-developers while offering enough depth for technical users.
**Plugin Ecosystem**
Coze offers 60+ built-in plugins covering web search, image generation, code execution, calendar access, and more. Custom plugins can be added via API. The plugin system makes agents meaningfully capable out of the box.
**Multi-Agent Workflows**
Coze supports building multi-agent pipelines where specialised bots hand off tasks to each other. This enables constructing complex workflows — a research agent passing findings to a writing agent, for example — without code.
**Knowledge Bases**
Uploading documents, connecting URLs, or linking databases creates knowledge bases that agents query via RAG. Knowledge base quality is strong for structured documents.
**Deployment**
Bots can be published to Telegram, Discord, Slack, LINE, and Coze's own web widget. The multi-channel deployment is a practical advantage for teams building customer-facing agents.
**Pricing**
Generous free tier with 100 workflow runs/day and access to most features. Pro plans available for higher volume.
**Verdict**
Coze offers more capability per dollar than most agent platforms, particularly for teams that need multi-channel deployment. The ByteDance ownership warrants data sovereignty consideration for sensitive use cases.