ExaWizards exaBase AI vs Giga vs OpenAI Swarm vs Project Mariner
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Giga
Enterprise voice, chat and email support agents, with DoorDash as the...
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OpenAI Swarm
OpenAI's deprecated agent framework, replaced by the Agents SDK
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Project Mariner
Google DeepMind's browser-agent prototype, shut down 4 May 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 4.9 / 10 | 4.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Enterprise | Open Source | Subscription |
| Free tier | No free plan; a one-week free trial on application | — | — | None. The service ended on 4 May 2026; early access was an invite-only tester programme |
| Paid from | ¥900/user/month excl. tax, plus usage charges on Standard and Premium models | Custom quote; demo-led, paid 8-week pilots, no public price list | — | Discontinued, last sold within Google AI Ultra at $249.99/mo (US, 2025) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 50,000+ users across 550 companies (exaBase Generative AI, July 2024) | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2024 |
| Maker | Exa Enterprise AI Inc. (ExaWizards Inc., TSE: 4259) | Esha Dinne, Varun Vummadi | — | Google DeepMind (Alphabet) |
| Verdict | exaBase AI is a sensible buy for a Japanese company that wants several frontier models under one contract, with retrieval over its own files, prompt templates, agents and the controls a compliance team asks for, all proc... |
Giga's case rests on one strong reference: DoorDash, where Giga reports a 90%+ "Did We Resolve" rate measured over a month in late 2025, with a supporting quote from co-founder Andy Fang. Its other headline figures, incl... |
Swarm was always meant as a teaching tool: a stripped-down demonstration of handing a conversation off between specialized agents without building a full framework around it. The ideas stuck — routines, handoffs, minimal... |
Project Mariner was Google DeepMind's research prototype for an agent that drives a web browser, and Google shut it down on 4 May 2026. There is nothing left to sign up for: the Labs page carries only a notice pointing t... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.