AI agents render UI slowly, expensively, inconsistently and inference bills balloon from it. Montage fixes it: emit a tiny intent schema, we compile production components server-side: 10x faster, 50-100x fewer tokens, model and framework agnostic. Now one M1 API call generates rich interactive visuals, hosts them as live UIs with persistent state, and styles to your brand. Don't let your agents reinvent UI every turn - ship them on Montage!
@aboss123 and I launched Montage about two weeks ago, and the response from developers has been incredible!
Montage started as a runtime framework for agentic UI, but after talking to teams building real customer-facing agents, one thing became clear: the problem is bigger than rendering components faster.
Agents shouldn’t just display a chart, table, form, or dashboard once inside a chat thread. They should be able to create full interactive artifacts that users can save, revisit, share, and actually use.
The same requests kept coming up:
• Can the UI persist state after the agent creates it? • Can users save the artifact instead of losing it when the chat ends? • Can we host it without wiring up a separate app? • Can it look and feel like our product? • Can the agent generate richer, higher-quality visuals than basic cards and tables?
That customer feedback led us to Montage M1!
With Montage M1, your agent can generate an interactive artifact, save it, host it on our platform as a disposable UI with persistent state, and style it with your company’s brand, all through a single API call.
What’s new in M1:
• Saved artifacts users can revisit • Hosted disposable UIs with persistent state • Interactive, high-quality visuals • Support for generating far more than charts, tables, kanbans, and forms • Now supporting pricing for agent-builders: usemontage.ai/pricing! • Still Model-agnostic and framework-agnostic by design • Still built to reduce slow, expensive UI generation
Our bigger thesis is that AI outputs are becoming software, not just text. If an agent creates something a human needs to inspect, edit, share, or use, it should behave like a real interface. Montage is the agentic UI rendering platform for exactly that!
Read the docs at usemontage.ai/docs Or hand the docs URL to your coding agent and let it set Montage up for you!
If you’re building customer-facing agents, we’d love to hear what you’re running into and what you want Montage to support next. Reach us at [email protected] — we’re helping early teams hands-on with their first Montage-powered setup!
The balance between speed, flexibility, and model compatibility stands out here. Feels like Montage could remove a lot of friction for AI app builders. Are there plans for deeper integrations with existing frontend frameworks?
Really impressed by the idea of turning tiny intent schemas into fully functional UIs. The focus on reducing token usage while improving rendering speed feels super relevant for the future of agentic apps. Love that it’s both model-agnostic and framework-agnostic too.
Curious — what kind of customer-facing AI products are you seeing adopt Montage the fastest right now? 👀
The streaming artifact approach is smart. We've spent a lot of time trying to make agent outputs feel like real product surfaces, not just chat bubbles. B2B users don't want to lose outputs when a session ends. Does M1 have any access control layer for shared artifacts, or is that left entirely to the implementing team?
Can devs bring their own component library, or are you limited to a set of Montage resources?
Hey Product Hunt!
I introduce you to... the Montage M1 API. Since our initial launch 2 weeks ago, we've had over 200 downloads on NPM and over 100 API users. I want to say how much we appreciate your support in helping us improve Montage.
Some of our latest features are sure to surprise you.
You can now host artifacts using the M1 API. You create a JWT token that binds to our artifacts endpoint and can securely access hosted Montage artifacts. These artifacts can persist state and use capabilities that fetch data from your server like a standalone application!
Interactive artifacts upgrade. Previously, if you asked Montage to make a simulation of foxes and rabbits in the wild, it would try to cram that into a dashboard or report, which kinda takes the innovation out of generative UI, but with the M1 API, requests like that get turned into beautiful visuals you can interact with and toy around with
Artifacts are now streamable. Previously, you had to wait under a skeleton screen for the full time before an artifact surfaced; now you don't have to! You can stream rendered sections to your users so they don't have to wait 10 seconds for a render to appear.
We are now a paid service, but everyone who signs up gets 1000 free credits, regardless of whether you are paying for a subscription or not.
I am proud to say I am very excited about the release, and, of course, I am open to more feedback. We want you to stress-test our software and report any bugs. Shoot us an email at [email protected], we read every one.
Love that this is model-agnostic. Being stuck in an ecosystem where the UI only works if you use a specific provider's function calling is an automatic dealbreaker for us. Handing the docs URL straight to our internal coding agent to let it do the setup is a nice touch too. @amakadia
About M1 by Montage on Product Hunt
“Agentic UI that scales on demand”
M1 by Montage launched on Product Hunt on May 18th, 2026 and earned 161 upvotes and 14 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. AI agents render UI slowly, expensively, inconsistently and inference bills balloon from it. Montage fixes it: emit a tiny intent schema, we compile production components server-side: 10x faster, 50-100x fewer tokens, model and framework agnostic. Now one M1 API call generates rich interactive visuals, hosts them as live UIs with persistent state, and styles to your brand. Don't let your agents reinvent UI every turn - ship them on Montage!
M1 by Montage was featured in User Experience (365.5k followers), Developer Tools (512.8k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (469.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 194.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋!
@aboss123 and I launched Montage about two weeks ago, and the response from developers has been incredible!
Montage started as a runtime framework for agentic UI, but after talking to teams building real customer-facing agents, one thing became clear: the problem is bigger than rendering components faster.
Agents shouldn’t just display a chart, table, form, or dashboard once inside a chat thread. They should be able to create full interactive artifacts that users can save, revisit, share, and actually use.
The same requests kept coming up:
• Can the UI persist state after the agent creates it?
• Can users save the artifact instead of losing it when the chat ends?
• Can we host it without wiring up a separate app?
• Can it look and feel like our product?
• Can the agent generate richer, higher-quality visuals than basic cards and tables?
That customer feedback led us to Montage M1!
With Montage M1, your agent can generate an interactive artifact, save it, host it on our platform as a disposable UI with persistent state, and style it with your company’s brand, all through a single API call.
What’s new in M1:
• Saved artifacts users can revisit
• Hosted disposable UIs with persistent state
• Interactive, high-quality visuals
• Support for generating far more than charts, tables, kanbans, and forms
• Now supporting pricing for agent-builders: usemontage.ai/pricing!
• Still Model-agnostic and framework-agnostic by design
• Still built to reduce slow, expensive UI generation
Our bigger thesis is that AI outputs are becoming software, not just text. If an agent creates something a human needs to inspect, edit, share, or use, it should behave like a real interface. Montage is the agentic UI rendering platform for exactly that!
Get started:
Make an API key at usemontage.ai/get-started
Read the docs at usemontage.ai/docs
Or hand the docs URL to your coding agent and let it set Montage up for you!
If you’re building customer-facing agents, we’d love to hear what you’re running into and what you want Montage to support next. Reach us at [email protected] — we’re helping early teams hands-on with their first Montage-powered setup!