Use the engine for free with your own keys. Add managed AI, sandboxes, memory, and team controls when you need them.
Codebolt is free to run as an application and cloud workspace in BYOK mode. Paid plans are for managed AI capacity and team infrastructure: model routing across small, fast, text-specialized, coding, embedding, and frontier models; cloud sandboxes; cloud memory; and shared administration.
Claude Code is an agent — a great one. You use it. But you can't customize the agentic loop, run multiple agents, or build applications on top of it. Codebolt is the engine that can do what Claude Code does AND scale to multi-agent orchestration, personal agents, and autonomous companies. Start the same way, grow far beyond.
Cursor is an IDE with built-in AI agents. Great editor, fixed agents. Codebolt is an engine with a built-in IDE — plus CLI, TUI, and headless modes. You write custom agents, install plugins, and scale to multi-agent. Same quality editor (Monaco), far more flexibility.
OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant — it manages your inbox, calendar, and daily tasks. Codebolt can do the same thing (run 24/7 with persistent memory and plugins), but the engine also scales to multi-agent orchestration, team coordination, and autonomous companies. OpenClaw is one format. Codebolt is the engine that powers every format.
Paperclip orchestrates agents but doesn't run them — you still need Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor, etc. as the actual agents. Codebolt IS the engine. It runs agents AND orchestrates them. One system instead of five tools stitched together.
Hermes is a self-improving personal agent by Nous Research — great learning loop and multi-platform messaging. Codebolt can do the same (persistent memory, plugins, always-on), but the engine also scales to multi-agent orchestration and autonomous companies. Hermes is one agent. Codebolt is the engine that can run hundreds.
Letta is a stateful agent platform — memory-first agents that persist across sessions. Codebolt has the same (3-tier memory, context assembly), plus multi-agent coordination, plugin system, multi-environment scaling, and multiple interface formats (CLI, IDE, TUI, Web). Letta is a great memory system. Codebolt is a complete engine.
LangChain and CrewAI are libraries — you import them into your code. Codebolt is a complete engine — IDE, execution environment, coordination system, and infrastructure. Frameworks give you tools to build agents. Codebolt gives them a place to run, coordinate, and scale.
Yes. Start with the CLI and one agent. You get more power than any free coding tool because you control the agent loop, not just the prompt. When you're ready for more, the engine scales with you.
Yes. The CLI runs in headless server mode. Spawn environments, run agents, transfer state, monitor progress — all without a GUI.
All of them. 17+ cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, DeepSeek, etc.) plus local models via Ollama and LM Studio. Per-agent and per-task model selection.
A single provider plan usually pushes most work through a few large models. Codebolt can route different steps to different model types: small models for simple tasks, text-focused models for documentation, embedding models for retrieval, coding models for implementation, and frontier models only when they are actually needed. The headline credit is the spend; the effective useful work can feel lower-cost because the engine avoids using the largest model for every operation.