Machine
Self-hosted VPS
A VPS you babysit
You size it, pay for it and keep it alive.
Botyard
Free, and resizable
2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM and 5 GiB of disk free. Up to 8 vCPU, 52 GiB and 500 GiB per agent.
All of the agent. None of the server.
Your first agent is free. No VPS to patch, no gateway to restart, and its memory survives restarts and updates. Bring your own model key.
Free: 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM and 5 GiB of disk. Resize any agent up to 8 vCPU, 52 GiB and 500 GiB. No credit card to start.
Incidents · Doppler
Caught at 03:00. Fixed by morning.
The ask: “Perfect, looks good. Let's merge and deploy.” What the agent does: Wakes on schedule and reads PostHog session replays. Hands the broken checkout to Anvil, the developer agent. Asks Maya to approve before anything ships. Ships, then updates #incidents in Slack.
Incidents · Doppler: Caught at 03:00. Fixed by morning.. The ask: “Perfect, looks good. Let's merge and deploy.” What the agent does: Wakes on schedule and reads PostHog session replays. Hands the broken checkout to Anvil, the developer agent. Asks Maya to approve before anything ships. Ships, then updates #incidents in Slack.
Sound familiar?
More evenings on the server than on the agent.
The gateway died overnight and nobody noticed until morning.
A reinstall wiped everything it had learned.
Another "token mismatch" after an update.
Every fix starts with restarting everything.
Your API keys sit in a .env file on a rented box.
You're the on-call engineer for your own side project.
Self-hosted · Monday 08:11
Down all night. Nobody noticed.
vps:~/agent/logs/agent.log
- 02:14:07gatewayheartbeat missed
- 02:14:37gatewayprocess exited (code 137)
- 03:00:00cronincident-check: connection refused
- 07:52:10you$ systemctl restart agent
- 07:52:14gatewayerror: token mismatch
- 08:03:02memory0 entries loaded
- 08:11:45support3 new tickets: "can't pay"
Before and after
Self-hosting vs Botyard.
Setup
Self-hosted VPS
Rent, install, configure, hope
Open ports, fix dependencies, try again.
Botyard
Running in minutes
Sign up and describe your agent.
Crashes
Self-hosted VPS
You find out late
Then SSH in and restart it by hand.
Botyard
Managed hosting
The platform keeps the runtime up, not you.
Memory
Self-hosted VPS
Gone after a bad reinstall
It lives wherever you happened to set it up.
Botyard
Survives restarts and updates
A durable home folder and memory.
Secrets
Self-hosted VPS
Keys in a .env file
Right next to the agent.
Botyard
Keys held by the platform
With secret-exfiltration scanning on every plan.
Patching
Self-hosted VPS
Your weekend
Every update is yours to apply and debug.
Botyard
Automatic updates
On every plan.
Tools
Self-hosted VPS
One script at a time
Wire up every API yourself.
Botyard
1,300+ ready-made connections
Or bring your own MCP server.
Isolation
Self-hosted VPS
Whatever you remembered
Only what you configured on the box.
Botyard
Its own microVM
Every agent runs isolated.
Start your free agent
Free to start. No credit card.
Sized to the job
Start free. Turn it up when you need to.
Every agent gets the free allowance. Need more for builds, browsers or big datasets? Change CPU, memory and disk per agent in the app, on any plan, Starter included.
CPU
Free with every agent
2 vCPU
Included on every plan.
Resize up to
8 vCPU
€10 per extra core, per month.
Memory
Free with every agent
4 GiB RAM
Included on every plan.
Resize up to
52 GiB RAM
€3.50 per extra GiB, per month.
Disk
Free with every agent
5 GiB disk
Included, and it persists.
Resize up to
500 GiB disk
€0.10 per extra GiB, per month.
- You pay only for what's above the free allowance, averaged over the month. Turn it back down and the charge stops.
- Applying a change restarts the agent. Its files and memory stay.
- Also à la carte: extra agents and seats at €10 a month each, extra hosted MCP servers at €5, and AI usage from €5 (or bring your own key for free).
- On Starter, adding anything paid asks for a card first.
Start your free agent
2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM and 5 GiB of disk free. Resize when you need to.
Still yours
Managed doesn't mean locked down.
We run the machine. You decide what the agent is and what it does.
Your instructions
Write and change its persona, rules and skills whenever you like.
Your model
Connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure or local model key at no extra cost.
Your tools
Pick from 1,300+ ready-made connections like Gmail, Slack and Notion, or bring your own MCP servers, APIs and scripts.
Your apps
Let the agent publish the web apps it builds behind a sign-in, on a link you can share.
How it works
Three steps. No server.
- 01
Sign up
Start on the free Starter plan. No credit card.
- 02
Describe your agent
Tell it what to do, pick its tools from 1,300+ connections, and add your model key.
- 03
It runs
On a schedule or when you message it. It's still there tomorrow, and it still remembers.
Start your free agent
No credit card. Your first agent is free.
Questions
Frequently Asked
Starter is €0 per month, permanently, with no credit card. You get one agent with up to 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM and 5 GiB of disk, one seat, and one hosted MCP server. The 1,300+ ready-made connections don't count toward that. Starter includes no AI usage, so bring your own model key at no cost, or top up from €5 and pay only for what you use.
Yes. Starter includes one agent, and you can add more for €10 a month each, up to five. Business includes two and goes up to 25. Every agent gets its own isolated machine with the same free 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM and 5 GiB of disk, and they can work together in one conversation, like Doppler handing a fix to Anvil.
Only if you stop using it. On Starter, an agent that hasn't had a message from you or a connected channel for 14 days is paused. Its files and memory are kept, and you can start it again any time. On Business you can switch this off.
Instructions, skills, tools, model and schedule are all yours to change, and so are its CPU, memory and disk. The agent works in its own isolated machine with a durable home folder. If you need system-level access beyond the standard runtime, talk to us.
On Botyard's hosted infrastructure in the EU, with each agent in its own isolated microVM. Model calls go to the provider whose key you connect.
Give an agent more CPU, memory or disk (up to 8 vCPU, 52 GiB and 500 GiB), add an agent or seat for €10 a month each, or move to Business for more of everything and €70 of included AI usage each month. Every price is on the pricing page.
Not automatically. You start clean. Most people paste in their instructions and skills and reconnect their tools. That takes minutes, and you leave the server behind.
Stop babysitting the server.
Your first agent is free, and it'll still be running tomorrow.