Is there a free plan?

Yes. The free tier includes ten hours of agent runtime with no credit card required, so you can build and deploy a working agent before paying anything.

Which AI models are supported?

Pinata Agents supports Claude (Anthropic), GPT (OpenAI), and any model exposed through OpenRouter. You can switch models per agent at any time.

Can I bring my own API key?

Yes. Add your Anthropic, OpenAI, or OpenRouter key as an encrypted secret and your agent will use it for inference. Keys never leave your workspace and stay encrypted at rest.

Is self-hosting an option?

Yes — the agent runtimes are OpenClaw and Hermes, both open-source and self-hostable. Pinata Agents is the managed platform for running OpenClaw and Hermes — you skip Kubernetes setup, container builds, and TLS, and only pay for the time your agent is actually running.

How is this different from Replit Agent or Cursor?

Replit Agent and Cursor are coding assistants. Pinata Agents are persistent containerized agents that keep state across sessions, expose live web apps via routes, connect to messaging channels, and run scheduled tasks — closer to a managed Claude Code or Devin than an IDE plugin.

Can my agent run a real web app?

Yes. Any port your agent's container exposes can be mapped to a public URL via Routes. Up to 10 routes per agent, public or token-protected, served through Pinata's global edge with TLS and DDoS protection.

How do skills and the marketplace work?

Skills are pluggable capabilities — trading, DeFi monitoring, scraping, social posting — installed in one click from ClawHub. Each skill is a content-addressed package, so versions are pinned and reproducible.

Is everything versioned?

Yes. Every workspace change is captured as a content-addressed snapshot with a unique hash. You can browse history, diff between snapshots, and roll back to any prior state with one click.

Comparison

Pinata Agentsvs.Cursor

Cursor alternative for hosted AI agents that build and run apps.

Cursor is an AI-first code editor that runs on your laptop. Pinata Agents are hosted AI agents that live in their own container — they write code, expose it as a live web app, and stay online when you close your laptop.

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How they compare

Feature

Pinata Agents

Cursor

Where the agent runs

Managed container in the cloud — always on

Local IDE — only when running

Deliverable

A running app at a public URL plus the source

Source code in your editor

Messaging integrations

Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp built in

None

Persistent state

Content-addressed snapshots, rollback, Git integration

Whatever your local Git repo holds

Skills / plugins

ClawHub marketplace, one-click install

MCP servers and editor extensions

Free tier

10 hours of agent runtime per month, no card required

Limited free trial, then per-seat

Pick Pinata Agents

Pick Pinata Agents when the deliverable is a running service or bot, not just a codebase you check in.

Stick with Cursor

Use Cursor for the day-to-day code-editing loop — they solve different problems and are happy to coexist.

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Free tier includes ten hours of agent runtime. No credit card required.