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.

Sponge Wallet Agent — Deploy this AI agent in one click on Pinata

Sponge Wallet Agent

What is this?

A pre-configured agent template backed by the Sponge Wallet skill. Deploy it and get an agent that has its own crypto wallet, bank account, and credit card, separate from yours.

No CLI. Every operation is a plain REST call to https://api.wallet.paysponge.com. The skill file contains instructions and context on how to call each API endpoint.

What is Sponge?

Sponge gives your agent a securely managed crypto wallet, bank account, and credit card to move money and make payments autonomously, with full observability and controls over every action.

Key Capabilities

Securely managed crypto wallets with transfers, bridging, swaps, and trading on Hyperliquid and Polymarket
Virtual bank accounts to send and receive ACH and wire transfers
Virtual credit cards to make online payments
x402 / MPP payments to pay for API services without an API key or account
Observability and controls for each action your agent does

The agent loads the canonical skill doc at build time into skills/sponge/SKILL.md and uses it as the authoritative reference for every endpoint, parameter, and flow.

Example prompts

Balances and transfers

"Show my balances across all chains and prepare a 10 USDC transfer on Base"

Swap token / bridge across chains

"Swap 1 SOL into USDC on Solana" or "Bridge 25 USDC from Base to Solana"

Polymarket / Hyperliquid trading

"Search Polymarket for 2028 election markets" or "Place a 0.001 BTC market order on Hyperliquid"

Send ACH / wire transfers with a virtual bank account

"Check my bank account status, get my virtual account details, list linked bank accounts, and prepare a $100 wire transfer. Ask for confirmation before you actually send it."

Make purchases with a Sponge Card

"Create a Sponge Card, get my card details, fund it with $10, and use it to purchase credits on Openrouter."

Find and call a paid API (via x402 or MPP)

"Discover an image generation service and generate a futuristic city at sunset. Tell me the price before calling it."

How it works

Deploy the template on Pinata and open the chat
The agent introduces itself and registers an agent-first Sponge Wallet via POST /api/agents/register — the API key is returned immediately
The agent shares a claim URL — you open it in your browser to link the agent to your Sponge account
Fund your Sponge Wallet at wallet.paysponge.com (or transfer crypto from a crypto wallet you own)
Ask for anything — check balances and transfer tokens, swap or bridge across chains, trade on Polymarket or Hyperliquid, send ACH/wire transfers from a virtual bank account, fund a Sponge Card to make online purchases, or discover and pay for x402/MPP APIs. The agent picks the right endpoint and executes with your confirmation.

By default, transactions over 1 usd require explicit confirmation. Spending limits and controls are configurable.

Post-deploy setup

Open the chat and the agent handles everything from there.