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.OpenClaw

Managed OpenClaw hosting vs. self-hosted OpenClaw.

OpenClaw is the open-source agent runtime that powers Pinata Agents. Self-hosting OpenClaw means running it yourself — Kubernetes, container builds, TLS, DNS, secrets, monitoring, all on you. Pinata Agents is the managed platform: same runtime, plus a marketplace, channels, routes, snapshots, and a dashboard, billed by runtime hours.

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How they compare

Feature

Pinata Agents

OpenClaw

Agent runtime

OpenClaw — same open-source runtime, managed for you

OpenClaw — you run it yourself

Container orchestration

Pinclaw on Kubernetes — fully managed

You build and operate it

Public URLs / routes

Routes — map any port to a public URL with TLS at the edge

Set up your own ingress, certs, DNS

Skills marketplace

ClawHub — community skills, one-click install

Install skills manually from source

Messaging channels

Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp built in

Wire up integrations yourself

Encrypted secrets

AES-256-GCM vault per workspace

Bring your own secret store

Content-addressed snapshots

Built in — pinned to IPFS, browse and roll back

Whatever you wire up yourself

Multi-agent dashboard

Run, switch, and monitor many agents from one UI

Operate each agent on your own infra

Pricing

Pay only for runtime hours — free tier included

Free runtime; you pay your cloud + ops time

Lock-in

Eject anytime — workspace is a real Git repo

You already own the infra

Pick Pinata Agents

Pick Pinata Agents when you want OpenClaw's capabilities without running Kubernetes, building containers, managing TLS, or wiring up channels and a marketplace yourself.

Stick with OpenClaw

Self-host OpenClaw when you have strict data-residency requirements, an existing platform team that wants ownership, or workloads with unique hosting requirements. The runtime is the same — you can prototype on Pinata Agents and migrate later.

Try it in 60 seconds

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