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.

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.Replit Agent

Replit Agent alternative for persistent containerized AI agents.

Replit Agent is great for scaffolding a project inside Replit. Pinata Agents are persistent, containerized AI agents that keep state across sessions, expose live web apps via routes, and connect to Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp from one dashboard.

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How they compare

Feature

Pinata Agents

Replit Agent

Container persistence

Long-lived workspace, content-addressed snapshots, rollback

Workspace tied to the Repl session

Public web apps

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

Repl URL only, no custom routing

Messaging channels

Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp built in

Not first-class

Skills marketplace

ClawHub — install community skills with one click

No equivalent

Self-hosting option

OpenClaw runtime is open source

Closed platform

Bring-your-own model

Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter via encrypted secrets

Replit-managed only

Git integration

Clone, pull, push your agent workspace as a real Git repo

Replit-managed Git only

Pick Pinata Agents

Pick Pinata Agents when you want an AI agent that keeps running after the session ends — answering messages, serving an app, watching a feed.

Stick with Replit Agent

Stay on Replit Agent when you mostly want to scaffold a project inside the Replit IDE and ship it from there.

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