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.v0.dev

v0.dev alternative for full AI agents that build and host apps.

v0.dev is a UI generator that produces React component code. Pinata Agents are full AI agents that can generate the UI, wire up an API, run it in their own container, and expose the result on a public URL — with the same dashboard handling secrets, channels, and snapshots.

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How they compare

Feature

Pinata Agents

v0.dev

Output scope

Full app: UI + backend + container + public route

Frontend component code only

Hosting included

Yes — agent container runs the app at the edge

No — paste into your own project

Backend / APIs

Agent writes and runs the server inside the container

Frontend only

Secrets management

Encrypted secrets vault per agent

Not applicable

Live iteration

Floating preview window updates as the agent rebuilds

Re-prompt for new component versions

Messaging integrations

Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp

None

Persistent agent

Stays online to handle requests, schedules, and webhooks

No — purely a generation tool

Pick Pinata Agents

Pick Pinata Agents when you want one prompt to take you from idea to a live, hosted, end-to-end app — not just the UI layer.

Stick with v0.dev

Use v0.dev when you only need React component code to drop into an existing app you already host.

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