An agent of your own, awake when you are not.
OpenClaw, Hermes and the rest live on a machine of their own that never has to stop. It works in your mail, calendar and chats without ever holding your passwords, and it has an inbox of its own.
Its own day.
A personal agent is mostly waiting, then needed at once: a message at 07:41, a reply to chase at 21:00. It stays up the whole day on the smallest machine, for 32 cents, and is there the moment you write.
Your accounts, without your keys.
The agent works in your mail, calendar and chats. What it holds is a stand-in; the real token is swapped in on the way out, only to the hosts you name, by the box it runs on. Read its whole disk and there is nothing to steal.
An inbox and a desktop of its own.
It writes from its own address and reads the replies as they come, so your mailbox stays yours. For the sites with no API, it has a screen, Chrome and a mouse.
Safe to leave alone.
An agent that runs for weeks needs walls it cannot move. These are held outside the machine, where nothing inside it, root included, can change them.
What it costs elsewhere.
One month of the same work, at each provider's own list prices, plan fees included. Read on 25 October 2026.
| provider | how it is priced, for this | a month |
|---|---|---|
| agental | Free, no fee; $9.86 of top-ups that add $9.86; tiny, 730 h at $0.0135 uses $9.86 | $9.86 |
| Vercel Sandbox | Pro, $20 credit; $0.128 per busy vCPU-hour at 10% busy, $0.0212 per GB-hour; restarted every 24 h | $40.30 |
| Fly Sprites | Billed on use; awake all month at its own example's load, $0.0575 an hour; it sleeps when idle, which costs less | $41.98 |
| Modal | Starter, $30 credit; half a core and 2 GiB, $0.119 an hour; restarted every 24 h | $56.83 |
| Daytona | No plan; 1 vCPU and 2 GiB at $0.0828 an hour; no time limit | $60.44 |
| E2B | Pro, $150 a month for 24-hour runs; $0.0828 an hour; restarted every 24 h | $210.44 |
Vercel bills CPU only while busy; a personal agent is mostly waiting, so it is shown at 10% busy, its own examples' share. Sprites sleep when idle and wake on a request, which lowers their figure the more the agent sleeps.
The same, elsewhere.
Where personal agents run today, as each provider's own pages put it.
| agental | Fly Sprites | Daytona | E2B | Modal | Vercel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up all the timeNo limit on how long a run lasts. | ✓ | Until you stop it | ✓ | 24 hours on Pro | 24 hours | 24 hours on Pro |
| Your tokens kept out of itA stand-in inside; the real value swapped in on the way out. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | In beta | ✓ |
| Its own email inboxMail in to the agent, as it arrives. | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| A desktop for sites with no APIA screen, Chrome and a mouse. | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | Build it yourself | — |
| Sleeps when idle, wakes on a requestPays nothing for compute while asleep. | — | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
— not on their own pages, read 25 October 2026. Their figures are their own claims.