Why startups pick this shape
Three reasons this fits a small team.
Routing
No lock-in
Provider preferences change quarterly. Switch without losing your conversation history or rebuilding your tool integrations.
Automation
Real CI
agi exec works as a Unix tool. Pipe a task in, get structured output back, in GitHub Actions or anywhere a shell runs. The CLI is coming soon.
Cost
Cheap experiments
Local mode is free and BYOK pays providers at their public rates, both in the CLI. The CLI is coming soon. AGI Web runs on managed cloud.
What you actually get
The posture, in one table.
- LocalFree · Forever. Offline, privacy-first use.
- BYOKFree · Forever. Power users with provider accounts.
- SurfacesWeb is available now. Desktop, CLI, Mobile, VS Code and Chrome are coming soon.
- ProvidersThe CLI takes your key for the 12 BYOK providers, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you declare. It also takes a key for Ollama Cloud, which the catalogue does not list. The CLI is coming soon.
- PrivacyWebsite users can use AGI managed cloud. The Free plan runs on a model AGI chooses, within a small usage allowance, and paid plans with more capacity start from the pricing page, which offers the upgrade waitlist or takes an access code if upgrades are not open to your account yet. The CLI supports Local and BYOK. The CLI is coming soon. VS Code BYOK is coming soon. Managed cloud is open by default, not invite-only.
Start free, route deliberately.
Local and BYOK run in the CLI at no platform cost, and AGI Web runs on managed cloud when you want hosted compute. The CLI is coming soon.