# Bytebot

Official pricing: https://www.bytebot.ai/  
Category: agent-sandbox · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Self-hosted open-source Docker desktop agent** (resource) [alt]

## Features

Yes: persistent disk, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, root, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, preinstalled agents, open internet, self-hosting, open source, arm64, Python, Node.js, EU data residency, MCP server, hosted agent API (their own agent), firewall inside (nftables), extra volumes

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, idle auto-stop, start from your own snapshot, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, nested virtualization, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, BYOC, SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO, GPU, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), inbound access rules, secret proxy, secret proxy for any API, shared volumes

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/bytebot.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Public product boots sandboxed desktops for multi-app agents, with browser, filesystem, terminal and mouse/keyboard/screenshot control; open-source container also available. YC marks acquired, not necessarily dead. No hosted resource tariff verified.
- Null values mean unknown, not free/unlimited. No model-token cost, tax or unverified ancillary charge included.
- Native browser/device/task/credit prices with unknown CPU/RAM are deliberately non-priceable. Check regime before interpreting any partial resource estimate.
- Self-host reference resources: development 2 CPU / 4 GB RAM, production 4+ CPU / 8+ GB; the desktop container uses ~1 GB idle, 2 GB+ active.

## How this provider charges


YC: Summer 2021; directory status **Acquired**. Research scope: public-product-researched. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bytebot

Bytebot desktop agents

## Regime table

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native product; see regime notes | Incomplete or non-resource economics: rates remain null, never interpreted as free. | resource; CPU alloc, memory alloc | Unknown or native-unit billing; see facts below | https://www.bytebot.ai/ |
| Current applicable tariff unverified | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://www.bytebot.ai/ |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.bytebot.ai/ |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.bytebot.ai/ |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.bytebot.ai/ |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.bytebot.ai/ |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Public product boots sandboxed desktops for multi-app agents, with browser, filesystem, terminal and mouse/keyboard/screenshot control; open-source container also available. YC marks acquired, not necessarily dead. No hosted resource tariff verified.

## Worked example

Requested: 4 vCPU/8 GiB, 50 simultaneous × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, 30% CPU; 50 GiB snapshots and 100 GiB egress. A month is 730 hours only when explicitly used in rate conversion.

**Total: unknown.** This product does not publish a verified complete 4-vCPU/8-GiB tariff and/or the service bills a different unit. Fifty concurrent instances and eight-hour sessions are not automatically supported. Neither 30% utilization nor retained snapshots can be converted into free resources. Use the native plan terms above and request the missing CPU/RAM, retention, egress and concurrency quote.

## Sources and coverage

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bytebot
- https://www.bytebot.ai/

Page captures and documentation indexes/bundles are in `raw/`; provider JSON lists the evidence paths. HN query results were captured separately as `<id>--hn.txt`; they are discovery leads, not current tariff authority. Downloaded docs do not imply every feature was verified; unsupported assertions remain null.