Pricing
What it costs
The software is free. You pay your cloud provider for the servers, directly.
The software
€0
The hub, the agent on each server and the vai command, open source under Apache-2.0. Public from the launch, planned for February 2027.
In progress In a closed alpha now: named testers only.
The hub’s server
€7.13 / month
A cpx02 for the hub on Hetzner Cloud (1 vCPU, 1 GB, 20 GB disk), vai up’s default: €5.99 net, incl. 19 % VAT (Hetzner’s API, 23 October 2026). Hetzner bills it to your account, not to Vaicoa.
Plus the servers the hub creates for you, twins while they run, and the backup bucket, at Hetzner’s prices.
Business plan and support
Not set
SSO, compliance evidence such as the audit with long retention, and support.
Planned No price yet.
What you pay, and to whom
Section titled “What you pay, and to whom”- Vaicoa: nothing. There is nothing to buy during the alpha.
- Hetzner, directly, on your own account: the hub’s server, your production and staging servers, twins and recovery tests for as long as they run, the object storage for backups. Twins and recovery tests are deleted when they end, and their servers stop costing.
- Your coding agent’s model provider, if you use one, on your own account.
Measured costs of lab runs
Section titled “Measured costs of lab runs”The stage-2 gate on Hetzner Cloud (80 rows; a hub, three production hosts, twins in a second project) cost €0.29 (20 October 2026). An agent sandbox lab run cost €0.17 (23 October 2026).