What does o8 cost?

o8 is free forever with your own model keys — the full app, not a trial. The only paid thing is an optional, one-time Founding Operator edition.

Free forever — the whole thing

The full app, the governance gate, the Engineering Brain, the canvas — all free when you run it on your own Claude or Codex keys. Not a trial, not a crippled tier, not a seat-limited team plan. You bring the model keys you already pay your provider for; o8 doesn’t proxy your requests or mark up usage.

• The orchestrator and the full agent fleet.
• The review gate, merge gate, and conflict detection.
• The Engineering Brain and organizational memory.
• The canvas, the audit trail, and mobile approval.
• Symon, the voice operator.

Why there’s a paid edition at all

We don’t charge for capability — only for the cost of running the fast managed versionfor you. When o8 runs inference on its own infrastructure instead of waiting on a local CLI, someone has to pay for that compute. That’s the one thing the optional edition covers.

Founding Operator — optional, one-time, 250 ever

Founding Operatoris the early edition, limited to 250 people, ever. It’s a one-time purchase — a way to get in early, not a subscription and not a stake in the company. The price rises by cohort as seats fill: $150, then $250, then $500 depending on how early you are. What it includes:

• Early access, always on — experimental features land for you a release channel ahead, forever.
• Managed essentials, for life — the Fast Brain (instant answers, no CLI wait), dictation polish, and premium speech-to-text, on automatically within fair use. You never pay the future infra tier.
• Everything in Free — the whole app is already yours forever with your own keys; this isn’t a paywall.
• An exclusive “o8” signature theme — a founder-only theme on the canvas.
• Founding Operator status — a numbered badge and your name on the wall.

See live cohort pricing and claim a seat on the Founding Operator page.

Platform

o8 runs on macOS 14 or later. The current build is Intel and runs on Apple Silicon via Rosetta. Windows and Linux are planned. New to o8? Start with what o8 is or the docs.