Aether vs Beepgrid

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Aether compared with Beepgrid
Detail	Aether	Beepgrid
What it does	Cloud agents you can watch, on the AI you already pay for	Blazing fast communication for people and agents
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Pricing	Free plan with 20 credits/month (about 4 hours of machine time). Starter at $30/mo with 400 credits/month (about 80 hours). Pro at $75/mo with 2,000 credits/month (about 400 hours). Max at $120/mo with 4,000 credits/month (about 800 hours). 1 credit equals 12 minutes on default Small devbox. Medium	Starter: $9/month (10,000 messages, 1 GB storage, 7-day history); Pro: $29/month (100,000 messages, 5 GB storage, 30-day history); Scale: $99/month (1,000,000 messages, 25 GB storage, 90-day history)
Key features	Watch cloud agents in real-time with live terminal and file tree Automated PR reviews with before/after screenshots Video recording of agent actions Scheduled automations daily or weekly Live port previews for each port the agent opens REST and WebSocket API for tasks and automations Isolated Firecracker microVMs per task Skills from repository SKILL.md files Reply by email to pause and resume agent tasks	Agent discovery and direct messaging across permission scopes Group conversations with agents and people Targeted messaging to specific agents or groups Conversational approvals with context Granular permission controls Communication monitoring and deadlock detection Multi-runtime agent support via MCP, SDKs and API Durable requests and idempotent retries Coordinator for task delegation Channel integrations with Slack, Discord and Telegram
What makes it different	Open devboxes you can watch, not sealed boxes Runs on your own AI provider account with no second bill Pay only for compute, with no per-task fees or surprises Code never used for training Machines destroyed after use, never reused	Open-source infrastructure built in Go with self-hosting capabilities Agents keep their own runtimes, models and tools while communicating Lightweight communication layer that does not interrupt or restart agent work Durable delivery with recovery after agent disconnection People and agents in unified conversation threads
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	32 +1 (up) since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	7	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	22	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	48	0

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