Open-source home for AI agents
camelAI is a Y Combinator company that gives AI agents a permanent place to work, so they keep their files and history instead of starting over. Today that means an AI coding assistant with its own computer and a runtime for the agents you build. Self-host either one, or use our hosted version.
camelRun · open source
Host AI agents that wake up when there is work
camelRun is a hosted runtime for AI agents. Define an agent's model, instructions, tools, and channels like Slack, email, and GitHub. camelRun runs it, keeps its history, and scales to thousands of agents at once. An agent sleeps between tasks, and you pay $0.01 an agent-hour only while it works.
camelCode · open source
An AI coding agent with a permanent computer
camelCode is an open-source AI coding assistant. It works on a computer that keeps its files and databases between sessions, builds full-stack apps and scheduled automations, and publishes them to a live URL. The free plan needs no credit card.
Use cases
Build apps, dashboards, automations, and AI agents
Describe what you need in plain English. camelCode builds it, deploys it, and keeps it running.
- AI app builderBusiness apps, customer portals, and workflows from a description
- Build internal tools with AIAdmin panels, CRUD apps, and dashboards on your own data
- AI data analysisAn AI dashboard builder for Postgres, Snowflake, or BigQuery, with the SQL written for you
- AI workflow automationScheduled jobs and webhook listeners that run on their own
- AI agents and chatbotsAgents with their own model, tools, and live URL
- AI Slack botsA Slack AI agent that answers questions and sends reports
- AI email assistantAn agent with its own inbox that you and your team can email
- Vibe codingHow teams without engineers build apps with AI, safely
FAQ
Questions about camelAI
camelAI is a Y Combinator company building an open-source home for AI agents, where they keep their files and history between sessions. Its two products are camelCode, an AI coding assistant, and camelRun, a hosted runtime for AI agents.
camelCode is an AI coding agent you work with. You describe an app or an automation, and it writes the code and publishes the result to a live URL. camelRun is for developers who put agents in their own products. You define an agent's model, instructions, tools, and channels, and camelRun runs it, keeps its history, and scales it. camelCode's own agents run on camelRun.
Yes. The code for camelCode and camelRun is public on GitHub. You can read it, fork it, and change it, or use the hosted versions.
Yes. camelRun runs in one Docker container with Postgres and does not need AWS. camelCode includes a Docker Compose setup for a single machine or a private network. Both work with your own model provider keys.
camelCode has a free plan that needs no credit card, where you bring your own model API key. Paid plans start at $10 a month and include model credits. camelRun costs $0.01 per agent-hour while an agent runs, plus $0.10 per GB-month of storage. Model usage is separate: use your own provider keys or pay the provider's list price through camelRun.
camelRun works with models from Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Amazon Bedrock, and with any server that speaks OpenAI's or Anthropic's API, such as vLLM or Ollama. Self-hosted camelCode supports the same providers and custom compatible endpoints.
Yes. Describe a business app, internal tool, or dashboard in plain English, and camelCode builds the frontend, backend, and database, then publishes the app to a live URL. Its computer keeps every file and database between sessions, so you can keep changing the app later.
Company
A small team that ships often
We started in 2022 as three engineers from UT Dallas and went through Y Combinator in Winter 2024.