Simple, Honest Pricing

Free Haiku access to get started — limited time. Pro at $5/month.
Bring your own API key and pay providers directly. No markup, ever.

Community

Free

Limited time offer

  • OuterBot Workspace — browser-based AI workspace at ide.outer.bot
  • 10 AI messages/day — Claude Haiku, no API key needed
  • Project briefing — AI always knows your project context
  • Obie AI — automatic context filtering on every turn
  • GitHub integration — connect repos, auto-PRs
  • Community support
Get Started Free

The $5/mo fee covers your OuterBot account. AI usage is billed directly to your API key — you see exactly what you pay for.

Teams

$5/month per person — choose the billing mode that fits your team.

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Managed Team

Leader creates the team, pays $5/seat/month for everyone on one card. All members share the leader’s API key. Leader controls membership — remove someone and their AI access ends immediately.

Best for: Companies, agencies, employers paying for their team
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Open Team

Each member has their own Pro subscription at $5/month and their own API key. Collaboration features — shared projects, cross-member context, team briefings — are included in Pro at no extra charge.

Best for: Freelancers, co-founders, indie teams each paying their own way
5-person team example
Managed: leader pays 5 × $5 = $25/month total
Open: each person pays their own $5 — same features, no shared card.
Start Your Team →

During team creation: “How should your team be billed? → I’ll pay for everyone / We each pay our own”

How BYOK Works

Bring your own API key — pay providers directly, OuterBot adds $0.

Zero AI Markup — Always

You add your API key in Account Settings. When you chat, OuterBot uses your key and your provider bills you directly. We never touch your usage costs. You pay Anthropic, OpenAI, or Groq directly at their published rates.

Supported Providers

Anthropic
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Claude Haiku, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.8 — tool use, full agent mode
OpenAI
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GPT-4o, GPT-4.1-mini, GPT-5-nano — full agent mode available
Groq
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Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B — ultra-fast inference
Your key, your costs
Usage billed directly by Anthropic/OpenAI/Groq. OuterBot sees the request and response, but never your billing.
Token efficiency built in
Obie Active filters context every turn, typically cutting 40–70% of input tokens. Your API costs go down automatically.
Encrypted storage
Your API key is encrypted with AES-256 before storage. Never logged, never shared, only decrypted to make calls on your behalf.

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See exactly what’s included

Feature Community Pro ($5/mo)
OuterBot Workspace (ide.outer.bot)
GitHub Integration & Auto-PRs
Project Briefing (AI always knows your project)
Obie AI Context Filtering
AI Messages Included 10/day (Haiku, limited time) Unlimited via BYOK
Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK) ✓ Required
All AI Models (Claude, GPT-4o, Llama, DeepSeek)
Obie Skills (AI learns your patterns over time)
Fusion Mode (dual-model parallel dispatch)
Tandem Engine (frontier plans, fast model executes)
Field Test (AI user testing with real browser)
Obie Active (40–70% token reduction)
Smart Routing (cheap model for simple turns)
Session Memory (cross-session context search)
Team Collaboration $5/mo per person
Support Community Priority Email

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need an API key to get started?

No. Community is free with 10 Haiku messages/day included — no API key, no credit card. When you upgrade to Pro, you add your own Anthropic, OpenAI, or Groq API key, and that provider bills you directly for usage.

Why BYOK instead of bundled AI credits?

Because it’s more honest and more efficient. You pay providers at published rates with zero markup — not a bundled margin. And Obie Active cuts your actual token usage by 40–70%, so your direct costs drop automatically. You feel every saved token; with a bundled plan you wouldn’t care.

How long will the free Haiku tier last?

There’s no hard end date — it’s a business decision we’ll make when the user base is large enough that word-of-mouth carries its own momentum. We’ll give users advance notice before any change.

What exactly is Obie?

Obie is OuterBot’s AI layer that runs before and after every main AI call. Obie Active pre-filters your context so the main model only sees what’s relevant. Obie Skills extracts patterns from your sessions and injects learned knowledge on future turns. Over time, Obie gets smarter about your specific project and coding style.

What is Fusion Mode?

Fusion Mode dispatches your message to Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek V4 Pro simultaneously via Together.ai, then Obie synthesizes the best answer from both. It achieves 100% pass rate on complex coding benchmarks at ~27% of the cost of running a single frontier model. Available as an opt-in mode on Pro.

What is Tandem Engine?

Tandem Engine is a planner-executor system for complex multi-step tasks. A frontier model (Opus 4.8 or O3) plans your entire request once, producing a step-by-step strategy with success criteria. Then a fast model (Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-4.1) executes each step with full tool access. Obie watches every step and escalates targeted questions back to the planner only when needed — not a full re-plan. You get frontier-quality results without paying frontier prices for every execution turn. Pro only, requires Anthropic or OpenAI BYOK key.

What is Field Test?

Field Test is an AI-powered user testing tool that uses a real Chromium browser to simulate how users interact with your app. It can navigate pages, fill forms, click buttons, and take screenshots — giving you automated user testing feedback without writing any test scripts.

What is the difference between Managed and Open teams?

Managed: the team leader pays $5/seat/month for everyone and all members use the leader’s API key. Good for companies. Open: each member has their own $5/month Pro subscription and their own API key; collaboration features are included at no extra charge. Good for freelancers and indie teams.

Can I cancel Pro anytime?

Yes, anytime. You drop back to Community when you cancel. No lock-ins, no penalties.

Is my API key safe?

Yes. API keys are encrypted with AES-256 before storage. They are never logged, never visible in the UI after saving, and only decrypted server-side to make calls on your behalf. They are never sent to any third party.

Do I need to install anything?

No. OuterBot is entirely browser-based. You access everything at ide.outer.bot. No downloads, no extensions, no CLI required — though you can optionally configure your local IDE to use the OuterBot proxy endpoint.

What payment methods do you accept?

All major credit and debit cards via Stripe — Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover.

Is there a student or educator discount?

Yes. Students and educators get 50% off Pro. Contact us at hello@outer.bot with your .edu email address to receive your discount code.

The AI That Never Forgets Your Project

Free to start. $5/month when you’re ready for all models and Obie’s full brain.

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