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Comparator · Coding

ephoFree tiervsCursorFrom $20/mo (Individual (Pro))
Starting pricefree · From $20/mo
Free tieryes · yes
Plans documented1 · 5
Platforms2 · 1
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Category Coding Coding
Main use cases
  • Automating pull-request reviews or issue-to-PR pipelines from CI, cron or GitHub Actions
  • Running many coding agents in parallel on private GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket repos
  • Building bots (Slack, Discord) that hand coding tasks to a cloud agent and stream results
  • Letting an agent process input files (e.g. CSV) and return generated artifacts
  • Long-running agent tasks that must survive a closed laptop or dropped connection
  • Writing and refactoring code
  • Agent-driven feature work
  • Automated code review
  • Team development workflows
Best for Developers automating coding-agent workflows over HTTP, Teams that want cloud-hosted Claude Code/Codex runs without managing sandboxes, CI and bot builders Professional developers, Engineering teams, Enterprises needing admin controls
Platforms Web, API Desktop
Pricing model — Freemium
Pricing

Usage-based, billed per second: CPU $0.0000164 per vCPU-second, memory $0.0000053 per GiB-second, disk $0.000000036 per GiB-second. Default instance (2 vCPU, 2 GiB, 10 GiB) is about $0.0000438/s, roughly $0.0026 per one-minute run. $10 starting credit on signup. Model tokens not billed by epho.

Checked Sep 29, 2026. Official pricing ↗

Hobby: Free; Individual (Pro/Pro+/Ultra): from $20/mo; Teams: from $40/user/mo; Enterprise: custom.

Checked Sep 29, 2026. Official pricing ↗
Key features
  • One POST /api/v1/chat endpoint; streaming (SSE) or async mode with webhook_url
  • Choice of harness: Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode, switched by one field
  • Bring-your-own provider key; OpenCode Zen '-free' models run without a provider key
  • Durable multi-turn chats that resume the same sandbox filesystem and session
  • Up to 32 repos and 20 input files per turn; MCP servers and env vars set per chat
  • Persisted events with replay/live-tail and artifact download URLs on completion
  • Coding agent
  • Cloud agents and automations
  • Bugbot code review
  • MCPs, skills and hooks
  • CLI
  • Privacy mode
Pros
  • Per-second usage billing with a reported cost_usd on every run
  • $10 starting credit on signup (about 60 hours of the default 2 vCPU / 2 GiB instance)
  • No SDK or local daemon required; plain HTTP/curl works
  • Public docs with quickstart and API reference
  • Free Hobby plan with no credit card required
  • Access to frontier models on paid plans
  • Team SSO and privacy mode on Teams
  • On-demand usage once included usage runs out
Limitations
  • Requires your own OpenAI/Anthropic/OpenCode Zen key for non-free models; tokens billed separately
  • Teams start capped at five concurrent active turns; excess requests queue
  • Only one live turn per chat at a time
  • Requests are refused (HTTP 402) once credit balance reaches zero
  • Free plan has limited agent requests
  • Usage beyond included amount is billed extra
  • Bugbot on Individual is usage-billed
  • Prices exclude taxes
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Verified Oct 1, 2026

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Verified Sep 29, 2026