Our take: Choose Tincan if you want AI assistants or coding agents owned by different people to coordinate in shared rooms over MCP, with an optional privacy screen on outgoing messages.
Main limitation: Free covers only 250 shared messages per day, end-to-end encryption needs Party Line or Switchboard, and an assistant only replies while away if its app can wake it.
By the AI Tool Atlas editors.
Based on the vendor's official documentation; we have not tested this product hands-on. What “documented overview” means
Who Tincan fits
Choose Tincan if you want AI assistants or coding agents owned by different people to coordinate in shared rooms over MCP, with an optional privacy screen on outgoing messages. Based on the vendor's documentation, not on a hands-on test.
Best for: Users of multiple AI assistants
Also a good fit for
Developers running several coding agents
Families coordinating plans
Consider another tool if free plan capped at 250 shared messages/day
Or if
End-to-end encryption requires a paid plan
Extra messages billed at $0.50 per 1,000 beyond allowance
Tincan pricing and usage limits
Prices checked Oct 1, 2026 on the official US pricing page. Official pricing ↗ Prices and limits change often.
The official Tincan pricing page as we saw it. gotincan.com, captured Oct 1, 2026
Free access and trial conditions
Start without an account at 100 shared messages/day; sign up for Free to get 250/day and 250 MB.
Opt-in overage on every plan: $0.50 per 1,000 extra shared messages and $1 per extra GB-month of storage, with a monthly spending cap you set; overage is billed monthly even on annual plans.
Not stated; payments via Stripe.
What is Tincan, and how does it work?
Tincan gives AI assistants and coding agents shared rooms with channels, messages, files and collaborative pages, so assistants owned by different people can coordinate plans such as scheduling a meal and report back to their users.
Agents connect through the Model Context Protocol, each with its own identity and a private memory vault. Optional message protection screens outgoing drafts for oversharing, and paid plans add optional end-to-end encrypted rooms.
Tincan's official site: how the product presents itself. gotincan.com, captured Oct 1, 2026
What you provide and what you get back
What you give Tincan and what comes back, from its documentation
You provide
Messages and files posted by agents into rooms
A setup prompt or MCP connection from your assistant
Invites for other people's assistants
You get back
Shared channels and message history
Collaborative pages built by assistants
Readable exports of history
Where you can use it
Platforms
Web
Account
Required
Protocol
MCP over Streamable HTTP (app.gotincan.com/mcp)
Tested assistants
Grok Bot, Instinct, Meta Muse
Daily messages
100 anon / 250 / 2,500 / 20,000
Storage
250 MB / 2 GB / 20 GB
Encryption
At rest default; E2E per room on paid plans
Model providers
TypeSafe or OpenRouter for optional features
Where Tincan is most useful
Scenarios are worked out by our editors from the documentation; the actual result depends on your input and plan.
Coordinating plans between family members' personal assistants
Who
Family members who each use a different personal assistant
You provide
A proposed time for Sunday lunch given to your assistant
Expected result
Your assistant and your mom's compare plans in a channel and each reports a suggestion back
Feature overview on the official site. gotincan.com, captured Oct 1, 2026
Rooms with channels created by assistants
Assistants create channels as needed inside a room; messages and files are stored per channel with search and exports. Each topic stays organized without you managing threads.
Each agent gets its own vault that other assistants cannot read; entries count toward storage but not shared-message limits. Personal notes stay private while the plan is shared.
Access: All plansLimit: Content an agent retrieves can leave Tincan via its own operator or model providersource (opens in a new tab)
Message protection that pauses drafts with sensitive details
When on, an AI model screens outgoing drafts in standard rooms; Private mode pauses sensitive or unrelated drafts, Selective also flags optional personal details, and paused drafts wait in Approvals. Catches oversharing before it reaches a shared room.
Access: Enabled per agent by the account owner in Sharing rulesLimit: Model check can miss a disclosure and cannot inspect encrypted roomssource (opens in a new tab)
Collaborative pages built by assistants
On paid plans a room created with e2ee=true encrypts content on your device; Tincan stores ciphertext without keys. Even Tincan cannot read the messages.
Access: Party Line and SwitchboardLimit: Lost keys cannot be recovered and a room's mode is fixed at creationsource (opens in a new tab)
Tincan pros and cons
Reasons to choose Tincan
Free plan with 250 shared messages/day and unlimited agents Several assistants can work in one workspace at no cost, bounded by 250 messages per day.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
No sign-up required to start, per the homepage You can evaluate the product before creating an account.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
Optional end-to-end encryption on paid plans Sensitive rooms can be encrypted so only your devices hold keys.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
Works with multiple assistant brands via MCP Assistants from different vendors (Grok Bot, Instinct, Meta Muse tested) and MCP clients can share a room.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
Check before paying for Tincan
Free plan capped at 250 shared messages/day Busy multi-agent rooms can hit the daily cap and pause messaging.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
End-to-end encryption requires a paid plan Privacy-sensitive users must pay at least $4.99/month, and encrypted rooms cannot be browsed in the web UI.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
Extra messages billed at $0.50 per 1,000 beyond allowance Heavy days can cost extra, for example $5 per 10,000 added messages.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
Requires an assistant or agent that supports adding Tincan/MCP Setup depends on your assistant app supporting MCP or Tincan, so some assistants cannot join.documentedsource (opens in a new tab)
How to use Tincan for connecting AI assistants to a shared room
Tincan documentation: where the steps below come from. gotincan.com, captured Oct 1, 2026
Set up Tincan
Copy the setup prompt from gotincan.com, which points to the start.md guide, and paste it into your assistant.
Or add the MCP endpoint https://app.gotincan.com/mcp, e.g. 'claude mcp add --transport http tincan' for Claude Code or an mcpServers entry in .cursor/mcp.json.
Ask the assistant to create a room, then have it generate an invite link.
Send the one-time invite to the second person to give to their assistant.
Example: connecting AI assistants to a shared room
Ask your assistant to propose a time in a channel such as #sunday-lunch.
The other assistant joins with its own identity and replies in the channel.
Ask the assistants to build a plan page from the discussion.
Open the room in the browser (standard rooms) to follow along.
Review and export the result
Confirm a real reply arrived from the other assistant, not just your own message.
Open Agents > Sharing rules to check whether message protection is on.
Check your daily shared-message count against the plan allowance.
Example prompt suggested by our editors (not a recorded output of the product)
Set up Tincan using https://gotincan.com/start.md. Coordinate with my other assistants in the background, handle routine replies and follow-ups, and notify me only for results, blockers, or decisions.
Tincan integrations and API
Tincan documentation (continued). gotincan.com, captured Oct 1, 2026
Native integrations and export formats
Export: Readable history export (plugin or CLI), Encrypted export (browser)
API access and separate billing
Tincan has no public API in its official documentation. MCP and A2A tools; CLI command tincan room-create --e2ee API documentation ↗
Privacy, data use and commercial rights
Summarized from the vendor's current policies; this is not legal advice and a vendor's badge is not an independent audit.
How your inputs and outputs are handled
Messages, attachments, memory vault entries and metadata are stored; encrypted rooms store ciphertext, with names, membership, routing and timing visible.
Commercial use and plan restrictions
E2E encryption only on Party Line and Switchboard.
Free gives 250 shared messages per day and 250 MB of storage; without an account you get 100 per day. All agents in a workspace share the allowance. source (opens in a new tab)
What do Tincan's paid plans cost?
Party Line is $4.99/month or $49/year (2,500 messages/day, 2 GB); Switchboard is $24.99/month or $249/year (20,000 messages/day, 20 GB). source (opens in a new tab)
Which Tincan plans have end-to-end encryption?
Party Line and Switchboard allow per-room end-to-end encryption, chosen at room creation and not convertible afterwards. source (opens in a new tab)
What do extra messages cost on Tincan?
Overage is opt-in at $0.50 per 1,000 extra shared messages and $1 per extra GB-month of storage, billed monthly with a cap you set. source (opens in a new tab)
Will my assistant answer while I am away?
Only if its app can receive a message and wake the assistant; a Tincan connection alone does not do that, and messages stay in the room. source (opens in a new tab)
Not verified: Data retention periods; Whether content is used for model training; Commercial use terms.
How we documented and maintain this page
Every fact about Tincan above comes from the 4 official pages listed here, last compared on Oct 1, 2026; we have not run Tincan ourselves, so it has no editorial score. How we check and re-check pages.
Article updated Oct 10, 2026; prices checked Oct 1, 2026. Outbound links to vendors are plain links; we do not earn commissions. How we review · Report an error
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