Omnara

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The open-source
alternative to Claude
Managed Agents

One API to deploy and run agents for your users and team, on any model, any machine, and any cloud.

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CLITypeScript SDKcURL

Copy and run in your terminal

npx omnara agents launch \

  --name "General agent" \

  --source '{ … }' \

  --message "What tools do you have access to?"

Or prompt your agent:

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Read omnara.com /SKILL.md to set up my agent

Trusted by:

• 1Digital Agency
• Stellon Labs
• The Prompting Company
• Modelence
• Meridian Supply
• Heavybit

What you can build

One stateful, open-source agent API powers agents wherever your users and team already work:

• →Agents in your product's dashboard
• →Internal Slack agents for your team
• →Specialized agent workflows, like code review
• →Interactive CLI experiences

→Agents in your product's dashboard1 / 4

Acme/Production/Agents/support-triage

Which support tickets from this week mention billing?

zendesk.search_tickets

Twelve tickets this week mention billing. Nine are duplicate-charge reports tied to the same failed webhook retry, two are refund requests, and one is a plan upgrade that didn’t apply. Want me to link the nine to the webhook incident?

Message the agent…

Deploy an agent with one prompt

Paste a prompt into your coding agent to deploy a production-ready agent for your users or team.

Engineering

SRE agent

Your on-call teammate with read-only access to AWS and your code. Ask it to investigate an alarm, check on a release, or dig into a user’s activity.

…/sre-agent/SKILL.md

How it works →

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Engineering

Coding agent in Slack

Mention it in Slack to ask how your code works, debug an issue, or ship a fix as a pull request.

…/slack-coding-agent/SKILL.md

How it works →

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GTM

Signal digest

A daily digest of the posts worth your time on any topic: customers, competitors, or your category.

XRedditLinkedIn

…/x-signal-agent/SKILL.md

How it works →

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Operations

Browser agent

Signs in to your web apps and works in a real browser: pulls numbers from dashboards, fills in forms, or works through a queue overnight.

…/browser-agent/SKILL.md

How it works →

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Creative

Video generation agent

Turns a brief into a short video with Remotion and delivers an MP4.

…/video-generation-agent/SKILL.md

How it works →

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Anything else

Build your own

Describe the agent you want. Your coding agent asks a few questions, then creates it.

omnara.com/SKILL.md

Browse all examples →

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“ Omnara opened my eyes to what AI agents can do for our agency. We went from basic AI implementation with wizards and one-off prompts to more than ten real AI agents for proposal building, SEO analysis, sales, and R&D. We’re even developing agents for our customers. Now I have one place to run them all and see their costs. ”

Dan KoganFounder & CEO, 1Digital®

Deploying agents to production is hard

A prototype agent takes an afternoon. A production agent needs a platform, and most teams end up building their own. With Omnara, it's ready on day one, no platform team needed.

“ I do wish this all could be done with less plumbing, as everyone has to build the ~same thing here. … Add it all up and you get roughly 100,000 lines of TypeScript and four months of work. ”

David Cramer ↗Founder, Sentry — on building Junior, their internal Slack agent

“ A thin wrapper is fine until you need durability, shared visibility, retry semantics, cost accounting, multi-provider support, and collaboration surfaces. At that point the harness becomes the product. ”

Joey Wang & Gabe Pereyra ↗Harvey — on Spectre, their internal cloud agent platform

“ Unattended agent coding at scale requires a cloud developer environment that’s parallelizable, predictable, and isolated. … It’s fundamentally difficult to build local agents that have all the power of a developer’s shell but are appropriately constrained. ”

Stripe Engineering ↗on Minions, their unattended one-shot coding agents

“ We learned quickly that we didn’t just need ‘a place to run code in the cloud.’ We needed purpose-built agent infrastructure: a runtime we could control end-to-end, with explicit sandbox lifecycle APIs and egress controls designed for our threat model. ”

WorkOS Engineering ↗on Horizon, their autonomous code factory

“ Every role needed a different combination of tools, context, permissions, and infrastructure — all assembled on the fly, without compromising security, speed, or reliability. We couldn’t find a cloud agent provider that met those requirements, so we built it ourselves. ”

Sierra Engineering ↗on building Pinecone, their internal cloud agent

“ It’s the substrate: session, harness, sandbox, gateway, the durable event log, the credentials proxy, the observability pipeline. … Cells die, sandboxes die, machines die. The conversation doesn’t. ”

Shopify Engineering ↗on Aquifer, the platform they built to run agents

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Own your agents without building the platform

Managed agent platforms like Claude Managed Agents are fast to start, but lock your models, machines, cloud, data, and pricing to one vendor. Omnara gives you the speed without the lock-in.

Time to production

In-house

Months

Managed platforms

Fast

Omnara

Fast

Maintenance

In-house

Your platform team

Managed platforms

The vendor

Omnara

Us, or self-host

Models

In-house

Any

Managed platforms

One vendor’s

Omnara

Any

Platform hosting

In-house

Your cloud

Managed platforms

Vendor’s cloud

Omnara

Any cloud

Agent machines

In-house

What you build

Managed platforms

Vendor’s sandboxes

Omnara

Any machine

Your data

In-house

Yours

Managed platforms

Vendor-held

Omnara

Yours

Pricing

In-house

Salaries + infra

Managed platforms

Vendor-set

Omnara

$0 platform fee

Source code

In-house

Yours to maintain

Managed platforms

Closed

Omnara

Open source

Comparison	Build in-house	Managed agent platforms	Omnara
Time to production	Months	Fast	Fast
Maintenance	Your platform team	The vendor	Us, or self-host
Models	Any	One vendor’s	Any
Platform hosting	Your cloud	Vendor’s cloud	Any cloud
Agent machines	What you build	Vendor’s sandboxes	Any machine
Your data	Yours	Vendor-held	Yours
Pricing	Salaries + infra	Vendor-set	$0 platform fee
Source code	Yours to maintain	Closed	Open source

Compare the options in detail: Claude Managed Agents alternatives · Self-hosted managed agents

Features

Everything you'd otherwise build in-house, ready on day one, whether you're building internal agents for your team or agentic experiences for your users.

agent agt_v4qtrw · turn 2

agent_input · “fix the flaky auth test”00:00.4

model_output · streaming00:02.1

tok 2,610tok 1,204

LLM call failed · retrying API call00:07.3

resumed · state restored00:08.1

tool_result run_command · succeeded ✓00:12.9

Durable Agents

Agents don't lose their work when something breaks, and they use no compute while idle. Omnara stores agent state in a durable event log, so agents can run indefinitely and recover from even the worst failure scenarios.

Stream the agent timeline →

Why we built it this way: The log is the agent · Serverless agents

sandboxes

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Mac Minirunning

Any machine

Run agents on any machine. Start machines with nothing to set up and pay for them through Omnara, bring your own Blaxel, Daytona, or Unikraft Cloud account, or install the Omnara daemon on a laptop, VM, or container. The daemon connects outbound, so there are no ports to open.

Connect machines and pools →

tool_call run_command

omnaraAPP09:41

Permission requested for read_file · ✓ Allowed by @sam

Permission requested for write_file · ✓ Allowed by @sam

omnaraAPP09:52

Build passed on mchr-x7k2p3 · 3 tool calls · 41s

oomnaraAPP#approvals

Permission requested for run_command

$ npm run deploy -- --prod on mchr-x7k2p3

AllowDeny

✓ Allowed by @maya· operator

interactions · audit trail

int_9c2m run_command · resolved · allow · @maya

Access Controls

Let agents act without handing over the keys. Require human approval for risky tool calls, store credentials as encrypted, scoped secrets, give people and API keys role-based access, and audit every action in an append-only history.

Set tool permissions →

typescript @omnara/sdk

import { sdk, createOmnaraClient } from '@omnara/sdk'

 

const agent = await sdk.createAgent({

  client,

  body: {

    config: process.env.AGENT_CONFIG_ID,

    message: 'Fix the failing build on main',

  },

})

 

// stream events · send input · resolve approvals

Agent-ready APIs

Put agents inside your own product instead of someone else’s app. Launch, steer, and observe them from the REST API, TypeScript SDK, or CLI, and change their behavior mid-conversation by posting a new config, with nothing to redeploy.

Explore the API →

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agent config

model:

 provider_config: my-openrouter

 name: anthropic/claude-opus-5.5openai/gpt-6.1-solgoogle/gemini-3.1-pro

Any model

Never get locked into one model vendor. Use any model behind a compatible endpoint — OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, LiteLLM, or models you host yourself — and switch when price or quality changes.

Add a model provider →

MCP servers

• linearConnected
• supabaseConnected
• posthogConnected

Integrations

Meet your team where it already works. Connect MCP servers and reusable skills to reach your data, and talk to agents through first-party Slack, Discord, and GitHub integrations.

Browse integrations →

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about Omnara, self-hosting, and what you can build.

What is Omnara?

Omnara is an open-source API for running agents in production. The Omnara API handles execution and state while you choose the models, tools, machines, and how users interact with each agent.

How is Omnara different from Claude Managed Agents and other managed agent platforms?

Managed agent platforms run your agents on one vendor’s models, machines, cloud, and pricing. Omnara is open source: host the platform on our cloud or yours, use any compatible model, and run agents on any machine, so your agents and their data stay yours.

How is Omnara different from agent frameworks like Vercel’s eve, Mastra, or LangGraph?

Agent frameworks are libraries for writing an agent as code and shipping it inside your app, often on one vendor’s gateway, workflow engine, or sandboxes. In Omnara, agents are durable API objects, and the open-source control plane handles state, machines, permissions, and history. Frameworks fit one agent built into your app; Omnara fits many agents you launch and change through an API, without redeploying.

How much does Omnara cost?

The platform itself is free. Bring your own model keys and machines at no charge, or pay as you go with Omnara credits for models at provider token rates and machines by active time. Self-hosting is free.

Do you have a startup program?

Yes. Startups building on agents can apply for Omnara credits. Apply here.

Do I need to run any infrastructure?

No. Omnara provides a hosted cloud where the infrastructure (sandboxes, model providers, hosting) is managed for you. You can also self-host Omnara.

Where do agents execute?

Wherever you grant them access: no machine, one, or several, local or in the cloud. Without a machine, an agent runs entirely on Omnara with nothing to set up, which suits agents that don’t need a shell, like ones that work through web search, fetch, custom tools, or MCP servers. When it needs one, connect your Blaxel, Daytona, or Unikraft Cloud account, use machines paid for with Omnara credits, or install the Omnara daemon on any macOS or Linux laptop, VM, or container.

Which models are supported?

Omnara is model-agnostic: use OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or any compatible endpoint. That includes open-source models like GLM, Qwen, and DeepSeek, through OpenRouter or hosted yourself.

Is it really open source? Can I self-host?

Yes. Omnara is available under the Apache 2.0 license at github.com/omnara-ai/omnara. Omnara Cloud adds managed services. Self-host in your own VPC for full control, or start on the managed cloud and move later.

Do I own my data?

Yes. On Omnara Cloud, all data is queryable through the API. To keep it in your own infrastructure, self-host Omnara or book a call and we'll deploy it in your cloud.

Does Omnara support permissions?

Tool policies are enforced by the platform. For risky actions, you can configure Omnara to pause for approval.

We handle the infrastructure.

You build the agent.

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