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# OpenBots
**Four AI agents powered by Agnes 2.5 Pro, our own open model. They search the web, read pages, run code in a sandbox, call APIs, pay for services and sign up for them. Use them in the browser or run the whole stack on your own machine.**
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## Why OpenBots
Most assistants answer from memory and need plugins to do anything else. OpenBots agents **act**: each answer can
involve searching the live web, opening sources, running Python in an isolated sandbox, calling public APIs, paying
for a service and creating an account, and the chat shows every step they took.
- **Our own open model.** Agents run on **Agnes 2.5 Pro**, the OpenBots open model and agent runtime, MIT licensed.
- **2.7× cheaper.** Agnes 2.5 Pro costs about 2.7 times less per completed agent task than comparable coding and agent tools. See Benchmarks.
- **Outperforms Cursor, Codex and GrokBot** on our agent task benchmark: research, coding and API workflows end to end.
- **Pays with anything, signs up anywhere.** Agents can pay through x402, crypto wallets and cards, and register accounts on websites, always within your limits and with your confirmation.
- **Agents that work as a team.** PLUTUS can hand a sub-task to HEPHAESTUS ("write a script for this strategy") and merge both results into one answer.
- **Live streaming.** Answers appear as they are generated, and the 3D agent shows what it is doing right now: searching, reading a page, running code.
- **Bring your files.** Drop in a CSV, PDF or Excel file; the agent parses it in the sandbox and builds charts.
- **Prompt caching.** Large agent system prompts are cached, so the repeated part of every request costs about 10× less.
- **Agents, not a chatbot.** A tool-use loop of up to 8 steps per request picks the right tool, reads the result and keeps going until the task is done.
- **Hosted or fully local.** Use the hosted runtime with tools, or run Agnes 2.5 Pro or any open-weight model in Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM or llama.cpp and keep everything on your machine.
- **Safe by construction.** Outbound calls are SSRF-guarded, code runs in an isolated container, every payment and sign-up needs explicit confirmation. See SECURITY.md.
- **Open source.** MIT licensed, 50+ tests.
## Meet the agents
| | Agent | Role | Ask it to… |
|:-:|---|---|---|
| | **PLUTUS** | Portfolio & market agent | price an asset, compare currencies, stress-test a portfolio, pay for a premium data API |
| | **HEPHAESTUS** | Coding & automation agent | write and *run* a script, debug a stack trace, build a scraper, sign up for a dev service and wire up its API |
| | **HERMES** | Research & intelligence agent | track a narrative across the web, fact-check a claim, separate FACT from SIGNAL from SPECULATION |
| | **PROTEUS** | Custom agent | become any expert you describe: lawyer, game designer, analyst |
Every agent has its own personalit