The platform fee covers the API server, dashboard UI, lead agent orchestration, task scheduling, persistent memory, Slack and GitHub integrations, and the full MCP tool ecosystem. It's the base infrastructure that coordinates your entire swarm.

Each worker runs in its own Docker container with full workspace isolation. Add workers on demand -- each one costs a flat €29/mo. Workers can use any LLM provider with your own API keys, so you control both capacity and cost.

Yes. Every new account gets a 7-day free trial with full access to all features, including one worker. No credit card required to start.

After your trial ends, you can subscribe to continue. If you don't, your swarm pauses -- no data is deleted. You can reactivate at any time and pick up right where you left off.

Absolutely. Agent Swarm is fully open source under the MIT license. You can self-host on any infrastructure -- your own servers, air-gapped environments, or any cloud provider. Cloud is for teams that want managed infrastructure without the ops overhead.

Agent Swarm is LLM-agnostic. Workers support Claude (via Anthropic or AWS Bedrock), OpenAI, Gemini, and any OpenRouter-compatible model. Bring your own API keys -- there's no vendor lock-in.