The desktop app is free and stays free. Hosted is the same tools on a machine that does not close when your lid does, priced by how many browsers you run at once.
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No account, no card. What "free forever" means here.
One axis: how many browser sessions run at the same time. Every feature is in every band. Bands differ by how much you may run at once, never by what you are allowed to do.
Freeforever
Not a trial and not a tier. Download it and it works.
As many sessions as your machine holds
$29per month
$290 a year — two months free.
3 concurrent browser sessions
$99per month
$990 a year — two months free.
12 concurrent browser sessions
$299per month
$2990 a year — two months free.
40 concurrent browser sessions
Not a trial, not a seat you eventually pay for, not a tier with the good tools held back. There is no higher desktop tier, so there is nothing above it to want.
What you pay for, if you ever do, is somewhere else to run it: a machine that stays up when your laptop sleeps, shared with your team. That is a hosting bill, and it is the only thing being sold.
A browser slot measures 677 MB before it holds a page, and a renderer another 199 MB on top. Concurrency is what a machine is bought for, so the price and the cost move together.
Hours are the other obvious meter and the wrong one: you cannot predict them, they punish leaving a browser open over lunch, and they make the invoice a surprise. Concurrency is a number your team already knows.
The same application, packaged twice. An agent reaches either over MCP and cannot tell them apart.
| Desktop | Hosted | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Free, forever | From $29 a month |
| Where the browsers run | Your machine | A vitro of your own, on our hardware |
| Signing in | Nothing to sign into | Your team, with roles |
| How an agent connects | loopback /mcp, one local token |
vitro.run/mcp, a key per agent |
| How many at once | Whatever your RAM allows | Your band's ceiling |
| When you close the laptop | The browsers close with it | They carry on |
| Where history lives | On your disk, under ~/.vitro |
Off the laptop, in object storage |
No. It runs on hardware we do not pay for, so there is nothing to recover.
The API answers 402 until a plan is picked. Nothing is deleted, and the desktop app is still there, still free.
The next create_session is refused immediately, with the
reason and the current count. Never queued behind a browser that may
never free up.
Yes, and billing is off by default when you do. Charging somebody for a machine they own is not something this software can do by accident.
Install it, point one agent at it, and see what that agent was actually looking at when it went wrong.