BLACKBOX AI
The facts below are what the maker publishes about BLACKBOX AI, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From BLACKBOX AI's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Committed token spend · Dedicated deployment · Custom rate limits · SAML SSO/SCIM/RBAC · Audit logs · Zero data retention · Data residency · Annual · PO burn-down |
The facts
Each one read from BLACKBOX AI's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent runtimes
- Managed runtimes include the Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Codex SDK and Grok Build CLI.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Agents API
- The Agents API can create, monitor, continue and cancel tasks, stream logs, manage sandbox files and connect GitHub repositories.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- API requests require a dashboard-generated key in an Authorization Bearer header.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Chat assistance
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Chrome extension functions
- The Chrome extension provides Code Chat, current-page context, GitHub Code Chat and OCR activated by a keyboard shortcut.checked 14 Oct 2026
- CLI requirements
- The CLI requires a BLACKBOX account and provides install scripts for Unix-like systems and Windows PowerShell.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Codebase indexing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Code completion
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Coding agent
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Dedicated inference
- Dedicated endpoints deploy open-source models on private GPUs with autoscaling and scale-to-zero support.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Documentation includes guides, API references, authentication, request schemas, agent runtimes, dedicated deployments and streaming examples.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- The service says prompts are encrypted before leaving the user's machine and decrypted only where the model runs.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Enterprise controls
- Enterprise includes single-tenant deployment, data residency, SAML SSO, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, custom rate limits and contractual zero retention.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Enterprise pricing
- Enterprise contracts use committed annual token spend, with closed-model discounts starting at 5% and open-model discounts at 10%.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Crunchbase lists one Series A funding round and SV Angel as an investor, while withholding the round amount.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: burst capacity
- The inference documentation warns that autoscaling deployments may return HTTP 503 during traffic bursts.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: reliability
- Trustpilot reviews describe authentication failures, model loops and paid agents remaining unusable despite available credits.checked 14 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Android availability
- The Android app was removed from Google Play in June 2026 after more than seven million installs and required Android 7.0 or later.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: mobile app
- Apple reviewers report crashes, white screens, lost history, subscription popups and slow loading.checked 14 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding and size
- LinkedIn lists BLACKBOX AI as founded in 2022 with headquarters in San Francisco and 11–50 employees.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the maker as BLACKBOX AI Technologies, Inc., a private company headquartered in San Francisco.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, Californiachecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Limit: billing and support
- Trustpilot reviewers repeatedly report unexpected charges, missing credits, refund problems and support that does not respond.checked 14 Oct 2026
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