Otto
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Otto, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Otto's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free and open source; use an installed provider or configure an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own credentials |
The facts
Each one read from Otto's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent orchestration
- Otto supports named agent personalities, role-based teams, background tasks, scheduled runs, and shareable artifacts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Agent providers
- Native providers include Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi; the maker also lists ACP catalog providers, plugin providers, and configured OpenAI-compatible endpoints.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Chat assistance
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Coding agent
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- IDE and Git
- The product includes code navigation and diagnostics, diff review, selective commits, pull request and merge workflows, and Git history tools.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local models
- Otto can connect to OpenAI-compatible endpoints, including local models, and says prompts can stay on hardware the user owns.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Prerequisite
- Otto manages agents but does not ship one, so users must install and authenticate at least one provider CLI before using it.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Otto says it has no required cloud service or account, collects no app telemetry, and uses no analytics, tracking pixels, cookies, or ads.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Otto is a self-hosted coding assistant for running and managing coding agents on a machine or cloud host and accessing them from desktop, web, mobile, or CLI clients.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Relay data
- For the optional relay, the maker says it can see IP addresses, connection timing, message sizes, and session IDs, while messages are end-to-end encrypted with XSalsa20-Poly1305.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Remote access
- Users can connect to their daemon through an optional end-to-end encrypted relay or a direct connection such as a VPN or tunnel.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security responsibility
- Otto runs agents in the local user context, and users are responsible for securing their host, network, credentials, and deployment configuration.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Otto directs users with questions to open an issue on GitHub and says it takes no sponsorships or donations of its own.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Terminal access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Browser verification
- Agents can start a development server, inspect the running app in a browser pane, interact with it, and capture screenshots and console or network output.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Platform availability
- Downloads are listed for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android; the web app is available, and the maker says there is no iOS build yet.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- Otto is described as a personal project by Philippe, not a startup.checked 12 Oct 2026
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