Pier
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Pier, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Pier's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | $5 a month | All models billed at API cost · Pier Hybrid router · multi-repo and monorepo context · review and verification loop · email support |
| Max | $20 a month | Everything in Pro · 4× Pro monthly usage credits · priority email support |
| Free | Free | Free Pier account · bring your own Sarvam AI or OpenRouter key · no subscription |
| Usage pack | $5, paid once | Top-up · stackable packs · same per-token rates as Pro · credits never expire |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Provisioned capacity · deployed in your cloud account and network perimeter · organisation-specific limits, regions, retention, and access · Annual agreement; contact sales |
The facts
Each one read from Pier's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent controls
- Pier gates file changes for review and surfaces commands before they run.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Bring your own key
- Users can bring a Sarvam AI or OpenRouter API key and use Pier with a free account.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Chat assistance
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Codebase indexing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Coding agent
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Data handling
- Pier says it does not store source code on its servers; on a subscription, prompts pass through its servers to the selected model platform, while a user's own API key sends prompts directly from the CLI to the provider.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Enterprise audience
- Enterprise is for teams that need code and model processing to stay inside their controlled cloud account and network perimeter.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Local execution
- The agent runs as a single binary under the user's account, with no background filesystem-watching service.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Model support
- Users can select models from Sarvam, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen, Codestral, and other providers, or use Pier Hybrid routing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Open source
- Pier is open source, and its maker invites users to read the code, file issues, and send pull requests on GitHub.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Pier is a terminal-based coding agent that reads repositories, plans across files, runs commands, and ships code.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Project memory
- Pier reads CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and project conventions and follows them.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Retention
- Pier says prompt and response content in per-request processing logs is erased after 30 days, while remaining metadata is deleted after 12 months.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Pro plan includes email support and Max includes priority email support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Terminal access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Thread syncing
- Conversation threads, which may contain code and command output, sync to Pier by default and can be kept local with the --local flag or threadSync: false.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Plan mode
- Plan mode investigates and presents a plan before making changes, with read-only research first and execution requiring approval.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- Pier is built and operated by Alphabench LLP, which the privacy policy identifies as incorporated in India.checked 11 Oct 2026
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