Free core, forever
Deployment templates, security baselines, the management dashboard, Convex Mode, agent management. Free. If it is essential to running agents safely, it is free.
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Most AI agent platforms want to own your infrastructure, lock you into their ecosystem, and charge you for the privilege. We took the opposite approach.
Free core tools. User-owned infrastructure. Open-source runtime. Stay because it is useful, not because you are trapped.
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Philosophy
Open source core, paid convenience
They lock you in. We let you leave.
Other platforms
- ✕Core features behind paywalls or tiered pricing
- ✕Free tier exists to funnel you into paid plans
- ✕Leaving means losing access to your tools and workflows
- ✕Proprietary systems with no self-hosting path
LaunchThatBot
- ✓All core tools are free -- deploy, manage, observe
- ✓Take the system and have your AI build off it
- ✓Stay on the platform and pay a small fee for convenience
- ✓Community built around setting up properly and detaching when ready
Most platforms make money by making it hard to leave. We make money by making it worth staying. Every deployment template, security baseline, and management tool is available for free. The paid tier exists for convenience features -- not for the fundamentals you need to run agents safely.
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Ownership
Your agents, your data, your infrastructure
They own the stack. You own your work.
Other platforms
- ✕Your agents run on their servers, under their control
- ✕Your data lives in their database, behind their API
- ✕Exporting means a CSV dump or a migration nightmare
- ✕Downtime on their end means downtime for your agents
LaunchThatBot
- ✓Your agents run on infrastructure you choose and control
- ✓Your data lives in your own Convex instance
- ✓Detaching means disconnecting -- everything keeps running
- ✓Your uptime depends on your infrastructure, not ours
When you enable Convex Mode, your operational data -- deployment records, event logs, agent state -- lives in your Convex project under your account. If you disconnect from LaunchThatBot, nothing breaks. Your deployment continues on your VPS, your data stays in your database, and you owe us nothing.
03
Scale
One agent to a hundred, same platform
They pick a lane. We support every lane.
Other platforms
- ✕Optimized for a single use case or scale tier
- ✕Hobbyists priced out by enterprise plans
- ✕Power users limited by platform bottlenecks
- ✕Migration required when you outgrow the tier
LaunchThatBot
- ✓Hobbyist with 1 agent? Free tier covers it
- ✓Developer with 3 agents on a $5 VPS? Fully supported
- ✓Power user with 100+ agents? Paid mainly for compute costs
- ✓Connection and import tools that work wherever you are in your journey
We built LaunchThatBot for three kinds of users simultaneously. The hobbyist who wants one agent running securely. The developer who wants a small squad sharing memory through Convex. And the power user running a fleet across multiple servers. The platform scales with you -- paid tiers only kick in when your compute usage demands it, not because we decided to gate features.
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Flexibility
Your design, not ours
They dictate the workflow. You decide yours.
Other platforms
- ✕Locked into their agent framework and abstractions
- ✕Their way of defining tools, prompts, and workflows
- ✕Switching frameworks means rebuilding from scratch
- ✕Customization limited to what they expose
LaunchThatBot
- ✓Start with self-hosted defaults and tested templates
- ✓Tools for customizing every aspect of your deployment
- ✓Ultimately up to you how you design your system
- ✓OpenClaw underneath -- full flexibility of the open-source runtime
Other platforms want you to think in their abstractions. We give you a working starting point -- secure defaults, deployment templates, management tooling -- and then get out of the way. You decide how your agents are structured, what tools they use, and how they interact. If our templates do not fit, change them. If our patterns do not match your architecture, override them. The platform adapts to your design, not the other way around.
Side by side
A direct comparison across the dimensions that matter when you are choosing where to run your AI agents.
Area
Other platforms
LaunchThatBot
Core tooling cost
Free tier → paid wall
Free. All core tools, always.
Infrastructure ownership
Managed by the platform
Your VPS, your choice of provider
Data ownership
In their database
In your Convex instance
Exit path
Data export, migration work
Disconnect. Everything keeps running.
Agent framework
Proprietary or opinionated
OpenClaw (open source)
Scale model
Per-agent or per-seat pricing
Pay for compute, not features
Customization
Within platform constraints
Full control, templates as starting points
Self-hosting
Rarely supported
Default mode of operation
Our commitment
Detach without friction
We designed the exit path before the onboarding path. If leaving is painful, the platform is not honest. Leaving LaunchThatBot means disconnecting -- not migrating.
Earn your stay, not your trap
If you pay for LaunchThatBot, it is because the convenience is worth it to you. Not because you cannot figure out how to leave. We would rather lose a customer than trap one.
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