Cord
Runs coding agents in isolated cloud sandboxes from Slack and Linear, billed in sandbox hours not tokens
0About Cord
Cord, from Pretzel AI, runs coding agents inside cloud sandboxes so that agent work happens away from your laptop and away from each other. Each task gets an isolated sandbox with a repository checkout, which is what makes it safe to have several agents working different issues at once without them fighting over a working tree or a port. Daytona is the default sandbox provider, with Modal available for teams needing more scale. The integration surface is deliberately narrow and well chosen: Slack and Linear, so an agent run is kicked off from where the work is already tracked and reports back into the same thread rather than requiring another dashboard. The commercial design is the part worth noting — Cord does not resell inference. Every plan works with your existing Claude or Codex subscription, or with your own API keys, and what you actually buy is sandbox hours: 25 on the free tier, 250 per developer per month on Pro. That means the price does not move when model costs do, and a team already paying for Claude seats is not paying twice. Enterprise is self-hosted on your own cloud with unlimited sandbox hours and repositories, SSO and access controls. The company is Y Combinator-backed and operates as a German GmbH.
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Key Features
Cord Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- +Price is insulated from model cost changes because inference is not resold
- +Slack and Linear integrations are available on the free tier, not held back
- +Sandbox isolation makes genuine parallel agent work safe
⚠️ Cons
- −25 free sandbox hours disappear quickly on any real repository
- −Requires an existing Claude or Codex subscription — not a standalone product
- −Only Slack and Linear are integrated; no GitHub Issues or Jira path published
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