Run the Pi coding agent on an always-on developer pod
A VPS of your own, set up and secured for you. It’s a permanent cloud computer, so Pi keeps working when your laptop is closed, in tmux sessions you pick up from your laptop or your phone.
Already use a coding agent on your laptop? Paste this into it, and it sets your pod up with you.
Get me an Everpod developer pod with Pi installed, and walk me through setting it up, following https://everpod.ai/docs/api#developer-podPi gets a computer of its own.
Not a laptop you have to leave open: a whole Ubuntu machine you administer, always on, set up and secured before you log in.
It’s a real computer, just like your own, so your files, repos, tools and logins persist.
Tick Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes or OpenClaw too, and they come installed. You are choosing only what comes installed: the computer is yours to administer, and any agent installs or comes off later, as on a laptop. Docker, git, Node, Python, Chrome, ffmpeg, the PDF tools and tmux are there.
Not only code.
People hand Pi the rest of their work too. Here it runs on a computer that stays on.
Research and writing
- ✓Reads hundreds of pages and drafts the brief while you sleep
- ✓Chrome is installed, for pages that need a real browser
You ask: “Read the 40 competitor sites in sites.txt and write a two-page brief on how each one prices.”
Documents and data
- ✓PDFs by the thousand: the PDF tools and Python are installed
- ✓Spreadsheets, exports and databases: read, cleaned and written here
You ask: “Go through every PDF here and put each contract's renewal date and notice period in a spreadsheet.”
Video, audio and images
- ✓ffmpeg is installed: it cuts, converts and encodes
- ✓A render that takes hours runs here, with your laptop shut
You ask: “Cut the two-hour recording into one clip per chapter in chapters.txt and export each at 1080p.”
Three ways to keep Pi running.
No laptop left open, no server to secure. Your pod arrives set up, and stays on.
Pi reaches what its computer holds. A developer pod holds only what you put there.
Your laptop
A developer pod
Pi’s security guide: “Pi can read, change, and execute files with the permissions of the account that started it, and it does not ask for approval before every tool call.” Of running it entirely inside a container, virtual machine or sandbox, it says: “This is usually the strongest practical option.” A developer pod is a virtual machine of your own, and your own Tailscale policy can make your other devices refuse its connections themselves, whatever runs on it.
Pi runs here as it does on your laptop.
Use the plan or key you already have
- ✓A ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot or OpenRouter account, or a key for the provider you choose
- ✓Type /login, sign in on your laptop or phone, and paste the code or link back into Pi
Pi’s providers page lists the providers and their keys.
Many Pis at once
- ✓Room for about 8 working at once, each in its own tmux session, as Pi’s site suggests
- ✓A second Pi on another model, or Codex beside it, can review the work
Pi’s tmux guide has the one setting it asks of tmux.
Pi’s maker, Earendil, says: “Pi the coding agent is built to run on your (remote) machine, inside a terminal, driven by one person.”
All you do is name your machine.
We build it, install Pi and secure it. About 10 minutes later, you log in.
The quickest way: paste this into the coding agent on your laptop. It starts the machine and walks you through these steps.
Get me an Everpod developer pod with Pi installed, and walk me through setting it up, following https://everpod.ai/docs/api#developer-podName it and choose your agents
Name the machine, choose your username on it, and tick the agents you want installed.
Confirm your email and pay
From $24 a month, cancel anytime. We start building the moment your payment goes through.
Join your network and log in
About 10 minutes later it is built, and we email you. Its page lists three steps and ticks each one as you complete it: one sign-in joins it to your Tailscale network, a button opens Tailscale’s page for switching off its key expiry, and the command to log in over SSH is ready to copy. Then sign in to Pi with your own subscription or API key.
Private by default
Your pod arrives on your own private network, closed to the internet, and yours alone.
On your private network only
Reached only from your own devices, over Tailscale. No open ports and no public SSH: a server your agent starts is reachable from your devices and from nowhere else.
Yours alone
A whole private computer, one customer per machine. Nothing on it is shared with other customers.
Only you have a login
Once you have joined the machine to your Tailscale network, switched off its key expiry and logged in, we remove the access we used to set it up. From then on Everpod has no login on it and no key.
Backed up every day
The whole disk is backed up daily, and the backups rotate over roughly 7 days. We restore one when you ask.
Security updates install themselves
The machine is yours to administer, and its security updates install on their own.
Deletion is permanent
When you cancel, the machine runs to the end of the paid month, is switched off, and is permanently deleted 7 days later, backups included.
You don’t do any of this. Your pod arrives on your private network, closed to the internet.
What your developer pod costs.
Three sizes. The figure is about how many coding agents each has room for at once.
Before you decide.
Is model usage included?
Is it only for coding?
Can I use my Claude plan with it?
Does Pi get a sandbox on it?
Who else can log in to it?
Can I reach it from my phone?
Can I run Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode on it too?
What are its specs?
What happens if I cancel?
Pi, on a computer that stays on.
from $24/mo, cancel anytime · 4 to 16 vCPU, 8 to 32 GB