A Capy AI alternative for teams who use Claude Code

Short answer: Capy AI runs its own team of agents in cloud VMs and bills by plan and machine time. Coagy works the other way: each developer keeps running Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor on their own computer, with their own subscription, and the team sees every session in one workspace. Pick Capy for hands-off cloud agents started from Slack or Linear. Pick Coagy if your team already likes its agents and wants to work on them together.

What Capy is

Capy is made by Scrapybara, Inc., a YC F24 company, with the tagline "Agent swarms for your engineering team" (Capy). It is not open source.

From its site and pricing page:

• Capy runs its own agents, not Claude Code or Codex. A Captain agent plans, a Build agent does the work in a VM, and a Review agent checks it. They use Claude, GPT and Gemini models, with up to 25 agents in parallel.
• Each task gets a branch and a sandboxed cloud VM by default. The desktop app can also run threads locally.
• You start work from the web, Slack, Linear or an API.
• You can connect a ChatGPT (Codex), GitHub Copilot or SuperGrok subscription, or API keys. A Claude subscription is not on that list.
• One subscription covers the whole org, with unlimited members and a shared credit balance. Capy is SOC 2 Type II.
• Plans: Lite $20/month, Pro $100/month, Max $200 to $1,000/month, and Enterprise. Machines cost $0.10 to $3.20 an hour while awake.

Capy vs Coagy

	Capy	Coagy
Which agent does the work	Capy's own agents	Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor
Where code runs by default	Capy's cloud VMs	Each developer's own computer
Cloud when your laptop is closed	Yes, the default	Yes, Coagy cloud, optional
Use a Claude subscription	Not listed	Yes
Use a ChatGPT subscription or API keys	Yes	Yes
Each task on its own branch	Yes	Yes, in its own git worktree
Start tasks from Slack, Linear or an API	Yes	No
Teammates watch each other's sessions live	Not listed	Yes
Owner approves edits from someone else's message	Not listed	Yes
Machine time billing	$0.10 to $3.20 an hour	None when agents run on your computer
Free tier	Not listed, plans start at $20 a month	Up to 4 developers

When Capy is the better pick

• You want fully autonomous agents that run in the cloud with no laptop involved.
• Your work starts in Slack or Linear tickets and you want agents to pick it up from there.
• You want one org subscription with a shared credit pool.
• You need SOC 2 Type II from the vendor today.

Capy is built for that, and it does it well.

When Coagy is the better pick

• Your developers already use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and don't want to switch agents.
• Someone on the team pays for a Claude subscription and wants to keep using it.
• You'd rather run code on your own machines than pay for cloud VM hours.
• You want people in the loop: watch an agent live, ask it a question, steer it, or hand a session to a teammate. The owner approves every edit or command that comes from someone else's message.

Coagy is free for up to 4 developers, and people who only watch, comment and chat are free.

More: Claude Code, Codex and Cursor on one team, Claude Code for teams, and how Coagy compares with Niteshift, another cloud-first option.

Questions

What is Capy AI?

Capy is a cloud platform from Scrapybara, a YC F24 company, that runs its own planning, build and review agents in sandboxed cloud VMs. Work can be started from the web, Slack, Linear or an API, with up to 25 agents in parallel.

Can I use my Claude subscription with Capy?

Capy's pricing page lists ChatGPT (Codex), GitHub Copilot and SuperGrok subscriptions and API keys. A Claude subscription is not listed. Coagy runs Claude Code with your own Claude subscription.

How much does Capy cost?

Capy's plans are Lite at $20 a month, Pro at $100 a month, Max from $200 to $1,000 a month, and Enterprise. Machines cost $0.10 to $3.20 an hour while awake.

Does Coagy run Claude Code instead of its own agent?

Yes. Coagy is not a coding agent. It runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor on each developer's computer, or in Coagy cloud, and puts every session in one workspace the team can see.