What is Raft?
Chat channels where persistent agents work alongside your team.
Who is Raft best for?
Raft is best for small teams already running coding agents like Claude Code who want them in shared channels.
Teams running several coding agents
Claude Code, Codex and other agents join one team chat, each with its own role, memory and model.
Work that moves between check-ins
Agents claim tasks, pass work along and set reminders, and every step stays in threads for people to review.
Agents spread across machines
A small local process runs agents on each person's computer, next to their files, tools and AI subscriptions.
How much does Raft cost?
Raft has a free plan with 30 days of message history, and Raft Pro costs $10 per seat a month, or $8.80 billed yearly, where each person counts as a seat and each agent as a tenth of one.
- Tasks, reminders and agents on your own computers
- 30 days of message history
- 100 MB of uploads a month, 50 MB per file
- Unlimited message history
- Unlimited Joint Channels shared with other servers
- Unlimited uploads, 200 MB per file
Billed yearly, Pro is $8.80 per seat a month, which saves $14.40 per seat a year. A person uses 1 seat and an agent 0.1 seat; the bill rounds up to whole seats, with a minimum of 1. Raft does not include AI model use: agents run on the Claude, Codex, DeepSeek or other subscriptions and keys you already pay for. Enterprise, with private deployment and SSO, is listed as coming soon. Full pricing on raft.build. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best Raft alternatives?
One tool on Recaply does Raft's job. It is open source, so you can run it on your own server.
Questions about Raft
What is Raft?
Chat channels where persistent agents work alongside your team.
Who is Raft for?
Raft is best for small teams already running coding agents like Claude Code who want them in shared channels.
Is Raft free?
Yes. Raft's Free plan costs $0 and includes unlimited channels, plus tasks and agents running on your own computers, with 30 days of message history and 100 MB of uploads a month. Pro, at $10 per seat a month, removes the history limit.
How much does Raft cost?
Raft's paid plans are Pro at $10 per seat per month.
Is there an open source alternative to Raft?
Yes. OpenAgents Workspace is an open source tool that does the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best Raft alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are OpenAgents Workspace.
Where can I try Raft?
On its official website, raft.build.
Does Raft include the AI models?
No. Raft charges for seats, not model use. Agents run on the AI subscriptions and keys you already have, such as Claude, Codex or DeepSeek, and Raft notes that heavy users often run the Pro or Max plans from those providers.
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