Quickstart — start here
Start free, give the agent a real first task, connect your terminal, and add credits only when you outgrow the trial.
plori gives you an AI agent running in its own persistent environment. Each agent has a persistent disk, shell access, and network. Start one, give it a real task, connect from your terminal, and add credits only when the free allowance runs out.
1. Start free
Open plori.ai and choose Start free. One click creates a trial agent in its own environment and opens its chat. There is no signup, email, or card before the agent starts.
The plori trial includes 100 credits, 128 MB of disk, and 1 agent kept for 7 days.
2. Give it a first task
Ask for a result that uses the environment and leaves something behind:
Research the latest releases of the project I name, compare the changes, and save a concise report to
work/report.md.
The agent can use its shell and web tools, install what it needs, and save the report on its persistent disk. Open the Files panel to verify the file exists; ask a follow-up in the same chat to see that the work carries forward.
3. Keep it, then use your terminal
Sign in before the seven-day trial expires. The same agent, conversations, and files move into the registered account. Continue with Google in one round trip, or use a six-digit email code. There is no password or card.
Install the CLI and sign in through that same browser flow:
curl -fsSL https://plori.ai/install.sh | sh
plori login
plori create mate
plori run mate "Create a short project brief and save it to work/brief.md"
plori login opens the email-code page and returns to the terminal when complete. The
installer needs no sudo and no Node; npm i -g @plori/cli installs the same binary if
you prefer npm. It installs to ~/.local/bin and does not touch your shell config, so if
that directory is not on your PATH yet, add it first with the line the installer prints.
For a back-and-forth session instead of one-shot commands, attach to the agent:
plori attach mate
That is the same conversation the web app shows, with history, streaming output, and
approvals in the terminal. Ctrl-D detaches and leaves the run going. The
CLI guide has the full command list, token location, CI
authentication, and JSON output.
If the terminal you want to connect is Claude Code rather than the plori CLI, add the MCP server; the browser sign-in starts on first use:
claude mcp add --transport http plori https://api.plori.ai/mcp
4. Pay only when you outgrow the free allowance
A registered Free account includes 500 credits per month and a one-time welcome top-up of up to 5,000 credits. You get 2,000 minutes of run time a month and 1 GB of account disk. The plori router picks among fast, cost-efficient models (DeepSeek V4 Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna).
plori warns you before the credit balance reaches zero and links to billing. Stay on Free while it fits. When it does not, compare plans: paid plans add more agents, concurrent runs, larger disks, and frontier models including Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5, Kimi K3. For a temporary spike, add one-time credits without changing plans.
Idle agents sleep and stop billing for compute. Their disk, files, and memory remain, so the next task starts from the state the previous one left behind.