Bandicot is a native Mac workspace where people and AI agents work on the same projects. Agents ask before they write, every change becomes a version, and every turn shows the tokens and cost it spent.

Yes, for one person: Solo is free with every capability for one profile. Team is $8.99 a month for up to 3 profiles, Family $14.99 for up to 6, Business $49.99 for up to 25, and Enterprise starts at $50 for 26 profiles plus $1.92 per seat.

Does Bandicot reduce token costs?

It is built to, and it shows you every token either way. A frozen prompt prefix keeps caches warm, history is append-only, compaction runs only at thresholds and skills load on demand. No whole-task saving is claimed until the fixed-corpus measurement is published.

Can several people use Bandicot together?

Yes, on one Mac today: profiles keep each person's projects and memory apart, and a team roster puts agents next to people. Syncing a team across machines is in development.

Does the AI change files without asking?

No. Writes, commands and spend outside your permissions file wait for approval, and every file change is recorded so it can be restored.

Which models does Bandicot work with?

Hosted providers you connect, and local models. A pinned catalog of 8 small chat models for Apple Silicon Macs, from Gemma 3 270M to SmolLM3 3B, each checked against the Mac's GPU memory budget before download. Larger work goes to a hosted provider you connect. Remote providers receive the prompts sent to them.

Does Bandicot run automations?

Yes. Automations are agents that run on a schedule or on request inside a project, on your Mac while Bandicot is open, under the same approvals as a chat.

Does Bandicot claim SOC 2 or GDPR credentials?

No external certification is claimed. Read the privacy and security docs for the actual boundaries.

Is Bandicot the same as Bandicoot?

Yes. The brand is Bandicot, one o. Bandicoot is a common misspelling.

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Product status

A plain account of what is usable today, what is verified in the core, and what is still in development.

Available now. A current user-facing path exists within the stated scope.

Five status labels

Available now: A current user-facing path exists within the stated scope. Verified core: Implemented and tested as a foundation; not necessarily a complete public journey.

Measured: Measured on named hardware or a named corpus, inside a stated boundary. In development: Active product work that must not be presented as shipped. Direction: Part of the product contract without a release-date promise.

What is true today

Available now: approvals before writes, a version for every change, tokens and cost per turn, automations, profiles with their own memory, an agent crew on one Mac, skills, plugins and MCP servers, setup files, switching between providers, and a pinned catalog of small local models.

Verified core: the native host that runs sessions, tools, approvals and versions around whichever model you pick.

What is still being built

In development: a whole-task token saving measured on a fixed corpus, and teams across machines. The host answers team sync as unavailable today; nothing on this site implies live multi-machine collaboration.

Remote handoff and shared compute are direction only. Follow the page label instead of inferring a date.