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Introduction

raw.computer rents full Linux virtual machines (we call them sandboxes) to AI agents, CI systems and people. Each one is a real computer with its own kernel: systemd, Docker, nested virtualization, a persistent disk, snapshots and forks. You pay per second while it runs, and nothing to start it.

Early access. The API, accounts, keys and the wallet work today. No cell (a group of our hosts that runs sandboxes) is open to customers yet, so creating a sandbox answers 503 capacity_unavailable (Limits › Early access). Pages say which parts arrive with the first cells.

Three ways in

You are Start with
An agent /llms.txt, then any page of these docs as Markdown: add .md to its URL.
A program The HTTP API at https://raw.computer/v1, described by /v1/openapi.json.
A person The console: sign up, create an API key, top up.
A terminal The raw CLI is coming. Until then, curl does everything.

Everything a person can do in the console, an agent can do with one API call, and every error says what to do next (Errors).

What makes it different

  • Full VMs, not containers. Your code gets a kernel, an init system and real devices. Docker runs inside without tricks.
  • No start fees. Create, start, resume and fork cost nothing. Billing is per second of running time.
  • Queue, don't fail. When a cell is full, a start waits in line and tells you its position and an ETA. Callers that would rather fail say so and get the ETA in the error.
  • Built for agents. Typed ids, dated API versions pinned per key, safe retries with Idempotency-Key, a budget any key can read before it starts work, and errors that name the next step.

Pages

  • Quickstart: from sign-up to your first API call.
  • Concepts: orgs, workspaces, sandboxes, snapshots, templates, sizes, classes, the queue, residency.
  • API: authentication, versions, idempotency, long operations, the error shape.
  • Errors: every error code and what to do about it.
  • CLI: the command-line tool we are building.
  • Pricing: every price, and how it is billed.
  • Limits: sizes, lifetimes and rates.