# Amika

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/amika/ · added 2026-11-12 · updated 2026-11-12

**In short.** Amika (Cloud devboxes for AI coding agents, on a company's own computers or Amika's cloud, United States): Free and paid plans on sale, November 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 2 founders; Y Combinator lists a team of 2 (Y Combinator page, November 2026). Launched 2023; still running.

Cloud devboxes for AI coding agents, on a company's own computers or Amika's cloud · United States · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Developer tools and coding agents

- Outcome: Free and paid plans on sale, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure)
- Launch: 2023; months from launch to the outcome: 46
- Team: 2 founders; Y Combinator lists a team of 2 (Y Combinator page, November 2026)
- Outside funding: Y Combinator, Fall 2025 batch; no amount is stated in the sources read
- Main factor: Persistence
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 2
- Tags: AI-native, Small team, Funded, Running, B2B, Developer tools

Links:

- Visit amika.dev: https://www.amika.dev/

**The product.** Remote virtual machines for AI coding agents. A team adds spare computers, such as a Mac Mini or a cloud server in its own network. Amika divides each one into isolated machines. Every agent works in its own machine. Amika also hosts machines for customers who do not want to run hardware.

**Why it worked.** The company changed its product several times and now sells tools for running many coding agents. Its home page says the company built cloud devboxes for coding agents. It says users then kept asking to run them on machines they already had. Dated copies of the company's own pages show three earlier products under the Fixpoint name.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

Amika sells devboxes for coding agents. A devbox is a remote virtual machine that holds the code, tools and settings a program needs to build software. A coding agent is an AI program, such as Claude Code or Codex, that writes and tests code on its own. The home page says Amika turns computers a customer already owns into isolated virtual machines on one private network.

Dylan Mikus is the Founder and CEO, and Jakub Cichon is the Founder and CTO, according to the Y Combinator page. That page lists a team of 2, a founding year of 2023 and the Fall 2025 batch. The legal entity is Fixpoint, Inc. The company sold other products under the Fixpoint name before Amika, and the dates are in the timeline.

No revenue figure was found. The pricing page lists a Free plan for up to 3 active users and a Team plan at US$30 a month for each active user. The terms say the customer authorizes monthly automatic charges. No source says that a customer has paid, so the page is grade E.

## Why did Amika work?

### It changed products until it reached tools for coding agents

Dated copies of the company's pages show a tool for language-model apps in April 2024 and a company-data API in January 2025. A launch post of October 2025 describes expert staffing. The Amika pages begin in March 2026. The launch post of 24 June 2026 says the company pivoted. This page cannot say how many customers each product had.

### It does not charge for hours on a customer's own machines

The pricing page says sandboxes on a customer's own machines run on every plan and their hours are never charged. It also says model tokens are never charged, because customers bring their own keys. The charges that remain are for active users and for hosted compute. No source says how much either brings in.

### It publishes the core of the product as open source

The home page says the core is open source. The GitHub page shows an Apache-2.0 licence, 302 stars and 1,534 commits on 12 November 2026. The launch post says each primitive ships as open source and the cloud platform is sold to teams.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's own pages and its public code repository. They are grade C.

- On a Mac, the home page says the company uses smolmachines for virtual machines today. It says it is adding support for nono and for agents without a sandbox.
- The core is a public GitHub repository under the Apache-2.0 licence, with folders named go, js and sdk/typescript.
- The repository README says machines can run on Kubernetes nodes and on sandbox clouds such as E2B, Daytona and Vercel.
- Customers bring their own agents: Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode, with their own subscriptions. The pricing page says model tokens are never charged.
- The company uses PostHog for website and product analytics, according to its privacy policy.
- In the launch post of 24 June 2026 the company says it already uses Amika for the majority of its pull requests.

Sources: [1, 12, 2, 15, 5]

## Who tried this before Amika, and why did they fail?

Two companies in our database of failed startups sold developer environments in the cloud. The values below are from that database, read on 12 November 2026, and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Nitrous.io (2012 to 2016; funding US$8M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A cloud development environment that a developer could open from any computer, without setting up a local machine.
- Why it died: The record says Amazon bought Cloud9 and offered it cheaply inside AWS, and GitHub's ecosystem grew. It says Nitrous built a feature and did not own a step of the workflow.
- Record: 

### DotCloud (2008 to 2012; funding US$18M; cause: Pivot)

- Promise: A platform service that hid server work from developers and supported many languages.
- Why it died: The record says the company moved all its attention to Docker, a container tool that came out of it. The platform service lost its place.
- Record: 

## What changed

Both predecessors sold the developer a remote place to work and tried to own the whole environment. Their records say large platforms later bundled the same thing, or the company's own spin-off became more important than the service.

Amika's pages take a different position. They say the company is not a sandbox provider and not an agent harness. The pricing page says it does not charge for hours on a customer's own machines. Whether customers pay for the rest is not shown by any source read.

## Can one person copy Amika now?

**Verdict: Part of it. The pricing structure can be copied, and the market result is not yet shown.**

The company's pricing page charges for active people and for hosted compute, and charges nothing for machines the customer already owns. A small team could copy that structure. No source read shows how many customers pay for it.

1. Let customers bring their own model keys, so tokens are never your cost.
2. Give the free plan to small teams and charge when the team passes a stated number of active users.
3. Publish the core of the product as open source, and sell hosting and team features on top.

**What is still open.** Any tool for running many AI agents at once. Companies want the work to stay on their own hardware or inside their own cloud network.

## How much revenue does Amika make? The numbers, graded

No revenue figure. The evidence is a published price list, billing terms, and dated copies of the company's earlier products

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company start | 2023 | C | The Y Combinator company page reads "Founded: 2023". The legal entity in the terms is Fixpoint, Inc. The company's Amika product came later, as the timeline shows. | [4, 3] |
| Founders | Dylan Mikus (Founder and CEO), Jakub Cichon (Founder and CTO) | C | The Y Combinator company page names both. The launch posts of October 2025 and June 2026 name the same two first names. | [4, 5, 6] |
| Team size | 2 | C | The Y Combinator page reads "Team Size: 2". The company has no About page: the address returned a 404. | [4] |
| Funding | Y Combinator, Fall 2025 batch; amount not stated | C | The Y Combinator page lists the batch and Primary Partner. No page read gives a sum. | [4] |
| Earlier products under the Fixpoint name | LLM improvement tool (April 2024), company-data API (January 2025), expert staffing for AI data companies (October 2025) | C | Archived copies of fixpoint.co dated 23 April 2024 and 1 January 2025, and the Y Combinator launch post of 23 October 2025. Casebook 4: the start is the earliest of these, so 2023 or later. | [8, 9, 6] |
| Change to the current product | "We pivoted our YC company to bet on this" | C | The Y Combinator launch post for Amika, dated 24 June 2026. An archived Amika home page of 5 March 2026 already sells background coding agents. | [5, 10] |
| Plans on sale | Free; Team at US$30 per active user a month; Enterprise at a custom price | C | Company pricing page, 12 November 2026. The Get started buttons link to the company's sign-up address, which could not be opened. | [2] |
| Billing terms | Monthly automatic payment from the payment method on file | C | Terms of Service, last updated 3 March 2026: "Customer will pay Provider the applicable Fees based on the Product tier and Customer's usage." | [3] |
| Prices on 14 April 2026 | Free; Developer US$30 per user; Team US$100 per user | C | Archived copy of the company's pricing page. The Team price has fallen to US$30 per active user since then. | [11] |
| Open source code | Apache-2.0 licence; 302 stars and 1,534 commits | C | GitHub repository page read on 12 November 2026. The home page says the core is open source. | [12, 1] |
| Customers named | none | C | No page read names a paying customer. The home page shows only a "Backed by" mark of Y Combinator. | [1] |
| Blog | "No posts yet" | C | Company blog index read on 12 November 2026. | [14] |

How to read this table. Every value is a statement by the company or by Y Combinator, grade C. A "calc" value would be computed on this page, and none is needed here. No value is grade A or B.

## Pricing

Amika prices on 12 November 2026, from the company's pricing page (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free |  | 0 | up to 3 active users; US$50 of credits per organization to start; 10 concurrent service-account sandboxes |
| Team |  | 30 per active user | more than 3 active users; extra service-account sandboxes US$2 a month each; Slack and Linear integrations |
| Enterprise |  | custom | committed volume pricing; SSO, SCIM, audit logs, GPUs, uptime SLA |

Plans are per month. The Team plan counts only active users, meaning people who start a sandbox or send an agent instructions in a billing month. The page says the customer's own machines are never metered and that the customer's own model keys carry no markup. Hosted sandboxes bill per second, at about US$0.18 an hour for 2 vCPU, 4 GiB of memory and 10 GiB of storage. On 14 April 2026 the archived page listed Free, Developer at US$30 per user and Team at US$100 per user.

## When did Amika launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a developer tool for language-model apps in April 2024 to devboxes on a customer's own computers in 2026. Each entry carries its grade.

- **23 April 2024** (grade C [8]): An archived copy of fixpoint.co is titled "the auto-improvement layer for LLM apps". It offers tests of models and prompts.
- **1 January 2025** (grade C [9]): An archived copy of fixpoint.co is titled "AI that can search & scrape the web for company data". It describes an API for company data.
- **23 October 2025** (grade C [6]): The Fixpoint launch post on Y Combinator describes vetting and staffing of expert workers for AI data companies.
- **5 March 2026 to 14 April 2026** (grade C [10, 11]): Archived Amika pages sell background coding agents for a team. The pricing copy of 14 April lists Free, Developer and Team plans.
- **24 June 2026** (grade C [5]): The Amika launch post on Y Combinator says the company pivoted its YC company and uses Amika for the majority of its pull requests.
- **12 November 2026** (grade C [1, 2]): The home page sells devboxes on a customer's own machines, and the Team plan costs US$30 per active user a month.

## What could go wrong for Amika?

- **What is not verified.** No revenue figure was found, and no source states that a customer has paid. The pages read were the company's site, pricing, terms, docs and blog, Y Combinator pages, archived copies and the GitHub repository. The Get started buttons link to a sign-up page that could not be opened, because its sign-in host disallows automated access. A published price and the billing terms are the evidence of sale (casebook 33). A reader could look for a payment-processor profile, a customer case study or a founder interview with a figure.
- **Claims, logos and counters.** The home page shows one "Backed by" mark of Y Combinator, and the Y Combinator page confirms the batch. The archived home page of 5 March 2026 says Amika is "the same infrastructure Ramp, Coinbase, and Stripe built in-house". That sentence names those companies as builders of their own systems, not as customers. The GitHub counters of 302 stars and 1,534 commits were read on 12 November 2026.
- **The product and the price changed within months.** Archived pages show a different product in March 2026, with a Team plan at US$100 per user on 14 April 2026. The current page lists Team at US$30 per active user. The company changed its product at least three times before that, and the page does not show which version has customers. The product of October 2025 included a service: the launch post offered "White-Glove Expert Staffing" next to a worker vetting API. The present site does not offer staffing. Its Enterprise plan lists "Forward Deployed Engineer consultation and implementation assistance" next to the software.
- **Team and funding are thinly sourced.** The team of 2, the batch and the founding year of 2023 come from the Y Combinator page only. No company register was read. The earliest archived copy of fixpoint.co is dated 23 April 2024. It says the two founders had founded an earlier Y Combinator company together, and it does not name that company. The company has no About page. A search result from a funding tracker pointed to a seed round, but the page was not downloaded, so this story states no amount.

## Sources

1. Amika home page: Cloud devboxes for coding agents, on computers you already own — https://www.amika.dev/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the product, the open-source claim, smolmachines and the FAQ.
2. Amika Pricing — https://www.amika.dev/pricing (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the plans, the billing rules and the hosted compute rates.
3. Fixpoint, Inc. Terms of Service, last updated 3 March 2026 — https://www.amika.dev/terms (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the legal entity and the billing terms.
4. Y Combinator company page: Amika — https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/amika (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the founders, the team size, the founding year and the batch.
5. Y Combinator launch post: Amika - the operating system for AI agents to write and verify code — https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R2H-amika-the-operating-system-for-ai-agents-to-write-and-verify-code (grade C). Read in full. The post is dated 24 June 2026. Source for the pivot and the open-source claim.
6. Y Combinator launch post: Fixpoint - Uber for AI trainers and human-in-the-loop supervisors — https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Og8-fixpoint-uber-for-ai-trainers-and-human-in-the-loop-supervisors (grade C). Read in full. The post is dated 23 October 2025. Source for the earlier staffing product.
7. Fixpoint home page: a new operating system for AI agents — https://fixpoint.co/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. The page links to Amika and to an axioms page.
8. Internet Archive copy of fixpoint.co, 23 April 2024 — http://web.archive.org/web/20240423131953/https://www.fixpoint.co/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the earliest dated Fixpoint product, a tool for language-model apps.
9. Internet Archive copy of fixpoint.co, 1 January 2025 — http://web.archive.org/web/20250101064747/https://www.fixpoint.co/ (grade C). Read the first part. Source for the company-data API.
10. Internet Archive copy of amika.dev, 5 March 2026 — http://web.archive.org/web/20260305011557/https://www.amika.dev/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the earlier Amika product and the sentence about Ramp, Coinbase and Stripe.
11. Internet Archive copy of amika.dev/pricing, 14 April 2026 — http://web.archive.org/web/20260414114417/https://www.amika.dev/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the earlier plans and prices.
12. GitHub repository gofixpoint/amika — https://github.com/gofixpoint/amika (grade C). Read the repository page on 12 November 2026. Source for the licence, the counters and the README.
13. Amika documentation, introduction — https://docs.amika.dev/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Describes rigs and bringing one's own compute.
14. Amika blog index — https://www.amika.dev/blog (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. It says there are no posts yet.
15. Amika privacy policy — https://www.amika.dev/privacy (grade C). Read the section on analytics. Source for PostHog.
16. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Record pages read on 12 November 2026. AI-assisted summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.
17. Amika comparison page: How Amika is different — https://www.amika.dev/comparison (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the statement that Amika is not a sandbox provider and not an agent harness.

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