# Vorflux Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/vorflux/ · added 2026-11-12 · updated 2026-11-12 **In short.** Vorflux (Cloud AI coding agents for software teams, from ticket to pull request, United States): Machine-hour prices published, November 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 3 founders listed by Y Combinator; headcount not published. Launched May 2026; still running. Cloud AI coding agents for software teams, from ticket to pull request · United States · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Developer tools and coding agents - Outcome: Machine-hour prices published, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure) - Launch: May 2026; months from launch to the outcome: 6 - Team: 3 founders listed by Y Combinator; headcount not published - Outside funding: US$15M seed round, stated in a launch post on Y Combinator's company page; Y Combinator Fall 2026 - Main factor: Price - Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 1, capital needed 2 - Tags: AI-native, Small team, Funded, Running, B2B, Developer tools Links: - Visit vorflux.ai: https://vorflux.ai/ **The product.** A cloud service where AI coding agents take a task from a ticket or a Slack message to a tested pull request. Each session runs the team's code on its own cloud machine, and several agents can work in parallel. Teams pay for machine hours and for model tokens, or they use a Claude or Codex plan that they already hold. **Why it worked.** The company says the product is "Practically free" because customers can bring a model plan they already pay for. The home page says tokens can be covered with a Claude or Codex plan, the customer's own keys, or Vorflux credits. Machine time is billed by the hour on top. No source shows that this price drew paying customers. 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 Vorflux is a cloud service that runs AI coding agents for software teams. A coding agent is a program that uses an AI model to plan, write and test code. The agent opens a pull request, a proposed code change that people review before it joins the project. The company also sells AutoBots, agents that live in Slack and own recurring jobs such as on-call triage. Y Combinator lists three founders, Haritha Elango, Anant Nag and Prasanna S, in its Fall 2026 batch, with 2026 as the founding year. The Manifesto page is signed "Prasanna Sankar Founder, Vorflux". A launch post on Y Combinator's page says the company closed a US$15M seed round. The first Internet Archive copy of vorflux.ai is from 2 May 2026. No revenue figure was found, so this story has grade E. The pricing page lists machine hours from US$0.2117 an hour. It says an example month of 72 active hours costs US$60.97 before tokens. No source states that a customer has paid. ## Why did Vorflux work? ### Customers can pay for tokens with a plan they already hold The pricing page lists three ways to cover model tokens: the customer's own keys, Vorflux tokens, or a Claude or Codex plan. The Vorflux token option is marked "At cost, no platform fee (Launch Offer)". The page does not say how long the offer lasts. ### Each session runs on its own cloud machine billed by the hour The pricing page says each session gets its own machine, billed by the hour, with Large as the default size. The home page says sessions keep running after the laptop is closed. The company says this lets agents work on a team's own code and services. No source gives the number of customers who use it. ### AutoBots take recurring jobs in Slack The home page describes AutoBots as agents with a goal, a budget and a Slack channel. Templates include on-call triage, security review and CI fixes. The Manifesto says they bring people in only for approvals. These are the company's descriptions, and no source reports their results. ## How it was built These details come from the company's pages and its privacy policy. They are grade C. - Each session runs on its own cloud machine, with the team's repositories and services. The pricing page lists five machine sizes. - The privacy policy says the main database and session storage sit in AWS US East (Ohio). It names Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare and Temporal as infrastructure providers. - The policy names OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Cloud among the model providers. The Enterprise page says Vorflux trains no models of its own. - The product connects to GitHub, Slack and Linear, according to the home page, and the Y Combinator page adds GitLab, Figma and Jira. Sources: [1, 6, 7, 3] ## Who tried this before Vorflux, and why did they fail? Four developer-tool startups in our database of failed startups sold help inside a developer's own tools and closed. The values below are from that database 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. ### Kite DevTool (2014 to 2024; funding US$21.0M; cause: Monetization) - Promise: AI code completion inside the editor, with models that run on the developer's machine. - Why it died: The page's failure analysis calls it too early to a market that later grew, with missteps in how it earned money. - Record: ### Sider (2012 to 2024; funding US$7.0M; cause: Competition) - Promise: Automatic code review and static analysis for software teams. - Why it died: The page says open-source tools and larger platforms that bundled code analysis took its market, and that it shut down in 2024. - Record: ### Nitrous.io (2012 to 2016; funding US$8.0M; cause: Competition) - Promise: A cloud development environment that a developer could open from any computer. - Why it died: The page's failure analysis says "right idea, wrong timing, fatal competition". The text on the page is cut off after naming AWS. - Record: ### CodeSee (2020 to 2024; funding US$10.0M; cause: Monetization) - Promise: Automatic visual maps of a codebase, so new team members understand it faster. - Why it died: The page says it struggled to turn free users into paying customers and shut down in 2024. - Record: ## What changed Each of the four sold help to a developer inside a tool the developer already used: autocomplete, code review, a cloud editor or code maps. The company says Vorflux works the other way. An agent finishes a whole task on its own machine, and a person reviews the pull request. No source shows that teams pay for this. The Manifesto says the cost of intelligence is falling about 10x a year. It adds that an agent can now own a responsibility. That is the company's claim. The the failed-startup database records give money and competition as causes, not the cost of models. ## Can one person copy Vorflux now? **Verdict: Not shown yet.** No source shows that this business earns money, so a reader cannot yet copy a result. The structure on offer is simple to describe. It is a price per machine hour plus model tokens that the customer can pay for with a plan already held. 1. Bill the compute that each agent session uses by the hour, and show a worked monthly example on the price page. 2. Let customers cover model tokens with their own keys or plans, so the model is not your cost. 3. Give new accounts free credits so that a team can test one task before paying. **What is still open.** Any recurring engineering job that has a clear owner and a clear approval step, such as alert triage or failing builds. ## How much revenue does Vorflux make? The numbers, graded No revenue figure is public. The facts show a 2026 start, a published price list for machine hours and a seed round that the company states itself | Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources | |---|---|---|---|---| | Company founded | 2026 | C | Y Combinator's company page says "Founded: 2026" and "Batch: Fall 2026". The company's own pages give no earlier date. | [3] | | Founders listed | Haritha Elango, Anant Nag and Prasanna S | C | Y Combinator lists them as active founders. Its team size field is empty. The Manifesto page is signed "Prasanna Sankar Founder, Vorflux". | [3, 4] | | Company name in the page footer | Vorflux, Inc. | C | The footer of the Manifesto page reads "© 2026 Vorflux, Inc.". The terms name only "Vorflux". | [4, 5] | | Earliest archived copy of vorflux.ai | 2 May 2026 | B | The Internet Archive copy shows only the title "Vorflux". A copy of 29 July 2026 is titled "Vorflux. A cloud-based AI coding agent for teams." | [9, 8] | | Machine price, smallest size | US$0.2117 an hour | C | Pricing page: Small, 2 vCPU and 8 GiB. The largest size, Hyper, is US$3.3868 an hour. | [2] | | Example monthly machine cost | US$60.97 for 72 active hours on one Large machine | C | Pricing page, before model tokens. Large is US$0.8468 an hour. | [2] | | Check of the example | 72 hours times US$0.8468 is US$60.97 | calc | Calculated: 72 times 0.8468 is 60.9696, rounded to cents. | [2] | | Free credits for new accounts | US$70, and US$200 for teams | C | Pricing page: "Start with $70 in free credits" and "Teams start with $200." The page does not say whether the team amount is free. | [2] | | Seed round | US$15M | C | A launch post on Y Combinator's company page says the company closed it, backed by Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners and Alliance DAO. The downloaded text does not name the author. | [3] | | Billing terms | recurring charge, no refunds for partial periods | C | Terms, last updated 30 October 2026: "you agree to pay all applicable fees". Customers must be 18 or older. | [5] | | Customer quotation on the home page | attributed to a co-founder and CTO of TrashLab | C | Home page quotation: "I think like everything, I usually try to do through Vorflux, if possible." The page names the speaker, and TrashLab's own home page does not. It does not say that TrashLab pays. | [1, 11] | How to read this table. Grade C is a statement by the company or a page it runs. Grade B is a public record kept by a third party. A grade E story has no dated money figure, so no row here is a revenue number. ## Pricing Vorflux machine prices on the company's pricing page, read on 12 November 2026 (grade C) | Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit | |---|---|---|---| | Small, 2 vCPU and 8 GiB | | 0.2117 an hour | machine only, before tokens | | Medium, 4 vCPU and 16 GiB | | 0.4234 an hour | machine only, before tokens | | Large, 8 vCPU and 32 GiB | | 0.8468 an hour | default size; the page example uses 72 active hours, US$60.97 a month | | Ultra, 16 vCPU and 64 GiB | | 1.6934 an hour | machine only, before tokens | | Hyper, 32 vCPU and 128 GiB | | 3.3868 an hour | machine only, before tokens | | Tokens | | at the provider's rate | or covered by your own keys, or by a Claude or Codex plan | | Enterprise | | | contact the company; includes forward-deployed engineers | Machines are billed by the hour. Large is the default size, and machines stop after 4 hours idle. Tokens are billed at each provider's rate, listed per million tokens on the page. The page says new accounts start with US$70 in free credits and teams start with US$200. The home page and the Enterprise page have a "Talk to us" button for contracts. ## When did Vorflux launch, and how did it grow? Timeline From the first archived copy of the site in May 2026 to a price list and a Vorflux 2.0 announcement in November 2026. Each entry carries its grade. - **2 May 2026** (grade B [9]): The first Internet Archive copy of vorflux.ai. It shows only the title "Vorflux". - **29 July 2026** (grade B [8]): An archive copy of the home page is titled "Vorflux. A cloud-based AI coding agent for teams." - **Fall 2026** (grade C [3]): Y Combinator lists Vorflux in its Fall 2026 batch and gives 2026 as the founding year. - **30 October 2026** (grade C [5, 6]): The terms of service and the privacy policy are last updated. The terms describe recurring charges and promotional credits. - **12 November 2026** (grade C [1, 2]): The home page announces Vorflux 2.0 and AutoBots. The pricing page lists machine hours and token rates for models from eight providers. ## What could go wrong for Vorflux? - **What is not verified.** No revenue figure was found. The pages read were the company's home, pricing, Enterprise, Manifesto, testimonials, terms and privacy pages, Y Combinator's company page and Internet Archive copies. The pricing page lists prices and the terms describe recurring charges. The documentation describes one-time credit purchases and a Stripe portal for saved cards. No source states that a customer has paid. The US$15M seed round is the company's own statement in a launch post. No press piece was found, because the search service was unavailable. A reader could look for a payment-processor profile or a press report on the round. - **Logos, quotations, badges and counters.** The customer names and quotations come only from the company's own pages. The home page shows ten names under "Teams building on Vorflux": Giga, TrashLab, Supermemory, Exaforce, Aurva, Combinely, rb2, Matiks, Rovia and Khatabook. No page says what each one uses or pays. One home page quotation is attributed to a named co-founder and CTO of TrashLab. TrashLab's home page does not name that person, and no second source for the quotation was found. The Enterprise page carries a second quotation, attributed to a person at Supermemory. A testimonials page prints nine more quotations in the style of social media posts, and one writer says that they invested. These nine could not be checked against the original posts. The Enterprise page shows SOC 2 and ISO badges and says "SOC 2 Type I and ISO 27001 in place". It offers the reports only under a non-disclosure agreement, so they were not checked. The home page also says "Practically free" and shows an example in which an AutoBot resolves an incident in 7 minutes. That example is a product demonstration. A home page banner also offers a free car ride in San Francisco, which is a promotion. - **Start of the company and the domain.** Y Combinator gives 2026 as the founding year, and no earlier name or earlier product of the company was found. The first archived copy of vorflux.ai is from 2 May 2026. The company's pages give vorflux.com as their canonical address. Archived copies of vorflux.com with the company's title begin on 15 July 2026. An archived copy of vorflux.com from 7 August 2024 redirects to a page called "/lander", and the archive did not save its content. The 2024 copy may belong to an earlier owner of the domain. The launch post calls the earlier version "Vorflux 1.0", and no source dates its release. - **Services, integrations, model list and headcount.** The company sells service work next to the software, and it does not publish its headcount. Enterprise contracts include "forward-deployed engineers, workshops and AI certification". The pricing page offers White Glove, in which a Vorflux engineer works on a customer's backlog, "Priced to the work". The documentation lists a connector named "LinkedIn (Unipile)" among its presets for outside tools. It says the connector can "research LinkedIn profiles and companies, contact candidates, and publish posts through Unipile". The customer connects it with a Unipile key of their own, and the pages read show no Vorflux charge for it. The token price list includes a model named "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Uncensored", and the page does not explain the name. The Y Combinator job list shows 0 open jobs. The seed round and the forward-deployed engineers suggest staff beyond the three founders, and no source gives a number. ## Sources 1. Vorflux home page — https://vorflux.ai/ (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Source for the product, AutoBots, the ten customer names, the TrashLab quotation and the token options. 2. Vorflux pricing page — https://vorflux.ai/pricing (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Source for the machine prices, the 72-hour example, the token options and the free credits. 3. Y Combinator company page: Vorflux — https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vorflux (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Source for the founders, the Fall 2026 batch, the founding year 2026 and the launch post with the seed round. 4. Vorflux Manifesto — https://vorflux.ai/manifesto (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Source for the byline, the company name Vorflux, Inc., the cost-of-intelligence claim and the AutoBot description. 5. Vorflux terms of service — https://vorflux.ai/terms-of-service/ (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Last updated 30 October 2026. Source for the payment terms, the credit rules and the age limit. 6. Vorflux privacy policy — https://vorflux.ai/privacy-policy/ (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Last updated 30 October 2026. Source for the hosting region, the infrastructure and model providers. 7. Vorflux for enterprise — https://vorflux.ai/enterprise (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Source for White Glove, the model choice and the statement that Vorflux trains no models of its own. 8. Internet Archive copy of vorflux.ai, 29 July 2026 — https://web.archive.org/web/20260729140432/https://vorflux.ai/ (grade B). Read in full, 12 November 2026. The page loads by script, so only the title could be read. 9. Internet Archive copy of vorflux.ai, 2 May 2026 — https://web.archive.org/web/20260502161858/https://vorflux.ai/ (grade B). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Shows only the title "Vorflux". Source for the earliest archived date. 10. Internet Archive copy of vorflux.com, 7 August 2024 — https://web.archive.org/web/20240807092806/https://www.vorflux.com/ (grade B). Read in full, 12 November 2026. The copy redirects to "/lander" and holds no page content. 11. TrashLab home page — https://trashlab.com/ (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Checked for the name of the quoted person. It does not name him. It says TrashLab raised a Series A. 12. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Record pages read on the website on 12 November 2026. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors. 13. Vorflux testimonials page — https://vorflux.ai/testimonials (grade C). Read in full, 12 November 2026. Source for the nine quotations that the company prints there. 14. Vorflux documentation: Integrations Catalog, and Billing, Credits & BYOK — https://vorflux.ai/docs/integrations-catalog (grade C). The pages load by script. Their text was read in the site's script file on 12 November 2026. Source for the connector presets, the credit purchases and the Stripe portal. 15. Internet Archive copy of vorflux.com, 15 July 2026 — https://web.archive.org/web/20260715134405/https://vorflux.com/ (grade B). Read in full, 12 November 2026. The page loads by script, so only the title could be read. Contact: aiolum@livyden.com. Run Vorflux? Send corrections or a verified figure to aiolum@livyden.com (subject: Correction: Vorflux).