Audience
Software engineers who use coding agents.
About Autopilot by Directionally Local
Autopilot is an open-source terminal coding agent and SDK for developers working in Git repositories. It reads a repository, plans tasks, edits files and runs commands, with plan, edit and automatic-approval modes. It connects to 25+ hosted model providers using your own credentials, supports local models through Ollama and LM Studio, and works with OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Autopilot runs on macOS, Linux and Windows for interactive sessions and unattended server jobs with runtime, token and cost budgets, checkpoint recovery and email notifications. It supports MCP servers, language-server features, hooks and local memory. Its headless SDK and JSONL-over-stdio RPC enable integration into other applications. On OpenRouter, subagents can run in read-only Hotcell sandboxes with short-lived, spend-capped tokens instead of the provider key. Autopilot is free and MIT-licensed; model-provider usage may incur separate charges.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$0
Pricing Details:
Autopilot is free under the MIT license. You pay your model provider directly for usage, with no markup; local models and OpenRouter's free models can be used at no model charge.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Company Information
Directionally Local
Founded: 2026
Singapore
directionallylocal.com/autopilot/
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