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Deployment terms
How agents get hosted, paid for, and shipped to production.
- 🚀DeploymentBYO key
A deployment pattern where you supply your own model API key to the agent — token costs are billed to you directly, the agent vendor charges only for the software.
- 🚀DeploymentOn-prem
A deployment where the agent runs entirely on infrastructure the customer controls — no agent code or customer data leaves the customer's network.
- 🚀DeploymentOpen source agent
An agent whose source code is publicly licensed (MIT, Apache, AGPL) — you can self-host, fork, and audit.
- 🚀DeploymentTCO
Total cost of ownership — the all-in cost of running an agent including subscription, token spend, ops time, and integration work.