How much does BAND cost?

BAND publishes no pricing. As an early stage enterprise infrastructure layer, the motion appears sales led. Rates were not retrievable from company pages.

Does BAND support MCP and tool calling?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. BAND publishes public evidence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, tool calling, and API or SDK extensibility for connecting agents to external tools. Evidence basis: Band documents a Request API over REST for sending messages and managing rooms, contacts and memories, a Subscriptions API over WebSocket for events, a published OpenAPI specification, a Python SDK, an MCP server for AI assistants and platf. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does BAND have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. BAND publishes some public evidence of security and identity controls, but narrower than the full set of SOC 2, single sign on (SSO) and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: An access model governs who can reach an agent, with agent visibility settings, handles, a contact system and cross-boundary consent, and Enterprise adds multiple users and teams and retention set to the customer's compliance needs. No iden. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does BAND give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. BAND publishes some public evidence of logging or observability, but narrower than full tracing and auditability across agent runs. Evidence basis: Tool calls, tool results, thoughts, errors and tasks appear as events in the chat room alongside messages, with an activity API, on-demand chat data export on Pro, and retention stated by plan, two weeks on Free and custom on Enterprise. No. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Q: Who is BAND for?

Enterprises deploying multiple agents, Platform and AI infrastructure teams, Software engineering orgs using many coding assistants, Security and governance leaders overseeing agents

Q: What are the best alternatives to BAND?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to BAND among agent infrastructure platforms are Cyara, DBOS, Hatchet, Prefactor. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Also known as: BAND, BAND.ai

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Agent infrastructureindependentVerified 2026-09-21

Entry priceFree tier · Pro $17.99/mo · Enterprise customFull pricing detail

Interaction infrastructure for AI agents: a shared layer where agents from any framework and humans collaborate in chat rooms, with framework adapters, REST, WebSocket, MCP and A2A access.

BAND, from Thenvoi AI Ltd, is interaction infrastructure for AI agents: a shared layer where agents built in different frameworks, and the humans working with them, collaborate in real time. Its pitch is that microservices got a service mesh and APIs got gateways, while agents are still wired together with point-to-point glue code. Agents connect through framework adapters for LangGraph, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, Anthropic, Claude SDK, Codex, Google ADK, Letta, Agno, Strands and others, or directly over its REST and WebSocket APIs, an MCP server and an A2A gateway.

Work happens in chat rooms where agents and humans are participants, with @mention routing, message visibility rules, and task boards that track work as it moves between them. Tool calls, results, thoughts and errors surface as room events, agents find each other through a contact system with visibility settings and cross-boundary consent, and connected agents get Band platform tools and memory tools. Band Desktop and Jam coordinate local coding agents such as Claude Code sessions in one shared workspace.

Band has a free plan and a $17.99 Pro plan for individual users, and an Enterprise plan for multiple users and teams, unlimited agents, full API access and custom retention.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.band.ai

Subcategory

Communication and coordination layer for multi agent systems

Funding status

Independent, backed by Team8, which announced its investment in April 2026. Co founded by CEO Arick Goomanovsky, who previously co founded the enterprise security companies Sygnia, acquired by Temasek, and Ermetic, acquired by Tenable, and CTO Vlad Luzin, who brings nearly two decades of distributed systems experience as VP of AI and Cloud Platform at Verint, a senior leader at CME Group, and former head of a multi agent AI incubation team at Samsung. Specific round size was not stated on retrieved pages.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

Coordinating agents built across different frameworksGovernance and audit over multi agent actionsHumans and agents collaborating in shared roomsEnd to end coordination of coding assistants across the SDLC

Target customers

Enterprises deploying multiple agentsPlatform and AI infrastructure teamsSoftware engineering orgs using many coding assistantsSecurity and governance leaders overseeing agents

Deployment options

Cloud

Integrations

A framework agnostic interaction layer that connects agents built in different frameworks, languages, and runtimes, including LangGraph and CrewAI as well as custom agents, replacing brittle point to point protocols and ad hoc glue code with a shared environment for discovery, delegation, trust, and governance. Each agent keeps its own tools, models, and memory while BAND keeps context in sync across them.

In practice

An enterprise runs agents built in LangGraph, CrewAI, and custom code that cannot talk to each other. BAND gives them a shared layer to discover, delegate, and coordinate without bespoke point to point integrations.

A CISO asks who approved an agent action and under which policy. BAND's governance layer verifies authority and tracks what happened, instead of leaving it scattered across tools.

A software team uses separate coding assistants for planning, implementation, review, and testing. BAND coordinates the work end to end so context is not lost at each handoff.

Sources & related URLs

Related / legacy domains

https://docs.band.ai/ https://github.com/thenvoi

Research sources

https://www.band.ai/ https://docs.band.ai/llms.txt https://www.band.ai/pricing

Agentic Index coverage score

5.5 / 14 capabilities · 39%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Partial
Connected agents get platform tools for messaging, contacts and tasks inside Band, a Slack adapter that bridges an agent into Slack threads, and an A2A adapter that forwards room messages to outside agents. The tools a connected agent uses to act in other systems are its own, so Band's own reach into outside systems is a short set of bridges rather than a connector catalog, custom tools or authenticated actions. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/integrations/overview and integrations/sdks/tutorials/slackread 2026-09-21
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Chat rooms coordinate many agents and humans with @mention routing and message visibility rules, agents from different frameworks delegate to each other across rooms, and chat tasks with a room board track work as it moves between participants, which is multi-step, multi-agent execution. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/core-concepts/chat-rooms and api/agent-api/agent-api-chat-tasksread 2026-09-21
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Not documented
Band coordinates agents that bring their own knowledge; no document ingestion, index or retrieval store over the customer's knowledge is documented in Band's documentation index. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/welcome and llms.txtread 2026-09-21
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Partial
Humans work in the same chat rooms as agents and can see and steer their work, and cross-boundary contact between agents requires consent, a documented consent checkpoint; no gate that holds an agent's action for a person's approval before it runs is documented. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/core-concepts/contacts and core-concepts/chat-roomsread 2026-09-21
Security, Identity & Governance	Partial
An access model governs who can reach an agent, with agent visibility settings, handles, a contact system and cross-boundary consent, and Enterprise adds multiple users and teams and retention set to the customer's compliance needs. No identity provider integration, attestation or trust center is published. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/core-concepts/contacts and band.ai/pricingread 2026-09-21
Observability & Auditability	Partial
Tool calls, tool results, thoughts, errors and tasks appear as events in the chat room alongside messages, with an activity API, on-demand chat data export on Pro, and retention stated by plan, two weeks on Free and custom on Enterprise. No audit log separate from the conversation record is documented. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/websocket/human/chat-room/event-created and band.ai/pricingread 2026-09-21
Memory & State Persistence	Partial
Connected agents get memory tools and a Memories API from Band, with full Memory API access on Enterprise, and adapters such as Letta keep per-room memory, while room context stays in sync across participants. Band does not publish the scope or lifetime of its own memory store. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/api/agent-api/agent-api-memories and band.ai/pricingread 2026-09-21
Deployment & Data Residency	Not documented
Band is offered as a hosted service on every plan, with no self-hosted, private cloud or region selection option published; connected agents run wherever their owners run them, which is the agent's deployment rather than Band's. SourceBand, band.ai/pricing and docs.band.ai/integrations/sdks/tutorials/coding-agentsread 2026-09-21
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Not documented
Customers connect their own agents to Band, which adds a built-in demo agent and the ability to create native agents on Pro; no set of ready-made agents or templates a customer adopts is documented. SourceBand, band.ai homepage, pricing and docs.band.ai/getting-started/setupread 2026-09-21
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Partial
Work reaches an agent as real-time events over WebSocket when it is @mentioned in a chat room, assigned to a room, sent a contact request or given a task, and a Slack adapter carries Slack threads in; these are messages from other participants, and no schedule or outside-system event source that wakes an agent on its own is documented. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/websocket/agent/overviewread 2026-09-21
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
Connected agents keep their own models through their own frameworks, which is the agent's choice rather than a Band capability, and Band's documentation index documents no model selection or routing for Band's native agents. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/integrations/adapters and band.ai homepageread 2026-09-21
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Full
Band documents a Request API over REST for sending messages and managing rooms, contacts and memories, a Subscriptions API over WebSocket for events, a published OpenAPI specification, a Python SDK, an MCP server for AI assistants and platform automation, and an A2A gateway that lets outside agents reach Band peers over HTTP and SSE. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/api/introduction, integrations/mcp/overview and integrations/sdks/tutorials/a2a-gatewayread 2026-09-21
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Partial
Developers building with Band's Python SDK get documented unit and integration testing patterns, so they can test their Band agents before running them, but no evaluation harness, scored test cases or quality gate that reports on agent behavior is documented. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/integrations/sdks/tutorials/testing-agentsread 2026-09-21
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
No browser, desktop or computer control is documented; Jam Desktop brings local Claude Code sessions online through Band to coordinate them, which is coordination of coding agents rather than an agent operating an interface. SourceBand, docs.band.ai/jam and llms.txtread 2026-09-21

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Recent platform changes

2026-07-22·MCP / tool calling / APIPartially Verified

BAND released its Python SDK, providing the runtime and transport layer required to connect Python-based AI agents to its collaborative communication platform. The release includes framework adapters for LangGraph, Pydantic AI, CrewAI, and Anthropic, alongside the band-python-kit Docker Sandbox for running agents securely in isolated microVMs.

Bears on: MCP / tool calling / API

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Pricing

Free tier · Pro $17.99/mo · Enterprise custom

not published; early stage enterprise infrastructure

Free tier

Included quota

Free ($0): single user, personal non-commercial use, up to 20 remote agents, 250 active chat rooms, 20 participants per chat, two-week data retention. Pro ($17.99/month): single user, up to 40 remote and 40 native agents, 500 active rooms, 40 participants per chat, email support, chat data export. Enterprise: multiple users and teams, unlimited agents, custom limits and retention, full platform API access, dedicated support.

What is public

Band publishes a Free plan and Pro at $17.99 per month, both single-user, with agent, room and participant limits per plan; Enterprise is custom.

Billing mechanics

Appears sales led. As an early stage company that recently took Team8 investment, commercial packaging is likely still forming and terms bespoke.

Cost watchouts

Free and Pro are single-user personal plans; multiple users and teams, full Human and Memory API access and custom retention require Enterprise.

Variable cost rationale

No public rates exist. A coordination layer across an agent fleet could carry a per agent or per interaction dimension as it scales, but the company publishes no mechanics and is early stage, so treat exposure as unquantified and quoted per deal.

Additional watchouts

This is a young infrastructure company; pricing and packaging will likely evolve, so confirm terms directly.

Sales call required

Mixed (some tiers require a call)

Free / trial

Free tier

Lowest paid plan

Pro $17.99/mo

Key ambiguities

Enterprise pricing is by sales; message volume limits on Free and Pro are described rather than numbered.

Missing data

Enterprise pricing is not published.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-21

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Alternatives to BAND

The closest documented capability profiles to BAND among agent infrastructure platforms tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

Cyara4.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Triggers & Channel Coverage and Testing, Debugging & Optimization
DBOS8.5 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency and Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs
Hatchet8.5 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency and Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs
Prefactor4.5 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency
Restate8.5 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency and Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs
Temporal8.5 / 14Adds documented Deployment & Data Residency and Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs

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Data confidence: high

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