Markus

Markus is an agent platform that runs a team of AI agents as a self organizing workforce. A user describes a goal, such as building a software product, running a research practice or operating a media pipeline, and agents form teams, assign and prioritize tasks, collaborate in real time channels and review each other's deliverables, with the user supervising. It is positioned against chatbots and copilots as a set of proactive agents with projects, tasks and outputs. It is delivered as a desktop app for macOS 11 and later, on Apple Silicon and Intel, and as an npm command line package. The vendor states that projects, agent memory, files and conversations are stored locally in SQLite on the user's device. Users bring their own LLM API keys, which connect directly to the provider, and the product can run fully offline when paired with Ollama or another local model. The software is described as free to use with the user's own API key. Markus Cloud AI is a separate paid option that bills in credits. Monthly plans are Free at $0, Basic at $20 for 10,000 credits, Plus at $100 for 50,000, Pro at $200 for 100,000, Max at $1,000 for 500,000 and Team at $2,000 for 1,000,000, with custom Enterprise pricing. Annual billing saves 20 percent. Extra credits sell at $1 per 500, $10 per 5,000, $100 per 50,000 and $200 per 100,000, and purchased credits never expire. Prices are in USD.