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Run AI Agents for $5/Month: Introducing Hanzo Bot

Hanzo Bot launches with the cheapest AI agent hosting in the industry — starting at $5/mo with free credit, integrated access to 100+ models, and H100 GPUs at $3.48/hr.

Every developer building AI agents is paying three to five different providers. A language model API from one company. Compute from another. Search, storage, and tools from three more. Five bills. Five auth systems. Five points of failure.

Today we're launching hanzo.bot — one platform for building, deploying, and hosting AI agents at prices that undercut every major cloud provider.

The Pricing

PlanSpecsPricevs DigitalOceanvs AWS Lightsail
Starter1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD$5/mo (free credit)$6/mo$5/mo
Builder2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD$10/mo$18/mo (44% less)$10/mo
Dev2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD$15/mo$24/mo for 4 GB (38% less + 2x RAM)$44/mo (66% less)
Pro2 ded vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD$25/mo$40/mo for 4 GB (38% less + 2x RAM)$44/mo (43% less)
Turbo4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD$39/mo$48/mo for 8 GB (19% less + 2x RAM)$84/mo (54% less)

New accounts get a $5 credit, making the Starter tier effectively free for your first month.

Every plan includes DDoS protection, automated backups, IPv4/IPv6, and — critically — zero egress fees. Unlike AWS ($0.09/GB), GCP ($0.12/GB), and Azure that charge for outbound bandwidth, Hanzo charges nothing within generous transfer limits.

Built for Bots, Not Just VMs

Hanzo Bot isn't a rebranded VPS. It's purpose-built for AI agent workloads:

Integrated AI Gateway — Call any of 100+ models without separate API accounts. GPT-5, Claude Opus, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama 4, or our 14 proprietary Zen models — all through one endpoint, one key.

Built-in Tools — Web search at $0.005/query. Code interpreter at $0.03/min. File storage at $0.20/GB/mo. Speech-to-text at $0.0009/min — 85% cheaper than OpenAI Whisper.

GPU On-Demand — Spin up H100 GPUs at $3.48/hr for ML inference. That's 72% cheaper than AWS. Fine-tune models or run local inference for latency-sensitive agent loops.

Scale to Enterprise — 11 compute tiers up to 96 vCPU / 384 GB RAM / 1.9 TB SSD for agent swarms and fleet management. The Ultra tier supports up to 1,000 VMs under a single account.

The Dev Plan: Our Loss Leader

The Dev plan at $15/month is intentionally aggressive. Two vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD, 3 TB transfer. DigitalOcean's closest equivalent gives you half the RAM for 60% more money.

We're betting that developers who start with a $15 Dev plan will scale into our $219–$3,999 dedicated tiers as their agents find product-market fit.

Getting Started

Sign up at hanzo.bot. Deploy your first agent in under 5 minutes. Your $5 credit starts immediately.

Four Regions, Consistent Pricing

RegionLocation
US EastAshburn, VA
US WestHillsboro, OR
EuropeFrankfurt, DE
Asia PacificSingapore

Same price everywhere. No regional surcharges.