Suna is Kortix's open-source AI agent platform for teams that want agents doing finished work under human review. Agents, skills, company memory, and connectors live in one git repository you own, and every session runs on its own isolated Linux machine. You can self-host it free on your own infrastructure or run it on managed Kortix Cloud, bringing any model provider with your own keys.[1][2][3]
Quick verdict
Suna by Kortix is a self-hostable agent platform that puts governed AI work inside a git repo your team owns. Self-hosting is free under a source-available Elastic license, while managed cloud costs $40 per seat plus usage and model spend. It suits teams that want reviewed, human-approved agent output, but buyers should weigh the resale limit in the license and the plan-gated enterprise controls.[1][2][3]
What Suna does
Isolated machine per session Every session gets its own disposable, isolated Linux sandbox on its own branch. The agent can install, run, and break anything inside it, and only what it commits survives to review.[1][2]
Company as a git repository A project is a git repo with kortix.yaml at its root holding agents, skills, memory, tools, triggers, and connectors as versioned files. Kortix hosts the repo or you connect your own, and any git client can clone it through the authenticated proxy.[1]
Change-request review before merge The agent commits its work, pushes the session branch, and opens a change request against the default branch. A person with merge permission reviews it, unless the agent is explicitly granted permission to merge its own work.[1]
Bring any model provider There is no bundled model: you use any provider with your own keys, or the ChatGPT plan you already pay for, and can pick the model per agent, per session, or per message.[1][2]
Broad connector surface Connectors reach more than 3,000 apps plus any MCP, OpenAPI, GraphQL, or HTTP API, with credentials brokered server-side. Agents are reachable from web, desktop, mobile, CLI, Slack, Teams, email, git, and the MCP server.[1][2]
Who Suna fits
Teams wanting owned agent infrastructure Suna fits teams that want their agents, skills, memory, and connector rules as auditable files in a repo they control rather than locked inside a vendor's cloud. This is an editorial inference from the ownership model, not a vendor promise about any specific compliance outcome.[1][2]
Human-in-the-loop agent operations The change-request workflow fits organizations that want every piece of agent output reviewed before it lands. This is an inference from the merge-permission design, which can be relaxed per agent.[1]
Self-hosters avoiding per-seat fees Teams with their own hardware and model keys can run the full platform with no per-seat fee, moving to managed cloud later without rebuilding, since the same harness runs in both places.[1][2]
Limits to weigh
Source-available license, not OSI open source The Elastic License 2.0 forbids offering the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service. Companies running it for their own operations are unaffected, but nobody can resell Suna itself as a service.[1][2]
Model bill stays yours Neither the free self-host nor the $40 per-seat cloud price includes model usage. Your provider charges apply on top, which keeps pricing transparent but means total cost depends on your model choices.[1]
Enterprise controls are plan-gated SAML single sign-on and audit logs are documented only for the custom-priced Enterprise tier, so smaller teams plan around per-project and seat ceilings instead.[1]
No fully-offline story documented Self-host setup pulls images from Docker Hub and agents need model provider keys, so a disconnected deployment cannot be confirmed from the observed sources. Treated as an evidence gap, not a proven limitation.[1][2]
Switching and compatibility
From hosted black-box agents Teams on hosted-only agent products move to Suna to own the configuration, audit every line, and self-host for free. The vendor frames itself as the open-source alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work for exactly this reason.[1][2]
From code-only harnesses Where a coding-agent harness covers repository work, Suna adds company-wide governance: shared memory, connectors across departments, and one reviewed change request per session. The official comparison presents this as a scope decision, not a quality ranking.[1]
Reasons to stay put If the job is purely software engineering inside repositories, a specialist coding harness stays the simpler pick. If SSO, audit logs, and vendor-managed uptime matter more than owning the stack, the managed tiers or a hosted incumbent merit a second look.[1]
Questions worth asking
Is Suna free to use?
Self-hosting Suna is free: you download the code and run it on your own hardware with your own model keys. Managed Kortix Cloud is the paid path at $40 per seat per month plus usage, with a $0 tier that includes 200 credits per month and one project. Your model spend stays separate in both cases.[1][2]
What license does Suna use?
How do teams access Suna?
Suna is used from web, desktop, and mobile apps, a kortix CLI with an experimental TUI, any git client through the Kortix git proxy, a REST API and typed SDK, an MCP server, and Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email channels. Agents themselves run on isolated Linux machines, whether in Kortix Cloud or on infrastructure you self-host.[1]
How does Suna differ from OpenHands?
OpenHands is a coding-agent harness aimed at software work: agents read repositories, run terminals and tests, and open pull requests. Suna (Kortix) is positioned as the system for a whole company's agent workforce, where agents, skills, memory, and connectors live in one owned git repo and every session runs on its own isolated machine behind a reviewed change request. Both self-host and support bring-your-own-model, so the choice comes down to whether the job is code or company-wide agent work.[1]
Sources and editorial review
Source research. Reviewed on October 13, 2026. Written by Sanjib Sah. AI assisted; reviewed by a human editor.
We have not run or tested this product.
- Kortix - The open-source AI Operating System
official · Observed October 13, 2026
Official site: open-source AI Operating System, self-host or cloud, any model; suna.so redirects here; links to docs, blog, and kortix-ai/suna.
- kortix-ai/suna on GitHub
official · Observed October 13, 2026
Repository page: ~20.3k stars, self-hosted alternative to Claude Cowork/ChatGPT Work, Docker Compose self-host, $40/seat/mo cloud, bring-your-own keys, per-session isolated sandboxes.
- LICENSE - kortix-ai/suna
official · Observed October 13, 2026
Full text of the Elastic License 2.0 including the no-managed-service-resale limitation.
- Kortix documentation
official · Observed October 13, 2026
Operating-system model (git-repo projects, sessions, change requests), surfaces (web, desktop, mobile, CLI, TUI, git, MCP, REST, SDK, Slack/Teams/email), Docker self-hosting.
- Is Kortix free? Self-hosting cost
official · Observed October 13, 2026
Free self-host vs $40/seat/mo cloud tiers, Free/Team/Enterprise ceilings, Enterprise SAML SSO and audit logs, Elastic License 2.0, 3,000+ app connectors.
- Kortix vs OpenHands
official · Observed October 13, 2026
Official OpenHands comparison: MIT coding-agent harness vs company-wide agent system; both self-host with bring-your-own-model; choice depends on the job.
Compared with these products
No explicit proprietary baseline is recorded.