Prized
Prized provides a hosted cloud development environment that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex a persistent Linux machine that keeps running when the laptop closes. The service syncs files both ways in under a second, mirrors box ports to localhost, and maintains tmux sessions that survive network drops. It offers flat monthly plans from $10 to $1,000 with hourly billing against credit.
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
- AI Agents
- Artificial Intelligence
Funding
Raised to date
$500KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Developers who rely on coding agents face a fundamental limitation: their work is tethered to a local laptop. Closing the lid stops long-running agent tasks, and maintaining a cloud development environment often requires either assembling infrastructure like Coder or accepting the usage-based metering and ephemeral containers of services like Codespaces.
Solution
Prized is a hosted service that provides a dedicated Linux virtual machine in the cloud, set up via a single command to mirror a developer's laptop environment. It offers two-way file sync that propagates edits in about 100 milliseconds, auto-mirrors any port on the box directly to localhost, and keeps sessions running in persistent tmux sessions that survive network drops or closed lids. Coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex run as ordinary processes on the box, with their activity never metered or billed separately. The service is fully managed, including snapshots, resizing, and automatic idle pausing, removing the need for a platform team while keeping a familiar terminal, editor, and SSH workflow.
Target Audience
Individual developers, software teams, and AI-agent-heavy power users who need a persistent, always-on cloud development machine with their local editor and terminal workflow. It also serves organizations that want to move away from self-hosted infrastructure like Coder.
Features
- Two-way file synchronization (including .git directory) with sub-second propagation between laptop and box
- Automatic port mirroring that exposes any server on the box as localhost on the laptop within ~2 seconds, including localhost-only servers and websockets
- Persistent tmux-based sessions that keep processes running regardless of network drop or closed laptop lid
- Preinstalled coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) with sign-in credentials copied from the user's machine via `prized setup`
- Agents are never metered; they run as standard processes on the already-paid-for box
- Idle auto-pausing at a disk-only rate with instant wake via `prized ssh`, plus optional snapshots and resizing
- Full Linux environment (Ubuntu 24.04) with root access, Docker, and preinstalled tooling
- CLI and API support for running and prompting agents remotely, with results available from any script or device
- Sandboxes (beta): microVMs created through the API or CLI that boot from a template in seconds, bill by the second, and fork into many live copies