Telos

Telos is a cloud platform to build, run, and evolve software from declarative goals.

Telos Cloud is a declarative abstraction layer for software engineering. It treats the goal specification as the source of truth and uses background agents to build, run, verify, and evolve software. The platform provides a cloud environment with developer tools, stateful sandboxing, and cloud hosting. Users write persistent goals, launch them to build and deploy in the background, and observe real-world results. It supports managed inference, connected subscriptions, or bring-your-own-key options with providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and xAI.

Telos at a glance

Best for: Software engineer, Founder
Runs on: Web, CLI, API
Pricing: Free starter plan with usage-based billing; Pro plan $99 per workspace per month; Enterprise production plans available
Released: September 2026
Category: AI coding tool
Website: usetelos.ai

Key features

Declarative goal specification as the source of truth
Background cloud agents for building and verifying code
Stateful sandboxing for running software
CLI integration for managing cloud sessions
Support for managed inference or bring-your-own-key
Persistent environments for long-running software

Use it for

Building and deploying software from declarative goals
Running autonomous background agent sessions
Managing cloud development and operations tooling

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