---
title: "Where your intentic workspace runs"
description: "Run your coding agents on our servers or on your own computer. What each costs, what it asks of you, and what the install does."
url: "https://intentic.dev/where-it-runs/"
updated: "2026-09-15"
---

# Where your workspace runs

Your agents work inside a **sandbox**: a private machine with your code on it. You choose which machine that is. Here is the whole trade, before you sign in to anything.

You are not locked into the answer. Switching later keeps your workspace, its address and its name, and a machine you stop using is handed back.

## Start instantly

Our servers

Free · 40 hours a month, always on for $20

We start a machine for you and hand your workspace back in seconds. It is the fastest way to see what the product is, and the only rung that asks nothing of a device you own.

What it asks of you

One click. No install, nothing to run, no account anywhere else.

The hours are awake hours: a workspace nobody is working in is not spending them. When you want more power or no ceiling, switch to the rung beside this one and keep the same workspace.[Start instantly](https://app.intentic.dev/setup?machine=hosted)

## My own computer

Your laptop or desktop

Free · no hour limit, no ceiling

Your CPUs, your RAM, your GPU, your files. Agents work at the speed of the machine you already paid for, and nothing is metered because nothing of ours is running.

What it asks of you

An installer on Windows and Linux, or one pasted command anywhere else.

It needs Docker; the installer and the command both offer to install it if it is missing. Your computer has to be awake for your agents to work. A server you rent counts as your own computer here: the same pasted command sets one up.[Set up on my computer](https://app.intentic.dev/setup?machine=mine)

Both buttons go to the same place: a Google sign-in, then the setup screen opened on the rung you picked. No card, either way. "Start instantly" starts your machine the moment you land, and you watch it boot; "Set up on my computer" puts the installer and the command in front of you and runs nothing until you do.

## What the install actually does

The rung that uses a machine of yours runs one script. On Windows and Linux the desktop app runs it for you; anywhere else it is one line you paste. Either way, this is all of it.

### It installs Docker, if you do not have it

That is the only thing it needs administrator rights for, and it asks first. With Docker already installed, the command runs without sudo at all.

### It starts one container, and three named volumes

Your files, your history and the container's own storage. Nothing else on your machine is touched, moved or read.

### It opens one outbound connection

Your sandbox reaches out to us; nothing reaches in. No port on your machine is opened to the internet, and no inbound firewall rule is added.

### One command removes all of it

The container, the volumes and the connection. Nothing is left behind on your machine, and nothing survives that you did not put somewhere else.

[Read the install script](https://intentic.dev/connect)[Read the removal script](https://intentic.dev/cleanup)[Everything it creates, named](https://intentic.dev/docs/docker/)

## Not ready to install anything?

[Look around a sample workspace](https://intentic.dev/demo/): the real app, running against a recorded fixture. Nothing to sign in to and nothing to run.

## Rather not use a terminal?

[The desktop app](https://intentic.dev/download/) does the "my own computer" rung without a command: install it, sign in, and it sets your sandbox up on that computer by itself. It runs the same script, on Windows and Linux. On a Mac, the command is still the path.

Want the commands themselves, all four install routes side by side? [The quickstart](https://intentic.dev/docs/quickstart/) has them, with what each one creates.