The dev box
for AI coding.
A real Linux VM in the cloud with Claude, Codex, OpenCode and Aider preinstalled. Your API keys vaulted. Your sessions persistent. Reachable from your laptop, your phone, your tablet. From $19/mo.
The laptop problem
Your laptop is the bottleneck.
It sleeps. The agent doesn’t want to. You close the lid — the session dies. You walk to the kitchen — the WiFi drops. You switch from your work laptop to your iPad — everything’s gone. You spawn a fifth Claude tab and your fan starts howling.
iox is a real Linux box that lives in the cloud, runs your AI tools, and doesn’t care what device you opened it from. Close your laptop. Your agents keep working.
What’s on the box
Everything you’d install on a fresh Linux server. Already there.
4 AI CLIs preinstalled
claude · codex · opencode · aider. Spawn any of them in a tmux session with one tile click.
Your keys, vaulted
Paste your Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini / Grok / DeepSeek keys once. Every agent, every box, every session — they have them.
tmux-backed sessions
Browser closes, network drops, you fall asleep at the desk. The session keeps running. Reattach when you’re back.
Daily snapshots
Backed up every 24h. Restore on demand. 7 / 30 / 90 day retention by tier.
Auto-sleep when idle
No activity for 60 min → compute pauses. Storage stays. Wake from any device. Your box is never destroyed unless you ask.
Email-gate your box (opt-in)
One toggle. Cloudflare Access sits in front of your box URL — anyone visiting gets emailed a one-time code, and only your email gets through. Zero-trust front door.
iox-chat (Cmd+I)
Right-panel AI assistant on every box. Uses your vaulted Anthropic key. Cost meter per call.
iox CLI
Type `iox` on the box. See your box info, list secrets, snapshot. The native command-line surface.
Real Linux. Sudo. SSH.
It’s a CAX ARM VM, not a container. apt install whatever, edit /etc/, SSH in. The dashboard’s the front door, not the cage.
Add-ons + vertical templates
MCP servers, RAGs, project templates. Oracle Fusion template ships day-one productive for the ERP crowd.
BYO keys
Your keys. Your bills.
Your math.
iox is not an AI reseller. We don’t resell Claude tokens. We don’t mark up OpenAI. We don’t buy tokens in bulk and skim margin.
You paste your provider keys into our vault. They’re envelope-encrypted with a key you control. We inject them into every box on every login. Anthropic bills you. We bill youfor the box. That’s it.
See our cost guide for when Claude Max beats API, and when DeepSeek beats Sonnet.
What people actually do with it
Built for engineers who already live with agents.
Six refactors. One night. Zero supervision.
At 11pm: spawn six Claude sessions, each on a different repo, each with the same refactor prompt. Close the laptop. tmux + the box keep working. At 7am: six PRs waiting for review. Compute cost: about $0.60 of box uptime. AI cost: whatever Claude billed you (your account, your math).
12 clients. 12 boxes. One dashboard.
Each client gets a dedicated box. Each box has its own keys, project tree, snapshots, secrets. No more `cd ~/projects/orange && nvm use && source .env.local && tmux new` to context-switch. Click a box, you’re there. Power tier ($149/mo) gives you ten.
Work laptop, home laptop, iPad. Same session.
Start a refactor on the work laptop. Walk home. Open iox.cloud on the iPad in bed. Same session, mid-stream, output still scrolling. tmux + magic-link auth means your fleet is wherever you are.
Day-one productive on Oracle Fusion.
The Oracle Fusion template provisions a box with three Oracle MCPs (REST, BIP, OIC) and a 283K-vector RAG over the Fusion docs. Ask Claude to fix a payment integration; it pulls the right table schema without you naming it.
(MeruTech, the team behind iox, runs its consulting practice on this template.)
How it compares
iox vs the alternatives.
| iox | Your laptop | DIY VPS | GH Codespaces | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | 60s | — | ~4 hours | Minutes |
| All 4 AI CLIs preinstalled | Yes | If you set it up | No | No |
| BYO keys, vaulted, cross-machine | Yes | Per device | DIY | Per dotfile |
| Sessions survive closing the lid | tmux | No | tmux | Yes |
| Same session on phone/tablet | Yes | No | No | No |
| Real Linux (sudo, install anything) | Yes | — | Yes | Container |
| Per-customer VM isolation | KVM | — | VPS | Shared |
| Daily snapshots, restore on demand | Yes | If you Time Machine | DIY | No |
| Auto-sleep / no surprise bill | Yes | — | No | Per-second |
| Export & leave with your data | iox export tarball | — | It’s yours | repo only |
| Cost | $19/$59/$149 | — | $5–40 + your time | $0.18/h |
Not pictured: Cursor (an editor, not a server) · Devin (a managed agent, not a box). Different categories.
The first 60 seconds
Sign up → running agent in one cup of coffee.
Email magic link
No password, no Google, no credit card. Enter your email, click the link in your inbox.
60-second provision
A dedicated ARM Linux VM boots in your chosen region. Cloud-init installs the four CLIs, registers your tunnel, mounts your vault.
Click a tile, spawn an agent
Land on your dashboard. Click Claude, Codex, OpenCode or Aider. tmux session opens. You’re coding.
Pricing
Three sizes. BYO AI bills.
Your subscription pays for the box, the IDE, the snapshots, the platform. AI tokens are your bills on yourkeys — we never mark them up.
2 vCPU · 4 GB
90 GB disk · 1 box · 7-day snapshots
8 vCPU · 16 GB
400 GB disk · 3 boxes · 30-day snapshots
16 vCPU · 32 GB
1 TB disk · 10 boxes · 90-day snapshots
Standard ($59) replaces a self-hosted VPS ($30) + a preview environment ($20) + the half-day you’d spend setting up tmux, the CLIs, and a vault — with snapshots, isolation, and a real dashboard included.Read the cost guide →
Security
Three layers between the public internet and your box.
Per-customer VM
KVM-virtualised, hardware-level isolation. Customers A and B are on different physical machines. No shared filesystem, no shared kernel, no noisy neighbour surface.
No public ports
The box has no inbound IPv4. Everything goes through a Cloudflare Tunnel that the box opens outbound — there's nothing for a scanner to find.
Email-gate (opt-in)
One toggle in your dashboard. Anyone hitting your box URL has to enter a code we email them, and only your email gets through. Cloudflare Access does the gating at the edge.
If we shut down
You keep everything.
Your box is a vanilla Ubuntu 24.04 LTS VM. Your code lives in /home/iox/projects. Your secrets are yours — encrypted with a key you control; we can’t decrypt them without your recovery phrase.
If iox the company ever winds down, you get 30 days notice and a one-command iox export that ships a tarball + a Terraform module to spin your exact box up on any cloud account you control. No vendor lock-in. Your data, your code, your runbook.
Policy, not aspiration — runbook published in thedocs.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Who owns my code?
Can I install anything I want?
apt install, docker run, cargo build— whatever you’d do on your own server, you can do here.Can I SSH in directly?
Who pays for AI tokens?
What happens if I stop using my box?
Do you support teams?
Close your laptop.
Your agent keeps running.
From $19/mo. 7-day free trial. 60-second provision.
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