What Tablif read on Hive's site
Hive describes itself as: “Hive — Coding agents that don’t clock out”
- Price model: free tier
- Free tier: Free forever
- Stage: Beta
What it is
Calls itself “infrastructure”.
- Calls itself: infrastructure
“…open-source infrastructure”
What it costs
A free tier, free forever. No monthly or yearly plan. No one-time option. Prices quoted: $0.
- One-time: no
- Monthly: no
- Yearly: no
- Free plan: free forever
- Price: $0
“$0 free forever”
“Is self-hosted really free forever? + − Yes. Hive is Apache-2.0 and the self-hosted runtime is the whole product, not a trial. There's no account, no telemetry gate and no feature that switches off after 14 days.”
Who it sells to
Sells to developers.
- Sells to: developers
“Coding agents that don't clock out”
How it runs
A command-line tool. Can be self-hosted. Open source. AI is the core of the product. Built with Google Analytics.
- Kind: cli
- Runs where: self-hosted
- Open source: yes
- AI role: core to the product
- Analytics: Google Analytics
“$ curl -fsSL https://hive.admir-saheta.com/install.sh | sh”
“Hive is open-source infrastructure that gives every coding agent a persistent runtime”
What it works with
Names bun and claude on its pages.
- Names: bun · claude
“Hive is open-source infrastructure that gives every coding agent a persistent runtime”
“…bun › bun test --watch”
What it offers as proof
In beta. Try it without signing up. Publishes docs.
- Stage: beta
- Trial asks for: nothing
“…v1.0.0-rc.1 · Apache-2.0 · Go”
“Do I need an account to use Hive? + − No. Install it with one command and it runs on your machine.”
Sources
Tablif read these pages, last on 14 Oct 2026. Everything above is what the product says about itself; Tablif does not verify every claim.
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