Koshra vs Reason Machines

Reason, from Reason Machines, is a hosted coding agent and always-on teammate with its own cloud computer per session. Koshra is a self-hosted web app that runs a team of AI employees with defined business roles. Both keep memory across work and ask before sensitive steps.

Compared on 2 November 2026 from the public pages of Reason Machines, linked below, with the model cards behind Koshra's free open-weight models. Features change fast; check the sources for the latest. We only compared ideas and public facts.

Area	Koshra	Reason Machines
What it is	A company of AI employees with business roles: leads and desks for sales, support, research, recruiting and more	A frontier coding agent that is also an always-on teammate, working alongside other coding agents
Where it runs	Self-hosted server, always on, any browser	Hosted cloud, with a cloud computer per session; web, Mac and iOS apps, a CLI and Slack
Team setup	Dispatcher with a plan card and countdown; one owner bot per task; team chats per lead	Sessions with subagents; Reason Network lets your agents message each other
Shared memory	Brain edited as text with versioned undo, plus memory per bot	Memory across sessions, in personal and team scopes
Approvals	Allow, Ask or Block per tool, approval cards, per-bot modes, CRM guard rails	Email sends show a preview, workspace rules can require a yes, and code lands as pull requests
Schedules	Routines on the server; every new schedule needs approval	Loops on a schedule, a webhook, GitHub events or Slack messages
Models	Model per bot, mid-chat switch, backup chain, cost on every reply; free open-weight models or your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, MiniMax or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint	Bring your ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Copilot plan or API keys, with fallback to other accounts
For AI agents	Markdown for every page, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a REST API with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server and an agent guide	Markdown for every page, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a REST API and an MCP server
Source and price	Self-hosted; built on an Apache 2.0 open source base; pricing: talk to us	Hosted and closed source, apart from the MIT and Apache 2.0 network engine; Pro 50 USD and Max 200 USD a month, no free plan

Where Koshra is ahead

Built for business roles beyond code, with nine team use cases and a written job and limit for every role
You own the stack: self-hosted next to your own tools and data and built on open source, where Reason is hosted and closed source
Bots can run on free open-weight models with no model fees; Reason has no free plan
Rule-level approvals per tool and space, with CRM deletes blocked, bulk changes held and every new schedule approved
A shared Brain you edit as text with versioned undo

Where Koshra is behind

Reason has web, Mac and iOS apps and a CLI; Koshra is a web app only
Reason works with the AI plans people already pay for; plan sign-in for Koshra is coming soon
Anyone who signs up can use Reason's REST API and MCP server; Koshra's need a key from a space admin, and spaces are set up with you during the private preview
Koshra's status page is checked every minute by an independent uptime monitor, but its history only starts in November 2026
Reason is public with self-serve sign-up, a trial and published prices; Koshra is in private preview
Reason triggers work from webhooks, GitHub and Slack; Koshra's event triggers are coming soon

Which to pick

If your work is mostly code and you want a hosted agent across web, Mac, iOS and the command line, Reason is further along. If you want AI employees for sales, support, research and operations on a server you control, with approvals on every outbound step, Koshra fits. Book a demo to see it on your work.

Sources

Also compare: Koshra vs Turnstone, Koshra vs openbot

Also as Markdown for AI agents.

Last updated 2 November 2026