Staff.rip
staff.rip is an AI-powered development platform that allows non-developers, such as designers, product managers, and even clients, to describe desired changes in plain…
Our verdict
Who it's for
Empower your entire team to ship code changes with AI, keeping control over your infrastructure.
Who should look elsewhere
Self-hosting is only available on the Enterprise tier, which is contract-based.
Pros
- +Empowers non-technical team members to make direct code changes, increasing velocity.
- +Maintains full control over code and infrastructure by running AI agents locally.
- +Reduces engineering bottleneck by offloading minor changes and ticket triaging.
- +Offers flexible deployment options, including hosted and self-hosted (Enterprise).
- +Provides granular control over AI capabilities and access per project.
Cons
- −Self-hosting is only available on the Enterprise tier, which is contract-based.
- −Free and Pro plans run on staff.rip's infrastructure, though agents run locally.
- −Requires some setup (running a node process) for local agent execution.
Key features
- ✓AI agents for frontend, backend, microservices, infrastructure, data, and tests
- ✓Frontend Helper for click-to-edit annotations on running applications
- ✓Local-by-design code execution, with agents running on user's machine/environment
- ✓Customizable Kanban boards with JSON schema for task definition
- ✓Scoped 'Spaces' for projects with isolated agents, chat, filesystem access, and tunnels
- ✓Support for bringing your own AI provider keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Claude)
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | month | 1 worker max; 5 spaces max; 1 member (owner only) |
| Pro | $15 | month · per seat | 100 workers max; 10,000 spaces max; 1,000 tunnels max |
| Enterprise | — | month | Unlimited workers, spaces, tunnels; SLA-backed support; Self-hosted on your infra · automated deployment |