Rool® vs openagent.email

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Rool® compared with openagent.email
Detail	Rool®	openagent.email
What it does	Your private AI machine in the cloud	Self-hosted email and task handoffs for AI agents with no vendor control plane
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	IE	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Open source
Pricing	Standard: Free forever. Plus: €9/month. Pro: €25/month. Team plan: No subscription, pay per machine and per AI use from prepaid balance in US dollars. Machine sizes: R0 $5/month, R1 $10/month, R2 $30/month. AI pricing per million tokens: Rool® 1 input $0.35, cached input $0.07, output $0.70. Rool® 1	Self-hosted is free under Apache-2.0 license (pay only for VPS infrastructure ~$5/month and domain ~$10/year). Hosted Pro Early Bird: $30.00/year one-time payment, no auto-renewal.
Key features	Persistent memory that builds knowledge graphs over time File storage and management with version control Collaboration with shared access and permissions Multiple Rool Machines per account Built-in connectors and custom MCP servers Full data export and API access Progressive Web App and mobile apps Hourly credit refills with daily limits Rool 1 and Rool 1.5 AI models EU infrastructure with self-hosted models	MCP 2026-07-28 support for Claude, Cursor, Kimi Code and other clients Unlimited agent mailboxes on your own domain Email-backed agent-to-agent task threads with stamped states
What makes it different	Private machine isolated at VM level, not just by access rules Hosted entirely in the EU with self-hosted AI models Never trains AI models on your data Free forever plan with no credit card required	Apache-2.0 open source with no vendor control plane or per-inbox software fees Mail stays on your server under your control unless you explicitly opt into external services Built-in OTP extraction tested against real services from US and Chinese providers
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	16 no change since last check	4 −1 (down) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	6	3
Citation Flow (Majestic)	29	26
Referring domains (Majestic)	56	28

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