BLACKBOX AI

Spec sheet

What it does

BLACKBOX AI provides hosted AI inference, coding agents, model routing and enterprise deployments.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Free plan

NoRead 20 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Headquarters

San Francisco, CaliforniaRead 28 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Agent runtimes

Managed runtimes include the Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Codex SDK and Grok Build CLI.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.blackbox.ai

Agents API

The Agents API can create, monitor, continue and cancel tasks, stream logs, manage sandbox files and connect GitHub repositories.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.blackbox.ai

Android availability

The Android app was removed from Google Play in June 2026 after more than seven million installs and required Android 7.0 or later.Read 14 Oct 2026 · appbrain.com

API authentication

API requests require a dashboard-generated key in an Authorization Bearer header.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.blackbox.ai

Chat assistance

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Chrome extension functions

The Chrome extension provides Code Chat, current-page context, GitHub Code Chat and OCR activated by a keyboard shortcut.Read 14 Oct 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com

CLI requirements

The CLI requires a BLACKBOX account and provides install scripts for Unix-like systems and Windows PowerShell.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.blackbox.ai

Code completion

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Codebase indexing

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Coding agent

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Company founding and size

LinkedIn lists BLACKBOX AI as founded in 2022 with headquarters in San Francisco and 11–50 employees.Read 14 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company legal name

Crunchbase identifies the maker as BLACKBOX AI Technologies, Inc., a private company headquartered in San Francisco.Read 14 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Dedicated inference

Dedicated endpoints deploy open-source models on private GPUs with autoscaling and scale-to-zero support.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.blackbox.ai

Documentation depth

Documentation includes guides, API references, authentication, request schemas, agent runtimes, dedicated deployments and streaming examples.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.blackbox.ai

Encryption

The service says prompts are encrypted before leaving the user's machine and decrypted only where the model runs.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Enterprise controls

Enterprise includes single-tenant deployment, data residency, SAML SSO, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, custom rate limits and contractual zero retention.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Enterprise pricing

Enterprise contracts use committed annual token spend, with closed-model discounts starting at 5% and open-model discounts at 10%.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Funding

Crunchbase lists one Series A funding round and SV Angel as an investor, while withholding the round amount.Read 14 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Limit: billing and support

Trustpilot reviewers repeatedly report unexpected charges, missing credits, refund problems and support that does not respond.Read 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Limit: burst capacity

The inference documentation warns that autoscaling deployments may return HTTP 503 during traffic bursts.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Limit: mobile app

Apple reviewers report crashes, white screens, lost history, subscription popups and slow loading.Read 14 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com

Limit: reliability

Trustpilot reviews describe authentication failures, model loops and paid agents remaining unusable despite available credits.Read 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Limit: self-hosting

Dedicated deployments are operated on BLACKBOX infrastructure rather than installed in a customer's own environment.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Model capabilities

Catalogued models support combinations of text, image, PDF, video and reasoning workloads.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Model catalog

The catalog lists 304 models from more than 34 laboratories behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Notable news: a16z recognition

An August 27, 2024 press release said Andreessen Horowitz selected BLACKBOX AI for its Top 50 Generative AI companies list.Read 14 Oct 2026 · einpresswire.com

Notable news: benchmark

A July 21, 2026 company blog post reported 90.2% pass@1 on Terminal-Bench v2.1 using a two-model system.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

PII minimization

The privacy filter replaces names, emails, phone numbers, account numbers and secrets with placeholders before closed-model routing.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Praise: coding productivity

G2 reviewers repeatedly praise automatic code generation, debugging explanations, useful suggestions and an easy interface.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: model choice

Trustpilot reviewers praise access to ChatGPT, Kimi, Zen, Gemini and Claude through the Pro service and its VS Code agent.Read 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Public API

The API is OpenAI SDK compatible by changing the base URL and supports Python, Node.js and cURL usage.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.blackbox.ai

Rating on Apple App Store

2.7 out of 5 from 46 ratingsRead 14 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com

Rating on Capterra

5.0 out of 5 from 2 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · capterra.com

Rating on Chrome Web Store

2.7 out of 5 from 1.2K ratingsRead 14 Oct 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com

Rating on G2

4.5 out of 5 from 31 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Google Play

2.93 out of 5 from 6,456 ratingsRead 14 Oct 2026 · appbrain.com

Rating on Trustpilot

2.4 out of 5 from 105 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Router features

The Router supports chat completions, embeddings, image generation, streaming, function calling, JSON mode and vision through one key.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Routing resilience

BLACKBOX AI advertises automatic provider fallback, load balancing and caching.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Supported IDEs

Visual Studio CodeRead 20 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Terminal access

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · blackbox.ai

Token billing

Published rates are metered per one million input, output and cached-read tokens, with no platform, markup or seat fees.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Zero retention

Prompts, code context and completions are processed in memory and discarded after responses under zero-data-retention mode.Read 14 Oct 2026 · blackbox.ai

Plans and prices

Every BLACKBOX AI plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

• AI Coding Assistants#27 of 1028.7
• AI Code Generators#15 of 548.8
• Ai Assistant#7 of 258.9
• AI Code Generation Software#8 of 278.8
• Coding Tool#11 of 258.7