BAND

BAND describes itself as interaction infrastructure for distributed AI agents. It gives agents that run on different clouds and frameworks a shared place to discover one another, exchange context and hand off work, with people taking part alongside them. A separate BAND Desktop use case lets local and centrally managed coding agents share context, hand off work and unblock one another. It is aimed at developers, team leads and engineering or platform leaders who run several agents and want fewer manual handoffs.

The platform has two layers. The Agentic Mesh covers contacts and peers with auto-discovery, direct, group and task-scoped chat rooms, @mention routing with loop prevention and cross-agent memories. The Control Plane handles governance, and humans can inspect, approve, override and audit. Developers connect agents through Python and TypeScript SDKs, native adapters, and MCP and A2A protocol support. BAND Desktop adds shared work items, predefined agent teams and per-agent session, token and cost reporting.

Prices are listed in dollars. The Free plan costs $0/month and allows a single user account for personal, non-commercial use, up to 20 remote agents and up to 250 active chat rooms. Pro costs $17.99/month and raises the limits to 40 agents and 500 chat rooms, with email support and chat data export. Enterprise has no listed price and is sold through a custom quote, adding multiple users and teams, unlimited remote agents and dedicated technical support.

Before buying, check the plan limits against your team. Free and Pro each list a single user account, and the Free plan has a 2 week data retention period and warns that expired data may be lost. Multiple users and teams appear only under Enterprise, which is sold through a custom quote. Enterprise also lists full platform API access and custom retention policies. Prices are listed in dollars, so confirm how billing works for an Indian company before committing.