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Croft vs Cloudflare OS

Cloudflare OS is an ambitious, open-source "agent OS" - a workspace and AI agent for everyone in a company, with a sophisticated zero-trust access model, running on Cloudflare's network. It's aimed at large organisations standardising on AI agents across the business. Croft is the simple version of that idea: describe a small app to your own AI, and it's hosted on a private server that's yours, behind enterprise-grade sign-on - the security a business needs, without a platform to run yourself.

	Cloudflare OS	Croft
What it is	An open-source "agent OS" - a workspace and AI agent for everyone in the company	Hosting for the small apps your team builds by chatting with AI
Built for	Large organisations rolling out AI agents company-wide	A team that wants a few useful, private apps - without a platform to run
Where it runs	Cloudflare's network - Workers, Durable Objects, Access, AI Gateway	A private server that's yours; export and run anywhere Docker does
Open source & lock-in	Open source, but built on Cloudflare's proprietary edge primitives	Not open source, but your apps are plain, portable code and a database - take them anywhere
The AI	Agents are built in; every inference runs through Cloudflare's AI Gateway	Bring your own Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok - no AI resold, no markup
Security & access	Sophisticated zero-trust - agents start with access to nothing, gatekeepers, policy that follows what an agent has seen	Enterprise sign-on in front of every app, per-app access, connector approvals with an audit trail - without the complexity
Who runs it	You (or a partner) deploy and operate the platform on Cloudflare	Croft runs it for you - patches, backups, updates, all handled
Getting started	Stand up the platform, wire up Cloudflare Access and AI Gateway	Sign up, connect an assistant, describe an app - live in minutes
Best when	You're a large org standardising on an AI-agent platform across Cloudflare	You want a handful of secure, private apps for your team - fast, and yours

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What Croft actually is.

Croft is a home for the small apps you build with Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. Your assistant writes the app; Croft runs it on your own private server - with a database, one login for the people you invite, HTTPS, and backups all handled. One flat price, bring your own AI, no lock-in.

How it works Connect an assistant, describe an app, invite your people. Under the hood The stack, the security model, and how your data is handled. Pricing One flat price. 7-day free trial, no card to start. Prompt library Copy-paste prompts to build your first app in minutes. Connect an assistant Point Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok at your croft over MCP. Templates One private server instead of a license for every job. Real apps, with the prompt that built them.

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7 days free, no card to start. From $24/month - cancel anytime and take everything with you.