Feature by feature
| Capability | KyoubeAI | QoderWake |
|---|---|---|
| Multiplayer environment | ||
| One sign-in for the whole company | Yes | PartialTeams and Enterprise plans |
| People and agents in one shared workspace | Yes | PartialThrough chat-app groups |
| Tasks handed between people and agents | Yes | PartialOwned by Wakers only |
| Governance | ||
| Companies kept apart at the database level | Yes | No |
| An audit trail for every change | Yes | PartialRun records, per account |
| Human approval before risky actions | YesBy admin policy | Yes |
| Data and apps | ||
| A database the agents design and populate | Yes | No |
| Apps the agents build and publish | Yes | No |
| Apps respect each viewer's permissions | Yes | No |
| Hosting, models and licence | ||
| Runs on your own server | Yes | PartialRuntime only, on Qoder's service |
| Bring your own model providers | Yes | No |
| Choose the agent runtime | Yes | No |
| Source code you can read | YesBSL 1.1 | No |
| Trade-offs | ||
| Nothing to host or maintain | PartialHosted plan in early access | No |
| On a phone as well as in a browser | No | YesThrough chat apps |
The two products in brief
| Criterion | KyoubeAI | QoderWake |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together. | Qoder's platform for AI employees called Wakers, each with a role, memory, skills and red lines. It reached version 1.0 on 3 September 2026. |
| Built for | Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker. | Individuals and teams with clear, recurring work, handing it to AI employees through chats, schedules, events or APIs. |
| Where it runs | Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64. | An app on macOS, Windows or Linux, or on a cloud desktop or server. It uses a Qoder account and the models Qoder provides. |
| Price | Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage. | Credits from a Qoder plan, individual or Teams and Enterprise. Prices are in Qoder's pricing documentation. |
What it is
- KyoubeAI
- A self-hosted AI operating system where a company's people and AI agents work together.
- QoderWake
- Qoder's platform for AI employees called Wakers, each with a role, memory, skills and red lines. It reached version 1.0 on 3 September 2026.
Built for
- KyoubeAI
- Organisations that want agents working under their own roles and approvals, with someone who can run Docker.
- QoderWake
- Individuals and teams with clear, recurring work, handing it to AI employees through chats, schedules, events or APIs.
Where it runs
- KyoubeAI
- Your own server, from one Docker Compose file. It needs 4 GB of RAM on amd64 or arm64.
- QoderWake
- An app on macOS, Windows or Linux, or on a cloud desktop or server. It uses a Qoder account and the models Qoder provides.
Price
- KyoubeAI
- Free for up to five users on your own server, then US$39 per user a month self-hosted or US$99 hosted, with custom terms for enterprises. You pay your model providers for usage.
- QoderWake
- Credits from a Qoder plan, individual or Teams and Enterprise. Prices are in Qoder's pricing documentation.
Which should you choose?
Choose QoderWake if
- your team already works in DingTalk, Feishu or WeCom and wants AI employees answering inside those chats
- you would rather install an app on a laptop or cloud desktop than run a Docker stack
- you want AI employees that learn from each task, with memory you can inspect, edit and roll back
Choose KyoubeAI if
- people and AI employees should work the same board, with any task passing from one to the other
- the records agents produce must live in a database you own, with every change audited
- agents should build apps your team opens as ordinary pages, with each viewer's permissions checked
- you want your own model keys and a choice of agent runtime, with source code you can read
Where KyoubeAI is ahead
Tasks pass both ways on one board
In KyoubeAI any task can be owned by a person or an AI employee, and several of each work one board at once. QoderWake's Task Board tracks work owned by Wakers and Groups, and people step in to approve or advise.
Company data in your own database
Agents design and fill a Postgres database you host, and every change is audited in the same transaction. QoderWake keeps memory, projects and knowledge bases, but its documentation describes no shared database for Wakers to build.
Your own model keys and runtime
Use your own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys, and pick Claude Code, pi or Hermes Agent as the runtime. QoderWake runs on its bundled Qoder CLI with the models Qoder provides, billed in Credits.

Run KyoubeAI on your own server.
It is free to run at any size. You need a machine with Docker and keys for the model providers you use.
- Clone
git clone https://github.com/jknigel/KyoubeAI.git && cd KyoubeAI - Configure
cp .env.example .env - Run
docker compose up -d --build
Sources
Every claim about QoderWake comes from these pages, read on the dates shown.
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- QoderWake product page (qoder.com) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- QoderWake: Your always-on AI Employee (Qoder blog, 30 April 2026) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Product Overview (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Quick Start (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Waker Management (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Task Board (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- @Waker (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Configure Expert Intervention for @Waker (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Memory (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- WakerFlow (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Deploy QoderWake in the Cloud (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Command Line (CLI) (QoderWake docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- QoderWake Release Notes (Qoder docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Plans & Pricing for Teams and Enterprise (Qoder docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Pricing for individual plans (Qoder docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Models (Qoder Enterprise docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
- Audit Log (Qoder Enterprise docs) (opens in a new tab) · read 23 Sept 2026
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