machine0
machine0 is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Team of 1.
About machine0
Summary
machine0 builds persistent cloud VMs purpose-built for AI agents running long workloads, from multi-hour coding tasks to multi-day research jobs. Agents provision and drive the machines directly through a CLI or a remote MCP server, replacing ad-hoc infrastructure cobbled together from general-purpose cloud offerings. Configurations scale from a single vCPU to 60 vCPUs with 240 GB RAM and up to eight H200 GPUs.
Business model
Per-minute billing, with CPU VMs starting at $0.013/hr and GPU VMs from $0.836/hr; suspended VMs stop accruing charges.
Go-to-market
Developer-led and self-serve: engineers install a single shell script, spin up a VM with one CLI command, and can integrate with existing MCP toolchains, GitHub workflows, and coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex.
From the Y Combinator listing
Cloud computers for AI agents
machine0 is a CLI for agent compute: `machine0 new mybox` gives your agent a full cloud VM, billed by the minute, from small up to 60 vCPU / 240 GB and 8×H100s. Agents drive it themselves via CLI or MCP. Agent workloads are moving from ephemeral to always-on. A coding agent working on a hard feature runs 6-8 hours. Auto-research agents run for days. machine0 is the environment in which these agents run.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Infrastructure
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- 1
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
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