Changelog
Ephemeral runs AI agent tasks in disposable microVMs, and ships changes several times a week. Command-line tool releases are also listed on GitHub.
October 2026
- v0.3.0 Release 0.3.0 of the command-line tool and the self-hosted image
- Pricing: a $0.005 run fee, model calls at the provider's price plus 15%, and $0.015 web searches
- Licenses: the Team plan is one flat price for one installation and 10,000 runs a month, with a 14-day free trial
- CLI: the docs, the installers and the help say how to uninstall
- v0.2.0 Release 0.2.0 of the command-line tool and the self-hosted image
- Samples: every sample has a mockup of the system it works on, and its button replays the recorded run
- Accounts: download your data, and delete an organization or your account from the account page
- Legal: acceptance of the Terms and the Privacy Policy is recorded, and a new version asks to be accepted
- Billing: owners and admins are told when a payment fails, and a banner shows it on every signed-in page until it is resolved
- Runs: organizations take turns for run slots, and a queued run says why it waits
- Security: /.well-known/security.txt says where to report a vulnerability
- Websites: every page sends a Content-Security-Policy
- CLI: update checks that the new binary starts before replacing the old one
- Websites: Server Action calls are refused
- Accounts: two-step verification with an authenticator app and recovery codes, and security notices by email
- Checkout: the pay screens say what the buyer agrees to before they pay
- Models: runs that name no model use Claude Haiku 5.5
- Workflows describe themselves with a description and JSON Schemas for their input and output
- MCP server: save and delete workflows, manage schedules and list files; a run's cost is marked provisional until billing settles
- OAuth 2.1 sign-in for the API and the MCP server, with discovery, client registration, consent and revocation
- API: rate limits with RateLimit and Retry-After headers, and a published versioning and deprecation policy
- An MCP server for Ephemeral, with a server card, an OpenAPI description and an API catalog
- Websites: llms.txt, Markdown versions of every page, and an About page for agents and search engines
- Samples: real recorded runs for 20 use cases, each with its permissions, request and code
- Docs: a Security and data page, and recipes for a payment investigation, a page monitor and a weekly report
- Support: requests and a built-in support chat
- A public status page
- Legal: the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy and the commercial transactions notice
- Sign-in requires a confirmed email address
- Zero data retention runs, in the API, the CLI (--zero-data-retention) and the dashboard
- Self-hosted licenses: buy and manage a license by card, with the license agreement published
- v0.1.0 First release of the command-line tool: signed, self-updating builds
- Self-hosted edition: one image that sets itself up in your own AWS account
- Hosted releases switch without dropping requests
- Both websites in Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Korean
- Scheduled workflows, connection instructions and brokered web access for runs
- The first version of Ephemeral: the API, the dashboard and disposable microVM runs