Koshra vs Reason Machines

Reason, from Reason Machines, is a hosted coding agent and always-on teammate with its own cloud computer per session. Koshra is a self-hosted web app that runs a team of AI employees with defined business roles. Both keep memory across work and ask before sensitive steps.

Deployment and feature differences, checked 2 November 2026. Competitor features are vendor-advertised, not independently tested. No overall winner. Sources are linked below.

Area	Koshra	Reason Machines
What it is	An AI team with defined roles for sales, support, research, recruiting and more	A frontier coding agent that is also an always-on teammate, working alongside other coding agents
Where it runs	Server-hosted web app in assisted preview. Mac is an unreleased unsigned prototype.	Hosted cloud, with a cloud computer per session; web, Mac and iOS apps, a CLI and Slack
Team setup	Dispatcher with a plan card and countdown; one owner bot per task; team chats per lead	Sessions with subagents; Reason Network lets your agents message each other
Shared memory	Brain edited as text with versioned undo, plus memory per bot	Memory across sessions, in personal and team scopes
Approvals	Configured tool rules and approval cards. Plays supports typed Twenty company creation only.	Email sends show a preview, workspace rules can require a yes, and code lands as pull requests
Schedules	Routines on the server; every new schedule needs approval	Loops on a schedule, a webhook, GitHub events or Slack messages
Models	Per-bot model selection, mid-chat switching and fallback are implemented. Usage estimates depend on provider reporting. Free-tier availability is not guaranteed.	Bring your ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Copilot plan or API keys, with fallback to other accounts
For AI agents	Markdown for every page, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a REST API with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server and an agent guide	Markdown for every page, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a REST API and an MCP server
Source and price	Server-hosted assisted preview. Pricing: contact us. Foundation licence is Apache-2.0; Koshra terms are separate.	Hosted and closed source, apart from the MIT and Apache 2.0 network engine; Pro 50 USD and Max 200 USD a month, no free plan

Deployment and feature differences

Built for business roles beyond code, with team use cases and a written job and limit for every role
Koshra Cloud is server-hosted. Reason advertises a hosted product. Not an overall ranking.
Model provider choice and an API key are implemented. Free-tier availability is not guaranteed.; Reason has no free plan
Configured tool rules, bulk review and schedule approval exist for the paths that are implemented. Not every outbound path is verified.
A shared Brain you edit as text with versioned undo

Where the other product advertises more

Reason has web, Mac and iOS apps and a CLI; Koshra is a web app only
Reason works with the AI plans people already pay for; plan sign-in for Koshra is coming soon
Anyone who signs up can use Reason's REST API and MCP server; Koshra's need a key from a space admin, and spaces are set up with you during the private preview
Koshra's status page is checked every minute by an independent uptime monitor, but its history only starts in November 2026
Reason is public with self-serve sign-up, a trial and published prices; Koshra is in private preview
Reason triggers work from webhooks, GitHub and Slack; Koshra's event triggers are coming soon

Which to pick

If your work is mostly code and you want a hosted agent across web, Mac, iOS and the command line, Reason is further along. If you want AI employees for sales, support, research and operations on a server you control, with approvals on every outbound step, Koshra fits. Book a demo to see it on your work.

Sources

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Also as Markdown for AI agents.

Last updated 2 November 2026