Coasty
Summary
Legacy RPA breaks the moment a portal updates its UI — and it breaks silently, leaving your team to discover the failure when invoices don't go out. Coasty is an AI agent that reads screens the way a person does, so it keeps working even when the UI changes underneath it.
Coasty operates real software by sight: it browses portals, clicks, types, and verifies its own output without requiring an API from the target system. The vendor states it ranks first on OSWorld at 85.60% task completion, and the agent is designed to recover autonomously when a UI shifts — which is the specific failure mode that grinds traditional automation to a halt. It fits teams running long, multi-step workflows across carrier portals, ERPs, TMS platforms, or Microsoft 365 consoles. The ceiling appears when you need deep bidirectional data integration rather than screen-level execution; at that point, a native API connector will outperform it on speed and reliability.
Bottom line: Pick Coasty when your target systems have no API and your team is re-keying data manually across portals; plan a different architecture when your workflow demands real-time, high-frequency data sync that screen reading cannot sustain at volume.
Pricing Plans
Usage-Based- Price
- $99 flat Unlimited plan; $0.05 per /v1/predict API call
- Free Tier
- Free sandbox keys with usage limits
Free Sandbox
Sandbox keys for testing
- Limited usage
- API access
Unlimited
$99 flat monthly
- Unlimited usage
- Full agent access
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Operates any portal by sight without requiring an API from the target system, so workflows that were permanently blocked behind legacy or API-less software become automatable without an IT integration project.
- Autonomous UI recovery means when a carrier or ERP portal updates its interface, the agent replans from the new screen state rather than throwing an error — so your operations team stops getting paged at 9pm because a scraper broke.
- Long-horizon task execution across hundreds of steps, so multi-portal workflows like quoting 20 carriers per submission or reconciling month-end statements run without a person stitching together each handoff.
- Computer-use API with structured JSON output, so development teams can embed screen-reading intelligence into custom agents without building the underlying vision and action model themselves.
- Human approval and recorded audit trail on sensitive workflows like MSP tenant offboarding, so regulated teams have the sign-off documentation they need without adding a manual review queue on top of the automation.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Screen reading adds execution latency per step that a direct API call does not. Workflows requiring real-time or high-frequency data sync — think live inventory updates or sub-second transactional reconciliation — hit this wall immediately, and teams at that scale switch to native API integrations or ETL pipelines instead.
- No self-hosted deployment option exists. Teams in environments with strict data residency or air-gapped network requirements cannot keep task execution and screenshot data on their own infrastructure, which is a hard blocker in certain regulated verticals and the primary reason teams move to a self-hostable RPA alternative.
- Complex multi-agent branching logic that depends on what a prior step returned eventually outgrows what screen-level execution can express cleanly. Teams building workflows beyond four or five conditional branches report adding a custom code orchestration layer — at which point they are maintaining two systems and the simplicity argument for Coasty weakens.
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About
- Platforms
- Desktop, Browser, Cloud VMs
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-10T02:23:45.730Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Enterprise RPA replacement in regulated industries
- Teams managing multiple legacy or portal-based systems
- Developers needing a computer-use API for custom agents
- Operations roles requiring long-horizon task automation
What it does well
- Automate accounts payable invoice workflows across portals and ERPs
- Quote insurance submissions across multiple carrier portals without APIs
- Reconcile bank and payroll statements in accounting tools like QuickBooks
- Track freight loads and process PODs for invoicing in TMS systems
- Handle MSP tenant onboarding/offboarding across Microsoft 365 and other consoles
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Coasty free?
- Coasty has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades (paid plans from $99 flat Unlimited plan; $0.05 per /v1/predict API call). You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Coasty open source?
- No — Coasty is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Coasty have an API?
- Yes. Coasty exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://coasty.ai for details.
- What platforms does Coasty support?
- Coasty is available on: Desktop, Browser, Cloud VMs.
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Portal-based work that never got an API — insurance submissions, freight POD collection, payroll reconciliation — normally means a person doing repetitive clicks across a dozen tabs. Coasty is an AI agent that takes over that click-ops layer by reading the screen, planning the next action, executing it, and verifying the result before moving on. It handles the full loop: browse to the portal, authenticate, extract or enter data, confirm the outcome, and move to the next step. The vendor describes workflows running for hundreds of steps across real applications, which covers the kind of multi-portal, multi-system tasks that break simpler automation after the third or fourth handoff.
The core differentiator is UI resilience. Where traditional RPA scripts a fixed set of selectors and fails the moment a vendor redesigns their portal, Coasty reads the current screen state at each step and replans. The vendor states the agent recovers on its own when the UI changes — no human intervention, no re-scripting. For regulated industries where portals update frequently and downtime in the automation means missed deadlines, that self-recovery property is the deciding factor over legacy RPA tooling.
Coasty fits best when your systems have no API and your team’s bottleneck is the manual portal grind: insurance agencies quoting across 20 carriers, freight back offices pulling PODs from carrier portals that never built an API, MSP teams offboarding users across every tenant console. It does not fit when your target system offers a direct API and your workflow is high-frequency or latency-sensitive — screen reading adds execution overhead that a native integration eliminates. Teams with complex conditional branching across many agents also report that the visual execution model has limits; at sufficient complexity, a custom code layer becomes necessary alongside the agent.
For developers, the vendor exposes a computer-use API at /v1/predict: send a screenshot, receive the next action as structured JSON, and execute it in your own environment. A free sandbox key is available, with paid-only access to the full Unlimited tier for production workloads. Self-hosting is not offered; the agent runs on Coasty’s infrastructure, which is a consideration for teams in environments with strict data residency requirements.