Dedalus Labs is a developer infrastructure company that focuses on one hard problem in agent development: keeping agents alive and stateful. Its core product, Dedalus Machines, is a class of persistent virtual machines built to host agents that never sleep. Rather than paying for an ephemeral container that dies the moment a request ends, developers get a VM that persists, so an agent can hold context, files, background jobs, and long-running processes across sessions.
The platform targets teams building autonomous agents, coding agents, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations. Because idle compute is billed as free and active compute is billed per second, the model fits workloads that are bursty — an agent that mostly waits for a trigger, then does heavy work for a short window. Developers work with standard VM primitives, so existing code, tools, and serverless-style patterns can often be moved over without a rewrite.
The pricing page advertises a $20 sign-up credit to test the platform, a Pro plan at $20 per month, and per-second billing for active compute. It positions itself in the same neighborhood as agent sandbox and cloud VM providers, but emphasizes always-on persistence and fast wakeups rather than pure cold-start sandboxing.
