Primary · $0
Operator
Free
Install, deck, vault, swarm, agents, BYOK. The studio OS runs on your hardware and you host the workspace. Nothing here expires.
- Local operator deck
- Argon2id vault on loopback
- 21-agent swarm
- Bring your own keys
Support · sovereign
The OS is free. The forge is optional.
Zoth Studio installs on your own machine for $0 — no account, no subscription, no telemetry. If it earns its place in your work, you can fund the people building it. That is the whole ask.
- MIT Licensed
- No Account Required
- Zero Cloud Telemetry
- Encrypted BYOK Vault
Azoth · Operator
Three doors
Operator. Patron. NullAI.
The vault is never a paywall, and you do not buy a seat to run Zoth. Only one of these three doors is a purchase — and it is the one you can ignore.
Optional · funding
Founder Patron
Name your own
Fund the open forge if it is useful to you. Patron is funding, not a license key — there is no tier list, no set amount, and no waiting list.
- Funds the open forge
- Does not unlock the vault
- Does not buy a cloud seat
- Install stays $0
Services · paid
NullAI
Quoted per engagement
SLA, hardware, and custom foundry work. Professional services — not a SaaS subscription and not a vault lock.
- SLA and operator support
- Hardware companions
- Custom foundry builds
- Talk to NullAI
Feature Comparison
Sovereign Architecture & Capability Matrix
Direct comparison of features across the $0 Operator OS, optional Founder Patron sponsorship, and NullAI dedicated enterprise services.
| Architecture & Features | Operator ($0) | Founder Patron | NullAI Services |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Loopback Workstation Local UI Hub (:8088), Operator Cockpit (:8484) & Vault (:8787) | |||
| 21-Agent Sovereign Pantheon Complete autonomous model archetypes, specialist prompts & tools | Custom Archetypes | ||
| Argon2id BYOK Vault & Cryptography Zero-knowledge Argon2id key derivation + XChaCha20-Poly1305 enclave | HSM & Enclaves | ||
| 47+ Chained Sovereign Tools Security AST validators, OSINT recon, WebGen foundry, & OmniPost | Bespoke Toolchains | ||
| Shannon Entropy 3-Agent Consensus Multi-model triangulation, hallucination suppression & AST synthesis | |||
| SimpleX E2EE & Signal Swarm Bridge Zero-identifier post-quantum pairwise communications & mobile control | |||
| Offline Local Inference (Ollama / WebGPU) Zero cloud dependency, air-gapped neural transformer execution | |||
| Cloud Telemetry & Egress Tracking Zero tracking, zero analytics probes, zero usage telemetry | 0% (Zero) | 0% (Zero) | 0% (Zero) |
| Physical Hardware Companion Fabrication Handcrafted resin, OLED displays & tactile serial telemetry | — | — | |
| Enterprise SLA & Dedicated Engineering Custom SLAs, dedicated multi-agent development & hardware support | — | — |
Sovereign ROI Telemetry
Autonomous Swarm Scale & Cloud Tax Calculator
Calculate your zero-dollar local footprint and cloud SaaS subscription tax avoided as your autonomous multi-agent swarm scales.
Zoth Studio Cost
$0 / month
100% Free · MIT · Local Loopback
Cloud SaaS Tax Avoided
$945 / mo
$11,340 / year in cloud seats avoided
Estimated Local GPU VRAM
24 GB
RTX 3090/4090 or Apple M-Max (Unified RAM)
Where it goes
What your support funds
Zoth is funded by the people who use it, not by investors or a subscription. Support pays for the work that has no other sponsor.
Releases that keep shipping
Packaged builds are cut, checksummed and republished every version, so the install keeps working on the machine you actually own.
The swarm, maintained
The 21-agent pantheon, the 3-agent consensus arena, and the local orchestration that runs them without a cloud round-trip.
See the pantheon →The vault stays free
Argon2id secrets on loopback, a local memory graph, and bring-your-own-key inference. Support keeps these out of a paywall — they ship as the zoth-vault-daemon.
Docs a stranger can follow
Install scripts, port topology and troubleshooting, plus machine-readable llms.txt so agents and humans can both get unstuck without a support contract.
No amount is required, and no amount unlocks anything. If Zoth is useful to you, funding is simply how it survives.
Doctrine
What you never pay Zoth for
Keys
You bring them. The vault is yours. Plaintext never leaves this machine, and we never hold a KMS over you.
Inference
Local Ollama or your own APIs. Zoth does not meter tokens, sell credits, or rent you a hosted model.
Telemetry
None. Zero usage tracking, zero phone-home. You host the workspace. We do not watch the deck.
Answers
Do I have to pay to use Zoth?
No. The operator OS is $0. Install, deck, vault, swarm, agents and BYOK all run on your machine, and you host the workspace. If anyone ever asks you to pay for a seat, that is not this product.
How do I support Zoth?
Optional Founder Patron funding keeps Zoth free and sovereign — GitHub Sponsors when it goes live. NullAI is a separate door for paid services: SLA, hardware, custom foundry.
What is NullAI?
This product is Zoth Studio. NullAI (nullai.tech) is paid professional services: SLA, hardware, and custom foundry. It is not a SaaS seat and it does not lock the vault.
Does Patron unlock features or the vault?
No. Patron is funding, not a license key. The vault, keys and operator surface stay yours whether you fund or not — and there is no amount that changes that.
Start with the free door.
Install it, use it offline, and decide later whether the forge is worth funding. Nothing is gated behind this decision.