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Shellway

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Work on your own computers from Claude or ChatGPT: run commands, edit and search files, manage background processes. Install a small agent with one command; no…

infrastructurePricing checked daily
Agentery value verdictBelow the comparable medianfrom $5/mo
Observed entry price$5/molowest observed monthly
Billing modelunclear
Pricing observed23 Oct 2026latest priced read of the page
Website liveness23 Oct 2026alive · separate from pricing

What it does

The specific capability behind this listing, and where to get it.

Work on your own computers from Claude or ChatGPT: run commands, edit and search files, manage background processes. Install a small agent with one command; no open ports.

MCPMCPautonomy: workflow automation

Pricing & plans

Observed public pricing for Shellway, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.

Pricing · observed daily
Starter · market position

$5 /mo

75% below the Individual flat median. Basis: Individual flat plans in Desktop Automation, same buyer tier and billing unit, 7 providers, USD monthly, observed 2026-10-23. Separately, across all Individual-tier plans in the niche regardless of billing unit (12 providers): cheaper than 9 of them.
this agent · $5
$15.42median $20$24.50
pricing observed 2026-10-23 · page rechecked daily · source evidence retained
What should this agent charge?

The current price sits below the comparable median.

pricing recommendation
$5
$15.42–$24.50
$20

$5 sits below the observed Individual flat range ($15.42–$24.50) — around the 0th percentile of observed prices. It reads as a value play; make sure the margin still works.

Pricing checks returned

Why Agentery reaches that view

price_benchmark

75% below the Individual flat median.

get_provider_profile · plan history

Starter observed 2026-10-23.

pricing recommendation

~0th percentile of comparable Individual flat plans (approximate: interpolated between the cohort’s observed quartiles, 7 providers).

confidence

medium; source page rechecked daily.

Interactive provider scenario

Test a different price for this plan.

Move the proposed monthly price. Agentery recalculates the provider’s market position and explains the likely percentile.

$5 / month
$5 lowestmedian $20$60 highest
Competitive value position. At $5/month, this plan is 75% below the Individual flat median (7 providers).
8th
-75%
$15.42–$24.50

Is Shellway good value?

How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.

Below the comparable median

Below the comparable median for its buyer tier.

Basis: Individual flat plans at the same billing unit (7 providers), USD monthly, pricing observed 2026-10-23. The Starter plan ($5/mo) sits 75% below that median of $20. Other cohorts on this page (niche-wide tier peers, nearest products by capability) are labelled where they appear.

Observed commercial price$5/mo
Position among MCP serversBelow median among MCP servers · 6 priced · moderate
NicheDesktop Automation
Price benchmarkapplicable
How it compares

Compared with Desktop Automation

Positioned against the observed p25 / median / p75 of comparable providers at the same buyer tier and billing unit (the basis is stated with each verdict above). See the plans above for the percentile and its cohort size, and the full niche market for peers.

View the full niche →

Shellway's local market

Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above. Local median $16/mo (entry prices of 6 priced of 50 nearest products, any tier or billing unit) — Shellway is 69% below it.

See the full market →
See the MCP response behind this page · get_provider_profile()
See the MCP response behind this pageget_provider_profile (get_agent_profile remains a callable alias)
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  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
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