Roomote

Roomote is the product Roo Code became. In April 2026 the team announced it would retire its well-regarded VS Code extension on 15 May and rebuild around a cloud agent instead, on the argument — put bluntly by CEO Matt Rubens — that IDEs are not the future of coding. Their own engineers had already stopped driving the agent from the editor and were running it in remote environments where several tasks could proceed in parallel without anyone watching each step. Roomote productises that workflow, and roocode.com now redirects here.

Your infrastructure, not the vendor's

The defining choice is where it runs. The agent investigates code, answers questions about a repository, and opens pull requests into your normal review process, but the deployment, the tools it can reach and the models it calls all stay under your control. That matters in a category that usually asks you to hand a vendor persistent read-write access to your source.

It is source-available under the Fair Core License 1.0: you can read the code, self-host it and modify it, with the restriction aimed at building a competing commercial product rather than at internal use. Each release additionally carries an Apache 2.0 Future License that converts it to Apache 2.0 two years after publication.

How work reaches it

Roomote is not an IDE plugin. Tasks arrive from chat — Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord or Telegram — or from the web interface, which suits the work it targets: the small, well-specified jobs that pile up between focused sessions. It connects to GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Gitea and Bitbucket, so self-hosted git is a first-class case rather than an afterthought.

Each task runs in an isolated development environment, and the agent executes and verifies the generated code before handing work back for review. Tasks run in parallel across multiple repositories. Beyond responding to requests it can work on a schedule, surface issues it detects proactively, and produce live previews of a change.

Pricing

Self-hosting is free for up to 10 users, which makes a real evaluation possible without a purchase order. Above that, self-hosted and cloud cost the same: $49/month for up to 10 users on Roomote Cloud (7-day trial), $249/month for 11-50, $499/month for 51-100, and custom pricing beyond. Inference is your own arrangement, since you choose the models.