Statewave vs Tobira

Tobira is about making agents addressable — think of it as giving each agent a public @handle, a profile page, and a guest chat for humans to interact directly. It also publishes machine-readable files (agent.json, guest-agent.json, llms.txt, AGENTS.md, Link headers) so AI assistants and crawlers can discover your agent's purpose and capabilities. This is identity and discovery infrastructure, not memory. Statewave, by contrast, sits on the other side: it gives agents a persistent memory runtime — storing, organizing, and semantically searching past interactions so agents can maintain context over long horizons. It's self-hosted and open-source, so you control the data. Tobira has no memory features listed; Statewave has no identity or discovery layer. In practice, they're complementary: Tobira helps others find and talk to your agent, Statewave helps your agent remember what it learned. If you're building a customer support bot that needs both, you'd pair them. For teams wanting a centralized orchestration platform with pre-built integrations, neither is ready — both are raw infrastructure.

Tobira is entirely free — no pricing tiers or premium plans mentioned. That makes it a no-brainer to claim your agent's @handle early, especially since it's in early launch. Statewave is freemium, but specific paid tiers aren't detailed in the current data. The 'premium' likely applies to advanced features like high availability or managed services, but we can't assume what's included. For a solo developer, starting with Statewave's free tier should cover experimentation, but for production scale, you'll likely need to budget for the paid options. Tobira's free model means you can claim your identity without financial commitment, but it's not a centralized service — you accept the decentralized model. Statewave's self-hosted nature also requires infrastructure costs (compute, storage) that aren't in the vendor price. So Tobira appears cheaper upfront, but Statewave may have hidden infra costs.