Electric
The agent platform built on sync
Electric is an open protocol and set of data primitives for building collaborative, multi-agent systems. It addresses the need for long-lived agents that live in the data layer, with a sync engine as the substrate for real-time collaboration between agents and humans. The protocol uses HTTP and JSON and is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
Electric provides three main components: Electric Agents, a runtime for long-lived, durable agents that are resumable across devices and forkable for review; Electric Streams, a persistent, addressable data primitive for agent session data; and Electric Sync, composable sync primitives powering end-to-end reactivity and collaboration. It integrates with existing APIs and databases, works with any web framework or client that speaks HTTP and JSON, and includes TanStack DB and PGlite. Electric Cloud is a fully managed, globally distributed data delivery network using CDN caching and request collapsing.
Electric is aimed at teams building multi-user, multi-agent systems with humans in the loop, integrating agents into existing business systems and tools. Electric Cloud is packaged with usage-based pricing: a pay-as-you-go plan with no monthly fee and no credit card required, Pro and Scale editions with monthly fees that act as prepaid usage credit and discounted write and retention rates, and Enterprise for custom requirements. Reads, egress, fan-out, and data delivery are not charged; costs scale with writes and retention.
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