Abacus AI Bot FAQs

Abacus AI Bot is a completely free, open-source AI agent that can:

• Let you chat with Abacus AI from your messaging apps
• Create personal bots that work in your style
• Automate repetitive tasks based on your needs
• Handle complex tasks for you

Yes. Abacus AI Bot is completely free to start using. You don’t need to pay anything to get started.

Yes. You need an Abacus.AI account to use Abacus AI Bot. Creating an account is free, and you’ll receive 2,000 free Abacus AI credits when you sign up.

Abacus AI Bot works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. You’ll need to install the desktop app from bot.abacus.ai.

Yes. Abacus AI Bot can keep working while you’re away from your laptop. Since it is a client-side app, your laptop needs to stay powered on and connected to the internet for the Bot to continue running.

You get 2,000 free Abacus AI credits to use with the app. Once you run out, you can either upgrade your Abacus.AI subscription or connect your own LLM APIs.

Yes. We don’t ask for your credit card details. You can also connect your own API keys and start using them directly.

You can either upgrade to a paid subscription or connect your own AI models using your API keys.

Open Profile, go to Models, choose your preferred provider, and connect it using your API key.

Yes. You can connect and use your own API keys or existing AI subscriptions.

Yes. You can switch between different AI models whenever you need.

You can automate a wide range of tasks. For example:

• Morning Briefs: Analyze your emails, meetings, and Slack messages and prepare a morning briefing.
• Research Scout: Search the internet for news and trends relevant to you.
• Bug Triage: Analyze reported bugs and prepare possible resolutions before you wake up.

Yes. You can set Bots to run automatically on a schedule you define.

Yes. Abacus AI Bot has persistent memory. If you ask it to remember something, it can remember that information across conversations.

You can connect WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud, Outlook, OneDrive, Jira, Confluence, Dropbox, GitHub, Figma, Notion, Canva, Zoom, DocuSign, Zapier, X (Twitter), Hugging Face, Playwright, Cloudflare Docs, Stripe, PayPal, and more connectors are coming soon.

Permissions depend on the connector.

For messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord, you connect your own account to Abacus AI Bot. This can include permission to read, send, and receive messages, set up auto-replies, and more. You can disconnect these connections from your phone at any time.

For other connectors, you’ll go through the service’s official OAuth flow and see the exact permissions being requested before you approve them.

Yes. Your data is private.

No. Your data is not used to train AI models.

Your transcripts, crash logs, reports, and related data are sent to Abacus.AI’s servers. However, your API keys and credentials never leave your computer.