| Ramain | In-house agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first workflow | One watched run | A prototype in weeks, production in months |
| Cost per task | 1.7× to 4.2× lower on the same model | Whatever the harness you build spends |
| Credentials and one-time codes | Credential vault and shared-inbox codes built in | Yours to build and secure |
| Audit | Every run recorded and replayable | Logging you design and maintain |
| Upkeep | Ours | A team that owns it for good |
The model is the easy part
Calling a frontier model with a screenshot gets a demo working in an afternoon. Production needs the rest: signing in, recovering when a page is slow, knowing when a task is done, and stopping when it is not sure. That layer, the harness, decides whether an agent finishes the work.
The controls around it
01CredentialsStored in a vault, never in prompts, with one-time codes read from a shared inbox.
02ApprovalsExceptions and proposed fixes wait for a person before anything changes.
03ReplayEvery run is recorded, so QC and examiners can see exactly what happened.
Each of these is a project on its own, and each has to pass your security review. With Ramain they ship on day one.
Cost is a harness problem
On the same 85 enterprise tasks and the same models, Ramain completed as many tasks as Codex and Claude Code, or more, at 1.7× to 4.2× lower cost per task. The difference is how much context the harness spends getting there.
Expensive agent$0.66cost per task on Gemini 3.8 Flash, Codex against Ramain
Efficient agent$0.16cost per task on Gemini 3.8 Flash, Codex against Ramain