Piye, explained.

Most teams split work between a no-code tool for the idea and an IDE for the real product, then pay for the gap with exports, rewrites, and screenshots in chat. Piye removes the gap. The founder and the developer open the same project folder. One sees a conversation, a map, and a live preview. The other sees the code, the terminal, and Git.

Piye is a desktop app built on Electron, React, and Monaco. It is not a VS Code fork and not a browser IDE. Your source lives on your disk and in your Git. Secrets live in your operating system keychain. The web app at piye.dev handles your account, billing, invites, and the Piye Cloud AI gateway.

Every Piye project can be opened in Builder (also called Low Code) or in the IDE (Developer mode). Switching is instant. Nothing is exported, converted, or copied. A change Builder makes is a real file change the developer can review in Git. A change the developer commits shows up in the founder's preview.

Piye runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Download the installer from the home page, or install from a terminal:

Your Piye account lives on the web app. It holds your profile, plan, invoices, invites, and the session the desktop app uses for Piye Cloud. You can sign in with Google, GitHub, or email and password with email verification.

• The desktop app opens your browser to sign in and receives a short-lived session on a local loopback port.
• That session refreshes itself while you work, so you only see the browser again after real inactivity.
• Sign out in the profile menu. This removes the session from your keychain.

Prices are per month in euros. You can change or cancel any time. Not ready for a plan? Pay as you go has no subscription: 150 free credits a month, then the credits you buy.

Compare plans and upgrade on Pricing. Inside the app, Settings, Account shows your current plan, what it includes, and a button to upgrade or manage billing.

Subscriptions are processed by Stripe. Piye never sees or stores your full card number. Promo codes are entered on the pricing page before checkout.

• Invoices and VAT come from Stripe and are available in the billing portal.
• Cancel from the billing portal. You keep access until the end of the paid period.
• EU consumers may have a 14-day right of withdrawal. See the Terms.
• Payment problems: Stripe retries the card and emails you. Your projects stay on your disk either way.

Piye Cloud lets you use the full model catalog without creating accounts at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, or xAI. You sign in once. Piye's gateway swaps your session for Piye's provider key and streams the answer back.

The agent loop, your files, diffs, and tools always run on your machine. The gateway only sees the request the agent sends to the model, the same way a provider would if you used your own key.

Claude is the default family in Piye. New installs start on Claude Sonnet 5, which balances speed and depth for everyday Build turns. Pick another model per conversation in the Agent panel or Comm-Link, or set a default in Settings, AI.

Every listed model can drive the agent loop: text in, text out, with tools. Image-only, audio, and embedding models are left out because they cannot operate the IDE.

Bring your own key (BYOK) means Piye calls the provider with your API key. You pay the provider directly and Piye Cloud is not involved. BYOK works on every plan, including Starter.

Privacy Mode (Settings, Privacy) blocks Piye Cloud and every personal API key. Nothing about your code leaves the machine. If you enable Ollama under Settings, AI, you can keep chatting with local models.

• Local models run in Ask mode only: they read and explain, they do not write files, run commands, or call MCP tools.
• Deploy and Publish AI helpers switch off while Privacy Mode is on.
• Conversation history retention is set in the same section.

Piye records tokens per turn and shows an estimated cost per day in the profile menu, the Agent panel, and Settings, AI. Estimates use published per-model rates and are labelled as estimates.

The Piye web app exposes a small API that the desktop app uses. It is documented here so you can understand what Piye sends and build tools against your own account.

Requests carry a Piye session token as Authorization: Bearer <token>. The gateway also accepts the token in x-api-key, so provider SDKs work unchanged. Tokens are HMAC signed and live 30 minutes.

Each gateway route mirrors the provider's own API. Send the same body you would send to the provider; Piye adds the provider key server-side and streams the response through untouched.

GET /api/usage/current returns your plan, its limits, and this month's counters. It uses the web session cookie, so call it from the signed-in browser or the dashboard.

Errors use the provider style: { "error": { "type", "message" } }.

Anyone can invite anyone, technical or not, into a project. The invite is a link. Opening it on a machine with Piye starts the project there; without Piye, the link page offers the download and picks up where it left off.

Piye does not train models on your projects and does not sell personal data. Read the Privacy Policy for GDPR details and processors.

• Env values are never shown. Deploy and Operations show variable names and sync status only. The agent never prints a secret, even if it reads a file that contains one.
• Deletes always wait for your approval, even in Auto mode.
• Commands the agent runs are approved by you and run as a separate process.
• Extensions go through one permission broker, the same check for their UI and their AI tools.

Report a vulnerability to security@piye.dev.

Still stuck? Contact support, request a feature, or ask in the community.