AI infrastructure

Freestyle

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Freestyle builds the most powerful VMs for AI Agents.

- **Instant Startup**: Freestyle VMs provision in milliseconds, with p99s under 400ms.

- **Persistence**: Freestyle VMs can run forever, they can be hibernated with their exact memory in place and come back to life weeks later instantly, in that exact state.

- **Powerful**: Freestyle VMs go up to 64GB of RAM for public tiers and much further for enterprise. Freestyle does high quality hardware virtualization supporting nested virtualization, FUSE, eBPF, full Linux networking and more. If it can run in an EC2, it can run in a Freestyle VM.

- **Cheaply Snapshottable and Branchable**: Freestyle VMs are instantly and cheaply snapshottable (sub 1ms interruption, sub 50ms to snapshot ready). These snapshots can be used to create new VMs in the exact state of the original VM (memory and disk). This enables powerful workflows like branching, cloning, and rapid recovery from failures.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Pricing

Data transfer is the exception: Free includes 50 GB and paid plans include 500 GB.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-28

Founders & team

Benjamin Swerdlow

Founder/CEO

I learned to code in elementary school. In high school I served as a code owner and technical lead for the World Health Organization COVID-19 App Collective Team. I did a year of college, then took a job as a consultant for Apple. In 3 months I became a senior. I left Apple to found Freestyle.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Jacob Zwang

Founder/CTO

I dropped out of college and became an Apple senior full-stack engineer in Conversational Engineering at 19. During the year and a half I worked there, I delivered multiple projects to production at scale. I love building products that inspire and delight customers, but I'm frequently frustrated by poor back-end developer tools. My co-founder and I are building a new cloud and backend workflow so that we and others can build exceptional software in a fraction of the time.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2024 · Source

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Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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