BLACKBOX AI

The listing on file describes Blackbox as a consumer-facing coding platform with Pro ($10/month), Pro Plus ($20/month), Pro Max ($40/month), and Enterprise tiers, sold through a VS Code extension and web chat. That product and pricing no longer exist on blackbox.ai. The site's own title tag now reads "Blackbox: The high-trust platform for frontier inference," the pricing page shows a single Enterprise tier priced by committed annual spend with no dollar figure a self-serve buyer can sign up against, and the press kit describes the company as "the high-trust inference layer for teams that deploy AI at scale." The four products it names today are Enterprise Inference, the Blackbox Router (API), the Agents API, and the CLI — none framed as an individual subscription. (Sources: blackbox.ai homepage meta title/description, blackbox.ai/pricing, blackbox.ai/press, checked 12 October 2026.)

Blackbox Router is an OpenAI-compatible endpoint (enterprise.blackbox.ai/v1) that reaches 300+ open and closed models — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and others — through one API key, with provider failover and load balancing; switching models is a one-line change to the model string. Enterprise Inference runs an open-weight model of the customer's choice as a dedicated, single-tenant deployment on Blackbox's own GPUs, isolated from every other customer — this is Blackbox-hosted, not something a customer runs on its own infrastructure. The Agents API dispatches coding agents over HTTP, can send one task to Blackbox, Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini in parallel on separate Git worktrees, and has a 'Chairman LLM' rank the results and open a pull request on GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. The CLI is a terminal coding agent with the same multi-agent racing and a plan mode that breaks a task into approvable steps before changes apply. (Sources: blackbox.ai/api, blackbox.ai/inference, blackbox.ai/agents, blackbox.ai/cli, checked 12 October 2026.)

There is no free tier, trial, or self-serve signup visible anywhere on the current site. The pricing page shows one plan, labeled Enterprise, priced as a committed annual spend quoted against a published reference-rate table (for example: moonshotai/kimi-k3 at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens; deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash at $0.30 / $1.20). The vendor states there is no platform fee, no credit-purchase fee, and no per-seat charge — everything is metered per token, and unused commitment expires at the end of the billing period with alerts at 75% and 90% of the commit. Every engagement starts with a sales conversation, not a signup form. (Source: blackbox.ai/pricing, checked 12 October 2026.)

Blackbox documents end-to-end encryption, AES-256 encryption at rest, and Zero Data Retention (prompts and completions are processed in memory and discarded after the response). On Enterprise, a PII filter replaces names, emails, phone numbers, and account numbers with semantic placeholders before a prompt reaches a closed model. Enterprise plans add SSO via Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID), Okta, or Google Workspace, with RBAC and audit logging; Blackbox describes itself as a Microsoft Partner on this basis. We could not find a SOC 2 report, a HIPAA/BAA statement, or any named compliance certification anywhere on blackbox.ai, blackbox.ai/privacy, or blackbox.ai/microsoft-partner — the privacy page offers a Data Processing Agreement reference on Enterprise contracts but no certification badge. Treat the encryption and retention claims as the vendor's own description of its architecture, not as independently audited. (Sources: blackbox.ai/privacy, blackbox.ai/microsoft-partner, blackbox.ai/pricing, checked 12 October 2026.)

The previous version of this listing stated Blackbox "is used by Microsoft, Deloitte, and Intel." Blackbox's own customers page now says the opposite is its policy: "Many engineers at large companies use Blackbox. That is not the same as an endorsement from those companies, and we will not present it as one. Customer names, logos, and quotes go on this page only after that customer gives written permission to use them, which is why there is no logo wall here yet." The one concrete relationship we could verify is a Microsoft technology partnership (Azure AD SSO integration), which is a product integration, not a customer reference. We found no independent source naming Microsoft, Deloitte, or Intel as Blackbox customers. (Source: blackbox.ai/customers, blackbox.ai/microsoft-partner, checked 12 October 2026.)

A VS Code extension called "BLACKBOXAI — #1 AI Coding Agent and Coding Copilot" (publisher Blackboxapp, identifier Blackboxapp.blackbox) is live on the Visual Studio Marketplace with 5.4M installs, a 4.18-star rating across 559 reviews, and a current version (2.8.53). It is the closest thing left to the product this listing originally described — inline code completion and chat inside the editor. It is not linked, mentioned, or referenced anywhere on the current blackbox.ai site: blackbox.ai/extension returns a 404, and the product navigation, pricing page, and press kit all describe only the four enterprise products above. We could not establish whether this extension is still actively maintained by the same team, still points at current infrastructure, or is simply an orphaned artifact of the old consumer product. (Sources: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Blackboxapp.blackbox, blackbox.ai/extension [404], blackbox.ai/sitemap.xml, checked 12 October 2026.)

The CLI product page states "Blackbox CLI is fully open source, with the code available on GitHub" and instructs npm install -g @blackbox/cli. That npm package does not exist (registry.npmjs.org returns 404 for @blackbox/cli). The similarly named @blackboxai/cli and blackbox-cli packages that do exist on npm belong to unrelated projects — an MCP-server installer and a tool published by a company called Ellipsis, respectively — not to this product. The real install path, confirmed by fetching blackbox.ai/install.sh directly, downloads a prebuilt binary from releases.blackbox.ai rather than installing from a public package registry. We searched GitHub for a Blackbox CLI repository and found only a BlackBox-AI organization with a single public repo last updated in July 2023, which does not match a 2026 coding-agent product. We are not asserting the CLI is closed source — only that we could not locate the public repository the vendor's own page points to.