Ara

Ara, a Y Combinator P26 company, is an autonomous software engineer that integrates with GitHub, analyzing repository issues, creating isolated workspaces to reproduce problems, developing solutions, and submitting evidence-backed pull requests with screen recordings, logs, and review-ready diffs. It offers autonomous issue resolution and pull request generation, evidence documentation including screen recordings, logs, and execution traces, and cloud-based agent execution integrated directly with GitHub repositories. Ara includes research capabilities that trace real call paths and cite findings, operations integration for alert-driven automation, an HTTP API for programmatic usage, and enterprise deployment options within customer clouds. The product supports multiple languages including English and Simplified Chinese, with active blog posts analyzing competing systems and ongoing changelog documentation. Pricing is freemium: a free tier is available to start with Ara in minutes, Y Combinator companies receive $25,000 in Ara credits, and enterprise pricing scales per organization rather than per seat, available by contacting sales.