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Mobilerun VA is a hosted 24/7 agent for mobile automation. It plugs AI models like Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw into a real mobile device to automate any app and receive SMS. Used by a16z and Y Combinator companies, backed by Merantix and others. Offers device management, mobile agent, and dedicated devices with pricing from $5/month.

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mobilerun · give your agents a phone

New Mobilerun VA is now in beta — a hosted 24/7 agent for mobile automation →

Give your AI Agent a phone.

Plug Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, or Mobilerun VA into a real mobile device to automate any app and receive SMS.

Get API Key

Used by teams at a16z and Y Combinator companies, and more

Backed by Merantix SIXTY · DEGREE TKM May Ventures

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agent network

CountryUnited States

CityNew York

IP73.84.142.x

ASNComcast

Typeresidential

agent sim

+1 212 555 0142

Stripenow

Code: 482914

agent api · live

Current task

Open Stripe and export this week's payouts

Launch Stripe

Verify Face ID

Open Payouts

Exporting JSON…

agent phone · running

claude-sonnet-4.6

tap "Stripe"

face id confirmed

scroll to Payouts

extracting data

Platform

One platform. Devices, agent, identity.

Real phones in the cloud. Agents run apps end to end. A profile that holds up to real-world checks.

01 · Device Management

Phone fleets. 1 to 10,000.

Provision real Android and iOS devices on demand. Parallel execution, fleet sync, webhooks.

Explore devices →

02 · Mobile Agent

Open Instagram, post launch reel

Posted · 14s

Now run it on 20 accounts

Spinning up sessions…

20 posted · 31s

Describe the task. It runs.

Reads the screen. Taps, swipes, types. Drive it from API, SDK, or natural language.

Build mobile agent →

03 · Dedicated device

Dedicated Persistent Never shared

Automations that don't stop.

Real device, real network. Apps see what they expect, so your agent just keeps going.

See plans →

Pricing

Pick your phone. Choose your plan.

Quick testing

Personal Phone

$5 /month

$48 billed yearly

DeploymentBYO

PersistencePersistent

HardwareRemote physical

Multi profiles—

eSIM—

App support✓

LocationYours

Agent credits250 / mo

Buy now

Most Popular

Account workflows at scale

Physical Phone

$150 /month

$1,440 billed yearly

DeploymentDedicated

PersistencePersistent

HardwarePremium real device

Multi profiles—

eSIM✓

App support✓

LocationEU / US

Agent credits5,000 / mo

Buy now

Mobile RPA

Cloud Phone

$50 /month

$480 billed yearly

DeploymentDedicated

PersistencePersistent

HardwareVirtual device

Multi profiles✓

eSIM—

App support✓

LocationEU

Agent credits2,500 / mo

Buy now

Custom · SLA

Enterprise

Custom

Tailored to your fleet

DeploymentPrivate fleet

PersistencePersistent

HardwareCustom

Multi profiles✓

eSIM✓

App support✓

LocationEU / US / custom

Agent creditsCustom

Talk to us →

Bring your own proxy is supported on all plans. Residential proxies available as add-on.

Use Cases

What teams ship.

Four workloads that only run cleanly on real devices.

01

AI Agent Workflows

An LLM agent with a real phone opens apps, reads screen state, runs multi-step flows. Autonomous or orchestrated.

02

Creator & Account Workflows

Schedule posts, publish assets, manage creator accounts. Multi-profile, multi-region, long-lived sessions.

03

Mobile Data Pipelines

Native apps as a structured data source. Screen state and workflow output, returned as typed JSON to your stack.

04

Customer Messaging

Drive WhatsApp Business, Telegram, and in-app comms from a real number with a real SIM. Threads that stay open across runs, across regions.

Open source · MIT

Built in the open.

The mobilerun framework powers our cloud and runs locally on any device. Open source, MIT licensed, LLM agnostic. Start local, scale to cloud with one config change.

Star on GitHub Framework docs →

~/mobilerun

install

$ pip install mobilerun

run your first agent

$ mobilerun run "Open Settings, check battery" → task completed in 3.8s · 2 actions, 0 retries

scale to cloud · one config change

$ mobilerun --cloud

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GitHub stars

1,800+

Discord members

2M+

Prompts and counting

#1

Product Hunt day rank

Enterprise

Custom infrastructure.

Private fleets, custom networking, eSIM provisioning, dedicated SLA. iOS and Android in your regions, behind your access controls.

Talk to us →

fleet.sizeunlimited

networkingprivate + BYO

SLAtier-1

SOC 2on roadmap