our second product is here: the new and improved rabbit intern
happy friday, @everyone! today marks another big milestone for rabbit, and we want to say thank you
we’ve officially launched our second product, rabbit intern (and yes, we streamlined the name) with a new design, smarter outputs, project history, output previews, and more - and it’s available right now
rabbit intern is an all-purpose AI agent that gives a person the abilities of an entire team, delivering high-quality, polished websites, research reports, presentations, games, and more.
now that testing is done, we’re launching paid plans.
we spent a lot of time discussing this both internally and with you all here in our community. the feedback you gave us during the free trial period went a long way to getting intern ready for official release. that includes all your thoughts on how we should price it.
here’s how it works:
all users with a registered rabbithole account get 3 tasks for free
pay as you go: 3 tasks that never expire for $29.99
monthly subscription: 30 tasks for $99.99 per month
launch week promo:
r1 holders who sign up for a paid plan in the first week get a bonus of 9 additional tasks, $89.97 value
non r1 holders who sign up in the first week for a paid plan get a bonus of 3 additional tasks, $29.99 value
we are also offering a limited-time annual deal: $69.99 per month, 30 tasks per month, billed annually
we also have a special offer for our community!
in exchange for your help with this exciting launch, we’re going to offer you a free month of the paid plan (30 tasks - $99.99 value)
after completing all steps, fill in this google form and we’ll be in touch next week with how to activate the promo!
please note - community offer must be completed by 11.59pm pacific time on Sunday 15th June to be eligible! terms and conditions apply and are attached.
we thank you all for helping us test and build out intern over the last couple of months. it’s such a powerful product, and we couldn’t have done it without you all! be sure to check out our full launch press release here.
It is good, the trouble is I could never justify the cost for personal use, it’s expensive. It is good, though, but unless I had a specific need I could not get done using other tools, then I can’t see me using it. I am frankly disappointed. I realise the company needs income, I really do, but I feel a little let down that as an early R1 adopter, there is not even one free per month. When you have a community that was invested and took that leap, hey argue back, no issue, but for me personally, it’s a bit of a let down. I know other updates are in the works, but to me Intern is out of reach and unaffordable. I can afford it, but it’s not worth the money for uses I may have, even if it does perform that task well (sometimes). To me if you are going to charge that hefty premium, you can not have a product that does not work every time. You are then put off by the gamble, it’s too high risk. Argue back, I am fine with that, but the first thing I have been truly annoyed with. Please do input with why I am wrong, I invite it, but my head says way too pricey for something that can and will at times not provide the results you wanted every time, coz every time it will cost you.
Great work! It’s admirable how good the results are. People need to understand that for what it can do, the $99 per month is quite affordable. Keep it up, you’re doing everything right. I love it.
Congrats on the launch, but honestly, this pricing is very disappointing. I could definitely see it having uses in certain Enterprise instances, but I think you’d have issues convincing companies to trust an unknown small company with their data when there are alternatives from bigger trustworthy companies like Microsoft.
It’s just not worth the price for personal use. I thought R1 holders would get more than just a few tasks that don’t ever replenish. It’s pretty disappointing. Also, what happens if the request doesn’t turn out how you want or the end result is useless? There’s too much of a gamble when making something new - which is why it was fun to play with. Now I need to buy more tasks in $30 increments? Just seems pretty wild to me. Would have been nice to give R1 holders 3 tasks per month or something for free considering you were giving us more for free during the beta and considering Intern will be built into rabbitOS 2, IIRC. Feels sorta like a way to force a subscription on us after launch.
Yes it can be worth it. Not every time. That’s Fact, as it states so right there at the bottom of the screen. So by paying every time for something that admits itself, possibly will get it wrong equates to the cost paid being diluted by the results that disappoint. So I have to break down and verify your statement Benny-10. ‘Great Work’ - possibly. I always admire hard work and even above that grit and determination, my favourite trait. ‘It’s admiral how good the results are’ I am glad you have had those great results. I have had mixed but then again I did not truely understand it’s possible applications until yesterday, in which I saw, before I think the launch announcement, that the number 3 and the word left. It has been a wasted task several times during my brief stint, it had difficulty in understanding my input garbage likely. ‘People need to understand that for what it can do’, the weeks food bill is quite affordable. Sorry, misquoting, you said ‘$99 per month is quite affordable’. Well…welcome to the new normal I guess, where 6 months ago I saw in Vassenaar, NL, a box of Kellogs srandard size weetabix in Jumbo (Dutch Supermarket) being requested 10.50 euro. I did gasp, you have to eat, it is a basic requirement. So I can not comment on 'Is quite affordable but I respect your personal point of view. I don’t think much is affordable to many right now. My feelings remain. vr typing yuk…:-p
I think that’s totally subjective. One user mentioned yesterday he already sold an Intern project for $250 and another mentioned it landed him a new client.
So it really depends on what kind of work you do or what business you are in and how much your time is worth. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Intern can easily replace 3-4 hours or even more of your time depending on what your job or day to day or even your passion project is.
But if you don’t have a clear use case in mind, and just wanted to use it to try out random things, then i get it, but that’s not really the use case.
In the video we dropped this morning, Jesse clearly demonstrates that it’s more competent and capable and gets better results than Manus, Cursor, Operator, etc. And it’s cheaper than Manus for a similar product.
Fair enough. I mean, I wish you guys success. This is just a huge disappointment given how it was being positioned during your beta testing where you encouraged all of us to make PDFs, make websites for personal research, etc. and now the messaging is it’s not for that stuff even when you advertised it before.
For those of us not wanting to use this to make a profit, it feels sort of like a bait and switch. Especially when you gave us 7 free chats per day with our Rabbit purchase and now all that’s gone. I get that you need to make a profit and this stuff isn’t cheap, but this isn’t the direction many of us expected you to go. And losing some free uses of Intern is especially disappointing if you’re going to be baking it into rabbitOS 2.0. It would feel really bad to have part of the R1’s functionality locked behind a subscription.
I’m open to stretching more for r1 holders if at all possible, but make no mistake, this is an expensive product to run and so there’s really only so much that we can do.
The point of the trial was for everyone to enjoy using it for a limited period whilst helping us figure out the positioning, use cases, where it was failing, how to improve it, and how to get it to a launch state.
I understand the frustration for people who’d like to use it but have no business case that justifies the payment. I totally get that, and if there’s more free tasks that we can offer, we will.
In terms of direction, this is exactly why it’s positioned as a separate product. r1 does not require paying for intern and intern does not require purchasing an r1, but if you do have both, it makes sense that they work well together. It’s really no different than having an Echo and paying for Alexa Plus (which apparently now has a million users!) or having an Android phone and subscribing to the advanced Gemini plan with Veo 3 etc.
I appreciate you taking the time to engage. I mean no ill will here. Just wanted to voice my frustrations. Intern is one of the most innovative and exciting use cases for AI I’ve ever seen and I can’t justify spending so much on it so it was extra disappointing to log in and see the pricing on this today as someone who wants to use more of Rabbit’s products. I understand it’s expensive and you guys need to make a profit. Anything extra you could provide for R1 owners would be really nice because if it’s integrated into the new OS, it’d be nice to be able to use it every once in a while without paying a subscription.
Also, have you thought about commercial vs personal pricing? I think other AI products do this and charge more for enterprise/commercial use but you can gain access for a lower price with slightly less functionality or licensing for a cheaper, more affordable price. I imagine it’d be hard to police to prevent people from paying for the cheaper one and still using the output commercially, but it’d be nice if it were possible.
I’m curious how much demand there will be for Intern with this pricing. Arguably ppl will be willing to pay if it delivers on it’s promises. In my experience it usually takes multiple iterations (prompts) to get useable results - which is ok if you don’t get hit for every prompt.
I can only assume that the results showcased for Intern are cherry picked from a large number of attempts - just like the examples from Veo 3 and Sora. Still impressive, but hard to replicate.
Isn’t Alexa Plus free for Amazon Prime users?
This launch will be a good test of the market’s willingness to pay for this product and the ability for Rabbit to deliver a mature service - which will be expected with this kind of pricing.
Thanks for the opportunity to try it out, I enjoyed the ride.
So, is this rabbitOS 2.0, but now called rabbit intern? I’m having trouble keeping rabbitOS and intern apart since this news.
What causes the confusion most is the pricing. I believe the $99 pricing was mentioned earlier with regard to rabbitOS, hence I’m now thinking that rabbitOS 2.0 and intern are the same.
They are not the same. rabbitOS is the operating system on the rabbit R1. Version 2.0 is coming soon that will overhaul the UI and features on the R1. One of the features is that Intern will be usable from the R1 itself without having to go to the website. But you do not need to pay a subscription to keep using the same functionality of your R1 that you have been using. You only need to pay if you want to use Intern to write code and create things for you.
Interesting development! Hopefully will give you a constant flow of revenue to grow and keep on with developing nice AI things!
I can personally understand the Manus comparison, though I need to say that from UI and UX, Manus is much more mature. But maybe the results count more than that.
Also, there are other competitors, like Perplexity.
Regarding Alexa Plus: To me, that feels a little bit like a bad example, because such Plus, Pro, Premium or whatever services is exactly what I don’t expect to come for R1! Sure, different product accessible from the device is fine. Like you can subscribe to YouTube music or YouTube premium on your Android Smartphone. But Alexa Plus seems like a completely different thing. That is not another product. That is an enhanced version of the product. You can run Alexa. Or you can pay a bit more to make Alexa better. Exactly what I don’t expect to happen with R1, based on the past communication from rabbit.
I think just to keep it simple - we will remain clear that r1 is a separate product to intern and the existence of intern does not mean development will stop for r1.
This is an absolutely amazing product all of you guys are so talented I wish there was something I could do to help get the word out to more people. Please put this in rabbitOS 2.0🤩
Honestly, I’m struggling to understand the logic here. The Rabbit R1 still can’t handle basic language queries, misses simple English words, and totally fails at anything multilingual. Even follow-ups almost always trigger a new, random search instead of actually continuing the conversation—sometimes it feels like it’s just guessing what I’m talking about.
Now, instead of fixing these issues, Rabbit’s launching a second product with a high subscription fee, and no real integration with R1? Why would anyone trust this new thing when the first device is still broken?
Just compare it to ChatGPT (voice or text, doesn’t matter). R1 is supposed to be built on OpenAI’s models, but in practice, it’s nowhere close. ChatGPT actually remembers the context, understands follow-ups, and doesn’t mangle basic phrases. It’s night and day. Shouldn’t that be the bare minimum for a “language device”?
I want to believe in this platform, but you need to actually deliver on the basics first. Fix R1, make it usable, show your early adopters you care, then think about launching new stuff.
I personally have issues with the fact that every task that is performed (during the building / testing phases) immediately costs credits. I have seen quite a few impressive results using the Intern, but I usually don’t get it right on my first attempt. I often need to tweak the prompt a couple of times to get close to the output I wanted.
The principle of “First Time Right” rarely applies to programming (or engineering a prompt for the Intern), but the current pricing model assumes that every user is capable / has the ability of prompting “First Time Right” and get valuable output for the price of their credit.
While 3 tasks for $29.99 and 30 tasks for $99.99 may sound at first like an interesting deal, I believe that it will take a good prompt engineer at least 2 - 3 tasks on average to get it right. So what happens to less experienced users?
What I am missing here is a sandbox / development environment where I can test my prompt (something like a limited VDI where I can’t export or copy/paste output. I do need to be able to copy/paste code). Once I’m satisfied that it is working, then pay for moving the results into an open (production) environment for real use.
With the current pricing model, learning to use the Intern can be very costly and turns less experienced users into a cash cow.
