Getting started¶

There's nothing to configure.

That surprises people who ask "how do I set up my mintbot?" — expecting a control panel full of toggles, API keys to paste, servers to wire up. There isn't one. You pick a plan, pay, and a couple of minutes later a personal AI agent is running on its own server, waiting for you in Telegram.

Here's the whole thing, start to finish.

1 Pick a plan¶

On mintbot.ai, scroll down to the plans. Every plan runs on the same private server (2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 40 GB SSD):

Starter — the most popular: 9 €/month for the server. The first payment is 19 €, because it also includes 10 € of agent credit, so your agent can get to work straight away.
Pro — 9 €/month with no credit to buy: the agent runs on your own ChatGPT or Claude subscription, which you link in its panel after setup.
Try for 24h — 6 € for one day, if you just want to try it out.

The Starter plan card: 9 €/month, first payment 19 €, and a “Start with Starter” button — Click **Start with Starter** — or **Go Pro** / **Try for 24h**.

Your plan is already selected on the checkout page. The server location defaults to Helsinki; buying for a company? Switch on Invoice to a company. Under Pay and subscribe, choose Card payment via Stripe or Pay with PayPal. The subscription simply keeps your server running month to month — cancel anytime and the agent stays up for the time you've already paid.

Rather not subscribe? Under or pay once you can pay for a single period by card, PayPal, Bitcoin, Monero or other coins. Either way, no signup needed.

3 Pay with Stripe¶

Card payments go through Stripe's secure checkout — mintbot never sees your card number. Enter your details and confirm. (Chose PayPal? Then you confirm the payment in PayPal instead.)

Stripe’s secure card-entry form — A standard Stripe checkout — your card details never touch mintbot.

4 Your agent deploys itself¶

The moment payment clears, mintbot sets up a private server for you, installs the agent, sets up its web panel and links your chat bot — about five minutes, fully automatic. You don't touch anything.

You don't even have to wait: press Connect to Telegram right away and your agent will message you the moment it's live. Open web interface takes you to its web panel.

The deploy screen showing setup progress, with “Connect to Telegram” and “Open web interface” buttons — Sit back — and connect Telegram while it builds.

5 Done — start chatting¶

That's it. Your agent is live and answering. With mintbot credit it runs on Claude Opus 5 by default; on Pro it uses the models your own subscription provides. Talk to it in Telegram or in the web panel: ask questions, hand it tasks, upload files, schedule jobs.

The agent’s chat answering, with Claude Opus 5 shown in the model pill under the message box — Your agent, live and working — the pill under the message box shows the model (Claude Opus 5) and your mintbot credit.

What now?¶

Spend less on the LLM. Already pay for ChatGPT or Claude? Point your agent at that subscription instead of buying credit — usually far cheaper. See Best use cases.
Let it set itself up. Want it to send email, work with a new API, or add a service? Just ask in chat — your agent installs the software it needs and walks you through any integration that requires something from you.
Send it files. Everything you upload lives on your own server forever — here's how mintbot handles files.

Stuck on anything? Just tell your agent — it'll pass the feedback to us.