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Run Beacon locally with full control of your data, or connect it to Beacon Cloud for one hosted timeline of every agent and machine, findings, sharing and MCP. Local and Beacon Cloud are free; Beacon Cloud Pro adds unlimited findings, memory and findings over MCP, and real-time alerts for $20 a month ($15 billed annually). Enterprise adds fleet rollout, approvals for risky actions, SSO, RBAC and audit logs. See Plans and pricing for the full comparison.

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Local

Use the open-source local path when you want endpoint telemetry without a hosted Beacon backend. Agent Beacon runs on the endpoint, writes normalized events to local JSONL, and can forward events into customer-managed security workflows.
Install Beacon with Homebrew:
Then configure local endpoint telemetry:
See the macOS install guide for package and fleet deployment options.
Open the local dashboard to inspect runtime inventory, timelines, filters, and event details:
Open the local dashboard
The local path preserves runtime.jsonl on the endpoint and supports optional forwarding to supported SIEM, observability, object-storage, local JSONL, and customer-managed destinations. See Local for setup details and Security & IT Rollout Guide for managed endpoint deployment.

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Beacon Cloud

Use Beacon Cloud when you want hosted visibility, governance, and enterprise rollout support for agent activity.
  1. Create a Beacon account.
  2. Sign the CLI in on each user endpoint:
  1. Connect the endpoint to your account:
Interactive beacon endpoint install performs the sign-in step when needed. System-mode connect remains account-free and uses browser approval instead. Beacon Cloud gives you the open-source Agent Beacon experience without having to run the backend yourself. Beacon Cloud is free. To upgrade to Beacon Cloud Pro, open beacon.sh/dashboard/billing; nothing on the endpoint changes. For cloud-hosted agent applications, install the Observe SDK and initialize hosted export with a Beacon API key:
Set the hosted Observe API key
Initialize hosted Observe
See Beacon Cloud for managed platform capabilities and SDK Quickstart for cloud instrumentation details.

Plans and pricing

Compare Open Source, Beacon Cloud, Beacon Cloud Pro and Enterprise.

Beacon Cloud

Review managed ingest, governance, investigations, access control, and rollout support.

Local

Install Beacon, configure endpoint telemetry, and keep the CLI up to date.

Quickstart

Choose the right path for a local or managed rollout.

Beacon Observe SDK

Instrument cloud-hosted agent applications with hosted or customer-managed export.

Beacon Overview

See how local Beacon fits with Beacon Cloud.

Log Forwarding

Forward local Beacon events into security and observability platforms.