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    <description>Answers on what Minimal is, which databases it reads, what it holds of yours, how it is priced, and what you keep if you leave. Search the whole page.</description>
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    <title>Security — what we hold, and what we never touch — updated</title>
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    <description>The Book of Minimal — full documentation in three volumes: Essential, Advanced, and Identity and the Gateway. 32 chapters, 77,736 words, 23 diagrams.</description>
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    <description>Minimal is data access infrastructure over a database you already run. Point it at Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse or a CSV and get CRUD APIs, your own MCP server and permissioned identities — then build on them: scheduled agents (Agent Studio), apps (App Studio), site chat assistants (Chat Studio), dashboards you ask in English (Ask Studio), or publish and price a dataset on API Bay. By Littlebit Labs.</description>
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    <description>Minimal Core on your own hardware for $100/yr plus $1 per 1,000 requests. Agent Studio from $99, App Studio from $59, Chat Studio from $49, Ask Studio from $79. API Bay is pay-as-you-go: $1 per 1,000 requests, zero commission for publishers. Never a charge per seat, and a free tier on every product.</description>
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    <description>Pick the job you want off your plate: a chat assistant, a priced API, an agent, answers from your live database, or an app. Every product runs on Minimal Core, the data layer over the database you already run. Free tiers on Chat Studio and API Bay.</description>
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    <description>Connect your database and Agent Studio gives you CRUD APIs, your own MCP server over OAuth, permissioned identities and a working agent — no code at any step. Postgres, ClickHouse, MySQL and twelve more.</description>
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    <description>An API marketplace where you bring a dataset, not an API: we serve, host, back up and distribute the endpoints. Publish from $5 a month at 0% commission — the alternative to RapidAPI or Postman&#39;s API Network when you have data but no API. Call hosted datasets at $1 per 1,000 requests, 100 a day free.</description>
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    <title>App Studio — desktop, PWA and native mobile from one source — updated</title>
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    <title>Chat Studio — AI chatbot for your website, trained only on your content; a Chatbase and Intercom Fin alternative with your own model key — updated</title>
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    <description>An AI chatbot for your website that answers only from your pages, documents and data — a specialist for support, sales, docs and more. Bring your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini key on every tier, free tier with no card, one line to embed. Compared feature by feature with Chatbase and Intercom Fin. In beta.</description>
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