# Make the Computation Vanish

Put `vanish` in front of a command. It runs on a managed Linux machine against your working tree, uncommitted changes included, and its output streams back to your terminal.

Keep editing while the heavy work runs elsewhere.

## Install

```sh
curl -fsSL https://vanishcompute.com/install.sh | bash
```

Your first run asks you to sign in with GitHub, which takes about thirty seconds. Vanish reads your GitHub profile, not your repositories, and your account starts with free credit to try it. No card.

The first run in a repository uploads and hashes your tree, so on a large one it takes a while — about a minute and a half on a 27 GB tree. After that Vanish adds roughly a second to a command in a normal repository. Files a Run writes are staged, not written into your tree, until you apply them or pass `--apply`.

[Run your first command](/docs/quickstart.md) has the details.

## How it works

1. Your working tree goes with the command, uncommitted changes included. There is nothing to commit, push or sync first.
2. A managed Linux machine, 8 vCPU and 16 GiB by default, runs the command. Output and the exit code come back to your terminal.
3. Files the command writes are staged until you apply them, and `--apply` never overwrites a file you changed while the Run was going.

## Straight answers

- **Is it faster?** Not for one command: each Run adds startup and transfer time. For several at once, yes: four cold ripgrep builds finished in 14 seconds instead of 24. Either way, a cold ripgrep build used 358 times less of your laptop's CPU.
- **What does it cost?** Free starter credits to begin, and no card. Then $0.6624 an hour for the default machine, billed by the second with a one-minute minimum. A VM you run yourself is cheaper; [pricing](/docs/pricing.md) explains how they compare.
- **Where does my code go?** To Vanish storage on AWS, encrypted in transit and at rest. Credentials, private keys and .env files are never stored. `vanish materialize` gets every byte back, any day, logged in or not.

## Links

- [Documentation](/docs/quickstart.md)
- [Pricing](/docs/pricing.md)
- [Security and data handling](/docs/security.md)
- [Account and sign-in](https://api.vanishcompute.com/account)
- [Community and support](https://discord.gg/n8pwXcqmAM)
- [Documentation index for LLMs](/llms.txt)
- [Full documentation for LLMs](/llms-full.txt)