Sauna vs Magic
Magic is an AI engineer. Sauna is your coworker.
Magic is a deep bet on autonomous coding with enormous context. Sauna is a general coworker for the rest of your work — it remembers your projects, connects to your tools, and does the task across every surface your team uses.
Comparing Sauna and Magic? Magic is a frontier lab building an autonomous AI software engineer with ultra-long context. Sauna is the general coworker for the rest of your work — it remembers your projects, connects to your tools, and acts across web, Slack, email, and iMessage.
Magic (magic.dev) is a frontier-model lab building an autonomous AI software engineer, known for ultra-long context that can reason over enormous codebases. It raised around $320M in 2024 and is research-stage rather than a broadly available product.
The difference: A frontier coding model, versus a coworker across your whole stack.
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Built around your work.
General
Beyond the codebase
Sauna isn't a coding model. It does the work around the code — the research, the docs, the tickets, the follow-ups — across every function on your team.
Memory
It remembers your work
Your projects, people, and decisions, kept across sessions, not just a long context over one repo.
Everywhere
Every surface
Web, iMessage, Slack, email, and Superhuman, shared with the whole team.
In context
It knows your work, and acts on it.
Sauna remembers your projects and the people in them, connects to the tools your team runs, and finishes the task — across the web app, Slack, email, iMessage, and Superhuman.
Good to know
Questions, answered.
Can Sauna write code like Magic?
Sauna reads files, runs code, and opens pull requests across your tools. For frontier autonomous engineering over massive codebases, a specialist like Magic goes deeper; Sauna is the generalist for everything around it.
Who is Sauna for beyond engineers?
The whole team. Sauna works for sales, ops, marketing, and founders, remembering the shared context and acting across the tools each role uses.
Is my data safe?
Sauna reads only what you connect, and acts only after you approve. Your workspace and its memory are yours, not training data.
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