Every device needs the app
Friend's laptop, school computer, work machine with no install rights — if you can't install the client and sign in, you can't reach your own PC.
Where Parsec users hit walls
Gaming-first means desktop-second
Parsec is built around game streaming. Day-to-day remote desktop work — files, terminal, multi-monitor juggling — isn't the focus.
The features you want keep being paid
Higher color quality and the pro-grade options sit behind subscription tiers aimed at teams.
How Axiom handles it
01
Install once, on the host only
Your PC gets a short connect ID. The devices you connect from need nothing but a browser.
02
Type the ID, enter the password
That's the whole connection flow, on any device that can open a web page.
03
Game or work — same session
Low-latency gaming mode when you play; files, clipboard, terminal, and multi-monitor when you don't.
Axiom
What Axiom does differently
The browser is the client
No per-device installs, no signing into an app on hardware you don't own. If it runs a browser, it's a screen for your PC.
One tool for play and work
A complete remote desktop with a gaming mode, instead of a game streamer that tolerates desktop use.
An ID, not an account wall
Connecting is a short ID plus a password — closer to calling a phone number than logging into a service on both ends.
No port forwarding, managed routing
Direct encrypted connections when networks allow, automatic relay when they don't. Nothing to configure on either side.
Parsec is a polished product with years of tuning, and this page makes no benchmark claims against it. The differences described are about design and access model.
Honest answers
Questions people actually ask
Can Axiom match Parsec's latency?
Parsec's low latency is real and earned. Axiom's gaming mode is built on the same principles — graphics-card video encoding and a dedicated input channel — and our early-access program exists to prove the numbers honestly per network and device rather than promise them on a landing page.
Does Axiom support co-op / letting a friend join my game?
Shared-control sessions like Parsec's party mode aren't in the current build. Full remote control of your own PC is. If couch co-op over the internet is your main use, tell us on the waitlist — demand moves the roadmap.
Can I use Axiom today?
Axiom is in early access. Join the waitlist and tell us what you want to connect from and to — we invite small groups of testers every week, starting with people whose setup we can support well.
How much will Axiom cost?
Personal use will stay generous and there will be a free tier. Early testers get launch discounts. Final pricing is not locked yet, and we will not surprise the waitlist with it.
