| Self-host difficulty | EasyFIRST-PARTY: official install.sh one-liner (the same script our production preset runs), then provider API key config; see /learn/self-host-hermes-agent |
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| Deploy | NativePython; runs on any small VPS per public guides; confirm first-party |
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| Scaling | Single processVerify |
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| Config complexity | Moderatemodel config is a YAML mapping (provider/default/base_url/api_mode), not a simple string; wiring a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible endpoint requires knowing that OPENAI_BASE_URL is honored only for the openai-api provider (not the generic "custom" provider) — a non-obvious caveat only confirmed via a direct docs full-text-dump grep after an earlier AI-drafted citation about this mechanism turned out to be fabricated |
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| Min vCPU (measured) | 1 vCPUFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-1gb (1 vCPU / 1 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-195645, 2026-08-26. Installed, verified and answered a live completion on a single vCPU. The install is the slow part, not the running: 300s on one core versus 240s on two. |
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| Min RAM (measured) | 1 GBFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-1gb (1 vCPU / 1 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-195645, 2026-08-26. Proven floor: all tiers passed on a 1 GB box including a live model completion, with 500 MB still available at idle. Below 1 GB is untested. |
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| Idle RAM (measured) | 120 MBFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-1gb (1 vCPU / 1 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-195645, 2026-08-26. Resident set of the hermes gateway process (a Python venv) 30s after a completion; whole-box use was 460 MB. Barely moves under load — the working-set sample was 122 MB — which is the clearest contrast with openclaw in this data. |
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| Infra cost | Very lowFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-1gb (1 vCPU / 1 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-195645, 2026-08-26. The lightest resident agent measured: ~120 MB, flat under load, leaving half of a 1 GB box free. Its cost is install time, not runtime. |
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| One-click on AgentOcean | YesFIRST-PARTY: production install preset in src/lib/products.ts (id: hermes) — runs the official install.sh at checkout |
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