| Self-host difficulty | ModerateOfficial Docker self-host: docker run with a mounted socket plus separate sandbox runtime images and config — heavier than single-binary CLI agents; rating pending measured install on reference tier |
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| Deploy | Docker, Kubernetes, NativeDocker self-host; VMs/cloud infra |
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| Scaling | DistributedMultiple backends; verify |
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| Config complexity | — |
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| Min vCPU (measured) | 1 vCPUFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-2gb (1 vCPU / 2 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-211316, 2026-08-26, via our own one-click preset. Installed and served its workspace over HTTPS on a single vCPU, though load average sat at 1.88 immediately after startup. |
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| Min RAM (measured) | 2 GBFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-2gb (1 vCPU / 2 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-211316, 2026-08-26, via our own one-click preset. Used 1151 MB of 1967 MB usable at idle, so unlike the four CLI agents this one does NOT fit a 1 GB box — 2 GB is the floor we proved, and the margin above it is thin. It is the heaviest agent we have measured. |
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| Idle RAM (measured) | 846 MBFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-2gb (1 vCPU / 2 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-211316, 2026-08-26, via our own one-click preset. Sum of its own processes at idle, and the shape matters: this is not one daemon but a stack — agent-server 349 MB, an automation uvicorn 344 MB, an openvscode-server 89 MB and a static frontend server 64 MB — plus dockerd and containerd on the host, since the preset requires Docker. Compare openclaw at 278 MB and hermes at 120 MB in a single process. |
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| Infra cost | ModerateFIRST-PARTY: measured on a DigitalOcean s-1vcpu-2gb (1 vCPU / 2 GB, Ubuntu 22.04), harness run 20260826-211316, 2026-08-26, via our own one-click preset. The only agent measured that rules out the cheapest tier. Where claude-code and codex leave a box at its OS baseline, OpenHands occupies most of a 2 GB one before any work starts. |
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| One-click on AgentOcean | YesFIRST-PARTY: production install preset (id: openhands) - ghcr.io/openhands/agent-canvas pinned, loopback-bound, fronted by Caddy with a generated credential surfaced in the dashboard. |
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