Deploy personal AI agents with Cloud Run instances

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Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents?

Consider AI agents such as OpenClaw or Hermes, which are intended for individual developers or personal use.

Cloud Run services scale to zero when requests stop, so they aren't ideal for a long-lived agent that expects exactly one copy to be running continuously.

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Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents? Consider AI agents such as OpenClaw or Hermes, which are intended for individual developers or personal use. Cloud Run services scale to zero when requests stop, so they aren't ideal for a long-lived agent that expects exactly one copy to be running continuously.

How it works

the alternative — running a dedicated VM — means paying for full compute 24/7, managing operating system updates, opening firewall ports, and provisioning your own HTTPS endpoints.
Cloud Run instances provide dedicated, singleton compute runtimes on Cloud Run.
Runs just one instance with no autoscaling Up to 7-day continuous runtime, with automatic restart policy configured by default Every instance gets a HTTPS URL that remains unchanged across updates and restarts.
You can stop each instance when you aren't using it and resume it whenever you need it The cost to run a Cloud Run instance with 1 vCPU and 1 GiB of memory continuously for 30 days is </...

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