CompareWaken or a VPS
Waken or a VPS
for your agent?
A VPS works, and you become its administrator. Here is what changes when the machine is run for you.
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| A VPS | Waken | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Install the system, the runtime, the agent and a process manager | Pick a harness and a model. Ready in 0.12 s |
| Cost while idle | Paid around the clock | Sleeps after five minutes, sleeping is free |
| Coming back | Always on, or a slow cold start | Wakes in 0.08 s with its memory |
| Undo a mistake | Your own backups, if you set them up | A checkpoint every 15 minutes, rewind in 0.14 s |
| Talk to it | SSH, or build your own bot | Dashboard, Telegram, Discord, Slack, CLI and API |
| Browser or phone | Set up a desktop and remote access yourself | A checkbox, with a live view |
| Spend control | None by default | A spend cap per agent |
| Host maintenance and patching | Yours to do | Handled by Waken |
Which one
to choose.
When a VPS is the better choice
You need full control of the server, public services that take incoming traffic, or infrastructure for work that is not an agent.
When Waken is the better choice
You want long-lived agents without maintaining the server they run on.
0.12s
to start a new agent
0.08s
to wake a sleeping one
0.14s
to rewind to a checkpoint
Questions
and answers.
Keep
reading.
- Running AI agents on Waken vs on your laptopAgents on your laptop stop when the lid closes and can touch all your files. Here is how a Waken agent compares, with its own machine in the cloud.
- Run Claude Code in the cloud, 24/7Host Claude Code on its own cloud machine. It keeps its files and memory, sleeps when idle, wakes in 0.08 s, and answers from Telegram, Slack or your terminal.
- A secure sandbox for every AI agentRun each AI agent in its own virtual machine, with checkpoints every 15 minutes and one-click rewind. Encrypted at rest, hosted in Europe.
- Run AI agents on a schedule or from webhooksWake a persistent AI agent on a schedule or from a webhook. It runs the task with its files and memory, reports back, and goes back to sleep.