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Buried in there, note you can opt to self-host your sandbox https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/environments/self-hosted https://developer
by 6thbit 2mo ago
Buried in there, note you can opt to self-host your sandbox
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/environments/self-hosted https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/env...
That makes this much more enticing, and potentially eases transition between providers.
- dakolli 2mo agoThen why tf do i need their api
- Havoc 2mo agoFor the lock in
- agentdev001 2mo agoNative integration with their SDK.
- cube00 2mo agoGoing to be GitHub self hosted runners all over again, you pay for the API and also pay for your own self hosting.
- phoghed 2mo agoThis is every enterprise service at this point. Let’s look at my enterprise search provider. We self host so pay for the infrastructure. We provide/pay for the models for embeddings or any LLM stuff. We still pay them consumption based prices.
- dannyw 2mo agoSome people/companies/whatever might like the convenience and scalability of managed solutions, especially if you're say, just building something simple like a Slack bot with your custom workplace tools/data. Yes, the lock-in is real and only good for OpenAI, but there's absolutely demand for managed services where you defer the responsibility of security patching; scaling; uptime, etc to a third party provider. Just like why people use AWS/GCP/etc over bare metal in a colo.
- andrewguenther 2mo agoThe self-hosted environment is just the backend for shell calls the agent wants to make. The inference bits, thread persistence, and (optionally) mcp/tool calls happen from the API.
- Koffiepoeder 2mo agoCan potentially have private networking advantages, e.g. internal api's.