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Most “best VPS for AI agents” lists are copied from pricing pages. Ours starts from a production system: we run Hermes Agent (Nous Research, open source) around the clock as a working Slack-resident agent, and we measured what it really uses.
| Item | Measured | What it means for your VPS |
|---|---|---|
| Gateway process (Slack, Socket Mode, resident) | 337 MB RSS, ~1% CPU | The always-on part is light. RAM, not CPU, is your constraint. |
On-disk footprint of ~/.hermes | 11 GB total — but 7.2 GB of that is cache. Core install (agent 640 MB + tools 1.5 GB + installs 964 MB) is ~3.8 GB; state.db 1.3 MB, sessions 1.1 MB | A 25 GB SSD plan works if you prune cache; 40 GB+ is the comfortable size. Disk growth is cache, not your agent's memory. |
| Host it runs on | 4 vCPU (AMD EPYC), 7.9 GB RAM total for the whole VM (all services, not Hermes alone) | A 2 GB plan runs one agent comfortably; 4 GB if you add browser automation, Docker sandboxes, or a second agent. |
| Provider | 2 GB plan | 4 GB plan | Why it is here | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr | $10/mo (1 vCPU, 55 GB SSD, 2 TB) | $20/mo (2 vCPU, 80 GB SSD, 3 TB) | Cheapest honest 2 GB tier, 30+ locations incl. Tokyo, hourly billing | Check Vultr |
| DigitalOcean | $12/mo (1 vCPU, 50 GB SSD, 2 TB) | — | Best docs and community answers when you get stuck at 2 a.m. | Check DigitalOcean |
| Hostinger VPS | from ~40–60% affiliate-backed discounts vary | — | Lowest entry price for beginners who want a panel, not a terminal | Check Hostinger |
Prices are the providers' public list prices at check date, excluding tax and promos. We have not been paid to rank any provider first; the order follows price-per-GB for the agent use case. Providers we actually run in production are marked in the full guide. Affiliate links will be activated only after programme approval — placeholders above are inert.