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Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

49 points rociiu 1 hour ago 20 comments

rociiu 1 hour ago | parent

Hi HN! I built Talorys, an open-source personal AI agent that runs entirely in your own Cloudflare account.

The idea came from wanting a personal AI assistant that I could own and control, without paying a monthly subscription or relying on someone else's hosted service.

Talorys uses Cloudflare Workers, Workers AI, Durable Objects, and Pages to provide:

AI chat with persistent memory and conversation history Task, note, and project management Scheduled reminders and recurring automations A responsive web interface accessible from any device Password-protected access with no signup or external accounts One-command deployment: npx create-talorys@latest Everything runs in your Cloudflare account. Your data stays under your control, and there's no telemetry or third-party backend operated by me.

It's designed to work within Cloudflare's free-tier limits for personal use. You don't need to manage a VPS, database server, or Docker containers.

The biggest challenge was making deployment simple enough that someone could set up their own AI assistant without manually configuring Cloudflare services.

The project is still early, and I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially on the architecture, security, and what would make a self-hosted personal AI agent genuinely useful.

GitHub: https://github.com/rociiu/talorys

It's MIT licensed. Contributions and suggestions are welcome!

onionisafruit 1 hour ago | parent

This is a neat idea, but I wouldn’t say you aren’t relying on someone else's hosted service. Cloudflare isn’t a public utility quite yet.

muvlon 1 hour ago | parent

So instead of relying on someone's hosted service, this is relying on someone's 4 hosted services?

rvz 58 minutes ago | parent

> without paying a monthly subscription or relying on someone else's hosted service.

But you are hosting it on Cloudflare? There is always a cost when running on someone else's platform that advertises itself as 'free-tier' and it can change at any moment.

felixgallo 53 minutes ago | parent

That’s great! Where do I download cloudflare?

plusfour 38 minutes ago | parent

from the internet

TheSkyHasEyes 11 minutes ago | parent

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

deanc 1 hour ago | parent

This is the first I’m hearing about Cloudflare’s worker AI product. I see they provide 10,000 neurons a day on the free tier. What on earth is that?

martheen 49 minutes ago | parent

10k neuron is roughly 0.11 USD for the usage https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricin...

pcthrowaway 21 minutes ago | parent

Looks like it's about 4M input tokens or 0.5M output tokens with their cheapest model `@cf/meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct`

With `@cf/qwen/qwen3.8-27b` it's 240K input tokens and 34,000 output tokens

flufluflufluffy 53 minutes ago | parent

This might sound kinda crazy, but I define “self-hosted” as something that I host myself.

Narretz 28 minutes ago | parent

Where do you draw the line? Some SaaS acceptable? VPS? Bare metal? Or your own server in your own home?

vrganj 23 minutes ago | parent

IMO physical hardware in your own material possession, so only the last of your examples.

loveparade 19 minutes ago | parent

I think it's a pretty clear line. Self hosted means you can run it locally in your home, using a saas platform or vps is just a convenience, not a requirement.

brainless 6 minutes ago | parent

To me, "self-hosted" means, either I use a rented hardware or I use a purchased hardware.

If the software can be switched to a rented or purchased hardware (I do not want Cloudflare's offering) then it is "self-host-able" IMO.

I think there are open source Cloudflare alternative hosting software.

StrLght 52 minutes ago | parent

There's nothing self-hosted about relying on Cloudflare for _literally_ everything.

TheSkyHasEyes 22 minutes ago | parent

Sure, but this is a free thing for some to play around with. Nothing literal, reliant or histrionic about it. :)

1dom 44 minutes ago | parent

I'm not sure I understand the use-case or target audience for this. Selfhosted on cloudflare is a great oxymoron though.

hung 20 minutes ago | parent

Careful with Cloudflare's "free" AI tier if you use paid workers. I was never able to get an answer on why I was billed for their confusing neuron usage for stuff that should have been covered under their usage limits. Their customer support just ignored my ticket. Apparently it's a known issue that they don't give a shit based on discussions in their support Discord.

OsrsNeedsf2P 6 minutes ago | parent

I got my bill reversed after having an AI agent pester them long enough