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

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

I'm pretty excited by self hosted agents or maybe just self hosted MCPs to allow remote agents like Dots or Muse gated access to your data. Amazon blocks Muse/Dots but they can't block every DO or Cloudflare egress IP.

For all the people complaining this isn’t self hosted, it’s open source - it’s a relatively minor tweak to replace the AI calls to point to a local model server. Everything else runs locally via wrangler. It’s less than 20 minutes of work by hand, less than a minute to ask AI to do this.

It’s a weird complaint for people who supposedly like hacker culture.

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.

Durable Objects are the coolest thing I have seen in a while. Code and its data locked away together, frozen when not in use, but ready to go in milliseconds when a request comes in. They are so damn useful.

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

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?

Couldn’t seem to load the screen shot? GitHub being weird https://github.com/rociiu/talorys/blob/main/docs/screenshots...

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

This is great. If this was available a few years ago, I would have looked at this and similar projects to see if I should base my personal use service on. Why send your sometimes relatively private info elsewhere to be profiled? Why not have software that solves for your needs?

As is, I have already been running my own service (with no intent to open source) for years where I decide features, tools and UX that suits me. My UX is substantially different from these chat boxes. It is also multi-user by design. It still needs time investment but the tradeoff is worth for me. Over time, I expect this threshold to keep getting lower and increasing percentage of folks to cross it.

Generally, as that happens with the cost and time to build software trending lower, I think it will be interesting to watch how this dynamic evolves. For example, is it possible "personal OS" systems could emerge that solve the users' needs? I have created many smallish solutions for my needs recently, but they aren't unified in any way and I personally don't have a desire to be that [human] OS.

For those questioning (rightly) the "self-hosted" description, I suspect its a poorly-worded attempt to clarify there is no third-party requirement (eg. the repo is not cloudflare-owned) beyond your own cloudflare account.

Sometimes these "open source" services are a bit misleading as there is a coupling to the org providing them; I think the OP here just means there's nothing extra needed beyond whatever cloudflare commitment you already have.

Claude suggested the same approach for something very similar I asked and ended up deploying and using. Quite useful and snappy architecture (never used workers or durable objects). Definitely not self-hosted but whatever, I think you got the msg from all other comments.

I built it without having a chatbot interface cause I don't see much of the point, like I didn't see the improvement in usefulness 5 years ago re "natural language" task creation a la todoist.

Did a side project on Workers and the self host test for me was whether I could run it off Cloudflare at all. Durable Objects and KV bindings meant no, so it was really just deploy it yourself.

> Your personal AI agent. Your own cloud.

Sorry, I don't own any cloud.

In any case, I think the generally accepted definition of self-hosting has broadened

Cloudflare worker AI is verrrrry slow for user interactive use cases. Fine for background jobs or evals.

Isn't it a free tier until they decide you should start paying or leave?

Neat. Gonna have to give this a try.

FYI. Give Claude a cf key. Done. All work is now a prompt.

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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!