Ship agents, not infrastructure
Self-hosting AI agents means months of DevOps before your first production agent. With Connic, you deploy in minutes and focus on building, not operations.
Feature Comparison
See how Connic stacks up against Self-Hosting across key capabilities.
Time to Production
First agent deployed
Connic: 5 minutes. Self-hosting: days to weeks of infrastructure setup.
CI/CD pipeline
Built into Connic. Self-hosting requires GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD setup.
Container orchestration
Managed by Connic. Self-hosting needs Kubernetes expertise.
Zero cold starts
Connic optimizes startup. Self-hosting requires tuning and warm-up strategies.
Operations & Maintenance
Auto-scaling
Automatic with Connic. Self-hosting needs HPA, VPA, or custom autoscaling.
Zero-downtime deploys
Built into Connic. Self-hosting requires rolling update configuration.
Automatic rollbacks
One-click in Connic. Self-hosting needs rollback procedures and testing.
Log aggregation
Built-in. Self-hosting needs ELK, Loki, or CloudWatch setup.
Uptime monitoring
Included. Self-hosting needs Prometheus, Grafana, or external monitoring.
24/7 on-call
Connic handles incidents. Self-hosting means your team is on-call.
Security
Secrets management
Built-in encrypted secrets. Self-hosting needs Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.
TLS/SSL certificates
Automatic with Connic. Self-hosting needs cert-manager or Let's Encrypt setup.
Network isolation
Managed by Connic. Self-hosting needs VPC, security groups, network policies.
Security patches
Automatic. Self-hosting requires regular patching of OS, containers, dependencies.
SOC 2 compliance
Connic is SOC 2 compliant. Self-hosting requires your own audit and certification.
Integration & Connectivity
Webhook endpoints
Built-in with signing and validation. Self-hosting needs custom implementation.
Queue consumers
Kafka, SQS, Redis built-in. Self-hosting needs consumer infrastructure.
Cron scheduling
Native scheduler. Self-hosting needs CronJobs or external scheduler.
WebSocket support
Built-in with connection management. Self-hosting needs sticky sessions, scaling config.
Observability
Distributed tracing
Automatic. Self-hosting needs Jaeger, Zipkin, or Datadog setup.
Run history
Built-in dashboard. Self-hosting requires custom implementation.
Token/cost tracking
Automatic. Self-hosting needs custom metering and accounting.
Alerting
Included. Self-hosting needs PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or similar integration.
Why teams choose Connic
Key advantages that make Connic the better choice for production AI agents.
Deploy in Minutes, Not Months
Skip the Kubernetes learning curve. Push code, agents run. No infrastructure to build or maintain.
Predictable Costs
One bill for everything. No surprise charges for compute, storage, monitoring, and DevOps hours.
Enterprise-Grade Security
SOC 2 compliant, encrypted secrets, automatic patching. Security that would take months to build yourself.
Automatic Scaling
Handle traffic spikes without Kubernetes expertise. Connic scales from 1 to 10,000 requests automatically.
Focus on Agents, Not Ops
Your team builds AI features instead of debugging Kubernetes. Every engineer-hour goes to product.
Always Up-to-Date
Latest security patches, performance improvements, and features without upgrade projects.
The Real Cost of Self-Hosting
Self-hosting looks cheaper until you count DevOps time, on-call burden, and opportunity cost. See our detailed guide to replacing self-hosted AI agents.
Use Connic when
- You want to ship agents fast without infrastructure delays
- Your team is engineers, not DevOps specialists
- You'd rather build features than manage Kubernetes
- You want predictable costs without surprise cloud bills
- You need enterprise security without the compliance project
- You don't want to be on-call for your agent infrastructure
Use Self-Hosting when
- You have strict data residency requirements (on-premise only)
- You have existing Kubernetes expertise and want to use it
- You need complete control over every infrastructure component
- You're running at scale where self-hosting is genuinely cheaper
- Regulatory requirements mandate self-hosted infrastructure