Best platforms for running agents 24/7
Running an agent around the clock is an operations problem: the agent has to stay up, recover from failures, and scale with load. Managed platforms and agent-hosting infrastructure both take that on, unlike a framework you have to operate yourself.
How this ranking is built
Included when the category is “managed” or “hosting” (something that keeps the agent running for you). Ranked by the editorial scalability dimension, then overall score.
The editorial score is our opinion, applied by one published rubric to every platform. See the methodology.
In brief
Best platforms for running agents 24/7 ranks 9 platforms by a transparent rule. Included when the category is “managed” or “hosting” (something that keeps the agent running for you). Ranked by the editorial scalability dimension, then overall score. Fly.io Machines currently leads; every row shows the value behind its place.
- 13.7/5
Fly.io Machines
HostingScalability 5/5 · Editorial score 3.7/5
- 23.5/5
Modal
HostingScalability 5/5 · Editorial score 3.5/5
- 34.0/5
Relevance AI
ManagedScalability 4/5 · Editorial score 4.0/5
- 43.8/5
Zapier Agents
ManagedScalability 4/5 · Editorial score 3.8/5
- 53.7/5
E2B
HostingScalability 4/5 · Editorial score 3.7/5
- 63.3/5
Alfe
ManagedScalability 3/5 · Editorial score 3.3/5
- 73.2/5
AutoGPT
ManagedScalability 3/5 · Editorial score 3.2/5
- 82.5/5
Lindy
ManagedScalability 3/5 · Editorial score 2.5/5
- 91.7/5
MyClaw
ManagedScalability 2/5 · Editorial score 1.7/5
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