I Built a 24/7 AI Agent System on a $6/Month VPS — Here's the Stack

Dev.to / 4/28/2026

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The article explains how the author deployed a 24/7 autonomous AI agent on a low-cost Hetzner VPS (€3.9/month) using an open-source agent framework (OpenClaw).
The agent stack combines DeepSeek V4 Pro accessed via NVIDIA NIM API with Playwright/Python browser automation, wrapped in Docker for isolation.
It runs continuous workflows including posting to Twitter/X every 5 minutes, publishing Dev.to articles every 30 minutes, managing a Gumroad store, and sending targeted promotions.
The author highlights DeepSeek V4 Pro’s features (notably a tested 1M-token context and dual think/non-think modes) and claims it is about 5x cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 for typical agent tasks.
The result is reported as 89 AI productivity guides packaged and sold “on autopilot,” with a full setup playbook linked for replication.

Running a fully autonomous AI agent on Hetzner VPS (€3.9/mo).

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5x cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 for typical agent workloads.

89 AI productivity guides packaged and selling on autopilot.

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