# Everruns vs Claude Managed Agents

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> Own your durable agents, or rent them.

Both give you a durable harness so agents resume long-running work after restarts. The difference is *where it runs and who holds the state*: Everruns is open-source infrastructure on your own PostgreSQL across any model provider; Claude Managed Agents is a hosted service on Anthropic’s infrastructure, tied to Claude.

- **Everruns** — Open-source, self-hostable infrastructure your company’s AI agents run on. (MIT, Self-host, Provider-neutral, Durable)
- **Claude Managed Agents** (Anthropic) — Anthropic’s hosted harness for running Claude as a long-running agent. (Anthropic-hosted, Claude-only, Usage-priced)

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## Which should you choose?

### Use Claude Managed Agents if…

- You are all-in on Claude models and want zero infrastructure to run.
- A hosted, Anthropic-operated control plane is exactly what you want.
- You want Anthropic’s first-party tuning and support behind the harness.

### Use Everruns if…

- You need to run on your own infrastructure, or keep session state in your own database.
- You want to mix or switch model providers without re-platforming.
- You have data-residency or compliance constraints (ZDR / HIPAA / sovereignty).

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## Side by side

| Dimension | Everruns | Claude Managed Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| License | Yes — MIT, end to end — runtime *and* operator console. | No — Proprietary, Anthropic-operated. |
| Self-host the platform | Yes — Runs on your own PostgreSQL. No vendor control plane in the path. | Partial — Sandboxes can run on your infra; the control plane and harness are Anthropic-hosted only. |
| Model providers | Yes — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Fireworks, OpenRouter, Azure — via the Open Responses spec. | No — Claude models only. |
| Durable long-running sessions | Yes — Rust + PostgreSQL durable engine; every session survives restarts, with no wall-clock ceiling. | Yes — Stateful by design; sessions persist server-side and resume after pauses. |
| Deployment surfaces | Yes — Slack, web chat, scheduled jobs, webhooks, A2A, MCP, and a plain HTTP API. | Partial — HTTP API, scheduled runs, and MCP. |
| Multi-tenancy & controls | Yes — Multi-tenant orgs, permissions, envelope-encrypted secrets, and budgets. | Partial — Scoped permissions, identity, and credential vaulting — inside Anthropic’s platform. |
| Operator console | Yes — Operator console built in — watch, pause, and operate running agents. | Partial — Tracing and analytics in the hosted Claude Console. |
| Pricing model | Yes — Free and self-hostable. Managed Cloud is in development. | Partial — Usage-based: standard Claude token rates plus a per-session-hour runtime fee. |
| Data residency & compliance | Yes — Your infrastructure, your database. You hold the state and the keys. | No — State is stored server-side; not eligible for Zero Data Retention or a HIPAA BAA. |

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## Where Everruns is different

### Own the control plane

The durable engine and operator console run inside your perimeter, on your own PostgreSQL — not behind a vendor API. Managed Agents keeps the harness and state on Anthropic’s side.

### Provider-neutral by design

Everruns speaks the Open Responses spec across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Fireworks, OpenRouter, and Azure. You are not locked to one lab’s models — or one lab’s roadmap.

### You hold the data

Because state lives in your database, sovereignty, retention, and audit are yours to set. That is precisely the ground Managed Agents cannot cover today (no ZDR, no HIPAA BAA).

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## Where Claude Managed Agents is strong

- **Zero infrastructure.** Nothing to run or scale — Anthropic operates the control plane, sandboxes, and state for you.
- **First-party Claude.** The harness is tuned by the team that builds the models, and ships with Anthropic’s support and marquee production users.

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## Run durable agents on infrastructure you own.

Everruns is MIT-licensed and self-hostable today. Clone it, point it at your PostgreSQL, and ship agents to every channel — across any model provider.

GitHub: https://github.com/everruns/everruns
Docs: https://docs.everruns.com/
Everruns Cloud — the fully managed edition — is in development. Join the launch list at https://everruns.com/cloud.

_Claude Managed Agents facts verified July 2026 against:_
- [Claude Managed Agents overview](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/overview)
- [Anthropic launch announcement](https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents)