Oracle cloud free tier is worth the effort to set up. It's advised to upgrade to 'pay as you go' to avoid issues with provisioning resources. (Arm based VPS instances are in demand, and free tier users try for months to make an arm instance without success.) In 3 or 4 years i have never paid a cent for 4 cpu cores, 24 GB ram and 200 GB storage.

My goal is to get a open webui + letta + n8n + pgai/supabase + litellm all working together in docker. Having an assistant that maintains awareness of project scope, chats with different team members, and can keep the improvements worked on up to date is invaluable. Not spending 10 turns or having to upload a summary of all prior sessions on a topic to help the assistant pick up from where you left off yesterday is the way forward.

Competitive pricing! This is a net positive effect of serious competition. It's not a race to the bottom scenario, just shifting the paradigm in users favour. o3 mini high vs R1 showdowns are going to flood the news wires this weekend.

I wonder what the performance is like compared to the RAT? https://github.com/Doriandarko/RAT-retrieval-augmented-thinking