Self-hosting.

Self-hosting means running your whole setup, or a single agent, on your own hardware or your own rented server instead of someone else's cloud. You control the machine, it stays on, and your data never leaves it.

That last part is the draw for a lot of builders. With a cloud tool every prompt goes off to a company's servers. When you self-host, the files and the work sit on a box you own.

It pairs naturally with a Local model and open-source weights, since the whole point is keeping everything in-house. The tradeoff is that you're now the one keeping it running, patched, and secure, which a cloud provider would otherwise handle for you. Worth it when control and privacy matter more than convenience.