Bhatti
Shares rank 5 of 6 microvm runtimes by recommenders
Free, self-hostable Firecracker orchestrator that runs isolated VMs for AI agents and pauses idle ones to free memory.
Free, self-hostable Firecracker orchestrator that runs isolated VMs for AI agents and pauses idle ones to free memory.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Used for AI agent workloads
“I've been running it daily on a Hetzner server for my AI agents' browser automation”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents” “I have been using it for orchestrating parallel work”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines” “I now run bhatti for my own agents”
Comment from 3 May 2026 in “Show HN: Bhatti – Self-hostable Firecracker orchestrator with auto pause/wake” Positive first impressions
“Bhatti looks really cool! Well done!”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud” “this looks amazing at first blush”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud” “I am really enjoying bhatti!”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines” Easy to use, ergonomic CLI
“Bhatti is easy to use, so powerful, and handy!”
Comment from 4 May 2026 in “Show HN: Bhatti – Self-hostable Firecracker orchestrator with auto pause/wake” “bhatti's cli looks very ergonomic! great job!”
Comment from 17 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines” Self-hosted, you own the runtime
“I've been running it daily on a Hetzner server for my AI agents' browser automation”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents” “owning the runtime means I own everything I build on top of it too”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: Bhatti – self-hosted runtime for your harness engineering”
Other microvm runtimes people recommend
The four most recommended other microvm runtimes, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firecracker | 78 | 20 | 80% | 12 | — | Approved |
| smolvm by smolmachines | 28 | 9 | 76% | 10 | — | Approved |
| smolmachines | 27 | 3 | 90% | 6 | — | Approved |
| libkrun | 13 | 6 | 68% | 7 | — | Approved |
| BhattiThis page | 8 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's the friction part that discourage uses of such tools, not their usefulness.”
“owning the runtime means I own everything I build on top of it too”
“Bhatti is easy to use, so powerful, and handy!”
“I now run bhatti for my own agents”
“this looks amazing at first blush”
“Bhatti looks really cool! Well done!”
“Idle VMs snapshot to disk and free all RAM automatically.”
“I am really enjoying bhatti!”
“bhatti's cli looks very ergonomic! great job!”
“I have been using it for orchestrating parallel work”
“I've been running it daily on a Hetzner server for my AI agents' browser automation”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.