Both are open source runtime & deploy options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence.
Paradigm's self-hosted control plane: one shared team agent, an isolated k8s sandbox per Slack thread, and no raw API keys in the agent's environment.
Brings your own harness — it runs Claude Code, Codex or Amp inside the sandbox rather than replacing them. Credential boundaries mean the agent calls approved services without ever holding the key.
Your existing cluster. Nothing new for the platform team to approve.
| Centaur | Kubernetes | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Open source | Open source |
| Pricing | open source | open source |
| Self-hostable | Yes | Yes |
| Languages | Any language | Any language |
| Install | — | — |
| Keys required | None | None |
Both are open source runtime & deploy options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence. Centaur: Paradigm's self-hosted control plane: one shared team agent, an isolated k8s sandbox per Slack thread, and no raw API keys in the agent's environment. Kubernetes: Your existing cluster. Nothing new for the platform team to approve.
Centaur can run on your own infrastructure. Kubernetes can run on your own infrastructure.
Centaur is open source (open source). Kubernetes is open source (open source).
Every page here answers to Accept: text/markdown and returns the same content at roughly a tenth the tokens. No separate site, no toggle — same URL.
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