ChatGPT Workspace Agents vs a Local Team Agent Stack

By LLM Hardware team · Methodology ·

Key facts

Product
Shared team agents. Not personal dots.
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No connector list is quoted on this page.
Shared 32B Q4
21.2 GB once, plus KV cache per seat
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2026-10-13

Checked 2026-10-13. Author: LLM Hardware team. This site does not store or show Amazon prices. Check current price on Amazon.

Citeable facts

Key fact: Workspace Agents are OpenAI’s shared team agents. They are not personal dots.

How we got it: Announcement URL: openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/. A re-fetch on 2 October 2026 timed out, so this page does not invent a connector or pricing list.

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Key fact: A team box should hold one shared 32B Q4 (about 21.2 GB) with room left, which is why 48–128 GB unified memory is the recommendation rather than one 24 GB card per seat.

How we got it: 32 × 0.5 × 1.2 + 2 = 21.2. Seats share the server. They do not each need a full second copy unless you choose to load one.

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Key fact: dots access, separately, is Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise on the dots feature page.

How we got it: chatgpt.com/features/dots/, read the same day. Used here only to keep the products apart.

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Methodology — parameter math, quantization bytes, and the source list.

OpenAI’s Workspace Agents announcement is the team product: shared agents for a Business, Enterprise, or Edu workspace, with workflows and connectors running in OpenAI’s cloud. Developer docs are indexed at developers.openai.com/workspace-agents. A re-read of the announcement on 2 October 2026 timed out. This guide does not fill that gap with a feature list from secondary blogs. Stick to those two primary URLs for anything more specific than “shared, cloud, for a team.”

Do not mix this up with dots

dots are personal always-on agents on GPT-6 Astra. Workspace Agents are the thing an admin shares across a company. Some coverage also says “ChatGPT Work.” This guide does not use that label. If a setting in your workspace uses a different name next month, the hardware advice on this page still applies: a team sharing one local model needs a bigger memory pool than a person running one dot replacement.

OpenAI’s version needs no GPU in the office. The moment the requirement is “the transcripts stay on our LAN,” you are shopping a server, not a ChatGPT seat.

One LAN, one model, many seats

The local setup this guide recommends:

  1. vLLM or Ollama on a single host, one model loaded.
  2. Open WebUI with accounts for the people who should see it. This is the stable multi-user door in that project’s own docs.
  3. OpenBot if you need named channels, per-agent permissions, and a browser container. It expects Postgres and a model you configure. It does not bundle one.
  4. CrewAI or LangGraph for the workflow itself, calling that same local endpoint.

Five people do not mean five copies of a 32B model. They mean five KV caches against one resident weight set. The weights are the 21 GB. The caches are why a 24 GB card that “fits 32B” falls over when the second person pastes a long document.

Size the box for the group

Seats Shared model Machine
One person, pilot 7B Q4, 6.2 GB, or 27B Q4, 18.2 GB 16–24 GB. Fine for a demo. Not a department.
A small team, shared 32B 21.2 GB of weights 48–64 GB unified so two or three long chats do not evict the model.
Team plus retrieval plus a bigger model 32B or a 70B Q4 at 44 GB 96–128 GB. Check the calculator before you promise 70B to the group.

MoE models do not get cheaper because only some experts fire. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is about 284B total and 13B active. The active count is speed. The total is the disk and the RAM. A team server that “only uses 13B” and then OOMs is a planning bug, not a hardware failure.

The box in the verified catalog

Soldered LPDDR5X, no CUDA, bandwidth around 256 GB/s theoretical. It is the right memory size and the wrong expectation if someone on the team wants data-center tokens per second. This guide does not quote a speed. A 24 GB single GPU is a pilot, then you outgrow it the week a second person pastes a spec. Check current price on Amazon.

GMKtec EVO-X2 128 GB on Amazon

ASIN B0F53MLYQ6. Amazon Associates link. The live price is on that page, not locked in here.

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