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Coder
✓ verifiedFreemium
Self-hosted cloud development environments and AI-agent governance, letting enterprises run coding agents on their own infrastructure.
👁 208K/mo♥ 41
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Defang
✓ verifiedFreemium
Developer tool that deploys Docker Compose apps (with LLMs and databases) into your own AWS, GCP or Azure account via one command.
👁 20K/mo
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.
👁 35M/mo♥ 69K
Pricing
No public pricing
Community: $0 (open-source, self-hosted, unlimited workspaces)
Free trial available
Starter: $0 (1 cloud account)
Pro: $49/mo (1 account, +$29/mo per extra)
Enterprise: $499/mo (3 accounts, +$49/mo per extra)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
- ✦Self-hosted workspaces with desktop and web IDEs
- ✦Coder Agents run coding agents on isolated infrastructure
- ✦AI Governance gateway for LLM usage control
- ✦SSO (OpenID Connect) and role/group sync
- ✦Audit logging and resource quotas
- ✦Multi-organization access controls
- ✦High availability and workspace proxies
- ✦One-command deploy from Docker Compose
- ✦Deploys into your own or a customer's cloud account
- ✦Native managed LLM access (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure AI)
- ✦Managed Postgres, MongoDB and Redis
- ✦Auto-configured IAM, VPC, TLS and load balancing
- ✦Open-source CLI and cloud providers
- ✦Chat-to-app and website generation
- ✦Real-time prototype building
- ✦One-click deploy and hosting
- ✦Templates to start projects
- ✦Credit-based building with shared workspaces
- ✦You own your code and data
Use cases
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
- →Standardize developer environments
- →Run AI coding agents securely on-prem
- →Enforce governance and compliance
- →Cut VDI costs
- →Speed up developer onboarding
- →Shipping AI agents and web apps to production
- →Deploying the same app across many customer clouds
- →Agencies deploying into client cloud accounts
- →Avoiding hand-written Terraform or Kubernetes
- →Build web apps without coding
- →Prototype product ideas quickly
- →Create landing pages and sites
- →Ship internal tools
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