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Zeabur
✓ verifiedFreemium

Cloud deployment platform for developers that auto-detects code and frameworks to ship apps, servers, and AI-hub services with one push.

455K visits/mo72 saves
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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 visits/mo
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Pump
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Free cloud cost-optimization platform that pools buying power to give startups enterprise-level AWS, GCP, and Azure discounts.

64K visits/mo3.2K saves
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exa.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

Search, crawling and research API built for AI agents, with token-efficient results and structured web-data enrichment.

761K visits/mo1.7K saves
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ImageKit
✓ verifiedFreemium

ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.

1.0M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo (1 manageable server)
Dev: $5/mo (first 14 days free, 3 servers)
Pro: $19/mo (first 14 days free, 10 servers)
Team: $79/mo (3 seats included, +$24/seat/mo)

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

Free: $0 (20,000 requests/mo)
Search: $7/1k requests
Contents: $1/1k pages
Deep Search: $12-15/1k requests
Monitors: $15/1k requests
Agent: $0.012-$1.00/run

No public pricing

Free trial available

Core features
  • Automatic language and framework detection and deployment
  • Git-push CI/CD with zero configuration
  • Auto-scaling compute resources
  • Built-in object storage similar to S3
  • One-click managed VPS purchase
  • Unified AI Hub API for multiple AI models
  • Domain and DNS management
  • In-browser file management console
  • 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
  • Automated cloud spend optimization
  • Group buying for enterprise discounts
  • Cost visibility and insights dashboards
  • Coverage across AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • No-cost service model
  • Web search API tuned for agents
  • Full-page contents with token-efficient highlights
  • Asynchronous agents for deep research and enrichment
  • Structured outputs with grounded citations
  • Web monitors that track new events on a schedule
  • Zero data retention and SOC 2 Type II controls
  • Real-time image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
  • AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
  • Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
  • AI-powered digital asset management
  • Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
  • SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
Use cases
  • Developers deploying apps without manual server config
  • Teams wanting predictable, fixed-plan hosting costs
  • Startups needing quick CI/CD pipelines
  • Projects needing bundled AI model access alongside hosting
  • 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
  • Reducing startup cloud bills
  • Automating reserved-capacity savings
  • Gaining visibility into multi-cloud spend
  • Accessing enterprise pricing without scale
  • Give coding agents current docs and repo context
  • Power chatbots with real-time web answers
  • Enrich company and people data at scale
  • Monitor the web for fresh events
  • Speeding up website and app media performance
  • Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
  • Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
  • Adaptive video streaming
  • Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations
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