A CLI is usually the API with a friendlier surface, and it is what a deployment pipeline actually calls. Whether the provider maintains it or a third party does is recorded on the record itself: a community tool can be excellent and it can also stop being updated the week its author loses interest, which is a different risk from an official one.
76 providers ship a command-line tool, listed alphabetically. Mostly gpu cloud, platform as a service and serverless, of 13 categories in all. 103 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
- Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
- Appwrite
Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
- AWS Lambda
Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.
- Azure
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
B
- Back4App
Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
- Baseten
AI inference platform offering token-priced model APIs and dedicated GPU deployments of customers' own models, billed per minute and able to scale to zero.
- Beam
Serverless GPU platform where Python functions and container images run as autoscaling endpoints, task queues and sandboxes, with on-demand GPU machines beside them.
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- Cerebrium
Serverless GPU platform for real-time AI workloads, running Python apps and custom Docker containers that scale to zero and bill per second.
- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
- Clever Cloud
French platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.
- Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.
- cloudscale.ch
Swiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
- Contabo
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
- Craft Cloud
Serverless hosting for Craft CMS built by Pixel & Tonic, the company that makes the CMS, and sold per project rather than per account.
- Crusoe
US AI infrastructure company renting GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and model inference from its own data centers.
D
- Deno DeployOne we like
Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
- DigitalOceanOne we like
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
- DigitalOcean Functions
DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.
- Diploi
Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.
- Divio
Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.
E
- E2B
A cloud API that starts isolated Linux microVMs on demand, for an AI agent to run code in.
- Elestio
Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.
- Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
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- Firebase
Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.
- Fly.io
Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.
- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
G
- Galaxy
Container hosting for Meteor.js, Node.js, Python and AdonisJS apps, billed by the container-hour, from Meteor Software.
- Gigalixir
Gigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.
- GitHub PagesOne we like
Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
- Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.
- Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.
H
- here.now
Static hosting that turns an agent's files into a live URL, with no account needed for a temporary one.
- Heroku
Heroku is a polyglot PaaS — the original "git push to deploy" platform, now a business unit of Salesforce.
- HetznerOne we like
Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.
- HOSTAFRICA
Pan-African host with storefronts in five countries, running cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting out of South African facilities.
- Hostinger
Hostinger is a Lithuanian budget host selling shared, cloud, and VPS hosting plus a website builder, all administered through its own hPanel control panel.
- Hugging Face
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
- Hypernode
Dutch platform built for Magento and Shopware, descended from Byte's engineering and now part of team.blue.
J
- Jarvislabs
Indian GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, framework containers, managed model endpoints and a token-priced model API, billed by the minute.
K
- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPUs and serverless Postgres.
L
- Laravel Vapor
Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications on AWS Lambda, sold as a flat subscription on top of the customer's own AWS bill.
- Latitude.sh
Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
- Liara
An Iranian cloud platform selling platform-as-a-service, virtual servers and managed databases, priced and billed in Iranian rial.
M
N
- Nebius
Amsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.
- NetlifyOne we like
Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.
- Nhost
Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
- Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
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P
- PlanetHoster
Franco-Canadian host with data centres in Paris, Lausanne and Montreal, letting a customer pick the location per project.
- Ploi CloudOne we like
Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.
- Pressable
Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.
R
- RailwayOne we like
Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.
- Render
Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.
- Runpod
US GPU cloud renting containerized GPU Pods, serverless GPU endpoints and hosted model APIs.
S
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Scaleway Functions
European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.
- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- Sesterce
French GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, bare-metal servers and inference endpoints by the hour from a prepaid balance.
- statichost.eu
Swedish static site host that clones any git repository, builds it in a Docker image of your choosing and serves the output from European infrastructure without logging visitors.
- Supabase
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
- SurgeOne we like
Static publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.
T
- Thunder Compute
GPU cloud renting NVIDIA GPU instances by the minute, managed from a CLI, an editor extension or an MCP server.
- Tigris
Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.
U
- Upsun
Upsun is the PaaS formerly known as Platform.sh. Projects are described in YAML and billed per resource, on top of a per-project and per-user fee.
V
- Vast.ai
US marketplace where independent hosts rent out GPU machines as containers or virtual machines at prices they set.
- VercelOne we like
Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.
- Verda
Finnish GPU cloud selling GPU virtual machines, multi-node clusters and serverless containers from data centers in Helsinki.
W
- Walrus
Decentralized storage protocol from Mysten Labs and part of the Sui stack, with a site-hosting layer served through public portals such as wal.app.
- WasmerOne we like
WebAssembly runtime company whose edge platform runs applications compiled to WASM, PHP among them, close to the visitor.
- WPServeur
French host that accepts WordPress and nothing else, with SSH, WP-CLI and git, metered by sites, storage and visits.
Z
- Zeabur
Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
Which of these providers is best?
We can't tell from here. A host that suits a small agency site can be wrong for an API with users in Asia and Europe. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it. The guide covers what to compare.