VC-backed
Combine filters →Venture funding buys generous free tiers, fast product development and prices that do not have to cover costs yet. All of that is real while it lasts, and it is paid for by an expectation of a return: an acquisition, a listing, or a repricing.
15 providers are vc-backed, listed alphabetically. Across 20 countries, commonest entry price $15 to $50 a month. 96 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- Deno DeployOne we like
Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
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- exe.devOne we like
Ubuntu VMs in seconds over SSH, sold as a pool of capacity rather than as machines, and aimed as much at agents as at people.
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- Hugging Face
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
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- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPU instances and serverless Postgres.
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- Modal
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
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- 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.
- 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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- 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.
- Replit
Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
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- Supabase
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
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- 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.
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- Webflow
Webflow is a visual design platform that hosts sites and provides a built-in CMS.
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- 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.