Metered usage

Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.

Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.

Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.

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.

Serverless GPU platform where Python functions and container images run as autoscaling endpoints, task queues and sandboxes, with on-demand GPU machines beside them.

Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.

Serverless GPU platform for real-time AI workloads, running Python apps and custom Docker containers that scale to zero and bill per second.

DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.

A cloud API that starts isolated Linux microVMs on demand, for an AI agent to run code in.

Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.

Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.

Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.

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 runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.

Huawei's public cloud, selling virtual servers, managed Kubernetes, serverless functions and GPU instances.

French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPUs and serverless Postgres.

Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings — managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.

Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.

Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.

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.

Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.

Container platform that runs customer images on idle consumer GPUs contributed by a distributed network of home and small-business machines.

European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.

Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.

Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.

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.

New Zealand host that sells a container platform on virtual machines at a fixed monthly price and a metered serverless PHP platform built on AWS.