A curated list of Alt Clouds — non-hyperscale cloud providers delivering specialized infrastructure and services.

Alt Clouds provide value "as a service" directly on top of infrastructure. They cater to specific workloads, compliance requirements, and developer needs, offering transparency, automation, and critical services with public SLAs.

• Criteria
• Infrastructure Clouds
• Sovereign Clouds
• Unikernels & WebAssembly
• Data Clouds
• Workflow and Operations Clouds
• Network, Connectivity and Security Clouds
• Vibe Clouds
• Developer Happiness Clouds
• Authorization, Identity, Fraud and Abuse Clouds
• Monetization, Finance and Legal Clouds
• Customer, Marketing and eCommerce Clouds
• IoT, Communications, and Media Clouds
• Blockchain Clouds
• Source Code Control
• Cloud Adjacent
• Future Clouds

Services in this list are evaluated against 3 criteria:

1. Transparent Public Pricing - Publicly visible pricing page
2. Usage-based Self-Service - Self-service signup with usage-based billing
3. Production Indicators - Public SLA or status page

Legend: 🟢 = All 3 criteria met | 🟡 = 2 of 3 criteria met

Services meeting at least 2 of 3 criteria are included. Scoring is based on manual evaluation of well-known services and automated checks for new submissions.

The original "alt clouds" providing everything from virtualized and bare metal compute to GPU's, storage, and inference services.

• 🟢 Aethir - Provides secure, cost-effective access to enterprise-grade GPUs worldwide through a distributed cloud compute infrastructure.
• 🟢 Anyscale - Distributed computing platform built on Ray for scaling AI and Python apps.
• 🟢 api.video - Developer-first video API for encoding, hosting, streaming.
• 🟢 Atlantic.net - Experienced hosting company offering a variety of compute and GPU infrastructure services.
• 🟢 Axiom - Cloud service provider.
• 🟢 Banana.dev - Serverless GPU platform for ML model inference with pay-per-millisecond pricing.
• 🟢 Baseten - Enables fast, reliable model inference with flexible deployment options, including self-hosted and hybrid.
• 🟢 Beam - Cloud infrastructure specifically built for high-performance applications and developer happiness.
• 🟢 Browserbase - A platform for running headless browsers for interact with websites via automation.
• 🟢 Cerebrium - Serverless GPU infrastructure for deploying ML models with auto-scaling.
• 🟢 Civo - Provides cloud services with a focus on simplicity and developer experience.
• 🟡 CoreWeave - A cloud platform optimized for AI, offering high-performance GPU compute and managed services.
• 🟢 Crusoe Energy - Energy-efficient GPU computing using stranded and renewable energy sources.
• 🟢 Cudo Compute - Offers decentralized cloud computing with GPU support for AI applications.
• 🟢 Cycle.io - Provides a container orchestration platform for deploying applications.
• 🟢 Datacrunch.io - Provides affordable GPU cloud services for AI training and inference.
• 🟢 DataPacket - Offers high-performance infrastructure for bandwidth-intensive applications.
• 🟢 Digital Ocean - Provides cloud computing services with simplicity and scalability.
• 🟢 E2E Cloud - Offers cloud infrastructure with GPU instances for AI and machine learning.
• 🟢 exe.dev - Modern VM hosting with sub-second starts and persistent disks. Built for AI coding agents with built-in HTTPS/auth and sharing.
• 🟢 Fal.ai - Provides serverless GPU inference for AI models with instant deployment.
• 🟢 FluidStack - Offers decentralized GPU cloud computing for AI and rendering workloads.
• 🟢 FriendliAI - Fast AI inference platform with 2-3x speed boost. Deploy 490K+ models instantly. Serverless & dedicated GPU options. 99.99% SLA.
• 🟢 Gcore - Delivers edge and cloud services with global infrastructure.
• 🟢 Genesis Cloud - Offers sustainable, high-performance GPU cloud computing for AI workloads.
• 🟢 GMI Cloud - Provides GPU cloud services optimized for AI and deep learning tasks.
• 🟡 Hetzner - Provides dedicated servers and cloud services in Europe.
• 🟢 Hivelocity - Experienced provider of VPS and bare metal solutions.
• 🟢 HydraHost - Affordable GPU compute focused on researchers and indie developers.
• 🟢 Hyperbolic - Offers scalable GPU compute for AI applications with a focus on performance and cost-efficiency.
• 🟢 Hyperstack - Cloud GPU and AI platform for building, training, and deploying custom AI models.
• 🟢 IONOS Cloud - Cloud infrastructure with a focus on public, bare metal, and managed Kubernetes solutions.
• 🟢 Lambda Labs - Delivers on-demand access to NVIDIA GPUs for AI training and inference.
• 🟢 Latitude.sh - Provides global bare metal servers for developers.
• 🟢 LeaderGPU - Provides high-performance GPU servers for rent, optimized for AI tasks.
• 🟢 LeaseWeb - Full service hosting provider with a background in dedicated and managed servers.
• 🟢 Linode - Provides cloud computing services designed for developers with straightforward pricing.
• 🟢 Lyceum - EU built and operated GPU cloud for developers and AI teams.
• 🟢 Modal - A serverless platform for AI and data teams to run compute-intensive applications without managing infrastructure.
• 🟢 Nebius - Provides AI-centric cloud infrastructure with large-scale GPU clusters and managed services.
• 🟢 NeevCloud - India-based GPU cloud offering secure, scalable AI compute.
• 🟢 NetActuate - Provides hybrid cloud and edge computing solutions with a global network.
• 🟢 NextGen Cloud - Delivers sustainable, high-performance cloud infrastructure for AI workloads.
• 🟢 Openmetal.io - Delivers on-demand private cloud infrastructure based on OpenStack.
• 🟡 OVH Cloud - Global cloud provider offering compute, storage, and network solutions.
• 🟡 Paperspace - Cloud computing with GPU support for AI development and deployment. Now owned by DigitalOcean.
• 🟢 Parasail - Serverless GPU platform to run custom AI models easily.
• 🟢 QBO - GPU Cloud at the Edge & Beyond - Delivering high performance, streamlined infrastructure, and flexible AI/ML deployment.
• 🟢 Rackspace - Provides hybrid cloud and managed hosting services.
• 🟢 Runpod - Provides customizable GPU containers and secure cloud compute environments.
• 🟢 Salad - A platform for leveraging latent consumer compute resources to power workloads.
• 🟢 Scaleway - European cloud provider with a wide range of services including servers, storage, and AI tools.
• 🟢 Seeweb - Italian cloud infrastructure provider offering compute, storage, and CDN.
• 🟢 Servers.com - Global bare metal and private cloud platform supporting AI/ML compute.
• 🟢 Shadeform - GPU compute provider with a focus on low-cost AI infrastructure.
• 🟢 Spheron Network - Decentralized GPU/CPU network for AI and Web3 with 44,000+ nodes across 170+ locations.
• 🟢 Sustainable Metal Cloud - Green-focused GPU cloud with a sustainability-first infrastructure model.
• 🟢 TensorDock - Affordable, usage-based GPU cloud platform for model training.
• 🟢 TensorWave - An AI cloud focused on AMD technology including MI325X and MI300X accelerators.
• 🟢 Thunder Compute - Provides on-demand GPU instances with RTX A6000, A100, and H100 options at competitive pricing, featuring VS Code integration and one-click deployment for ML development.
• 🟢 Turboscale - AI-native cloud infrastructure for fine-tuning and inference.
• 🟢 Upsun - An application hosting platform from the team at Platform.sh.
• 🟢 Vast.ai - Marketplace for buying and selling GPU compute capacity at competitive rates.
• 🟢 Voltage Park - AI cloud with 24,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and InfiniBand clusters for large-scale training.
• 🟢 Vultr - Full services cloud and hosting provider with an expanding range of solutions globally.

Cloud platforms designed to ensure data residency, regulatory compliance, and national control over infrastructure—often tailored for governments, public sector, or regulated industries.

• 🟢 FPT Vietnam - Investing $200 million to build an AI factory serving as a sovereign cloud, featuring NVIDIA's latest technologies to bolster Vietnam's digital sovereignty.
• 🟢 GMO GPU Cloud - Offers GPU cloud services in Japan, providing scalable AI computing with NVIDIA's latest GPUs, ensuring data residency and compliance.
• 🟢 Jottacloud - Norwegian cloud storage service operating under Norway's strict privacy laws, providing an alternative to US-based cloud services with guaranteed data residency.
• 🟢 metalstack.cloud - Open-source managed Kubernetes on bare metal in Germany with physical tenant isolation and GDPR compliance.
• 🟢 Ola Krutrim - Developing India's first sovereign AI cloud, offering scalable GPU-accelerated services and domestically designed AI chips to empower AI workloads.
• 🟢 Reliance - Indian conglomerate with plans to develop sovereign cloud infrastructure to support the country's digital initiatives and data localization requirements.
• 🟢 Sakura Internet - Japanese cloud provider partnering with Equinix to offer GPU-based cloud services, supporting the growing demand for AI and ensuring data sovereignty.
• 🟢 T-Systems - German IT services and consulting company providing sovereign cloud solutions to ensure data protection and compliance with European regulations.
• 🟢 Yotta - Indian data center and cloud services provider focusing on security, compliance, and innovation.

Platforms leveraging unikernel and WebAssembly technologies for lightweight, secure, and efficient cloud-native applications.

• 🟢 Cosmonic - A distributed compute mesh built on CNCF's wasmCloud, enabling secure, declarative deployments of WebAssembly applications across diverse environments.
• 🟢 KraftCloud - A next-generation cloud platform powered by unikernels, offering millisecond-scale operations and high-density deployments for efficient computing.
• 🟢 NanoVMs - Provides a unikernel platform that allows deploying applications as secure, isolated virtual machines, enhancing performance and security.
• 🟢 Puter - A privacy-first personal cloud that houses all your files, apps, and games in one secure place, accessible from anywhere at any time.
• 🟢 SingleStore - Real-time database combining transactions and analytics with vector search capabilities.
• 🟢 Wasmer - Offers a universal WebAssembly runtime that enables running applications safely and efficiently across various platforms, from desktop to cloud and edge.

Services for data storage, processing, analytics, and observability.

• 🟢 Airbyte - Open-source data integration platform with 600+ connectors and CDK for custom integrations.
• 🟢 Algolia - AI-powered search and discovery API with NeuralSearch and semantic understanding for <50ms search speed.
• 🟢 Storadera - European S3 compatible cloud storage with predictable pricing, no egress fees, and multi-region infrastructure for backup, AI, and cloud workloads.
• 🟢 Aiven - Offers managed open-source data infrastructure, including databases and messaging systems, on all major clouds.
• 🟢 Amplitude - Provides product analytics to help teams understand user behavior and build better products.
• 🟢 BetterStack - Combines monitoring, logging, and incident management into a single platform for developers.
• 🟢 CedarDB - Modern columnar database for real-time analytics.
• 🟢 Checkly - Application reliability platform unifying testing, monitoring, observability, and incident management with Playwright-based synthetic monitoring.
• 🟢 Chronosphere - Delivers a scalable observability platform designed for cloud-native environments, helping teams control costs and improve reliability.
• 🟢 ClickHouse - An open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system for real-time analytics using SQL queries.
• 🟢 Cockroach Labs - Develops CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database for building global, scalable cloud services.
• 🟢 Convex - Reactive backend platform with real-time database and serverless functions.
• 🟢 Comet - AI observability and evaluation platform with tracing, human annotation, and automated evaluation for LLM applications.
• 🟢 Coralogix - Ingest all your data, store it indefinitely on your cloud, and query across all types with a unified syntax.
• 🟢 Couchbase - Offers a distributed NoSQL cloud database for mission-critical applications.
• 🟢 Databricks - Provides a unified analytics platform for big data and AI, built on Apache Spark.
• 🟢 Datadog - A monitoring and security platform for cloud applications.
• 🟢 dbt Labs - Empowers data practitioners to transform data in their warehouses by developing, testing, and documenting analytics code.
• 🟢 Diffbot - Uses AI to build a knowledge graph of the web, enabling businesses to extract and understand web data.
• 🟢 Ditto - An edge-native, mobile database that thrives on mobile and edge devices.
• 🟢 Domo - Provides a cloud-based platform for business intelligence and data visualization.
• 🟢 DuckDB - An in-process SQL OLAP database management system designed for fast analytical queries.
• 🟢 Dynatrace - Offers a unified observability and security platform powered by AI, providing analytics and automation for multicloud environments.
• 🟢 Elastic - Provides search-powered solutions for observability, security, and enterprise search.
• 🟢 Fathom - Privacy-focused web analytics platform offering real-time insights without cookies or invasive tracking.
• 🟢 Firebolt - Delivers a cloud data warehouse designed for high-performance analytics.
• 🟢 Fivetran - Automated data integration platform with 300+ connectors and zero-maintenance ETL pipelines.
• 🟢 FullStory - Offers digital experience analytics to understand and improve user interactions.
• 🟢 Gel - Next-generation graph-relational database with modern query language.
• 🟢 Grafana - An open-source platform for monitoring and observability, enabling visualization of metrics, logs, and traces.
• 🟢 groundcover - eBPF-based observability platform with BYOC architecture for logs, metrics, and traces.
• 🟢 Hasura - Instantly generates GraphQL APIs over new or existing PostgresSQL databases.
• 🟢 Heap - Automatically captures user interactions to provide insights into user behavior without manual tracking.
• 🟢 Honeycomb - An observability platform that helps engineering teams understand, debug, and improve complex systems.
• 🟢 Highlight - Open-source fullstack monitoring platform with session replay, error monitoring, logging, and traces.
• 🟢 Hydrolix - A streaming data lake that ingests and processes high-volume, high-cardinality log data in real time, providing scalable storage and query capabilities with cost-efficient resource utilization.
• 🟢 InfluxData - Purpose-built time-series database for cloud, on-premises, and edge deployments.
• 🟢 Kentik - Provides network observability solutions for performance monitoring and security.
• 🟢 LogRocket - Replays user sessions to help developers understand and fix issues faster.
• 🟢 Logz.io - Offers an open-source observability platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing applications.
• 🟢 Materialize - Streaming SQL database for real-time data transformation and analytics.
• 🟢 Meilisearch - Rust-based open-source search engine with hybrid search capabilities and typo-tolerant fast search.
• 🟢 Mezmo - Provides a central observability platform to control, enrich, and correlate machine data for faster business decisions.
• 🟢 Mixpanel - Delivers product analytics to help teams build better products through data-driven decisions.
• 🟢 Momento - Serverless caching with instant scaling, no cluster management, compatible with Redis clients and Memcached protocols.
• 🟢 MongoDB - Offers a general-purpose, document-based database designed for modern application development.
• 🟢 MotherDuck - Serverless analytics platform powered by DuckDB with cloud collaboration.
• 🟢 Neo4j - A graph database platform for connected data applications.
• 🟢 Neon - Provides a serverless PostgresSQL with autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
• 🟢 New Relic - An observability platform that unifies metrics, events, logs, and traces for full-stack monitoring.
• 🟢 OpenStatus - Open-source status page and monitoring platform for tracking API and website uptime worldwide.
• 🟢 Planetscale - A serverless database platform built on Vitess, offering scalability and reliability for MySQL databases.
• 🟢 Plausible - Lightweight, privacy-focused web analytics platform without cookies, offering essential metrics in an intuitive dashboard.
• 🟢 PostHog - An open-source product analytics platform that can be deployed on-premises.
• 🟢 Prisma - Provides a next-generation ORM for Node.js and TypeScript.
• 🟢 QuestDB - Open-source time-series database with ultra-low latency and SQL support.
• 🟢 ReadySet - SQL caching engine that sits between app and database for performance.
• 🟢 Redpanda - Kafka-compatible streaming data platform with built-in identity controls and policy enforcement for AI workloads.
• 🟢 Redis - An in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker.
• 🟢 Rivery - No-code data integration platform with visual workflows and 150+ connectors with built-in transformations.
• 🟢 Sentry - Application monitoring platform for error tracking, performance monitoring, and session replay to identify and resolve code issues.
• 🟢 Snowflake - A cloud data platform offering data warehousing, data lakes, and data sharing capabilities.
• 🟢 Splunk - Provides a platform for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data.
• 🟢 Steampipe - Query APIs and cloud services using SQL with instant data access.
• 🟢 Storadera - European S3 compatible cloud storage with predictable pricing, no egress fees, and multi-region infrastructure for backup, AI, and cloud workloads.
• 🟢 Sumo Logic - Offers cloud-native machine data analytics for real-time insights into operations and security.
• 🟢 Supabase - An open-source Firebase alternative that provides a backend-as-a-service.
• 🟢 SurrealDB - Multi-model database for web, mobile, serverless, and cloud applications.
• 🟢 Teradata - Specializing in providing solutions for data warehousing, analytics, and big data analytics.
• 🟢 TigerData - PostgreSQL-based time-series database with compression and continuous aggregates.
• 🟢 Tigris - A globally distributed S3-compatible object storage service that enables developers to store and access any amount of data.
• 🟢 Tinybird - Real-time data platform for building instant APIs over streaming and batch data.
• 🟡 Turso - Distributed SQLite database with global edge replication.
• 🟢 Typesense - Open-source typo-tolerant search engine with <50ms speed. Self-hosted or cloud options available.
• 🟢 Upstash - Serverless Redis and Kafka with per-request pricing, global replication, and REST API for edge computing workloads.
• 🟢 Wasabi - A S3-compatible object storage service for use with AI, content delivery, backup, and archiving workloads with no egress or API fees.
• 🟢 Weights & Biases - AI developer platform for experiment tracking, model management, evaluation, and observability for ML and LLM applications.
• 🟢 Xata - Serverless database platform with built-in search and analytics.

Services that provide tools for asset tracking, workflow automation, and automated resolution to enhance operational efficiency.

• 🟢 Alloy Automation - Embedded iPaaS with unified APIs for 400+ apps, enabling native integrations and AI agent connectivity.
• 🟢 Dagster - Unified control plane for building, scaling, and observing AI and data pipelines with orchestration and quality monitoring.
• 🟢 Fastn - AI-powered embedded integration platform for building unified APIs from multiple data sources.
• 🟢 Inngest - A platform for AI and backend workflows that helps developers build AI-ready step functions without touching infrastructure.
• 🟢 Kestra - Open-source orchestration platform for event-driven workflows.
• 🟢 Mabl - AI-native test automation with self-healing tests. Agentic tester handles creation, execution, and maintenance. Enterprise-grade.
• 🟢 Miter - All-in-one platform for payroll, HR, expenses, and field operations management.
• 🟢 n8n - An open-source workflow automation tool that lets you connect and orchestrate various apps, APIs, and services using a visual editor.
• 🟢 PagerDuty - A platform for automating critical operations work.
• 🟢 Prefect - Workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
• 🟢 Ryvn - BYOC deployment platform for SaaS startups in customer clouds and on-premises.
• 🟢 ServiceNow - A cloud-based platform that streamlines digital workflows for enterprise IT, customer service, and HR operations.
• 🟢 Temporal - Durable execution platform for reliable workflows with automatic failure recovery.
• 🟢 Tines - No-code automation platform for security operations and IT workflows.
• 🟢 Windmill - Open-source developer platform for building internal tools by writing scripts in multiple languages and composing them into workflows.
• 🟢 Zapier - A no-code automation platform that connects thousands of apps to automate repetitive tasks between web services.

Services for managing network workloads, including acceleration, security, and connectivity.

• 🟢 Akamai - A global content delivery and cybersecurity platform that helps secure and accelerate digital experiences at the edge.
• 🟢 Approximated - Custom domain proxy platform with global edge servers, SSL management, and DDoS protection.
• 🟢 Aviatrix - Provides a cloud-native networking platform with advanced multi-cloud transit, security, and observability features.
• 🟢 Boundary - HashiCorp's secure remote access to systems and services.
• 🟢 c/Side - A next generation web security service that monitors, optimizes and secures 3rd party scripts.
• 🟢 Cloudbrink - Delivers hybrid access-as-a-service with high-performance connectivity, zero trust security, and edge-native networking for remote users.
• 🟢 Cloudflare - Protects and accelerates websites and apps through global CDN, DDoS mitigation, Zero Trust access, and DNS services.
• 🟢 CrowdStrike - A cloud-native cybersecurity platform that provides endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and incident response powered by AI.
• 🟢 Fastly - An edge cloud platform designed for performance and security, enabling developers to build faster, more secure digital experiences.
• 🟢 Fortinet - Provides integrated cybersecurity solutions including next-gen firewalls, secure SD-WAN, and endpoint protection.
• 🟢 Kong - An open-source API gateway and microservices management layer that provides traffic control, security, and observability for APIs.
• 🟢 LocalXpose - Secure tunneling service supporting HTTP, TLS, TCP, UDP with custom domains and SSL.
• 🟢 Macrometa - An edge delivery network and developer platform built for real-time use cases.
• 🟢 Megaport - Offers elastic interconnection services that allow businesses to rapidly connect to cloud providers, data centers, and networks.
• 🟢 NetBox Cloud - A managed solution for network infrastructure modeling and documentation, providing a scalable and secure platform for network automation.
• 🟢 Netmaker - A WireGuard-based virtual networking platform that enables fast, secure, and scalable networking for devices and distributed systems.
• 🟢 Netskope - A cloud-native security platform that protects users, apps, and data with visibility and control across SaaS, IaaS, and the web.
• 🟢 Operant - Provides runtime protection for cloud-native applications using graph-based detection and real-time observability.
• 🟢 Pangolin - Secure app exposure via WireGuard tunnels with identity-aware access control.
• 🟢 Pomerium - Identity-aware access proxy for securing internal apps.
• 🟢 StrongDM - Zero-trust access platform for infrastructure and databases.
• 🟢 Subspace - Dedicated network-as-a-service for real-time applications with global private fiber-optic network. Reduces latency up to 80% and packet loss by 99% for voice, video, gaming, and real-time apps with WebRTC acceleration and SIP proxy.
• 🟢 Tailscale - A zero-config VPN built on WireGuard that makes secure networking between devices as easy as logging in.
• 🟢 Teleport - Zero trust infrastructure access platform with cryptographic identity and least privileged access.
• 🟢 Twingate - Provides a modern zero-trust networking solution to securely connect people to private apps and services without VPNs.
• 🟢 Versa Networks - Delivers integrated SASE and SD-WAN solutions for secure, scalable, and simplified enterprise networking.
• 🟢 Wiz - A cloud security platform that gives full-stack visibility into cloud infrastructure and prioritizes risk across workloads, containers, and identities.
• 🟢 zrok - Zero-trust tunneling platform for instant private or public sharing of applications, files, and services with automatic TLS and built-in security features.
• 🟢 Zscaler - Zero trust SASE platform with AI-driven cybersecurity and cloud protection.

AI-powered tools that enhance creativity, productivity, and interaction through prompt engineering and conversational interfaces.

• 🟢 AssemblyAI - Offers powerful speech-to-text and AI APIs for transcription, summarization, content moderation, and more.
• 🟢 Base44 - An all-in-one AI platform to easily build fully functioning apps without coding.
• 🟢 Bluedot - Bot-free AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and generates notes with automatic CRM updates.
• 🟢 Character.ai - Lets users interact with and create AI-driven characters for entertainment, education, and companionship.
• 🟢 ChatGPT by OpenAI - OpenAI's conversational AI model that generates human-like text, answers questions, and assists with a wide range of tasks.
• 🟢 Chatsonic - An AI chatbot built on top of GPT that includes real-time search data and voice interaction capabilities.
• 🟢 Claude - An AI assistant from Anthropic focused on safe, helpful, and honest interactions, suitable for creative and technical workflows.
• 🟢 Codev - A development assistant that uses AI to generate, analyze, and debug software code efficiently.
• 🟢 Cohere - Enterprise AI platform with language models for automation, data insights, and custom solutions.
• 🟢 DeepAI - Offers a suite of open AI APIs for developers, including text, image, and moderation tools.
• 🟢 Deepseek - Provides developer tools and research models for AI-powered coding, content generation, and reasoning tasks.
• 🟢 E2B - Secure sandboxes for AI code execution with filesystem, networking, and long-running process support for AI agents.
• 🟢 ElevenLabs - AI text-to-speech with ultra-realistic voices in 32+ languages, voice cloning, and conversational agents.
• 🟢 Elicit - An AI research assistant that helps automate tasks like literature reviews and hypothesis testing for academics and researchers.
• 🟢 Fireworks.ai - Delivers high-speed, cost-effective inference APIs with support for open-source models.
• 🟢 Gadget - Full-stack framework with built-in database, auth, and deployment.
• 🟢 GitHub Copilot - An AI-powered coding assistant developed by GitHub and OpenAI that suggests code snippets as you type.
• 🟢 Groq - Provides ultra-fast inference on custom hardware designed for AI workloads.
• 🟢 Helicone - Open-source LLM observability and monitoring platform.
• 🟢 Laminar - Observability and analytics platform for LLM applications.
• 🟢 Layer 9 - AI network engineer that configures, monitors, and repairs network devices with 24/7 automation.
• 🟢 LeptonAI - Provides infrastructure and tools to build and deploy AI models at scale.
• 🟢 Lightning.ai - Build, train, and deploy AI models with powerful tools and scalable infrastructure.
• 🟢 Marblism - Generate full-stack web apps from a single prompt.
• 🟢 NeuBird - An autonomous AI SRE platform.
• 🟢 Parahelp - AI support agent that automates complex customer support tickets end-to-end for software companies.
• 🟢 Perplexity - An AI-native search engine that answers questions with citations and real-time data.
• 🟢 Playground - A tool for exploring and experimenting with generative AI across text, code, and image generation.
• 🟢 Poe - A multi-AI chat interface by Quora that enables access to models like Claude, GPT-4, and more in one app.
• 🟢 Prismic - A headless CMS for developers to build and manage dynamic websites using modern frameworks and custom content APIs.
• 🟢 Replicate - Run machine learning models in the cloud with an API.
• 🟢 Replit - Collaborative browser IDE with instant deployment and multiplayer coding.
• 🟢 Resolve.ai - An agentic AI SRE from the co-creators of OpenTelemetry.
• 🟢 Retool - A low-code platform to build custom internal tools quickly with pre-built components and database integrations.
• 🟢 Softgen - Provides tools to automatically generate code, documentation, and tests to speed up software delivery.
• 🟢 StackBlitz - Instant full-stack dev environments running entirely in the browser.
• 🟢 Supertrace AI - AI-powered network engineer platform for automating IT network management and infrastructure operations.
• 🟢 Surfer AI - Uses AI to generate SEO-optimized content and blog articles with built-in search analysis tools.
• 🟢 Tavus - AI-powered conversational video platform with real-time face-to-face AI humans.
• 🟢 Together.ai - Open-source foundation model infrastructure with collaborative fine-tuning.
• 🟢 v0 - AI-powered UI generation from text prompts to React code.
• 🟢 Windsurf - An AI powered coding engine and IDE that is an alternative to GitHub Copilot. Formerly Codeium.

Cloud-based platforms for creating, testing, and shipping software, including for infrastructure automation.

• 🟢 Bolt - A browser-based AI development environment that lets you generate, edit, and deploy full-stack applications instantly using natural language prompts.
• 🟢 browserless - Headless browser automation platform providing managed Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit browsers for scraping, testing, and automation with bot detection bypass and CAPTCHA solving.
• 🟢 Bubble - No-code visual programming platform for building web and mobile apps with drag-and-drop interface and usage-based pricing.
• 🟢 Cloudsmith - Cloud-native artifact management supporting 30+ formats with security scanning, policy engine, and global CDN delivery.
• 🟢 Coder - Offers self-hosted cloud development environments that provision and manage workspaces, enabling developers to code from anywhere with enhanced security and scalability.
• 🟢 CopilotKit - Open-source framework and infrastructure for building in-app AI copilots and agents.
• 🟢 Cursor - An AI-enhanced code editor that integrates directly with your codebase to provide suggestions and automate changes.
• 🟢 Cypress - Browser testing framework for modern web applications with AI-powered test generation and self-healing capabilities.
• 🟢 Deno Deploy - Globally distributed edge platform for JavaScript and TypeScript serverless apps.
• 🟢 Depot - Accelerates Docker builds and GitHub Actions with up to 20x faster performance through optimized compute and caching.
• 🟢 DevZero - Delivers production-like cloud development environments using MicroVMs, combining the performance of containers with the isolation of VMs.
• 🟢 Dosu - AI documentation platform that generates, maintains, and shares knowledge from code and conversations.
• 🟢 Fabrica - AI platform that builds internal apps from prompts with database and tooling integrations.
• 🟢 Firefly - A cloud asset management solution powered by Infrastructure-as-Code, assisting DevOps and SRE teams in managing their entire cloud infrastructure efficiently.
• 🟢 Flagsmith - Open-source feature flag and remote config platform with SaaS, self-hosted, or private cloud deployment options.
• 🟢 Flightcontrol - Automates infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, and deployments within your own AWS account, offering full visibility and control.
• 🟢 Fly - Provides a platform to deploy applications globally with low latency.
• 🟢 Gammacode - AI code intelligence platform with CLI/web interface, security scanning, and issue automation.
• 🟢 GitHub - The world's leading platform for version control and collaboration, offering GitHub Codespaces for instant, cloud-based development environments.
• 🟢 GitLab - Managed Git hosting with CI/CD and integrated privacy-first AI workflows.
• 🟢 Gitpod - A platform for automated and standardized development environments, enabling developers to code from anywhere with pre-configured, on-demand workspaces.
• 🟢 HashiCorp Cloud Platform - A fully-managed platform offering HashiCorp products-as-a-service, simplifying infrastructure and security management for developers.
• 🟢 Heroku - Offers a platform as a service (PaaS) for deploying and managing applications.
• 🟢 JetBrains - Intelligent development tools and IDEs including IntelliJ IDEA and Kotlin language.
• 🟢 Kimi AI - Provides AI-powered conversational assistance with visual coding capabilities, agent swarm technology, and deep research tools for enhanced productivity.
• 🟢 Koyeb - Offers a serverless platform to deploy applications globally.
• 🟢 Lightrun - An AI platform to autonomously detect, debug, and remediate runtime issues.
• 🟢 Linear - Purpose-built tool for planning, tracking issues, and managing product roadmaps.
• 🟢 Mesa - AI-powered code review platform with custom agents that learn codebase standards and prevent tech debt.
• 🟢 Mintlify - Modern documentation platform with MDX support, API references, interactive components, and built-in search analytics.
• 🟢 Netlify - Platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications.
• 🟢 Northflank - A platform to build, deploy, and manage full-stack applications.
• 🟢 Notion - All-in-one workspace for notes, docs, wikis, and project management.
• 🟢 Outerbase - A platform for safely interacting with data and databases, now part of Cloudflare.
• 🟢 Pantheon - A platform for running Wordpress, Drupal and Next.js websites.
• 🟢 Platform.sh - Enterprise PaaS to build, run, and scale web applications and microservices.
• 🟢 Porter - A Kubernetes-powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud provider, simplifying the deployment and management of applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 🟢 Portkey - AI Gateway control panel for production apps with unified gateway to 1600+ LLMs, observability, guardrails, and governance. OpenAI-compatible with semantic caching and SOC2/HIPAA/GDPR compliance.
• 🟢 Railway - Deploy code instantly and manage environments in the cloud.
• 🟢 Release - Enables the creation and management of on-demand, ephemeral environments, streamlining development workflows and reducing costs.
• 🟢 Render - Unified cloud platform to build and host apps and websites.
• 🟢 Roboflow - Offers tools for building and deploying computer vision models, simplifying data collection, annotation, and model training for developers.
• 🟢 Shuttle - Rust-native cloud platform for building and deploying backend services.
• 🟢 Tabnine - AI code assistant with private model options.
• 🟢 Tiptap - Headless rich text editor with real-time collaboration, AI content generation, and 100+ extensions.
• 🟢 Ubicloud - An open-source cloud platform that can run anywhere, offering IaaS features on bare metal providers with options for self-hosting or managed services.
• 🟢 Unleash - Enterprise open-source feature management platform with strong RBAC and flexible deployment options.

Services that provide authentication, authorization, identity management, and fraud prevention.

• 🟢 Akeyless - SaaS secrets management with zero-knowledge encryption. Distributed Fragments Cryptography eliminates vault overhead. 70% cost savings.
• 🟢 Aserto - Cloud-native authorization built on Open Policy Agent.
• 🟢 Auth0 - A flexible, drop-in solution to add authentication and authorization services to applications, now part of Okta.
• 🟢 Authzed - Provides fine-grained, scalable authorization as a service, built on the open-source SpiceDB.
• 🟢 Bolster - A platform for preventing and mitigrating phishing and impersonation scams.
• 🟢 Cerbos - Open-source authorization with policy-as-code for access control.
• 🟢 CipherStash - Zero-trust encryption platform with searchable encryption, identity-based access control, and real-time audit trails.
• 🟢 Clerk - Offers a complete suite of embeddable UIs and APIs for user authentication and management.
• 🟢 Descope - An authentication and user manage platform that offers low-code and no-code options.
• 🟢 Doppler - Cloud-based secrets management platform for securely managing and orchestrating credentials across infrastructure.
• 🟢 Duo - Provides multi-factor authentication and secure access solutions to protect users, data, and applications.
• 🟢 Frontegg - Delivers a comprehensive user management platform, including authentication, authorization, and user self-service capabilities.
• 🟢 FusionAuth - Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) with a hybrid, single-tenant deployment option.
• 🟡 Infisical - All-in-one secrets management platform for application secrets, certificates, and SSH keys with dynamic secret generation.
• 🟢 JumpCloud - Offers a cloud directory platform for secure identity, access, and device management across various operating systems.
• 🟢 Keet - Provides authentication solutions for AI agents, enabling them to perform actions on behalf of users across various platforms.
• 🟢 Keycloak - An open-source identity and access management solution for modern applications and services.
• 🟢 Ory - Offers open-source identity infrastructure for authentication, authorization, and user management.
• 🟢 Oso - Authorization framework with policy-as-code (now part of Netflix).
• 🟢 Pangea - Security services API platform for auth, vault, audit, and more.
• 🟢 Permit - Authorization-as-a-Service platform for baking-in access control in minutes.
• 🟢 PropelAuth - B2B authentication and user management for multi-tenant apps.
• 🟢 Sift Science - Utilizes machine learning to provide real-time fraud detection and prevention solutions.
• 🟡 Stytch - Provides APIs and SDKs for passwordless authentication, including email magic links, SMS passcodes, and biometrics.
• 🟢 Warrant - Authorization and access control as a service.
• 🟢 WorkOS - Offers enterprise-ready authentication solutions, including single sign-on and directory synchronization.
• 🟢 Xpander.ai - Backend-as-a-Service for AI agents with managed hosting and function libraries.

Services that provide billing, subscription management, legal and other services to help businesses monetize their products.

• 🟢 Amberflo - A cloud-native platform for metering and billing, enabling businesses to implement usage-based pricing models.
• 🟢 Bill - A comprehensive financial operations platform for bills, invoices, expenses, budgets, and more.
• 🟢 Dodo Payments - Merchant of Record platform for global payments with automated tax compliance in 150+ countries.
• 🟡 Lago - An open-source metering and usage-based billing platform designed for transparency and developer experience.
• 🟢 Lemon Squeezy - The all-in-one platform for SaaS that provides payments, tax & subscriptions.
• 🟢 m3ter - Usage data infrastructure for pricing and billing.
• 🟢 Maxio - Provides billing and financial operations solutions for B2B SaaS companies, helping to streamline revenue management.
• 🟢 Mercury - A financial technology platform that pairs traditional banking with bill payment, invoicing, SAFE's, and other startup tools.
• 🟢 Metronome - Offers a usage-based billing platform that simplifies billing operations and supports various pricing models.
• 🟢 N26 - A 100% mobile bank that's trusted by millions of customers across Europe.
• 🟢 OpenMeter - Open-source usage metering for consumption-based billing.
• 🟢 Orb - Delivers a usage-based subscription management platform that enables flexible pricing and seamless billing.
• 🟢 Recurly - Provides subscription management software and recurring billing solutions for businesses of all sizes.
• 🟢 Salesforce Revenue Cloud - A suite of tools for managing the entire revenue lifecycle, including quoting, billing, and revenue recognition.
• 🟢 Schematic - Feature flags and entitlements for product monetization.
• 🟢 Stigg - Pricing and packaging infrastructure for SaaS monetization.
• 🟢 Stripe - A financial infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept payments, manage subscriptions, and handle billing operations.
• 🟢 Togai - Provides billing infrastructure for usage-based pricing, supporting complex billing scenarios with real-time analytics.
• 🟢 UniBee - Open-source billing and subscription management with usage-based pricing, multi-gateway support, and self-host options.
• 🟢 Wise - A platform for paying and getting paid globally.

Services that help businesses build and track relationships with users and customers across channels.

• 🟢 Attio - An AI-native CRM where you can design workflows, integrate your data and build detailed reports.
• 🟢 Beehiiv - Newsletter platform with integrated monetization, website builder, ad network, and referral programs.
• 🟢 Clarify - An AI-native CRM that unifies customer data, automates tasks, and provides actionable insights to enhance customer relationships.
• 🟢 Customer.io - A unified view of your audience and a single place where unlimited, real-time data can power more effective engagement.
• 🟢 Formbricks - Open-source experience management platform. In-app surveys and user feedback collection.
• 🟢 Front - An AI-powered customer service platform for teams who know great CX drives revenue.
• 🟢 Helpscout - A customer communication platform for businesses that want to treat customers like people.
• 🟢 Hubspot - An AI-powered customer platform to connect your marketing, sales, and customer service.
• 🟢 Klaviyo - A CRM built for B2C that combines marketing, service, and analytics.
• 🟢 Mirakl - Powers platforms by connecting businesses, sellers, systems, partners, data and consumers.
• 🟢 Shopify - An all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business.
• 🟢 Zendesk - A platform that makes it easy for companies and customers to create connections.

Services that provide connectivity, device management, and communication solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

• 🟢 1NCE - Offers flat-rate global cellular connectivity for IoT devices, including SIM management and low-bandwidth data plans designed for scale.
• 🟢 Hologram - Provides global IoT SIM cards and eUICC technology with a cloud-native dashboard for managing devices and data usage across carriers.
• 🟢 Knock - Notification infrastructure with workflows, preferences, and delivery channels.
• 🟢 Mux - Solves the hard problems software teams face when building video, from live-streaming platforms to on-demand video catalogs and anything in between.
• 🟢 Onomondo - A full-stack connectivity platform for IoT with a single global SIM, advanced network control, and transparent pricing.
• 🟢 Particle - An integrated IoT platform offering hardware, firmware, and cloud connectivity tools for building and scaling connected products.
• 🟡 Resend - Email for developers who want to deliver transactional and marketing emails at scale.
• 🟢 Samsara - Provides IoT solutions for connected operations, including GPS tracking, fleet management, and industrial monitoring.
• 🟢 Sendbird - Communications API providing chat, voice, video, and AI messaging infrastructure with mobile/web SDKs.
• 🟢 SLNG - Global speech AI gateway with multi-region support, model routing, and compliance for voice applications.
• 🟢 Soracom - Delivers cellular connectivity and edge services for IoT deployments, with APIs and billing tailored to developers and startups.
• 🟢 Twilio - Offers global IoT SIM connectivity via Super SIM and secure device communication through Programmable Wireless APIs.
• 🟢 Wistia - A one-stop video marketing shop to create, host, market and analyze your videos.

Decentralized clouds built on Layer 1 blockchains that focus on inference, compute, and model training.

• 🟢 Akash Network - Providing access to compute at prices up to 85% lower than hyperscale cloud providers.

Track and manage source code changes over time using a version control system (VCS).

• 🟢 Gitea Cloud - Single-tenant managed Git hosting with built-in CI/CD and private isolated environments.

Services and tools that complement cloud infrastructure but aren't cloud services themselves—including development tools, protocols, standards, and software that enhance or integrate with cloud platforms.

• 🟢 Edgeless Systems - Confidential computing platform using TEEs for runtime encryption of AI and cloud workloads.
• 🟢 ngrok - Securely tunnels local services to the public internet, ideal for testing webhooks, building with APIs, or sharing local development environments.
• 🟢 Solo.io - Unified platform for API gateways, service mesh, and agentic AI on Kubernetes.
• 🟢 Tetrate - Service mesh and AI model routing platform for enterprise Kubernetes environments.

Services that don't yet meet all Alt Cloud criteria but show promise. These providers may lack public pricing, self-service signup, or production SLAs—but could evolve into full Alt Clouds.

Why track these? The cloud landscape changes fast. Today's "contact sales only" can become tomorrow's self-service leader. This section helps monitor emerging players and hold established vendors accountable to transparency.

• 🟢 Oxide Computer - Rack-scale cloud computer for on-premises with unified hardware/software, but sold as CapEx hardware (~$1M/rack) rather than usage-based cloud service.
• 🟢 API7 - Commercial distribution of Apache APISIX with cloud offerings, pending pricing transparency verification.
• 🟢 Apigee - Google's API management platform with advanced features but enterprise-only pricing model.
• 🟢 KrakenD - High-performance API gateway, needs cloud pricing model verification.
• 🟢 OpenObserve - Open-source observability platform, cloud service SLA needs verification.
• 🟢 Uptrace - Distributed tracing and metrics platform built on OpenTelemetry, verification needed.
• 🟢 Chroma - Open-source vector database, managed cloud service details need verification.
• 🟢 Turbopuffer - Vector database optimized for speed, service verification needed.
• 🟢 Eppo - Feature flagging and experimentation platform (acquired by Datadog May 2025).
• 🟢 FeatBit - Open-source feature flags, cloud service verification needed.
• 🟢 LaunchDarkly - Industry-leading feature management with $20k-$120k/year pricing but no public transparency.
• 🟢 Split - Feature delivery platform with experimentation, enterprise-only pricing.
• 🟢 Statsig - Experimentation and feature flags platform (acquired by OpenAI Sept 2025, service status TBD).
• 🟢 Tggl - Feature flags platform, verification needed.

Pull requests welcome! Please ensure that submissions meet the Alt Cloud contributing guide and are categorized accurately.