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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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sshx
✓ verifiedFree

Open-source, encrypted web terminal sharing tool letting people collaborate live on one command line via a browser link.

26K visits/mo
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Union Cloud
✓ verifiedPaid

Cloud-agnostic AI/ML workflow orchestrator that runs pipelines inside a customer's own infrastructure for compute-heavy teams.

25K visits/mo
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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
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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
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

No public pricing

Team: $950/month + usage (1,000 concurrent actions, 30-day retention, 1 cluster)

No public pricing

Free trial available

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
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 installation and session sharing via link
  • End-to-end encryption so the server cannot read terminal data
  • Multiplayer infinite canvas for arranging multiple terminals
  • Live cursors and chat for real-time collaboration
  • Cross-platform CLI for macOS, Linux and Windows
  • Distributed mesh networking for low-latency global connections
  • Python-native dynamic workflow authoring
  • Automatic failure recovery, caching, and versioning
  • Zero Trust architecture keeping data inside customer's cloud
  • Real-time inference and agentic-AI workflow support
  • High-throughput scaling (tens of thousands of actions per run)
  • Local development environment matching production behavior
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Pair debugging a remote server with a teammate
  • Teaching command-line skills over a shared live session
  • Sharing a CI/CD pipeline terminal for troubleshooting on GitHub Actions
  • Providing temporary cloud access without exposing SSH credentials
  • ML teams orchestrating training and inference pipelines at scale
  • Biotech/geospatial companies needing GPU-heavy pipeline orchestration
  • Enterprises migrating off Airflow for ML workflow management
  • Teams requiring workflows that never send data outside their own cloud
  • 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
  • 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
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