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Brainboard
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-driven platform to visually design multi-cloud infrastructure and auto-generate Terraform code with built-in CI/CD.
17K visits/mo
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Defang
✓ verifiedFreemium
Developer tool that deploys Docker Compose apps (with LLMs and databases) into your own AWS, GCP or Azure account via one command.
20K 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
Pricing
Free: $0 (unlimited architectures and code generation)
Pro: $99/user/mo (Git, CI/CD, RBAC, remote backend)
Free trial available
Starter: $0 (1 cloud account)
Pro: $49/mo (1 account, +$29/mo per extra)
Enterprise: $499/mo (3 accounts, +$49/mo per extra)
Team: $950/month + usage (1,000 concurrent actions, 30-day retention, 1 cluster)
Core features
- ✦Visual multi-cloud architecture designer
- ✦Instant Terraform/OpenTofu code generation
- ✦Drift detection and remediation
- ✦Embedded visual CI/CD engine
- ✦GitOps workflow and RBAC
- ✦AI infrastructure generation from prompts
- ✦One-command deploy from Docker Compose
- ✦Deploys into your own or a customer's cloud account
- ✦Native managed LLM access (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure AI)
- ✦Managed Postgres, MongoDB and Redis
- ✦Auto-configured IAM, VPC, TLS and load balancing
- ✦Open-source CLI and cloud providers
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Designing and deploying cloud infrastructure visually
- →Migrating to Infrastructure as Code
- →Standardizing Terraform modules and naming
- →Detecting drift between design and live cloud
- →Shipping AI agents and web apps to production
- →Deploying the same app across many customer clouds
- →Agencies deploying into client cloud accounts
- →Avoiding hand-written Terraform or Kubernetes
- →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
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