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Pump
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Free cloud cost-optimization platform that pools buying power to give startups enterprise-level AWS, GCP, and Azure discounts.
64K visits/mo3.2K saves
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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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Middleware
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-stack observability platform with an AI SRE agent that detects, debugs, and auto-fixes issues across infra, apps, and users.
47K visits/mo713 saves
Pricing
No public 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)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Automated cloud spend optimization
- ✦Group buying for enterprise discounts
- ✦Cost visibility and insights dashboards
- ✦Coverage across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- ✦No-cost service model
- ✦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
- ✦Infrastructure and application performance monitoring
- ✦Log monitoring with AI insights
- ✦Real user monitoring
- ✦OpsAI SRE agent for detection and auto-fix
- ✦Synthetic and browser testing
- ✦LLM observability
Use cases
- →Reducing startup cloud bills
- →Automating reserved-capacity savings
- →Gaining visibility into multi-cloud spend
- →Accessing enterprise pricing without scale
- →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
- →Monitor full-stack app and infra health
- →Debug incidents faster with AI
- →Correlate frontend and backend issues
- →Observe Kubernetes and cloud environments
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