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:
- Transparent Public Pricing - Publicly visible pricing page
- Usage-based Self-Service - Self-service signup with usage-based billing
- 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.
- 🟡 GPU CLI - Provides command-line access to remote cloud GPUs with auto-stop functionality, instant connection, and automatic result syncing for ML training and inference workloads.
- 🟡 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.
- 🟡 SharonAI - Provides AI-powered solutions and services for business automation and intelligent decision-making processes.
- 🟢 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.
- 🟢 Warp - Cloud service provider.
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.
- 🟡 CtrlDNS - Provides DNS management and control services for domain name resolution and network infrastructure management.
- 🟢 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.