CloudPloy is an innovative platform designed to streamline application deployment directly from your AI development tools. It empowers developers to deploy their applications to various cloud environments using AI agents like Claude Code or Cursor, or any other MCP (Managed Cloud Platform) client. The core concept revolves around simplicity and automation, allowing users to focus on coding while CloudPloy handles the underlying infrastructure and deployment complexities.
The platform's workflow is straightforward:
- Create an API Key: Users generate a secure API token within their team settings, granting specific deploy and provision permissions. This token is the sole credential required by the AI agent.
- Connect AI Tool: Integrate CloudPloy with your preferred AI development environment, such as Claude Code or Cursor, or any client compatible with the MCP standard. This connection utilizes the same tools as a REST
/v1API, ensuring broad compatibility. - Deploy to Your Cloud: Applications can be deployed to servers you already own via SSH or provisioned directly into major cloud providers like AWS, Hetzner, or DigitalOcean. CloudPloy operates on a transparent pricing model, with a flat plan covering the control plane and compute resources billed at the provider's exact cost. Servers brought by the user (BYO) do not incur compute credit charges.
CloudPloy supports a wide array of languages and frameworks, leveraging Nixpacks for polyglot deployments including Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Java, PHP, Deno, and static sites. It also offers one-click presets for popular platforms like WordPress and Laravel, catering to diverse development needs. The platform abstracts away the need for extensive DevOps experience, automating SSL certificate management, containerization, and routing. However, it still provides advanced features like environment variables, custom domains, detailed logs, and a full API for power users.
A free-forever plan is available, supporting one small server and one application (up to 2 vCPU / 2 GB RAM). For larger needs, paid plans like Starter ($9.99/mo), Pro ($19/mo), and Scale ($39/mo) offer increased server and app limits. Compute resources provisioned by CloudPloy are paid for using prepaid credits at the provider's exact rate, ensuring no markups. If the credit balance runs out, provisioned servers are stopped and eventually destroyed after a grace period, while BYO servers continue running, though CloudPloy's services for them (routing, SSL, deploys) would cease if the plan lapses. This makes CloudPloy an ideal solution for developers seeking an efficient, AI-driven, and flexible deployment platform.
