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# Light Cloud

Canonical: https://www.getapp.za.com/software/2143453/light-cloud

> Light Cloud deploys full-stack web apps from GitHub. Every push builds and ships static sites, auto-scaling containers, and managed PostgreSQL, with a preview environment per branch, automatic SSL, and scale-to-zero capped billing. Deploy from Claude via MCP or GitHub Copilot in VS Code.
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> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Light Cloud

Ship without a DevOps hire — Light Cloud reads the repository to detect the framework, package manager, build command, and output directory, and generates a Dockerfile when the repo has none. There is no CI pipeline to configure and nothing to maintain between pushes.&#10;&#10;The whole application, one platform — Frontend, backend, and database live together: static sites on a global CDN, backends as auto-scaling containers, and managed PostgreSQL provisioned from the same console with connection details injected as environment variables.&#10;&#10;Faster code review — Every branch can have its own environment with a separate URL. Opening a pull request builds a preview automatically; deleting the branch removes it. Reviewers click a link instead of pulling code, and previews are built exactly like production.&#10;&#10;Bills you can predict — Usage-based billing with a hard monthly cap: metered usage stops at the plan price ($0, $19, $49, or $149), so the plan price is the most a team can pay in a month.&#10;&#10;Pay only for what runs — Idle containers scale to zero and stop billing. Preview environments and side projects cost nothing while nobody is using them.&#10;&#10;HTTPS without the busywork — Point a custom domain with a single DNS record; SSL certificates are issued and renewed automatically. Nothing to install, rotate, or remember.&#10;No separate monitoring stack — Build logs stream live during the build; runtime logs and metrics sit beside each environment in the same console teams deploy from, with production and previews kept separate.&#10;&#10;Built for AI-assisted development — An MCP server lets developers create apps, deploy, manage environments, and read logs from a Claude conversation. A published VS Code extension adds @lightcloud commands (/deploy, /plan, /status, /redeploy) to GitHub Copilot Chat.&#10;&#10;Works with the stack you already have — React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, and Next.js frontends; Node, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, and .NET backends; npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, and poetry are detected automatically.&#10;&#10;Secure by default — Traffic is encrypted in transit with managed certificates, data is encrypted at rest, databases are network-isolated rather than publicly exposed, webhook payloads are cryptographically verified, and API routes are rate-limited.&#10;&#10;Team pricing that stays flat — Teammates are $9 per user per month with no per-project fees, so adding a collaborator never changes the shape of the infrastructure bill.&#10;&#10;Production stays safe — The production environment is marked and protected; branch activity and preview builds never touch it.&#10;Start free, no card — The Free plan's $0 cap runs a real application end to end, so teams evaluate the actual workflow, not a demo.

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Light Cloud, Inc.

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$0,00
- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Light Cloud Platform is priced on one promise: pay for what runs, never more than your plan.&#10;&#10;Every plan is a monthly cap on usage-based billing. Usage is metered hourly while your apps run, and billing stops at the cap — the plan price is the most you can be charged in a month, not a flat subscription you pay regardless of use.&#10;&#10;The plans:&#10;Free — $0/month cap. Put a real app online without paying anything.&#10;Starter — $19/month cap. Headroom for a production app with a managed PostgreSQL database.&#10;Pro — $49/month cap. Room for real traffic, or several apps under one ceiling.&#10;Business — $149/month cap. A team's full stack, capped at a predictable maximum.&#10;&#10;Team members are a flat $9 per user per month. There are no per-project fees and no setup costs.&#10;&#10;What the meter counts — five line items, all visible in the console you deploy from:&#10;Compute: container instances billed per instance-hour while they run.&#10;Database: managed PostgreSQL billed for the tier and storage you provision.&#10;Storage: object storage for static sites and assets, billed for what you keep.&#10;Bandwidth: traffic served, with static sites delivered over a global CDN.&#10;Build minutes: builds billed for the time they take to run.&#10;&#10;Affordability. Container apps default to zero minimum instances — when nobody is using an app, it stops running and stops billing. In practice this makes the platform very cheap to adopt: side projects, staging apps, and per-branch preview environments cost nothing while they sit idle. The Free plan's $0 cap means a developer can deploy and share a real application without ever entering payment details, and teams only start paying when something is actually running.&#10;&#10;Transparency. Every plan includes the same platform — GitHub-connected deployments, preview environments for every branch, custom domains with automatic SSL, managed PostgreSQL, and logs and metrics in the same console you deploy from. Plans differ only in the cap, so there is no feature matrix to decode and no forced upgrade to unlock basics. Usage is metered as it runs and shown live, so you always know what you are spending and why, before any invoice arrives.&#10;&#10;Predictability. Runaway cloud bills are the industry's most feared failure mode — research from Flexera and Gartner puts cloud waste at roughly 30% of spend. The cap removes that risk entirely: a traffic spike, a runaway job, or a forgotten preview environment can never bill past your plan. Finance can budget Light Cloud as a fixed line item, while engineering keeps true usage-based economics in quiet months.&#10;&#10;For prospective buyers: start on Free, deploy a real app, and watch the meter — it shows exactly what your workload costs and what it would cost at any cap. Changing plans changes only your cap; nothing else about the product changes.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Angola, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia and 68 more

## Features

- Application Deployment
- Application Management
- Auto Scaling
- Cloud Computing
- Database Management
- Deployment Management
- Development Environment
- For Developers
- Graphical User Interface
- Integrated Development Environment
- Lifecycle Management
- Networking
- Project Management
- Software Development

## Integrations (2 total)

- GitHub
- GitHub Copilot

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Knowledge Base
- Chat

## Category

- [Platform as a Service Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/352/platform-as-a-service-paas/software)

## Related Categories

- [Platform as a Service Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/352/platform-as-a-service-paas/software)
- [App Development Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/370/application-development/software)

## Links

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## This page is available in the following languages

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| en-AU | <https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2143453/light-cloud> |
| en-CA | <https://www.getapp.ca/software/2143453/light-cloud> |
| en-GB | <https://www.getapp.co.uk/software/2143453/light-cloud> |
| en-IE | <https://www.getapp.ie/software/2143453/light-cloud> |
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