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Light Cloud vs Livecycle
Livecycle provides collaborative preview environments for any stack, whereas Light Cloud includes full-stack hosting, databases and scaling.
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LivecycleCollaborative preview environments for any stack and every workflow.Which to pick
Pick Light Cloud if you want…
- Full-stack hosting with preview URLs
Pick Livecycle if you want…
- Collaborative preview environments
Side by side
- What it is
- Light Cloud:Full-stack hosting that builds static sites, containers and managed Postgres from a repo with automatic previews.
- Livecycle:Collaborative preview environments for any stack and every workflow.
- Best for
- Light Cloud:Full-stack hosting with preview URLs
- Livecycle:Collaborative preview environments
- Who it’s for
- Light Cloud:Developers and teams who want one-click deployment of full-stack apps.
- Livecycle:—
- Pricing
- Light Cloud:Freemium
- Livecycle:Free
- Plans
- Light Cloud:Hobby $0 · Lite $5/month per month · Starter $19/month per month · Pro $49/month per month · Business $149/month per month
- Livecycle:—
- Open source
- Light Cloud:Yes, 12 GitHub stars
- Livecycle:Yes
- Works with
- Light Cloud:Git, Next.js, Cloud Run
- Livecycle:—
Light Cloud features
- One-click deploy. Connect a repo, push, and Light Cloud builds and deploys static sites or containers automatically.
- Managed Postgres. Provision a database with region and size; credentials are encrypted and wired to the app.
- Branch previews. Every branch and pull request gets its own password-protected preview URL.
- Scale-to-zero. Idle containers stop running and incur no cost; they wake on the next request.
- AI-driven deploy. Use Claude Code to deploy by asking a natural-language command.
- Built-in CDN. Static assets are served globally via a CDN with automatic SSL.
Livecycle features
Collaborative preview environments for any stack and every workflow.
Light Cloud vs Livecycle FAQ
Is Light Cloud or Livecycle free?+
Light Cloud has a free plan (Hobby); paid plans start at $5/month (Lite). Livecycle is listed as free on DevHunt.
Is Light Cloud or Livecycle open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Light Cloud (light-cloud-com/ice on GitHub) and Livecycle (livecycle/preevy on GitHub).
On DevHunt
Light Cloud
16 upvotes · Launched on DevHunt on Aug 11, 2026
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