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Light Cloud vs Spawned
Spawned offers a Vercel-like platform you run on your own cloud; Light Cloud provides managed hosting with built-in Postgres.
Which to pick
Pick Light Cloud if you want…
- Full-stack hosting with preview URLs
- The lower starting price: $5/month against $20/month
- Open-source code (light-cloud-com/ice on GitHub)
- Integrations with Git, Next.js or Cloud Run (on Light Cloud's list, not Spawned's)
Pick Spawned if you want…
- Unified deployment on self-hosted cloud
- Self-hosted Vercel alternative
- Integrations with AWS, Google Cloud or Azure (on Spawned's list, not Light Cloud's)
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.
- Spawned:Spawned is an all-in-one cloud platform to deploy containers, databases, functions and full-stack apps on infrastructure you own.
- Best for
- Light Cloud:Full-stack hosting with preview URLs
- Spawned:Unified deployment on self-hosted cloud
- Who it’s for
- Light Cloud:Developers and teams who want one-click deployment of full-stack apps.
- Spawned:Developers and teams who want to manage their own cloud resources across AWS, GCP, Azure or Kubernetes.
- Pricing
- Light Cloud:Freemium
- Spawned:Freemium
- 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
- Spawned:Developer $20 per month · Pro $100 per month · Scale $399 per month
- Open source
- Light Cloud:Yes, 12 GitHub stars
- Spawned:—
- Works with
- Light Cloud:Git, Next.js, Cloud Run
- Spawned:AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Terraform
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.
Spawned features
- CLI installer. One-line script installs the Spawned CLI for local management.
- Agentic infrastructure. AI agents can provision and connect resources directly in your cloud account.
- Unified dashboard. View deployments, environments, logs and policies from a single surface.
- Terraform-compatible exports. All resources are exportable as Terraform code from the start.
- Managed cloud option. Try Spawned on shared cloud credits without owning an account.
- Spend alerts & budgets. Set usage limits and receive alerts to avoid unexpected cloud bills.
Light Cloud vs Spawned FAQ
Is Light Cloud or Spawned free?+
Light Cloud has a free plan (Hobby); paid plans start at $5/month (Lite). Spawned has a free plan; paid plans start at $20/month (Developer).
Which is cheaper, Light Cloud or Spawned?+
Light Cloud is cheaper to start with: Light Cloud's Lite plan ($5/month) against Spawned's Developer plan ($20/month).
Is Light Cloud or Spawned open source?+
Light Cloud is open source (light-cloud-com/ice on GitHub). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Spawned.
Do Light Cloud and Spawned integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Light Cloud lists Git, Next.js and Cloud Run; Spawned lists AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes and 2 more.
On DevHunt
Light Cloud
16 upvotes · Launched on DevHunt on Aug 11, 2026
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