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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.
Light CloudFull-stack hosting for developers and teams.SpawnedA Vercel for your own Cloud.

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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
DevHunt upvotes
Light Cloud:16
Spawned:68
Launched on DevHunt
Light Cloud:Aug 2026
Spawned:Jul 2026

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.
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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.
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