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Moonship vs Spawned
Provides a Vercel-like platform on your own cloud, focusing on full-stack hosting.
Which to pick
Pick Moonship if you want…
- Heroku-style AWS deployments
- Integrations with Docker (on Moonship's list, not Spawned's)
Pick Spawned if you want…
- Unified deployment on self-hosted cloud
- Vercel-style self-hosted cloud
- Integrations with Google Cloud, Azure or Kubernetes (on Spawned's list, not Moonship's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Moonship:Moonship provides Heroku-like automated deployments, autoscaling and secure env management on your own AWS account.
- Spawned:Spawned is an all-in-one cloud platform to deploy containers, databases, functions and full-stack apps on infrastructure you own.
- Best for
- Moonship:Heroku-style AWS deployments
- Spawned:Unified deployment on self-hosted cloud
- Who it’s for
- Moonship:Developers who want easy, secure deployments to AWS without managing infrastructure.
- Spawned:Developers and teams who want to manage their own cloud resources across AWS, GCP, Azure or Kubernetes.
- Pricing
- Moonship:Freemium
- Spawned:Freemium
- Plans
- Moonship:Free $0/mo per month · Pro $20/mo per month
- Spawned:Developer $20 per month · Pro $100 per month · Scale $399 per month
- Works with
- Moonship:GitHub, AWS, Docker
- Spawned:AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Terraform
Moonship features
- Auto-Deployment. Connect GitHub and deploy automatically on branch merges.
- Autoscaling. Automatic scaling of services as traffic grows.
- Secure Environment Variables. Encrypted storage for secrets, no code exposure.
- Realtime Logs. Live streaming logs in the Moonship dashboard.
- Easy GUI Setup. User-friendly web interface for configuring deployments.
- Built on AWS SDK & Docker. Leverages familiar AWS and container technologies.
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.
Moonship vs Spawned FAQ
Is Moonship or Spawned free?+
Moonship has a free plan; paid plans start at $20/month (Pro). Spawned has a free plan; paid plans start at $20/month (Developer).
Which is cheaper, Moonship or Spawned?+
They start at the same price: Moonship's Pro plan ($20/month) and Spawned's Developer plan ($20/month) cost the same.
Do Moonship and Spawned integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list GitHub and AWS. Moonship also lists Docker; Spawned also lists Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform.
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