Application hosting / PaaS: read the guide
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HostedPaaSProduction deploys for agent-built apps. No Dockerfiles. No CI pipelines. No infrastructure config. Just code.
Scanned 14 Oct 2026 · Schema v5 · features v21
- From
- $5/mo
Usage-based per-minute compute/memory/storage plus egress; monthly plan fee supplied as included dollar usage credit; usage beyond credits metered.
- Free tier
- Yes
No card required.
- Isolation
- Kata / gVisor
hardened or user-space kernel
- Regions
- 1
United States
- Capabilities
- 17 / 61
6 partial · 38 fail · 0 not assessed
- Agent readiness
- 10/10 · 8/11
read · drive, pre-login surface
Advertised for
Web apps · Apis · Static sites · Background workers · Databases via templates · MCP servers · AI agent backends · Rag apps · Internal dashboards · Observability stacks · CI runner templates
Built for
Developers, then semi-technical builders
- · https://deployink.com/ — Production deploys for agent-built apps;Git push,Docker,CLI/Skills/MCP.
- · https://deployink.com/pricing — vCPU/GB per-minute resource metering.
- · https://docs.deployink.com/mcp-tools-reference — typed control tools/API docs.
01 Pricing Usage-based per-minute compute/memory/storage plus egress; monthly plan fee supplied as included dollar usage credit; usage beyond credits metered.
| Tier | EntryFree Trial | Hobby | Pro | TopEnterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 ($5 one-time credit) | $5/mo (includes $5/mo usage credit) | $20/mo (includes $20/mo usage credit) | Custom |
| Transfer overage | — | $0.05/GB | $0.05/GB | — |
vCPU-minute, memory GB-minute, storage GB-minute, egress GB; included credits in USD.·Card required: No·deployink.com
Overages: CPU $0.000393/vCPU/min;memory $0.000161/GB/min;storage $0.0000035/GB/min;egress $0.05/GB;ingress free. Credits deducted per-minute while running. Tier storage numbers are caps, not free allocations.
02 Website design Desktop public website · assessed 14 Oct 2026
Complete assessment.
Warm, spacious marketing pages pair oversized type and restrained rounded controls with a terminal demonstration; pricing adds a prominent serif headline. The public docs switch to a dark violet navigation shell and a regular grid of framework cards.
- Editorial minimalism
- Landing page: captured
- Pricing: captured
- Docs: captured
03 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.
Isolation & lifecycle
Isolation primitive
Kata / gVisorhardened or user-space kernel
Persistence
Services are replaceable containers; attached block volumes survive restart/redeploy. Deletion detaches volumes for 24h; persistent-volume services have at most one replica.
Snapshots / forks
No
Resources & limits
Storage
Durable block volumes: 1 GiB minimum up to workspace cap; grow-only; at most one replica; retained 24h detached. $0.0000035/GB/min. External S3/S3-compatible/GCS/Azure buckets may be synchronized by sidecar; INK does not provide buckets.
Limits & quotas
Free: 3 services, 0.5 total vCPU/512Mi total, per service 0.25vCPU/256Mi, 10Gi storage. Hobby:25 services,10vCPU/20Gi total,1vCPU/2Gi per service,50Gi storage. Pro:200 services,100vCPU/80Gi total,8vCPU/16Gi per service,250Gi storage. Enterprise published comparison:1000 services,800vCPU/400Gi total,32vCPU/64Gi per service,1000Gi storage, custom limits offered. Stateless replicas 0–10; default service 0.25vCPU/256Mi; exec sessions 5/user, 4h inactivity.
GPU
No
Access
Deploy interface
git-pushdockerfilecontainer-imagebuildpackclisdkapimcpdashboardtemplate
SDK languages
Go
Network & secrets
Egress controls
Fixed SMTP-egress and metadata-endpoint blocking. No configurable PaaS outbound allowlist/firewall advertised; sandbox SDK allow_domains is excluded.
Secrets
Environment-variable secrets encrypted at rest, injected into services; account-scoped revocable dk_live_ API keys. Bucket-provider credentials stored separately for sync sidecar.
Bring your own cloud
Enterprise-only private cloud or air-gapped deployment and dedicated infrastructure; specific customer-account/cloud integration not documented.
Placement & use
Jurisdiction
United States
Advertised workloads
Web appsApisStatic sitesBackground workersDatabases via templatesMCP serversAI agent backendsRag appsInternal dashboardsObservability stacksCI runner templates
04 Capabilities 17 pass · 6 partial · 38 fail · 61 of 61 assessed
- Supported — Documented on the public surface and verified.
- Partially supported — Exists with caveats: gated, thin, or enterprise-only.
- Not supported — Checked and not offered.
- Not assessed — Scanned before this capability was tracked. Not a lack.
Compute & storage 1/11
Persistent diskStorage that survives restart/stop (not ephemeral-only).
Supported
Object storageManaged S3-compatible / blob object store the platform PROVIDES to a user's workloads (buckets, presigned URLs). DISTINCT from persistent-disk (block/volume attached to an instance) and from a self-host dependency (source.self_host.deps[]=["object-storage"] is an infra dep to RUN an OSS tool — the opposite direction). SCOPE varies and matters: native first-class (Railway Buckets, Cloudflare R2) vs a sibling SKU / extension (Fly Tigris, Bunny Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) — record which in the evidence quote / note. Admitted v15.
Not supported
Snapshots / forkingSnapshot or copy-on-write fork of a running instance (filesystem-only counts). Whether the snapshot also restores memory + running processes is recorded separately by memory-snapshot (v19).
Not supported
Live-state (memory) snapshotsA snapshot / checkpoint / pause captures a running instance's MEMORY and PROCESS state and restores it, so running processes continue where they left off instead of a freshly booted instance with the same files. Counts whether user-triggered (snapshot, checkpoint, pause-to-storage) or used to restore pre-initialised state (memory snapshots for fast cold starts). Distinct from snapshots-forks (any snapshot or fork, including filesystem-only; a product passing that key may still fail this one) and from scale-to-zero (an idle-cost property; suspension may or may not keep memory). Actor multiplexing (see scale-to-zero) records its live-state half here — only when the suspended actor's MEMORY/process state is what comes back, not a freshly booted worker with the actor's files.
Not supported
Scale to zeroIdle instances suspend at no / negligible cost. ACTOR MULTIPLEXING (many suspended stateful actors sharing a small pool of pre-warmed workers, woken on request — Agent Substrate, AX, kagent; Rivet's hibernating actors) has NO key of its own (proposal REJECTED v20) — score the idle-cost half HERE and the live-state half under memory-snapshot; the oversubscription ratio / density is a performance characteristic the registry does not key.
Not supported
GPU computeGPU-backed instances available.
Not supported
Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.
Not supported
Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).
Partially supported
Cloud-init / ignition configCustomise a VM / microVM / instance at boot via cloud-init (or ignition) user-data — the same boot-metadata interface as AWS/Azure/GCP. Inject packages, users, SSH keys, files, and run-commands declaratively at launch. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a PREBUILT image you fork instances from) — this is PER-LAUNCH declarative customisation, not a baked image.
Not supported
Desktop / computer-use sandboxA virtual desktop (GUI) for LLM computer-use — browser + desktop automation, often via noVNC/VNC.
Not supported
Selectable isolation runtimeThe user chooses the isolation runtime per workload / environment / sandbox from more than one option (e.g. microVM vs gVisor vs plain container, native namespaces vs gVisor, gVisor vs VM). Records the CHOICE; the isolation_primitive facet still records the best-evidenced primary. A platform that switches runtime automatically without a user choice (e.g. gVisor forced for GPU) does not pass on that alone.
Not supported
Networking & delivery 5/9
Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.
Supported
Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.
Supported
Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.
Supported
Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.
Supported
Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.
Not supported
Egress controlsConfigurable OUTBOUND network policy — egress firewall / allowlist / egress proxy on traffic LEAVING a workload. Scoped to OUTBOUND only (v15): private-network REACHABILITY between a user's own services is private-networking, not this. Static-egress-IP belongs here (an outbound concept).
Not supported
Private networkingA platform-internal private network between a user's OWN services — service-to-service connectivity, VPC, service mesh, and/or service discovery, not exposed to the public internet. DISTINCT from egress-controls (OUTBOUND firewall/allowlist), reverse-proxy (PUBLIC inbound ingress), and direct-ipv6 (per-instance PUBLIC addressing). Admitted v15.
Supported
Email send / receiveSend and/or receive email from the workload.
Not supported
Edge KV storeA globally-replicated key-value store read from WITHIN an edge runtime at the PoP (low-latency, eventually-consistent) — Cloudflare Workers KV, Deno KV, Fastly KV Store, Akamai EdgeKV, Vercel Edge Config. Distinct from first-party-db (a managed DATABASE service you provision and connect to) and from http-query-api (HTTP access to an external store) — edge-kv is colocated with the edge compute and read at the edge.
Not supported
Developer access 4/10
Public APIDocumented programmatic API.
Supported
OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.
Not supported
CLIOfficial command-line tool.
Supported
SDKOfficial client library/libraries.
Supported
SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.
Not supported
Filesystem APIRemote file operations over the API (list/read/write/watch/copy/upload) without SSH.
Not supported
Git deployDeploy from a Git repo / push-to-deploy.
Supported
Private container registryHosted private image registry.
Not supported
E2B-compatible APIDrop-in compatibility with the E2B sandbox API/SDKs — existing E2B client code runs against this product by changing the endpoint/domain + key, with no business-code changes. E2B itself passes as the reference implementation. Distinct from public-api / sdk (the product has its own API — this key says it also speaks another vendor's) and from self-host-oss (a self-hosted E2B-compatible server is scored on both).
Not supported
HTTP data APIQuery / read / write the stored DATA over plain HTTP/REST (or GraphQL) WITHOUT the native protocol driver (Postgres wire / Redis RESP) — agent- and edge-friendly data access via fetch(). The DATA plane; distinct from public-api (a control-plane / management API). Auto-generated-from-schema REST/GraphQL (PostgREST, pg_graphql) is a flavour of this.
Not supported
AI & agents 3/12
Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.
Not supported
Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.
Supported
AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.
Not supported
MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.
Supported
MCP clientActs as an MCP client / consumes MCP tools.
Not supported
MCP-server hostingRun/host MCP servers as a workload on the platform (distinct from exposing a first-party MCP control server — that is mcp-server).
Supported
LLM gatewayRoutes LLM API calls through the platform (multi-provider).
Not supported
BYOK for LLMsBring-your-own LLM provider keys.
Not supported
Model inference API (first-party)A FIRST-PARTY hosted LLM/model inference API — the provider serves its OWN catalogue of (usually open-weight) models behind a (typically OpenAI-compatible) endpoint, billed per token. Distinct from llm-gateway (a multi-PROVIDER proxy/router for YOUR calls to external providers like OpenAI/Anthropic) and from byok-llm (bring your own provider keys) — here the platform IS the inference provider, serving its own models.
Not supported
Autonomous QA agentA first-party AUTONOMOUS AI agent that QA-TESTS a running app / implementation — exercising it like a real user (clicking through flows, checking behaviour) and reporting bugs/defects (often back to a coding agent, or before a human review). Distinct from built-in-agent (a code-AUTHORING agent — this one VERIFIES the result, it does not write the feature; a product can ship both), from ai-guided-code-review (organises a diff for a HUMAN to review — not an autonomous tester), and from observability (runtime metrics/logs, not active testing).
Not supported
Credential-injection proxyThe platform holds real secrets OUTSIDE the workload and injects them on the wire (an egress / broker proxy swaps a placeholder or phantom token for the real credential on matching outbound requests), so code running in the sandbox — e.g. an untrusted agent — never sees or can exfiltrate the real key. Distinct from secrets-management (storage + injection INTO the workload as env vars/files — the workload holds the secret) and from egress-controls (outbound allow/deny POLICY; a product can have an allowlist without injecting credentials, and vice versa).
Not supported
Preinstalled coding agentThe platform installs and launches a THIRD-PARTY coding agent (a harnesses.yml entry — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi ...) inside a workspace/sandbox it provisions, with the agent's auth wired in (your own account or API key), so you start an agent session rather than an empty box. Distinct from built-in-agent (a FIRST-PARTY agent the vendor ships) and from harnesses[] (which records that a harness CAN target the product, not that the product runs it for you).
Not supported
Data 0/4
First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.
Partially supported
Database branchingCopy-on-write branch of a DATABASE (schema + data) as a dev-lifecycle primitive — branch your data like code, usually instant via a metadata operation. Distinct from snapshots-forks (forks a running compute INSTANCE / VM state) and from preview-environments (a full per-PR environment that may USE a DB branch). For a data product a CoW branch maps HERE, not to snapshots-forks.
Not supported
Vector searchFirst-class storage, indexing, and similarity search of vector embeddings — a native vector type/index or a managed vector DB. The data-layer primitive for RAG / semantic retrieval.
Partially supported
Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup)Provision a working, usable instance via a single command / HTTP call with NO account, signup, or card — typically time-boxed (expires unless claimed). A zero-onboarding path an agent can hit directly.
Not supported
Platform & operations 1/6
Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.
Not supported
Durable workflowsDurable execution / long-running workflow primitive.
Not supported
Preview environmentsA full EPHEMERAL environment spun up per PR / branch — compute + addons + (often) a DB branch — torn down on merge. More than preview-urls (which is just a shareable URL for one deploy).
Not supported
Built-in observabilityFirst-party metrics / logs / tracing / APM / profiling included in the platform (no third-party stack required to see what a workload is doing).
Supported
Managed CI/CD runnersPlatform-hosted, drop-in CI/CD runner VMs (GitHub Actions / GitLab), typically faster and cheaper than the CI vendor's own hosted runners, billed per runner-minute; isolated + ephemeral per job. Distinct from git-deploy (push-to-deploy of an APP) and scheduled-tasks (cron) — this is managed CI COMPUTE you point your existing pipelines at.
Partially supported
Project template marketplaceA marketplace / gallery of prebuilt PROJECT STARTER templates (apps or websites) a user clones or launches a new project from and then customises — the "start from a template" surface of a builder / PaaS. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a COMPUTE base IMAGE you fork runtime INSTANCES from — Dockerfile / OCI), from app-builder (the prompt-to-app GENERATION surface — a product can have both), and from one-click OSS-app catalogues / helm-addon-marketplace (deploy a FINISHED app as-is, not a starter you build on).
Not supported
Organisation & security 3/9
Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.
Not supported
SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.
Partially supported
Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.
Supported
TeamsMulti-user team accounts.
Supported
SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).
Supported
BYOCRuns inside the customer's own cloud account.
Partially supported
Deploy into customers' VPCsA SaaS vendor uses the platform to deploy and operate ITS software inside ITS CUSTOMERS' cloud accounts / VPCs (nested or "customer BYOC"), managed from the vendor's control plane. Distinct from byoc (your own workloads in your own cloud account).
Not supported
Workload identityThe platform gives each workload its own verifiable identity (OIDC token, SPIFFE SVID, cloud IAM federation) that it exchanges for short-lived credentials, so no long-lived static secret is stored or injected. Distinct from secrets-management (stores / injects static secrets) and credential-injection-proxy (swaps real secrets in on the wire).
Not supported
Self-host / OSS coreOpen-source core that can be self-hosted.
Not supported
Proposed, not verified
Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.
- Managed git hostingmanaged-git-hosting
“Ink managed git for zero-setup deploys” docs.deployink.com
- Programmable DNS zonesmanaged-dns
“Delegate a domain zone to Ink so your agent can manage DNS records” docs.deployink.com
- Workspace chatagent-workspace-chat
“Workspace chat enables multi-agent coordination.” deployink.com
- Cloud bucket synchronization mountsexternal-bucket-sync
“Read-only, sync, bidirectional; S3,S3-compatible,GCS,Azure buckets synchronized by sidecar.” deployink.com
05 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade
Can an agent read it?
parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces
10/10
7 full · 3 partial · 100% of applicable checks
- llms.txtSupported
- llms-full.txtSupported
- robots.txt AI policyPartially supported
- JSON-LDPartially supported
- SitemapSupported
- Meta tagsSupported
- Markdown negotiationNot assessed
- Content efficiencyPartially supported
- Docs discoverableSupported
- Machine-readable pricingSupported
- No anti-bot wallSupported
Can an agent drive it?
act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks
8/11
5 full · 3 partial · 73% of applicable checks
- Public APISupported
- OpenAPI specNot supported
- MCP serverSupported
- SDK packagesPartially supported
- Auth documentedSupported
- Self-serve credentialsPartially supported
- WebhooksNot supported
- CLI toolSupported
- Error modelPartially supported
- Rate limits documentedNot supported
- Agent config filesSupported
06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here
Advertised integrations 12
- Claude Code AnthropicSupported
- Codex CLI OpenAISupported
- Cursor AnysphereSupported
- Gemini CLI GoogleSupported
- Windsurf CodeiumSupported
Goose BlockSupported- OpenCode opencodeSupported
Droid FactorySupported- Cline ClineSupported
Kilo Code KiloSupported
Antigravity GoogleSupported
OpenClaw Peter SteinbergerSupported
Plausible compatibility 0
Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.
No general shell access documented, so nothing is derived. Absence is not unsupported.
07 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score
Certifications held 0
No attestations found on the public surface. Empty means nothing is advertised, after checking, not that nothing was checked.
Regions 1
- United Statesus-east-1
One active region. More regions planned/coming soon; not currently multi-region. Region identifier is vendor label, not evidence workloads run on AWS.
08 Company & presence Facts only, not scored
09 Sources & method How this entry was produced
Public surface only
Everything here was read from deployink.com's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 14 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.
Statuses, not scores
Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.
Confidence is separate
Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.
- Schema
- scan v5
- Features registry
- v21
- Keys tracked today
- 61
- Assessed on this entry
- 61
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