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From: $10.47/mo
Usage-based provisioned resources, per-minute metering billed monthly
Free tier: No
No free VM tier; $2.50/month runner credit (1,250 premium minutes)
Isolation: Virtual machine
hypervisor, or nothing at all
Regions: 3
Hetzner, Falkenstein, Germany · Hetzner, Helsinki, Finland · Leaseweb, Manassas, VA, US
Capabilities: 17 / 61
7 partial · 34 fail · 0 not assessed
Agent readiness: 10/11 · 6/11
read · drive, pre-login surface

Advertised for

Virtual machines · GitHub actions runners · Managed PostgreSQL · Managed Kubernetes · Model inference · Batch processing · AI agents · Self host cloud

Built for

Technical, then developers

· IaaS/bare-metal/cloud control-plane operations; KVM and private subnets (https://ubicloud.com/docs/security/overview.md).
· Dedicated/shared CPU usage rates and Linux VM SSH/API management (https://ubicloud.com/docs/about/pricing.md).

01 Pricing Usage-based provisioned resources, per-minute metering billed monthly

Tier	EntryCompute burstable-1	Compute burstable-2	Compute standard-2	GitHub Actions runners	Managed PostgreSQL hobby-1	Managed PostgreSQL standard-2	Managed Kubernetes single-node control plane plus one worker	TopMachine image storage
Price	$10.47/month	$20.95/month	$41.89/month	$0.00125/min standard 2vCPU; $0.002/min premium	$19.54/month	$78/month	$71.82/month	$0.0000034722/GiB/min (~$0.15/GiB/month)
Storage	10 GB	20 GB	40 GB	—	16 GB	64 GB	—	—
Transfer	—	—	625 GB	—	—	—	—	—
Transfer overage	$0.003/GB	$0.003/GB	$0.003/GB	—	$0.003/GB	$0.003/GB	—	—
Build minutes overage	—	—	—	$0.00125/min	—	—	—	—

Free tier: No free VM tier; $2.50/month runner credit (1,250 premium minutes)

VM-minute, runner-minute, database/node resources, image GiB-minute, egress TB·Card required: unconfirmed·ubicloud.com

Overages: VM egress $3/TB above 0.625TB/2vCPU/month; optional IPv4 $3/month prorated; extra storage separately selected; image archives separately billed

02 Website design Desktop public website · assessed 15 Oct 2026

Complete assessment.

White, orange-accented corporate marketing shifts from an illustrated split landing hero to spacious three-column documentation for both pricing and product overview.

Corporate
Technical illustration

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

Virtual machinehypervisor, or nothing at all

Persistence

Persistent dedicated local encrypted block storage

Snapshots / forks

Yes

Resources & limits

Storage

Encrypted local block storage via ubiblk; reusable versioned VM disk images; managed PostgreSQL backups retained 7 days

Limits & quotas

Per-minute provisioned-resource billing; 0.625TB egress per 2vCPU/month then $3/TB; optional IPv4 $3/month; images require stopped VM/single disk <=40GiB

GPU

API-exposed, availability not publicly priced

Access

Deploy interface

apiclidashboard

SDK languages

None

Network & secrets

Egress controls

Secrets

Platform encryption/key rotation; no first-class customer workload secret store documented

Bring your own cloud

PostgreSQL on customer AWS account, privately supported for select customers

Placement & use

Jurisdiction

GermanyFinlandUnited States

Advertised workloads

Virtual machinesGitHub actions runnersManaged PostgreSQLManaged KubernetesModel inferenceBatch processingAI agentsSelf host cloud

04 Capabilities 17 pass · 7 partial · 34 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 4/11

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).

Partially 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.

Partially supported

Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.

Supported

Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).

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.

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 3/7

Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.

Partially supported

Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.

Supported

Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.

Not supported

Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.

Not applicable

Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.

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 applicable

Developer access 3/10

Public APIDocumented programmatic API.

Supported

OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.

Partially supported

CLIOfficial command-line tool.

Supported

SDKOfficial client library/libraries.

Not supported

SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.

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.

Not 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 1/12

Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.

Not supported

Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.

Not supported

AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.

Not supported

MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.

Not 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).

Not 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.

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 2/4

First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.

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.

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 2/5

Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.

Partially 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 applicable

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.

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 2/9

Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.

Not supported

SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.

Partially supported

Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.

Not supported

TeamsMulti-user team accounts.

Supported

SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).

Not 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.

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 Kubernetesmanaged-kubernetes
“First-party managed Kubernetes with HA control-plane option, node pools, autoscaling and persistent volumes.” ubicloud.com

05 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade

Can an agent read it?

parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces

10/11

6 full · 4 partial · 91% of applicable checks

llms.txt
Supported
“https://ubicloud.com/docs/llms.txt: substantive 24,894-byte docs/pricing/API index.”
llms-full.txt
Partially supported
“https://ubicloud.com/docs/llms-full.txt returned HTTP 200 and exceeded 200000-byte cap; POINTER retained. Full completeness not inspected.”
robots.txt AI policy
Partially supported
“https://www.ubicloud.com/robots.txt contains Sitemap pointer; no explicit AI policy (default allow).”
JSON-LD
Not supported
“No application/ld+json in fresh homepage HTML.”
Sitemap
Supported
“https://www.ubicloud.com/sitemap.xml: 14,690 bytes of nontrivial URL listing.”
Meta tags
Supported
“Homepage descriptive title, meta description and OpenGraph fields present.”
Markdown negotiation
Partially supported
“Docs .md variants serve substantive clean markdown. Accept:text/markdown request returned 403; ordinary URL succeeded in foxcrawl, so variants not clean negotiation.”
Content efficiency
Supported
“Homepage server-rendered readable text exceeds 5% of 34,250-byte HTML; raw HTML artifact retained.”
Docs discoverable
Supported
“Homepage header first-class Docs and Pricing links.”
Machine-readable pricing
Supported
“https://ubicloud.com/docs/about/pricing.md: structured parseable tables with minute/month rates; score on actual documented pricing surface, not marketing alias.”
No anti-bot wall
Partially supported
“Ordinary public site/docs pages fetched; Accept:text/markdown request to docs pricing returned 403, rendered ordinary page retry succeeded. No broad public-content block.”

Can an agent drive it?

act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks

6/11

4 full · 2 partial · 55% of applicable checks

Public API
Supported
“https://ubicloud.com/docs/api-reference/overview.md: documented REST API.”
OpenAPI spec
Partially supported
“Substantive embedded OpenAPI endpoint slices fetchable; linked complete spec 404; API-host probe 401.”
MCP server
Not supported
“No documented Model Context Protocol control server; well-known mcp 404.”
SDK packages
Not supported
“No official management SDK; third-party OpenAI inference client does not count.”
Auth documented
Supported
“https://ubicloud.com/docs/api-reference/overview.md: project personal access tokens and Authorization header.”
Self-serve credentials
Partially supported
“Console Tokens page creates management token (human setup). Programmatic inference key creation exists but requires existing project access token; no anonymous programmatic bootstrap.”
Webhooks
Not supported
“No documented signed webhooks in refreshed docs.”
CLI tool
Supported
“https://ubicloud.com/docs/quick-start/cli.md: official ubi multi-platform executable.”
Error model
Supported
“https://ubicloud.com/docs/api-reference/virtual-machine/create-a-new-vm.md embeds Error schema: error.code, message, type, nullable details.”
Rate limits documented
Not supported
“No API rate limits plus response headers documented in API overview/embedded spec.”
Agent config files
Not supported
“No AGENTS.md, well-known agent or installable agent skill advertised. llms.txt belongs to parse ability and alone does not satisfy this distinct check.”

06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here

Advertised integrations 0

The public surface names no coding harness as supported or documented-to-run-here.

Plausible compatibility 15

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.

Aider
Amp
Antigravity
Claude Code
Codex CLI
Devin
Droid
Gemini CLI
Goose
Hermes Agent
Kilo Code
Kiro CLI
OpenCode
Pi
Qwen Code

07 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score

Certifications held 3

SOC 2 Type II
certifiedhosted
“Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2; SOC 2 Type 2 Report available by access request.”
Source trust.ubicloud.com
HIPAA
self-attestedhosted
“Compliance: HIPAA.”
Source trust.ubicloud.com
GDPR
self-attestedhosted
“Compliance: GDPR.”
Source trust.ubicloud.com

Regions 3

Hetzner, Falkenstein, Germanyeu-central-h1
Hetzner, Helsinki, Finlandeu-north-h1
Leaseweb, Manassas, VA, USus-east-a2

Three documented public bare-metal regions. Runners use available European Hetzner/Leaseweb Germany capacity; September changelog also documents AWS spillover. US compute/PG/Kubernetes pricing is now comparable to Germany. Customer AWS PostgreSQL BYOC placement is separate.

Legal

Privacy notice Terms of service

08 Open source AGPL-3.0 · fetched by machine, not quoted from marketing

Licence & repository

Licence: AGPL-3.0OSI
Primary language: Ruby
Stars: 12,319
Forks: 597
Created: 17 Jan 2023
Archived: No

Activity

Last commit: 14 Oct 2026
Latest release: —
Issues open / closed: 18 / 149 · 89% closed

No GitHub releases returned by fresh GraphQL query; managed-service monthly changelog is separate.

Fetched via gh on 15 Oct 2026.

Self-hosting

Methods: composesource-buildother
You operate: postgres

Free under AGPL-3.0 plus own bare-metal/operations costs. README documents demo/generate_env and docker-compose control plane with PostgreSQL, then cloudify_server for Hetzner hosts running Ubuntu 24.04. IPv6 connectivity (or tunnel/VPN) needed unless adding provider IPv4. Operators manage control/data plane, backups and availability; managed certifications do not certify a self-host deployment.

Documentation signals 8/8

SupportedQuickstart
SupportedAPI reference
SupportedSelf-host guide
SupportedChangelog
SupportedOpenAPI
Supportedllms.txt
SupportedExamples
SupportedArchitecture doc

09 Company & presence Facts only, not scored

Company

Headquarters: San Francisco office; legal entities in US and Netherlands
Founded: 2023; Y Combinator W24
Team size: Not disclosed
Hiring: Unknown

Funding

—Seed · $16 million

Notable people

Ozgun Erdogan
Umur Cubukcu
Daniel Farina

Activity

Last release: September 2026 managed-service changelog ubicloud.com
Last blog post: 2026-08-17 — Announcing Ubicloud Machine Images ubicloud.com

Presence 8

Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.

10 Sources & method How this entry was produced

Public surface only

Everything here was read from ubicloud.com's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 15 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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