# Light Cloud

> Your app, live in 3 minutes. From Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, GitHub or a folder. Light Cloud hosts the frontend, the backend and a Postgres database in one place. Free for unlimited sites and three apps, no card; paid plans from $5 a month. Start free at https://console.light-cloud.com/signup or book a demo at https://light-cloud.com/contact?subject=demo.

Push a repo, upload a folder, or ask your AI assistant to deploy. No YAML, no cloud console, no DevOps hire. Connect a GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket repository and every push ships. Light Cloud reads your repo, builds the commit, and rolls it out: static sites to a global CDN, containers to Cloud Run. Every branch gets its own preview URL, and you can deploy from a chat or your editor instead of a dashboard. It runs on Google Cloud, so you get managed infrastructure without touching a cloud console.

## Full stack in one place

Frontend, backend, and a database, deployed from the same project.

- **Static and containers.** Ship a static site to the CDN or a container to Cloud Run. Light Cloud reads your repo and picks the target.
- **Managed Postgres.** Provision a database with a tier, region, and storage size. Credentials are encrypted and wired to your app.
- **A preview per branch.** Every branch and pull request gets its own URL, built on push and removed when the branch is gone.
- **Scale to zero.** Idle containers stop billing. You pay for the time your app actually runs.

## Deploy with AI

Deploy from Claude Code. One command to install:

```bash
claude mcp add light-cloud -- npx @light-cloud/mcp-server
```

Then ask "Deploy this project to Light Cloud." Claude signs you up if you have no account, asks two questions (workspace, public or password-protected), and hands back a live URL. The same MCP server works in GitHub Copilot and Claude Desktop; the CLI (`@light-cloud/cli`) does it from a shell. Details: https://www.light-cloud.com/deploy-with-ai

## What you get, as screens of the console

- **Create.** Pick a repo, or upload a folder; the framework is detected (React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Django, Go, Rails, Spring, .NET, Dockerfile). One click to deploy.
- **Deploy.** Every push goes live on its own, with the commit, the author and the build time kept for each deploy. Rollback is a click.
- **Database.** Postgres next to the app, the connection string wired in, and a data explorer in the console.
- **Observe.** CPU, memory, requests and running instances per environment, next to the live log stream.

## Pricing

Unlimited sites. Three apps. $0. Free includes unlimited static sites, three server apps and a preview URL per branch on a light-cloud.io address, with $1 of usage a month and no card. A typical site uses about a cent of it; if you ever use it all, server apps pause and your sites stay up. Paid plans from $5 a month add a custom domain and a database, and every plan includes usage worth its price. See https://light-cloud.com/pricing.

## See Light Cloud in action

- **Every push builds and deploys.** Light Cloud builds your commit, rolls it out to Cloud Run or a global CDN, and keeps the commit, author, build time, and logs for every deploy.
- **Previews on every pull request.** Open a branch and get a live preview built on push. It goes away when the branch is deleted, and production stays protected. Idle previews cost nothing.
- **Observability without extra tools.** Watch a build stream, then follow the running service. Logs and metrics sit next to the environment they belong to.
- **Ship from Claude or GitHub Copilot.** The MCP server lets Claude create apps, deploy, and read logs. The VS Code extension adds @lightcloud to Copilot with /deploy, /status, and /plan.

## From the Labs

ICE is an open-source visual editor for cloud infrastructure. Design infrastructure on a canvas, preview the cost, and deploy to your own cloud accounts. ICE and its blocks and templates are free and PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. See https://light-cloud.com/labs.

## Deploy your first app today

Push a repo, upload a folder, or ask your assistant. Free for unlimited sites and three apps, no card: https://console.light-cloud.com/signup. Or book twenty minutes and we deploy it together: https://light-cloud.com/contact?subject=demo.

## Main pages

- Deployments: https://light-cloud.com/deployments
- Preview environments: https://light-cloud.com/previews
- Databases: https://light-cloud.com/databases
- Custom domains: https://light-cloud.com/domains
- Observability: https://light-cloud.com/observability
- Deploy with AI: https://light-cloud.com/deploy-with-ai
- Frameworks: https://light-cloud.com/frameworks
- Pricing: https://light-cloud.com/pricing
- Labs (open source): https://light-cloud.com/labs
- About: https://light-cloud.com/about