CloudPloy
Deploy anywhere from your AI tool.
Developer Tools·AI & Machine Learning·Data & Infrastructure
What is CloudPloy?
CloudPloy lets you deploy anywhere from your AI tool. Add an API key. Your agent deploys from Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client. Bring your own Ubuntu or AWS server, or provision Hetzner, DigitalOcean, or AWS at cost. Flat plan for the control plane; compute at the provider's rate. Free forever: 1 small server, 1 app. CloudPloy is built for developers and teams who already work inside AI coding tools. Instead of leaving Claude Code or Cursor to open a separate console, you keep the deploy workflow next to the agent. Point CloudPloy at a server you control, or ask it to provision a small instance at a cloud provider and pay that provider's rate for compute. Use cases include shipping side projects from an MCP client, promoting a staging app to production from Cursor, and giving an AI agent a repeatable deploy path without custom scripts. You keep ownership of the server and the provider bill.
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