Git push to deploy full-stack apps on Raff's own cloud. Every service, database and bucket on one live graph. The same deploy loop as Railway, Render and Heroku, with $0 egress, a spend cap on by default, and no per-seat tax.
App hosting goes wrong in three predictable places. Raff is built so it doesn't.
A spend cap is on by default and egress is never metered, so the invoice matches what you expected.
Every service, database and bucket shows up as one connected graph, not a flat list you wire by hand.
Raff runs on its own hardware, so prices stay low and steady, with no AWS markup passed to you.
Connect a repo and every push ships automatically. Bring a Dockerfile for full control, or let auto-buildpacks detect your stack with no Dockerfile required. Immutable revisions mean one-click rollback, always.
$ git push raff mainRun the language and framework you already use. Buildpacks detect it automatically, or bring a Dockerfile. No rewrites, no proprietary runtime.
Import a docker-compose.yml and your whole stack lands on the canvas, every service wired to its databases and buckets by its real bindings. Zoom out and you are reading your architecture, not scrolling a list.
services:web: { build: . }api: { build: ./api }worker: { build: ./worker }postgres: { image: postgres:16 }valkey: { image: valkey:8 }mysql: { image: mysql:8 }
Open a pull request and Raff spins up a live, isolated copy of your whole stack, app and its own databases, on a shareable URL. Everyone reviews the real running app, not a diff.
Web, private, worker, cron and one-off jobs all deploy from the same source and bill on the same per-second meter. No second product, no glue.
Provision a managed database in one click. Each one wires straight to your services over the private fabric with scoped, per-service credentials. Postgres for relational data, Valkey for caching and queues, MySQL for the WordPress ecosystem, ClickHouse for analytics, Kafka for event streams between your services.
Bind a service, a managed database, or a VM to your app in a single click. Every connection rides a private link on our own fabric, never the public internet, so it is secure by design from day one and its traffic is never metered or billed.
Services scale up as load arrives and back to zero when it is gone. You are billed per second, only while they run, so idle time costs nothing.
Flat per-instance tiers, billed per second. Free bandwidth, no seat tax, and a spend cap on by default. Pay as you go, or commit monthly or yearly.
Notifies at 50% and 80%, then pauses before the cap. No shock invoice.
Where each platform lands on the things that move your bill and your workflow. Same deploy loop, different economics.
| Raff AppsBest | Railway | Render | Heroku | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egress / bandwidth | Free | Metered | Metered | Metered |
| Spend cap | On by default | Soft limits | No hard cap | No hard cap |
| Per-seat pricing | None | Per-seat | Per-seat | Per-seat |
| Scale to zero | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Visual canvas | Yes | Yes | List | List |
| docker-compose import | Yes | Partial | Blueprint YAML | No |
| Managed MySQL | Yes | Yes | No | Add-on |
| Private DB networking | $0 egress | Metered | Metered | Metered |
| Runs on own cloud | Yes | On GCP | On AWS/GCP | On AWS |
| Starts at | $3/mo | ~$5 | $7 | $5 |
Competitor figures reflect each provider's published pricing and default limits, gathered Jul 2026. Re-verify before relying on them.
A public status page, a real uptime target, and a support channel you can reach. New platform is a fair objection, until you show the numbers.
Apps runs on the same first-party cloud as the rest of Raff. Everything below connects to your app over the private fabric.
Per-second compute on flat per-instance tiers from $3/mo, free egress, and no per-seat pricing, so adding teammates is free. A spend cap is on by default and pauses services before a surprise bill, not after.
Yes. App-to-database traffic rides a private fabric, and public bandwidth isn't metered or billed, including attack traffic. It's the single biggest source of surprise bills on Railway, Render and Heroku, and here it's $0.
No. If it deploys with a Dockerfile, a buildpack, or a docker-compose file today, it deploys here. Import a compose file and the whole stack lands on the canvas, wired up.
PostgreSQL, MySQL and Valkey (Redis-compatible), provisioned in a click with daily backups and private-fabric connections. MySQL covers WordPress, Ghost and the whole MySQL-native ecosystem. See Managed Databases for every engine and plan.
Attach durable volumes to any service, for databases, uploaded media or plugin installs. Data survives redeploys and restarts, so stateful and self-hosted software runs, not just 12-factor apps.
Open a pull request and Raff spins up an isolated copy of your whole stack, app and databases, on a shareable URL. It updates on every push and tears itself down when the PR merges or closes.
Five service types: web services with public HTTPS and custom domains, private services on any TCP port, background workers, timezone-aware cron jobs, and one-off jobs. All deploy from the same source and bill on the same meter.
Add a binding on the canvas and scoped, per-service credentials are injected as environment variables. The connection runs over the private fabric, so app-to-database traffic never touches the public internet and never bills egress.
Fair. That's why there's a public status page, a 99.9% uptime SLA with credits, and a real 24/7 support channel. We run on our own first-party cloud (ISO 27001 certified), so we control the reliability story end to end.
Push to deploy on Raff's own cloud, with $0 egress, no per-seat pricing, and a spend cap on by default. Bring your repo or a docker-compose file and watch the bill drop.
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