How much does Cheaploy cost?

Cheaploy charges a monthly platform fee for the managed DevOps automation. Your cloud bill stays $0 because deployments run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Always Free tier — 2 ARM Ampere CPUs, 12GB RAM, 200GB block storage, a load balancer and 10TB egress per month, perpetually free with no credit-card charges.

What's the catch with Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier?

Oracle's free tier is genuinely free, but new accounts sometimes see capacity errors in popular regions when launching ARM instances. Cheaploy auto-retries across regions and availability domains until provisioning succeeds.

Do I need DevOps experience?

No. Cheaploy detects your stack (React, Node, Python, Go, Java, etc.), generates an optimized multi-stage Dockerfile, provisions a VCN, ARM compute, load balancer, and SSL certificate, then deploys — all from a single 'Deploy' click.

Can I deploy a Lovable, Bolt, v0, or Cursor app?

Yes. Cheaploy was built for vibe coders shipping AI-generated apps. Upload a ZIP from Lovable, paste a GitHub URL from Cursor or v0, or connect Bolt — Cheaploy handles the rest and gives you a URL on your own cloud.

How is this different from Vercel, Render, or Fly.io?

Vercel, Render, and Fly.io rent you their infrastructure with generous free tiers that get expensive at scale. Cheaploy deploys to your own Oracle Cloud account, so the infrastructure is yours — and Oracle's free tier never expires.

Managed DevOps guides, comparisons and tools

Guides, comparisons and tools for getting any project onto Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier — grouped by what you're trying to do.

Who it's for

Students: localhost to live — Host a college or final-year project free, with a link for your report and resume.
Non-technical founders — Get an app live with no terminal, no Docker, no DevOps hire.
AI-builder developers — Deploy Lovable, Cursor, v0 and Bolt projects to your own cloud.

Start here

Deploy your stack (19 guides) — Next.js, Django, FastAPI, Rails, Go, Postgres, n8n, WordPress and more on Oracle ARM.
Cheaploy blog — Oracle Always Free limits, ARM64 Docker gotchas and zero-downtime deploys.
Platform comparisons — Railway, DigitalOcean, Lightsail, Hetzner, Replit and Cloudflare versus your own server.

Deployment guides

Deploy a React app free — Vite and CRA builds on Oracle Always Free.
Deploy Next.js free — SSR and API routes on a persistent ARM server.
Self-host with Docker — Containerise any stack and run it on your own machine.
Host a Discord bot free — Always-on worker with no sleeping.
Minecraft server on Oracle Cloud — 12GB RAM ARM server for free.
Always Free migration prompts — Copy-paste AI prompts to drop paid dependencies.
Is Oracle Cloud really free? — The honest breakdown of the Always Free tier.

Oracle Cloud help

Free tier signup guide — Every field, in order, with the gotchas.
Does it need a credit card? — What Oracle checks and what it never charges.
Fix 'out of host capacity' — Why ARM capacity fails and how to get around it.
ARM capacity retry script — Automate retries until an instance launches.
Change your home region — Pick a region with capacity before you build.

Comparisons and alternatives

Vercel vs Cheaploy — Hobby limits versus your own server.
Render vs Cheaploy — Cold starts versus persistent compute.
Oracle vs AWS free tier — Perpetual versus 12-month free.
Heroku alternatives — What replaced free dynos in 2026.
Free Vercel alternative — Commercial use allowed, no bandwidth bill.
Free Render alternative — No sleeping services.
Free Netlify alternative — Static plus a real backend.
Free Fly.io alternative — Bigger machine, no usage billing.
Free Heroku alternative 2026 — The closest thing to old free dynos.

Free tools

Dockerfile generator — ARM-ready multi-stage Dockerfiles for any stack.
Cloud cost calculator — What your app costs elsewhere versus $0.
Oracle eligibility checker — Check region and account eligibility first.

Cheaploy resources: everything on deploying free