The deploy platform thatwon't surprise you with a bill.
Heroku is dying. Vercel is expensive. Railway killed its free tier. AWS is too complicated. We built Eigon for the rest of us, for solo founders, indie hackers and small teams who want to ship fast without a $100K surprise bill at the end of the month.
Four things every deploy platform should have.
Most have none. We made these the defaults.
Hard spending caps. Always on.
Every environment has a monthly cost ceiling. Hit 80 percent and you get an email warning. Hit 100 percent and Eigon gracefully throttles things to keep you safe. No more surprise bills, no more horror stories.
An AI Copilot that knows your app.
Ask why your app is slow and you get an answer that cites your actual logs, metrics, and infrastructure. Nothing made up, nothing generic.
Plain English everywhere.
No AWS jargon unless you ask for it. Every status, error and tooltip reads like a friend explaining things. Non technical founders can deploy without a glossary.
No lock in. Ever.
One click Export to Terraform is always available. Your infrastructure stays yours. We compete on experience and value, not on trapping you.
How Eigon stacks up against the usual suspects.
We are not perfect. Here is what we do better, what we are catching up on, and where each competitor still wins.
| Feature | Eigon | Vercel | Heroku | Railway | Render | Fly.io |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard spending caps | On by default on every plan | Opt in only, easy to forget | Manual via support | Soft alerts, no hard cap | Soft alerts only | Manual budget alerts |
| Cold starts | None, runs on ECS Fargate | Yes, serverless cold starts | Yes, dyno sleep | No | No | Optional with scale to zero |
| Long running tasks over 5 minutes | Unlimited | Capped at 13 minutes on Pro | Yes via worker dyno | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI copilot grounded in your data | Yes, powered by Project Brain | No | No | No | No | No |
| Auto detect 45 plus frameworks | Yes, with rules, memory and LLM fallback | Yes, frontend focused | Buildpacks (limited) | Yes via Nixpacks | Yes | Yes |
| ZIP upload, no Git needed | Yes | No | Slug upload via CLI only | No | No | Yes via flyctl |
| PR preview environments | Coming Q2 2026 | Yes | Yes via Pipelines | Yes | Yes | No |
| Export to Terraform, no lock in | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes, manual |
| Live human chat support | Yes on paid plans | Email, slow on lower tiers | Discord | Community plus email |
Pricing and feature data sourced from official pricing pages and 2026 community comparisons. Last updated April 2026.
Why we built Eigon.
In 2022, Heroku killed its free tier. The deployment platform that taught a generation of developers how to ship became a paid only walled garden. Then in 2023, Railway followed. By 2024, Vercel started showing developers $10K plus surprise bills from edge function overages.
We watched friends getting hit with these bills. We watched non technical founders give up on AWS after week three. We watched indie hackers move their backends to a $5 DigitalOcean droplet just to escape PaaS pricing.
Something is broken. The market has all or nothing options. Either you pay 5 to 10 times too much for a friendly platform, or you learn 200 AWS services to save money. There is no middle ground.
Eigon is the middle ground. Heroku easy. AWS cheap. AI native. With hard spending caps so you can sleep at night.
We are not trying to win on every feature. We are trying to be the platform you trust. The one that tells you what every number means, that flags risky deploys before you make them, that explains errors in plain English, and that lets you walk away anytime by exporting your infrastructure to Terraform.
Ship your first project today.
Pick a plan that matches the size of what you are shipping. Spending caps keep you protected from day one no matter which plan you start on.
Questions? Email info@eigon.io.