Comparisons with honest verdicts, feature explainers, and the numbers behind the thesis. Every comparison says when to stay where you are.
Decision criteria for coding agents, and one page per deployment problem: internal tools, AI-generated apps, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, no-DevOps, small teams, scale to zero.
Install the client, sign in with the account you already have, and deploy a directory. The whole path from a laptop to a live URL, with nothing to configure.
Decision criteria, install, and MCP setup for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and any MCP client that has just built a web app and needs somewhere to deploy it.
The app came out of a chat with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor. Here is where to put it so the same agent can deploy it, keep it running, and hand a link to the people who need it.
No Dockerfile debugging over IAM policies, no YAML, no dashboard. One command from a directory to a URL, and the agent that wrote the app handles the rest.
Give Claude Code a deploy target it can drive itself: install one binary, log in once, add the MCP server, and the same session that wrote the app ships it and reads its logs.
Codex can finish the job it started: one MCP stdio server, one login, and the app it wrote is live at a URL it can monitor and redeploy.
Add one MCP server to Cursor and the agent that wrote your app can deploy it, watch its logs and redeploy it, all without leaving the editor.
Where to host the sprint tracker, the invoice reconciler, and the other tools your team built for itself: one container per tool, private by default, free while idle, operable by the agent that wrote it.
Hosting for apps that are used once a day or once a month. Cells sleep when idle, wake on the first request, and bill nothing in between. What that costs, what it trades off, and who it is for.
A team of ten builds twenty tools for itself. Hosting priced per seat, per app, or per always-on instance punishes exactly that. AgentCell prices per use and shares by email.
The category in one page — what small software is and why sharing it is the unsolved part.
Honest alternatives pages: where incumbents win, where they break for 3-person tools, and when to stay put.
Google disabled new Firebase Studio workspaces in June 2026 and shuts it down fully in March 2027. How to land each small app somewhere permanent, with sharing intact.
Bolt hit ~$40M ARR within months on token-metered building — but Teams tokens are per-member, not pooled, and the builder-vs-host question is the same as with Lovable.
Workers is the most small-software-friendly primitive in existence — and it's developer infrastructure, not an app platform. Assembling Workers + Access + custom UX is the DIY version of AgentCell.
Fly bills per second with auto-suspend — the closest PaaS to our economics. But ~$2/mo per always-on micro-VM adds up across twenty tools, the free tier is gone, and there's no identity layer.
Heroku killed free in 2022, Eco starts at $5/mo per app, and Salesforce has it in maintenance mode. Twenty idle internal tools means twenty per-app fees — the tax that kills sprawl.
Spaces is superb for ML demos — Pro $9, Team $20/user plus metered GPU. A sprint tracker or invoice tool is the wrong shape for that platform, and per-user team pricing says so.
Lovable proved the demand — $500M ARR, 100k+ projects a day, unlimited members on every plan. So 'no per-seat pricing' alone isn't a wedge. The gap is what happens after the build: SSO floors, opaque credit pools, and builder lock-in.
Railway is the friendliest simple PaaS — $5 Hobby, $20 Pro, pure usage, no seats. It also has no access layer at all: you get a public URL and own auth yourself. That's the gap.
Render's free tier sleeps at 15 minutes with 30–60 second cold starts — the exact failure mode our wake-latency work targets. Same deploy-plus-public-URL shape, same missing identity layer.
Replit owns 'agent builds and hosts' with 50M+ registered users — but collaborator caps, Enterprise-only SSO, and stacked credit metering make it a creator platform, not a home for twenty tiny team tools.
Retool bundles hosting and identity — then charges per seat ($50–65/builder on Business) for audiences of three. For twenty tiny tools with different users each, per-seat pricing is structurally backwards.
Streamlit Cloud is free but capped at exactly one private app ever, 1GB RAM, 12-hour sleep. A team's home for ten Python tools needs more than one slot.
Vercel is the best Big-Software deploy surface and 30% of its deploys are now agent-generated. But per-seat pricing, a $150/mo protection add-on, and Enterprise-only SSO make it the wrong shape for a 3-person internal tool.
How AgentCell works — sharing, economics, and the pieces around them.
Every operation as an agent tool call — deploy, logs, rollback, env and secrets, domains, share lists, status, spend, destroy. Nothing is dashboard-only.
The agent that wrote the app also ships and runs it. One deploy command, a full-lifecycle MCP server and CLI, structured errors the agent can debug alone — no console required.
Org base images, private packages, org secrets, internal network reachability, region choice — plus a per-cell datastore and object storage so tracking tools actually work.
Every cell sits behind an identity-aware proxy: requests authenticate against your org's provider before reaching app code, which receives a verified user and implements zero auth logic.
Per-cell origins, strict CSP, egress rules, boundary-injected secrets, spend caps, and access logs — because 'we use Firecracker' is not a security story.
Deploy twenty tools, pay for the three people actually use. Idle cells sleep and bill nothing for compute — metered on vCPU-seconds and requests, never per seat, never per app.
Private, specific people, groups, the whole org, or a public link — per app, changeable without a redeploy, with colleagues signing in through the work account they already have. No auth code, ever.
Worked numbers and explainers: the auth cliff, the three-cost-center stitching tax.
Identity free tiers cover a million users, then jump to $125–300/mo enterprise floors. There is no tier for a permanently 3–10 person audience that wants SSO and will never need SCIM.
Hosting + seats + identity: price a 3-user, 5-app setup on Render/Railway plus WorkOS/Clerk/Auth0 plus Retool-style seats, and watch the twentieth tool die in a spreadsheet.
Who runs on small software — the team with twenty tiny tools.
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