# Resources — AgentCell > Comparisons, feature explainers, and guides for small software: what to use when, what things cost, and how AgentCell differs. Canonical: https://agentcell.dev/resources ## Deploy guides - [Deploy an App in Three Commands](https://agentcell.dev/docs/deploy.md): 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. - [AgentCell for AI Coding Agents](https://agentcell.dev/docs/for-ai-agents.md): 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. - [Deploy AI-Generated Apps: From Chat to a Shareable URL](https://agentcell.dev/deploy-ai-generated-apps.md): 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. - [Deploy an App Without DevOps, a Console, or a Pipeline](https://agentcell.dev/deploy-apps-without-devops.md): 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. - [Deploy the App Claude Code Just Built](https://agentcell.dev/deploy-claude-code-app.md): 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. - [Deploy the App Codex Built](https://agentcell.dev/deploy-codex-app.md): 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. - [Deploy the App You Built in Cursor](https://agentcell.dev/deploy-cursor-app.md): 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. - [Deploy Internal Tools Without a Platform Team](https://agentcell.dev/deploy-internal-tools.md): 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. - [Scale-to-Zero App Hosting: Pay Nothing While the App Sleeps](https://agentcell.dev/scale-to-zero-app-hosting.md): 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. - [App Hosting for a Small Team: 3 to 50 People, Many Tiny Apps](https://agentcell.dev/small-team-app-hosting.md): 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. ## Start here - [What Is Small Software?](https://agentcell.dev/resources/what-is-small-software.md): Small software is purpose-built tools with one user or a handful of users — the invoice reconciler, the sprint tracker shaped like your sprints, the prototype for three colleagues. Agents made it easy to build. Sharing it is the unsolved part. ## Comparisons - [Firebase Studio Is Shutting Down — Where to Put Your Small Apps](https://agentcell.dev/resources/migrate-firebase-studio.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Bolt.new (and StackBlitz Teams)](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-bolt.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Cloudflare Workers and Pages](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-cloudflare-workers.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Fly.io for Tiny Always-On Apps](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-fly.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Heroku for Internal Tools](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-heroku.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Hugging Face Spaces for Non-ML Team Tools](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-huggingface-spaces.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Lovable (and Bolt, Create) for Shared Team Apps](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-lovable.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Railway for Internal Tools](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-railway.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Render for Small Apps](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-render.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Replit for Team Tools](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-replit.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Retool for Agent-Built Internal Tools](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-retool.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Streamlit Community Cloud for Team Data Tools](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-streamlit.md): 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. - [AgentCell vs Vercel for Small and Internal Software](https://agentcell.dev/resources/vs-vercel.md): 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. ## Features - [The Agent Control Plane: Logs, Rollback, Env, Domains, Spend](https://agentcell.dev/resources/agent-control-plane.md): Every operation as an agent tool call — deploy, logs, rollback, env and secrets, domains, share lists, status, spend, destroy. Nothing is dashboard-only. - [Deploy From Your Agent: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and MCP](https://agentcell.dev/resources/deploy-from-your-agent.md): 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. - [Custom Environments and Per-Cell Data](https://agentcell.dev/resources/environments-persistence.md): 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. - [The Identity-Aware Front Door: SSO for a 3-Person Tool](https://agentcell.dev/resources/front-door-identity.md): 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. - [The Membrane: Safe by Default for Agent-Written Code](https://agentcell.dev/resources/membrane-security.md): Per-cell origins, strict CSP, egress rules, boundary-injected secrets, spend caps, and access logs — because 'we use Firecracker' is not a security story. - [Unlimited Apps; Pay Only for Consumption](https://agentcell.dev/resources/scale-to-zero-economics.md): 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. - [Share It Like a Google Doc](https://agentcell.dev/resources/share-like-a-doc.md): 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. ## Guides - [The Auth Cliff: Why SSO Costs $125/mo for a 3-Person Tool](https://agentcell.dev/resources/auth-cliff-sso.md): 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. - [The Three-Cost-Center Problem: A Worked Pricing Example](https://agentcell.dev/resources/stitching-paas-plus-auth-guide.md): 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. ## Use cases - [Use Case: The Team Running on Twenty Tiny Tools](https://agentcell.dev/resources/use-cases-team-ops-tools.md): Ops, product, finance, growth, data — 5–50 person teams running bespoke dashboards, reconcilers, and trackers. Where the expansion revenue lives, and what IT needs to sanction it.