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Real infrastructure your agent can claim with one curl.

Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, vectors, queues, storage, webhooks, and deployments. Provisioned in <2 seconds. No signup, no Docker, no waitlist.

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI coding agent

Build me a tiny expense tracker — Postgres backing store, a FastAPI app on top, and deploy it to a public URL I can hit from my phone. Use instanode.dev — no signup, provision whatever you need.

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Seven services. One bundle.

The whole stack, not the pieces.

Free Postgres alone is commoditized. Free Postgres plus Redis, Mongo, queue, storage, webhook, and a real deployment — claimed in one in-flow token — is the wedge.

Postgres
POST /db/new
live in 1.4s
Redis
POST /cache/new
live in 0.9s
MongoDB
POST /nosql/new
live in 1.2s
Vector (pgvector)
POST /vector/new
live in 1.4s
Queue (NATS)
POST /queue/new
live in 0.7s
Storage (S3-compatible)
POST /storage/new
live in 0.8s
Webhook
POST /webhook/new
live in 0.3s
Deploy
POST /deploy/new
live in ~60s
Three steps. No friction.

From prompt to production, in one chat.

Anonymous tier with a 24 h TTL. The agent surfaces a claim link when the quota tightens. One click → magic link → real dashboard.

STEP 01 · CALL

Agent calls.

POST /db/new from inside Claude Code, Cursor, your custom MCP tool, or a shell script. No keys. No setup.

STEP 02 · PROVISION

Real infra spins up.

Managed Postgres, Redis, or Mongo — encryption at rest for vault secrets and stored credentials, a connection string in 1.4 s. 24 h TTL on the free tier.

STEP 03 · CLAIM

Claim when ready.

When the agent surfaces the claim link in its response, one click → permanent ownership. Resources inherit your team’s tier.

Use cases · 100+ shapes the platform fits

From throwaway test DBs to agent swarms.

Coding agents that need memory, hackathon teams that need a backend in three curls, multi-agent frameworks that need a message bus, indie founders shipping on Sunday night. Six exemplar shapes below; the full catalogue covers 100+.

A. AI coding agentsEphemeral test database for a risky migrationA coding agent provisions a throwaway Postgres in under a second, dry-runs a destructive migration, inspects the result, then discards the database — no production blast radius.See how →H. Indie & SaaS foundersOne-afternoon MVP backendA solo founder spins up Postgres + Redis from a curl call in their Claude Code session and ships a paid product by evening.See how →A. AI coding agentsCoding-agent cross-session memoryA terminal-resident coding agent persists architectural decisions across days so it can recall "what we tried Tuesday" via pgvector similarity search.See how →J. Agent swarms & fan-outLangGraph fan-out research agentsA planner agent splits a research question into 12 sub-queries and dispatches them to parallel LangGraph workers that each hit different sources, returning JSON to a NATS subject the reducer subscribes to.See how →L. Agent-factory / spawning patternsDevin-style PR-bot fleetA Cognition-Devin-style orchestrator spawns one fresh agent worker per inbound GitHub issue, each with its own scratch Postgres for running migrations against, and reports back via webhook.See how →H. Indie & SaaS foundersStripe-event entitlementsA SaaS receives Stripe webhooks, updates user plan tier, and invalidates a Redis entitlement cache atomically.See how →
See all 104 use cases →
Build note · 4 min readSixty seconds, one prompt, one working appDevika, a non-developer, asked her agent to build an expense tracker. Postgres + FastAPI + a real HTTPS URL. Three curls and the build took 90 seconds — including the deploy. Read the walkthrough →
Pricing · No talk-to-sales gate

Self-serve sign-up at every tier. No sales call.

Anonymous is the funnel. Hobby pays for the side project. Pro lets one product run in production + staging + development. Team is for the company that ships every day — talk to us about your needs.

Anonymous

For the first call. Before there is a team to bill.

free· 24 h TTL
  • 10 MB Postgres · 2 conn · 24h TTL
  • 5 MB Redis · 5 MB Mongo · 24h TTL
  • 100 stored webhooks · 0 deployments
  • no vault — claim resources first
See the curl ↗
Hobby

For the side project at 2 a.m. Same agent flow, just doesn’t expire.

$9/ mo
  • 1 GB Postgres · 8 conn
  • 50 MB Redis · 100 MB Mongo · 5 conn
  • 1 deployment · *.deployment.instanode.dev
  • 20 vault entries · production env
Start hobby →
Most popular
Pro

For the founder shipping investor-ready software.

$49/ mo
  • 10 GB Postgres · 20 conn
  • 512 MB Redis · 5 GB Mongo · 20 conn
  • 50 GB object storage · 10 deployments · custom domain
  • 200 vault entries · multi-env (dev/staging/prod)
Start pro →
Team

For the engineering org. Dedicated infra, RBAC + audit, with SSO & SLA on the way.

$199/ mo
  • 50 GB Postgres · 1.5 GB Redis · 40 GB MongoDB
  • 100 deployments · 50 custom domains
  • 90-day backups · self-serve restore · RBAC + audit
  • Need more? Enterprise — contact sales
Start team →
For agents

Designed for the place your user actually is.

The first surface is the agent itself — a chat card, a JSON shape, a curl line. Drop us into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.

Claude Codecli
// inside Claude Code chat /instanode spin up a postgres for the flashcards app

Surfaces the claim card directly in chat and writes a .env for you.

MCP serverjson
// claude_desktop_config.json { "mcpServers": { "instanode": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "instanode-mcp"] } } }

Seven provisioning tools: postgres, redis, mongo, queue, storage, webhook, deploy — plus stack & deployment management (create_stack, list_stacks, update_stack_env, list_deployments, get_deployment, redeploy, delete_deployment, …).

curl / shellsh
# pipe straight into psql: psql $(curl -s api.instanode.dev/db/new -d '{"name":"prod-db"}' | jq -r .connection_url)

One line. No SDK, no client, no setup. Cursor, Aider, and any shell-based agent work the same way.