Introduction

Appentic is a hosting platform for web apps and APIs. You keep your code in a GitHub repository. Appentic builds it, runs it on machines in the locations you choose, and gives you logs, metrics and a browser shell to look after it.

The parts

• Workspace. The top level of your account. It holds projects and the people you work with. See Workspaces and collaborators.
• Project. One app. Each project runs on machines of its own, on its own private network, and nothing in one project is reachable from another. See How projects work.
• Machine. A server your project runs on. You add a project's first machine when you're ready to deploy, and can add more, in other locations. You choose each machine's size, and the services on it share its memory, CPU and disk. See Machines.
• Services. The parts of your app:
  • Web services answer HTTP requests.
  • Workers run background processes.
  • Cron jobs run commands on a schedule.
  • Postgres databases hold your data, with optional backups and point-in-time restore.
  • Key value stores run Redis.
  • Storage gives you an S3-compatible bucket.
  • Volumes give a database more disk.
  • A firewall filters traffic before it reaches your web services.
  • Load balancers spread traffic over several web services.

A project's machines can be in different locations and still share one private network, so a web service in one can use a database in another. See How networking works.

Building with AI

• Coding agents, such as Claude Code, can connect to your account and create projects, deploy, read logs and fix problems for you.
• Athena builds an app from a description, and can troubleshoot an app you deployed from your own repository.

How you pay

Appentic is prepaid. You add credits by card, and Appentic deducts what your projects use, by the second. A project costs its machines' monthly prices plus a monthly fee for each service in it. There is no free tier. See How billing works.

What Appentic does not do

• Services do not scale automatically, and nothing scales to zero. Everything you create keeps running until you stop or delete it.
• There are no preview environments for pull requests.
• There is no separate static site hosting. Serve static files from a web service.

Getting help

Open a ticket from User settings → Support. See Support.