Bex

Bex is an open source platform as a service that builds and runs applications from Git repositories or container images, designed to be operated by developers and by AI coding agents alike. It runs web services, private services, background workers, scheduled jobs and static sites, alongside managed PostgreSQL and Key Value stores. Every supported operation is exposed through a dashboard, a CLI, REST, GraphQL and an MCP interface, so an agent can deploy, scale and observe services end to end. It suits developers leaving Render and platform engineers who want a similar deploy experience on their own hardware. Bex reads Render style render.yaml blueprints, supports native Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust and Elixir runtimes as well as Dockerfiles, and shows deployment history, logs and metrics in the dashboard. A month to date usage view estimates spend before the invoice arrives. The code is Apache 2.0 licensed and can be self hosted on a Kubernetes cluster. Hosted pricing combines a workspace plan with metered resources. Workspace plans are Hobby at $0, Pro at $17.50 and Scale at $349.30 per month, with Enterprise on custom pricing. Service compute runs from a Free tier at $0 (0.1 CPU, 512 MiB) and Starter at $4.90 per month up to Pro Ultra at $315 per month for 8 CPU and 32 GiB, metered per second. Postgres starts at $4.90 and Key Value at $7 per month, and outbound bandwidth is $0.015 per GiB. Self hosting carries no Bex software fee. Bex describes itself as a public alpha that is not ready for production workloads, and its APIs and configuration can still change.