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24 alternatives to Flux

Deploy apps on a globally decentralized network

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Flux launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A simple API for rate limiting, caching, prioritization

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Flux▲3

    Global Application Deployment goes live in September 2020!

    2020 · runonflux.com · its alternatives →

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    Flux▲250

    ChatGPT for hardware

    2023 · flux.ai · its alternatives →

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    Learn the core transferable skills of setting up Linux virtual servers and Docker containers. Provision web servers, application servers, workers, and databases.

    2021 · deploymentfromscratch.com · its alternatives →

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    WarpBuildfree tier, from $0.003/mo▲195

    10x cheaper Github actions in your AWS account

    2024 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    Fluxer▲154

    Hey HN, and happy new year! I'm Hampus Kraft [1], a 22-year-old software developer nearing completion of my BSc in Computer Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. I've been working on Fluxer on and off for about 5 years, but recently decided to work on it full-time and see how far it could take me. Fluxer is an open source [2] communication platform for friends, groups, and communities (text, voice, and video). It aims for "modern chat app" feature coverage with a familiar UX, while being developed in the open and staying FOSS (AGPLv3). The codebase is largely written in…

    Jan 2026 · fluxer.app · its alternatives →

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    Flux▲105

    Fix production bugs by replaying them locally

    Mar 2026 · fluxbase.co · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’re Kyle and Jacob and we are excited to show you Depot (https://depot.dev) and get your feedback! Depot is a hosted Docker container build service, providing fully managed remote builds from CI and from your terminal. We support both Intel and Arm builds natively. As application and platform engineers, we have experienced the challenge of keeping Docker container build times fast. From optimizing and reoptimizing Dockerfiles, to implementing layer caching in CI, to running & maintaining custom runners for multi-platform images. Still today, there are limitations with the…

    2022 · depot.dev · its alternatives →

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    Container-Aware Infrastructure For Enterprise Applications

    2015 · portworx.com · its alternatives →

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    Fluxnet▲12

    Inventory management at your fingertips

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…

    2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy any front-end web application on any cloud platform

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Global CDN, zero config TLS, free custom domains

    2023 · webapp.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're launching Outpost, an open-source, self-hostable component designed to handle outbound event delivery for SaaS/API platforms. If you're building a platform, you eventually need to send events to your users (think payment success, resource updates, workflow changes). Implementing this reliably—handling retries, monitoring, scaling, providing a decent dev experience for consumers, and managing tenants—becomes a significant, recurring engineering task that distracts from core product development. We built Outpost to offload that complexity. Outpost delivers events via…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A developer-focused app PaaS (platform as a service)

    2022 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →

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    Flux▲4

    Team chat with an extension marketplace and desktop app.

    Mar 2026 · getflux.org · its alternatives →

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    Deploy your app in minutes with serverless architecture

    2023 · scaletozeroaws.com · its alternatives →

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    Mist▲64

    Your gateway to decentralized applications

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy your app before your coffee gets cold. It’s that easy

    2025 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →

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    Send any file across your devices over Wi-Fi — no cloud

    Jun 2026 · fluxshare.org · its alternatives →

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    balenaCloud: Manage fleets of IoT Linux devices with balena’s cloud platform. First 10 devices are free. Develop, deploy, and scale your IoT fleet.

    2015 · resin.io · its alternatives →

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    Fluxa▲14

    Lightweight project management for freelancers / small teams

    2024 · fluxa.app · its alternatives →

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    Introducing Sphere - A lightweight, sandboxed compute runtime written in Rust. - introducing-sphere.md

    2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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