KraftCloud – The "Never Pay for Idle" Cloud Platform
Hi everyone, it’s Alex, Simon, Felipe and the team from Unikraft.io We have built kraft.cloud, a millisecond cloud platform, where apps and services cold start, scale to zero and autoscale in milliseconds, ensuring you never pay for idle, can efficiently cope with traffic peaks, and don’t have to deal with complex cold start issues. As of today we are now in open early access! The platform (and we) come from research in the area of lightweight virtualization — trying to ask the question of how efficient cloud platforms could (or should) be while still retaining strong, hardware-level…
KraftCloud – The "Never Pay for Idle" Cloud Platform launched on May 22, 2024 with 7 votes, #1,618 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
The millisecond compute layer used for sandboxes, headless browsers, CI/builds, functions / Agents / Databases and much more. Instant boot, VM-grade isolation, and millisecond scale-to-zero, so you can ship with superior economics. Deploy on-prem, BYOC or on dedicated hosts — you own the entire stack.
The compute layer for sandboxes, AI agents, or any workload. VM-grade isolation. Scale to zero in <10ms. Up to 100K+ instances per server. Deploy on-prem, BYOC or on dedicated hosts - own the full stack . Fork a live virtual computer in 10 milliseconds, irrespective of its workload (its children too). Fork DBs, sub-agents, parallel headless browsers to retrieve a webpage faster, parallel debugging or build sessions, or whatever your use case demands. Turn your [sandbox | headless browser | build | etc] runtime into a template and launch large number of instances from it in 10 milliseconds. The platform allows for 1,000s such templates — full flexibility andfrom kraft.cloud
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi everyone, it’s Alex, Simon, Felipe and the team from Unikraft.io We have built kraft.cloud, a millisecond cloud platform, where apps and services cold start, scale to zero and autoscale in milliseconds, ensuring you never pay for idle, can efficiently cope with traffic peaks, and don’t have to deal with complex…
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