Halcyon scaled to 80k users on $310/mo of infra.
$310/mo total
For startups
The infra a founder would pick if she ran the platform team.
$200 credit, free migration, named SE, and the same hourly rate from day one to 1B requests. No commitments, no rev-share.
Built for builders
Three reasons founders trade hyperscalers for HostEngine.
We started as a tiny ops team running our own API. We built the platform we wanted. The pricing, support and onboarding still reflect that.
$200 credit + free migration
Welcome credit on day one and a free engineer-led move from any provider — for up to 25 services.
A real human SE
Every startup gets a named solutions engineer. Slack channel, weekly office hours, no AI-shaped ticket queue.
Pricing that doesn't punish growth
Same hourly rate from day one to 1B requests. No reserved-instance lock-in, no surprise commitments.
Welcome credit
$200
Free credit applied to any product, expires in 60 days. Top up to $5,000 if you're an accelerator alum.
Time to first deploy
7 min
From email confirmation to a public URL. Our median onboarding cohort across 2026 Q1.
Bill, year 1
−47%
Average reduction vs. AWS for the first 200 startups in our 2025 cohort, holding architecture constant.
In the wild
Founders who already made the jump.
Beacon hit SOC 2 Type II by year one with our compliance kit.
9-week audit
Riverstone trained foundation models on weekend GPU bursts.
$11k/mo savings
Recommended stack
A stack you can grow into for years.
"Our weekend GPU workloads cost 38% less than what we were paying on hyperscalers — and the support team replies in minutes, not days."
Answers
Frequently asked questions
Don't see yours? Reach out — a real human replies in under five minutes any day, any hour.
Talk to us-
Are you on the Y Combinator deals page?
We are — YC, Techstars, AntlerVC, On Deck and 9 other accelerators get $5,000 of credit instead of $200, plus a dedicated SE.
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What does 'free migration' actually mean?
An engineer joins your Slack, runs a discovery call, writes a runbook in 24 hours, and executes the move with you. No fee unless you're moving 100+ services.
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Can I get HIPAA / SOC 2 / GDPR coverage?
Yes. Sign a BAA before you need one, pull our SOC 2 report from the Trust Center, and route EU data to FRA1/AMS1 with a click.
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What if I outgrow the platform?
You won't outgrow the platform — but if you outgrow a tier, the migration is one CLI command and zero downtime. Northbeam went from 1 droplet to 320 in 14 months.
Ready when you are
Ship on infrastructure built for the next decade.
Spin up a region in under a minute. Bring your own panel. Pay by the hour. Cancel any time.
- No credit card to start
- Free migration from any provider
- 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
Frankfurt · 3 nodes · healthy
38ms p99
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s
55s
median provision
14
global regions
$200
welcome credit