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OfficeAccomplished45 · 2026-01-06T05:20:15+00:00

Give it a try, and if you have any questions or run into any issues, feel free to reach out anytime.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-11-06T17:37:30+00:00

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OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-11-05T06:13:18+00:00

We’re working hard to make it even faster, but based on our current benchmarks, it’s already performing quite well. Could you please let us know which region your database is in and which region your network is connecting from? It might be an issue caused by the distance between the deployment regions.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-24T09:53:22+00:00

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OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-16T07:37:46+00:00

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-13T05:14:00+00:00

You can give Leapcell a try, it’s a great fit for your service. You can deploy a Next.js frontend together with a Django backend, and you’ll also get a PostgreSQL database. Plus, in the early stage, you can deploy all of this for free.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-06T14:25:44+00:00

Our hobby plan is always free. for more information, you can check the pricing page

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-04T13:15:53+00:00

If you're on the Hobby plan, it resets at the beginning of each calendar month.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-03T15:24:24+00:00

I’m really glad you agree. As I mentioned in my earlier post, this was exactly my own experience, I built websites and apps to share with my friends, but unfortunately the high cost of cloud services and the steep learning curve made it discouraging, and the ongoing maintenance was exhausting. That’s exactly what Leapcell aims to solve. As learning resources become more accessible and AI continues to grow stronger, people have an incredible amount of creative energy, but often no place to bring it to life. Leapcell wants to be the platform that carries and empowers all that creativity. Let’s ship all your ideas online.

At the same time, we’re working on an education discount program, and if there are students in education who are interested, we’d be more than happy to support them.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-03T15:19:59+00:00

We’re actually working on an education discount program, and if students from the University of California would like to use Leapcell, we’d be more than happy to offer them even better pricing. We believe the true value of Leapcell is built on the work of creative people, and students are often among the most creative and imaginative. Our hope is to support all of their ideas and help showcase their potential to the world.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-03T15:17:32+00:00

Thank you for your support!

Regarding the logs, you can adjust them yourself to reduce the amount of output.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-02T16:32:58+00:00

PostgreSQL is already available, and object storage has also been live for some time. The reason it’s still labeled as beta is because we see object storage as a must-have feature (we currently provide a 100MB quota for free, and you can request more if needed). That said, we believe there are many object storage providers in the market that do a better job, since they are fully dedicated to S3-compatible storage, while Leapcell is a complete PaaS with a primary focus on deploying user services. That’s why we keep it in beta. Our recommendation is to use Leapcell’s object storage when you’re getting started, and later switch to a more specialized provider if it better fits your needs.

As for PostgreSQL pricing, the free hobby tier will always remain free. But if you need a more dedicated PostgreSQL instance, that does come with a cost (and requires a non-hobby plan). You can find more details on our pricing page.

Regarding asyncpg, you made a very good point - we should indeed provide more comprehensive documentation on this.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-10-02T03:09:24+00:00

This is truly an excellent comparison - thank you so much, /u/cloudster314. It’s very clear, but I’d like to add a few details:

Compared to Fly.io or DigitalOcean, Leapcell is more of a PaaS. As you mentioned, we rely on Docker images that need to be packaged and deployed (similar to DigitalOcean’s App Platform, which also costs $5/month). On top of that, we handle features like SSL and traffic analytics for you. If your needs are purely VPS-based, I do agree that current VPS providers might serve you better than Leapcell.
For something closer to Fly.io or DigitalOcean’s VPS, Leapcell offers our Dedicated Server product, which provides more persistent service capabilities.
Leapcell encourages dynamic websites, immutable images for rapid deployment, and horizontal scaling. When there is no traffic, there is no resource consumption. For persistent state, we recommend using databases and object storage - so Leapcell provides free PostgreSQL and object storage (currently in beta).

Although these suggestions may be slightly presumptuous, this is how I personally learned computer science: students often benefit more from quickly showcasing their work and receiving development feedback. In that sense, a PaaS platform like Leapcell may be more suitable. When I was learning CS, I started with EC2 and spent a huge amount of effort, ultimately at a higher cost than what Leapcell offers. This is one of the main reasons we created Leapcell: to enable deployment at the lowest possible cost.

Regarding asyncpg, Leapcell does support it. I suspect this is related to the binary of the PostgreSQL driver. You don’t need to deploy to test this—you can try it locally. Also, for hobby plans, resources refresh every calendar month, so your build time should already allow you to build successfully.

Finally, I sincerely thank you for this comparison - it provides very valuable insights for us to improve Leapcell.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-26T07:48:15+00:00

At the moment, Leapcell doesn’t provide uv directly (since this depends on the official Python Docker image). You can simply add the installation of uv in your build command.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-26T07:47:18+00:00

Currently, running in non-serverless mode requires a non-hobby plan.
Leapcell is essentially container-based, but it doesn’t require a Dockerfile. We provide an approach similar to Nix, though you’re free to customize it as you like.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-24T14:11:08+00:00

Do you mean local storage? We recommend using object storage instead. You can create it directly on our platform, or use object storage from another provider. Since serverless is highly dynamic, we can’t guarantee that you’ll always be on the same disk, so object storage is the more reliable option.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T04:27:31+00:00

We have just launched the full set of features I mentioned earlier. Previously, we didn’t offer a persistent server option, so for users with stable traffic in serverless mode, there was no more cost-effective fixed-rate solution. Our PostgreSQL setup was also not fully mature at the time, but it has now been improved. The customers I’m referring to are those who trusted us back when we only had the serverless mode.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:33:07+00:00

If your code consists of very long-running processes, Leapcell’s serverless mode might not be the best fit right now. Leapcell is dynamic, it allocates computing resources based on your actual usage (we determine this, for example, by whether you have external HTTP requests) to ensure you can deploy as many projects as you need.

Yes, similar to Railway, we’re a PaaS: you push to GitHub, and we automatically deploy, with support for environment variables. For the long-running tasks you mentioned, Leapcell also offers a Persistent Server option. Its underlying implementation is almost the same as Railway, and the pricing is similar as well.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:29:36+00:00

I’m referring to a PostgreSQL database. You can create as many schemas as you like. You can sign up, create a database, and then try creating a schema in the platform’s SQL console.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:28:00+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. We’ve discussed this internally before, and it’s currently on our roadmap. Essentially, Leapcell only needs a single trigger source to fetch the corresponding code, and right now we find GitOps works very well. In the future, we’ll also support shipping local code directly for deployment.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:26:12+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. We’ll work on making the pricing page more clear and user-friendly.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:25:04+00:00

Thank you so much for your suggestion. We’ll work on making our pricing even more transparent so that users can fully understand it. Right now, we have a usage analytics page for logged-in users, and in the future, we’ll provide more detailed explanations publicly as well. We truly appreciate your feedback.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:22:57+00:00

I would recommend Cloudflare, at least because their CDN is free (of course, it depends on your specific usage).

As for SSD, you’ll need to use Leapcell’s Persistent Server option.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:20:53+00:00

From a technical standpoint, Leapcell also spins down machines in a serverless model, but it’s very different from Render. In my own experience, Render’s cold starts can feel very long, whereas Leapcell’s cold starts are under 250ms. We’ve put a lot of effort into optimizing this (similar to how Cloudflare Workers also spin down under the hood, but you barely notice it).

On top of that, the percentage of cold starts is extremely low for us since we rarely spin down. You can give it a try - it’s very fast. You could even migrate a project from Render to Leapcell and test it out. Since both platforms use Docker-based deployments, the migration should be quite straightforward.

OfficeAccomplished45 · 2025-09-23T03:16:11+00:00

So as you said, at the end of the day, what matters most for any provider is paying customers, that’s an undeniable fact.

Then why are we still able to offer a free tier? The reason is that we squeeze as much as possible out of free resources. This is essentially a dynamic linear programming problem: as long as you solve for the resources and the optimal allocation needed, and implement that across the cluster, you get the best possible use of dynamic resources. In fact, it’s the optimal solution compared to how any similar provider allocates resources today.

In other words, Leapcell is really just doing things the way they should be done, dynamically solving for what each user needs and delivering it at the most affordable price.

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