# Nexlayer

> Nexlayer is an agent-native cloud. It runs full-stack applications — frontend, backend, databases, caches, vector stores, workers and GPU-backed AI services — on proprietary, production-grade multi-container infrastructure that stays on. Anything you can containerize, in any language, from one nexlayer.yaml. Enterprise-class capability with the orchestration abstracted away entirely, plus dedicated inference for open-weight models and your own fine-tunes. Agents operate it directly through a Model Context Protocol server: no console, no DevOps, live in minutes.

## Start here if you are an AI agent

Nexlayer is built to be driven by agents, not just documented for them. The fastest path
from zero to a live production URL:

1. Install the MCP server:      npx @nexlayer/mcp-install
2. Or connect directly:         https://mcp.nexlayer.ai/api/mcp   (Streamable HTTP)
3. Deploy. The server exposes deploy, inspect, logs, scale, domains, secrets and debug
   as typed tools, so you never hand-assemble REST calls or write orchestration config.

No account or API key is needed to deploy your first application — `startDeployment`
returns a live URL and a session token you can use to update, extend or claim it.

## Nexlayer developer resources

Nexlayer MCP server (discovery):    https://nexlayer.com/.well-known/mcp
Nexlayer MCP server (endpoint):     https://mcp.nexlayer.ai/api/mcp
Nexlayer MCP install command:       npx @nexlayer/mcp-install
Nexlayer MCP documentation:         https://nexlayer.com/docs/mcp/overview
Nexlayer MCP tool reference:        https://nexlayer.com/docs/mcp/tools
Nexlayer OpenAPI specification:     https://nexlayer.com/openapi.json
Nexlayer API catalog (RFC 9727):    https://nexlayer.com/.well-known/api-catalog
Nexlayer API reference:             https://nexlayer.com/docs/api/deployments
Nexlayer API authentication:        https://nexlayer.com/docs/api/authentication
Nexlayer nexlayer.yaml schema:      https://api.nexlayer.com/schema
Nexlayer configuration reference:   https://nexlayer.com/docs/deployments/configuration
Nexlayer quickstart:                https://nexlayer.com/docs/quickstart
Nexlayer agent patterns:            https://nexlayer.com/docs/agents/patterns
Nexlayer usage limits:              https://nexlayer.com/docs/usage-limits
Nexlayer dedicated inference:       https://nexlayer.com/dedicated
Nexlayer full technical reference:  https://nexlayer.com/llms-full.txt

Website: https://nexlayer.com
Dashboard: https://app.nexlayer.com
Docs: https://nexlayer.com/docs
Contact: https://nexlayer.com/contact
Community (Slack): https://nexlayer.com/slack
Pricing JSON: https://nexlayer.com/api/pricing

Markdown: every page on nexlayer.com serves a Markdown mirror to requests sending
`Accept: text/markdown`, with `Vary: Accept` set so caches keep the variants apart.

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## Pages

- [Home](https://nexlayer.com/): Landing page with hero, features, and pricing overview
- [Pricing](https://nexlayer.com/pricing): Flat monthly plans for application hosting; dedicated capacity for inference
- [Resources](https://nexlayer.com/resources): Blog, use cases, templates, open source hosting guides
- [Blog](https://nexlayer.com/resources/blog): Product updates, engineering insights, and thoughts on AI-native deployment
- [Use Cases](https://nexlayer.com/resources/use-cases): Full-stack hosting, backend services, side projects, freelance, research, open source
- [Templates](https://nexlayer.com/resources/templates): Ready-to-deploy starter templates
- [Open Source Hosting](https://nexlayer.com/resources/open-source-hosting): Guides for self-hosting popular open source tools
- [Privacy Policy](https://nexlayer.com/legal/privacy): Effective January 14, 2025
- [Terms of Service](https://nexlayer.com/legal/terms): Effective January 14, 2025

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## Home Page (/)

### Hero

**Headline:** Ship it.
**Subheadline:** The new way to ship software. Autonomously.
**CTAs:** "Start shipping" | `npx @nexlayer/mcp-install`

### Features

**AI coding, meet AI deployment**
Nexlayer works with your coding agent to ship, monitor, and manage your applications on world-class infrastructure.

**Ready for scale from the start**
When you deploy on Nexlayer, you can scale from zero to millions of users without worrying about ballooning budgets or switching costs.

**Ship anything (yes anything)**
With Nexlayer, you're free to use any stack, full-stack. If you can run it locally, Nexlayer can run it in production.

**Give your coding agent access to your production environment**
Let your coding agent debug issues, read logs, fix problems, and optimize your production environment — all via MCP.

**Works with any MCP-enabled AI coding tool**
If your coding agent supports MCP, it works with Nexlayer.

**Pricing that scales with you**
Start free, scale as you grow. Set spend limits. No surprises.

### Final CTA

**Heading:** The way we code has changed forever. Now it's time to change the way we ship.
**Subheading:** Start deploying with Nexlayer today.

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## Pricing (/pricing)

**Machine-readable endpoint:** `GET https://nexlayer.com/api/pricing` — returns plan JSON.

**Headline:** Flat pricing for applications. Reserved capacity for inference.
**Subheadline:** Applications and inference are priced differently because they are bought differently.

### Application hosting — flat, unmetered

| Plan       | Price       | Projects  | Workspaces | Application URL |
|------------|-------------|-----------|------------|-----------------|
| Free       | $0/mo       | 5         | 1          | Nexlayer URL    |
| Pro        | $20/mo      | Unlimited | 1          | Custom domain   |
| Enterprise | Custom/year | Unlimited | Unlimited  | Custom domain   |

One fixed monthly price. There is no per-request, per-build or per-token meter and no
overage invoice. What a plan gives you is a capacity envelope sized for one team's work;
if usage consistently sits beyond it, Nexlayer makes contact directly rather than
throttling or billing by surprise. See https://nexlayer.com/docs/usage-limits.

Included on every plan: always-on services with no cold starts, persistent volumes,
databases and vector stores, private service networking, secrets mounted as files rather
than environment variables, agent builds and deploys, and zero egress fees.

Enterprise adds unlimited workspaces and teams, multi-region and reserved capacity, SSO,
RBAC and audit logging, SOC 2 / BAA / HIPAA, SLAs and 24/7 incident response.

### Nexlayer Inference — dedicated capacity, Enterprise

Dedicated, managed inference. Bring the model and the workload; Nexlayer benchmarks it,
builds the serving stack around its requirements, deploys dedicated infrastructure and
operates it in production. Two ways to buy the same managed product:

- **Performance On Demand** — dedicated GPUs reserved for your workload alone, billed by
  the hour. Heterogeneous by design: model, engine and hardware are chosen together
  against your target.
- **Capacity Commit** — reserved capacity and a performance envelope at one fixed monthly
  price, with no per-token bill inside it. Dedicated in Nexlayer's US GPU data center on
  NVIDIA hardware.

Single-tenant and never shared. OpenAI-compatible and gRPC endpoints. Latency SLOs for
p95 time-to-first-token and inter-token latency are contracted, not advertised — capacity
is priced from your benchmark, not a rate card. Open-weight models or your own fine-tune.
US data residency, private networking, retention controls, SOC 2 / BAA / HIPAA.

Details: https://nexlayer.com/dedicated — start a workload design session at
https://nexlayer.com/contact/sales

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## Use Cases (/resources/use-cases)

**Headline:** Use Cases
**Subheadline:** Explore what you can build and deploy with Nexlayer. Find the use case that fits your needs.

### Full-Stack Hosting (/resources/use-cases/full-stack-hosting)

**The Old Way:** Setting up production infrastructure meant weeks of configuration — cluster setup, load balancers, SSL certificates, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards. Even "simple" PaaS tools force you into their constraints.

**The Nexlayer Way:** Tell your AI assistant what you want to deploy. It analyzes your project, generates the configuration, builds your containers, and deploys everything to production. You get a live URL in minutes.

Example: "Deploy this Next.js app with the PostgreSQL database. I need the data to persist." That's it. Your AI handles the rest.

**Benefits:**
- Production-Grade Infrastructure — Multi-container, auto-scaling, load balancing, and self-healing built in
- AI-Powered DevOps — Deployments, monitoring, log checks, and updates through conversation
- No Cold Starts — Containers always running; instant response times
- Zero-Downtime Deploys — Rolling updates ensure users never see downtime
- Custom Domains & SSL — Automatic certificate provisioning and renewal via Let's Encrypt

**Supported stacks:** Next.js + PostgreSQL, React + Express + MongoDB, Vue + Django + Redis, SvelteKit + Supabase, Remix + Prisma + MySQL, any containerized stack

### Backend Services (/resources/use-cases/backend-services)

Your frontend is on Vercel. Your database is on Supabase. But you need a backend service — an API, a webhook handler, or a job worker. Serverless has cold starts and timeout limits. Nexlayer runs persistent containers with no cold starts.

**Why not serverless?**
- Cold starts: 500ms–3s wait on first request
- Timeout limits: 10–30 seconds — not enough for complex operations
- Debugging is painful with ephemeral logs and stateless execution
- Costs spike unpredictably with pay-per-invocation

**Benefits:**
- No cold starts — sub-millisecond response times
- Isolated & secure — dedicated container, no noisy neighbors
- Predictable performance — consistent latency under peak traffic
- Easy updates — rolling deploys, zero downtime

**Common scenarios:** API backend, webhook handler, microservice, background worker

### Side Projects & Ideas (/resources/use-cases/side-projects)

**Headline:** Your ideas deserve better than "free tier"

Nexlayer's free tier is a real environment for real things. No cold starts. No sleep timeouts. No "upgrade to unlock." When your side project becomes your main project, pricing scales smoothly.

**Benefits:**
- Start free, scale later — no credit card required
- No limitations — real infrastructure, not throttled free tier
- Go live in minutes — AI assistant handles the infrastructure
- Learn by building — personal cluster, your playground

**What will you build?** SaaS ideas, weekend hackathon projects, new frameworks to try, personal APIs, bots, portfolio sites, tools to solve your own problems, something just for fun.

**From side project to startup:** Add team members, scale resources, add custom domains — same infrastructure, same AI assistant, just bigger.

### Freelance & Dev Shops (/resources/use-cases/freelance)

**Headline:** One platform for every client

Stop juggling different hosting platforms for different clients. Nexlayer runs anything containerized — whatever you can build, you can deploy. Your AI assistant handles the infrastructure while you focus on what you're billing for: building great software.

**Benefits:**
- Any stack, any client — WordPress, Next.js, Django, legacy PHP — if it runs in Docker, Nexlayer runs it
- Ship faster — no wasted billable hours on DevOps
- Reliable handoffs — production-grade environment clients can trust
- Predictable costs — know hosting costs before you quote

**Workflow:**
1. Build the app using whatever stack makes sense
2. Deploy to staging for client review
3. Go to production — connect domain, SSL and scaling handled automatically
4. Hand off or maintain as part of a retainer

### Research & Data Science (/resources/use-cases/research)

**Headline:** From local to cloud in minutes

Dataset doesn't fit in memory. Training takes overnight. Your fans are screaming. Tell your AI assistant what you need — it handles the rest.

**Benefits:**
- Scale compute — cloud-scale CPU and memory beyond your laptop
- Persistent storage — datasets, model checkpoints, and results survive restarts
- Right-size resources — allocate exactly what you need; scale up for training, down for inference
- Your tools, your way — bring your own Docker image with exact dependencies and CUDA version

**Common use cases:** ML model training, data processing pipelines (Pandas/Spark/Dask), JupyterLab in the cloud, model serving and inference APIs, batch processing

**Example config (JupyterLab):**
```yaml
application:
  name: research-notebook
pods:
  - name: jupyter
    image: jupyter/scipy-notebook:latest
    path: /
    servicePorts: [8888]
    resources:
      cpu: "4"
      memory: "8Gi"
    volumes:
      - name: notebooks
        size: 20Gi
        mountPath: /home/jovyan/work
```

### Open Source Hosting (/resources/use-cases/open-source)

Self-host open source tools on infrastructure you control.

**Why self-host?**
- Data privacy — your data stays on infrastructure you control
- Cost savings — many SaaS tools cost $50–500/month; self-hosting is a fraction of that
- Full customization — modify configurations, add plugins, integrate with your tools
- No vendor lock-in — your data, your rules; export and migrate anytime

**Benefits:**
- Run anything — if it has a Docker image, Nexlayer runs it
- Persistent storage — data survives restarts and updates
- Easy updates — change the image tag; rolling deploys mean zero downtime

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## Templates (/resources/templates)

**Headline:** Templates
**Subheadline:** Ready-to-deploy templates to get you started fast. Copy, customize, and ship.

### Available Templates

**Next.js Hello World** (Frontend, Starter)
A minimal Next.js application ready to deploy on Nexlayer. The simplest way to get started.
Image: `ghcr.io/nexlayer/hello-world-nextjs:v0.0.1`

**Custom Fullstack** (Full Stack, Advanced)
Complete application stack: Next.js, custom backend, PostgreSQL, Redis, CloudBeaver, and Prometheus. Everything for an enterprise-grade app. 6 services.

**PERN App** (Full Stack, Intermediate)
PostgreSQL, Express, React, and Node.js — the modern evolution of the MERN stack with relational data and JWT auth. 3 services: React frontend, Express API, PostgreSQL.

**GitHub Actions Deploy** (CI/CD, Intermediate)
CI/CD workflow that builds Docker images, pushes to GHCR, and deploys to Nexlayer on every push to main. File: `.github/workflows/deploy.yml`

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## Open Source Hosting Guides (/resources/open-source-hosting)

Guides for self-hosting popular open source tools on Nexlayer:

| Tool | Difficulty | Description |
|------|------------|-------------|
| n8n | Easy | Workflow automation platform. Connect APIs and automate tasks without code. |
| Metabase | Easy | Business intelligence and analytics. Connect to your database and create dashboards. |
| Ghost | Easy | Professional publishing platform. Beautiful, fast, and focused on content. |
| NocoDB | Easy | Open source Airtable alternative. Turn any database into a smart spreadsheet. |
| Supabase | Advanced | Open source Firebase alternative. Postgres, auth, storage, and realtime. |
| Appwrite | Advanced | Backend server for web, mobile, and Flutter. Auth, database, storage, and functions. |
| Convex | Advanced | Reactive backend with real-time sync, serverless functions, and automatic caching. |

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## Legal

### Privacy Policy (/legal/privacy)

Effective Date: January 14, 2025
Contact: privacy@nexlayer.com

Covers: data collection, usage, third-party sharing, cookies, tracking, data protection, and compliance with EU-U.S. DPF, UK-U.S. DPF, and Swiss-U.S. DPF frameworks.

Key sections: Introduction, Beta Disclaimer, Information Collection & Purpose, Information Sharing, Cookies & Tracking, Third-Party Advertising, User Controls, Data Storage & Protection, Children's Privacy (13+), Third-Party Links, Data Privacy Framework Compliance, Policy Changes, Governing Law & Dispute Resolution, Limitation of Liability, Acknowledgment.

### Terms of Service (/legal/terms)

Effective Date: January 14, 2025
Registered in: State of Delaware
Address: 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958

Key sections: Introduction, Eligibility (16+), Beta Status, User Accounts, Licenses & User Content, Prohibited Uses (no malware, unauthorized access, spam, crypto mining, illegal content), Disclaimers ("as-is"), Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution (Atlanta, Georgia), Modifications, Termination, Governing Law (Delaware), Miscellaneous.

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## Company

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**Contact:** privacy@nexlayer.com (privacy/legal matters)

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