What is Alternate Clouds?
Alternate Clouds runs your software on decentralized infrastructure. Instead of renting servers from one company, your workloads run on a network of independent providers, matched to what each service needs (general compute, confidential computing, GPUs), through one account, one bill, and one set of tools.
You do not need to know anything about crypto or blockchains to use it. Sign in with an email address, pay by card, and deploy.
What you can run
- Containers. Any Docker image, with a public URL, environment variables, logs, and shell access.
- Apps and AI agents from templates. One-click templates for agents, databases, inference servers, and more.
- GPU workloads. GPUs billed by the hour for inference and training.
- Confidential services. Add
--confidentialto run inside a trusted execution environment (TEE) with remote attestation, so nobody, including the provider, can read your data.
Three ways to use it
| Best for | |
|---|---|
| Web app at clouds.alternatefutures.ai | Deploying from templates, watching services, managing billing and team members. See the Web app overview. |
CLI (acc) | Day-to-day work from a terminal, scripts, and CI. See Install the CLI. |
| SDK | Building the platform into your own product. See the SDK overview. |
AI agents can drive all three. See Docs for AI agents.
How billing works
Every account starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required. After that you pay a monthly or yearly subscription plus prepaid credits that are spent as your services run. Set a budget to cap spend. The model is explained in How billing works; the tasks are in Manage billing and credits.
Key terms
- Project. A workspace for related services and the people who manage them.
- Service. One deployed thing: a container, a template, a GPU job.
- Deployment. A single release of a service. Redeploying creates a new one.
- Region. Where a service runs:
us-east,us-west,eu,asia, or Any.
How these fit together is in Accounts, organizations, and projects; more terms are in the glossary.