Comparisons
Brod compared with other ways to host an app
If you already have a hosting account, the fair question is why you would add Brod. These pages answer it plainly, including the cases where the platform you already use is the better fit.
Who these pages are for
You built an app with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Now you need to put it somewhere your team can use it, and you are choosing between a platform you already know and Brod.
General-purpose platforms
Run almost any web app and let you pick the framework, the runtime and the services around it.
Brod
Does less. It runs small internal apps and gives every one of them sign-in, access control, a database, secrets and rollback without setup.
Deployed by your agent
Your coding agent deploys to Brod over MCP.
How we write these
- Checked against the source. We only state what we can check about Brod against its source code and docs.
- General about others. We keep statements about other products general.
- Open to correction. If something here is wrong or out of date, the Brod repository is public: github.com/brodsh/brod.
Keep reading
- Internal toolsBrod runs the internal tools your team builds with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex: private address, team sign-in, roles, database, secrets, logs and rollback, deployed by your agent.
- AI app runtimeWhy apps written by coding agents need a different kind of runtime: one the agent can deploy to, with identity, data, secrets and versions built in. How Brod's runtime works and where it stops.
- PricingWhat Brod costs: a free plan with 10 running apps, 10 people and 250 MB of storage on brod.sh, larger plans on the way, and free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0.