# Kivo

> A SaaS theme for software, AI, API, and dev tool startups: 4 homepages and about 38 page designs, including pricing, docs landing, changelog, and integrations.

Links point to a Markdown copy of each page where one exists. The full text of every page is in https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/llms-full.txt. Other languages: [fr](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/fr/llms.txt).

## Pages

- [Kivo](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/): Deploy web apps, APIs, workers, and AI agents on a developer cloud with scaling, networking, and observability built in.
- [Pricing](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/pricing.md): Simple, usage-based pricing. Start free and scale your services, databases, and workers as you grow.
- [FAQ](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/faq.md): Answers about plans, supported languages, autoscaling, migrations, data residency, and uptime.
- [Documentation](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/docs/): Developer documentation: quickstarts for popular frameworks, deploy and database guides, CLI commands, and the REST API reference.
- [Security](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/security/): Certifications, encryption, access controls, monitoring, and how to report a vulnerability. Everything your security review needs in one place.
- [About](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/about/): The team behind the platform: why we started, how we build, who backs us, and the roles we are hiring for.
- [Community](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/community/): Join the community chat, forum, and GitHub. Browse the open-source CLI and SDKs, join office hours and meetups, and meet the contributors.
- [Contact sales](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/contact/): Talk to sales about volume pricing, dedicated regions, SSO, compliance reviews, and migration help for your team.

## Features

- [Autoscaling](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-01.md): Add and remove instances automatically as traffic, CPU, and memory change.
- [Private networking](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-02.md): Connect services, databases, and workers over an isolated network with no public exposure.
- [Preview environments](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-03.md): Get a full copy of your stack for every pull request, then tear it down on merge.
- [Zero-downtime deploys](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-04.md): Roll out new versions behind health checks and roll back in one click.
- [Infrastructure as code](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-05.md): Describe services, databases, and environments in one versioned config file.
- [CLI and API](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-06.md): Script deploys, logs, and scaling from your terminal or any CI pipeline.
- [Webhooks](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-11.md): Send deploy, scaling, and incident events to your own endpoints, signed and retried.
- [Secrets and environment variables](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-12.md): Keep keys, tokens, and settings out of your code, encrypted and scoped to each environment.
- [Metrics and logs](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/services/service-13.md): See latency, errors, and every log line for every service in one dashboard, with alerts that reach the right person.

## Solutions

- [Ship AI apps without the GPU ops](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/solutions/ai-apps/): Deploy AI agents, inference APIs, and RAG pipelines with durable background jobs, private networking, and autoscaling built in.
- [Launch this week, scale next year](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/solutions/startups/): Deploy on push, get preview environments for every pull request, and scale without an ops hire. Free to start, with credits for early-stage teams.
- [Every client project, one calm workflow](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/solutions/agencies/): Run client sites and apps in separate workspaces, share preview environments for client review, and transfer projects at launch.
- [Platform speed with enterprise controls](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/solutions/enterprises/): Self-service deploys for large engineering teams, with single sign-on, audit logs, private networking, compliance controls, and dedicated support.

## Integrations

- [Branchyard](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/branchyard.md): Build from self-hosted Branchyard servers, including private networks.
- [Cachefront](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/cachefront.md): Low-latency key-value cache over private networking.
- [Channelbot](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/channelbot.md): Post deploys, alerts, and previews to your team chat.
- [Commitline](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/commitline.md): Deploy on every push and open a preview environment for every pull request.
- [Directory Sync](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/directory-sync.md): Provision and remove members automatically with SCIM.
- [Embedstore](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/embedstore.md): Store and query vector embeddings for search and AI features.
- [Event Stream](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/event-stream.md): Forward logs and metrics to your observability stack.
- [Gatecheck CI](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/gatecheck-ci.md): Hold deploys until your test pipeline passes, then promote the build.
- [Keygate](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/keygate.md): Single sign-on for your workspace with SAML or OpenID Connect.
- [Letterbolt](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/letterbolt.md): Send transactional email from your services with verified domains.
- [Oncall Relay](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/oncall-relay.md): Page the on-call engineer when a deploy fails or a service goes down.
- [Rowmesh](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/rowmesh.md): Attach a serverless Postgres database with branching for every preview.
- [Secretkeep](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/secretkeep.md): Sync secrets from your vault into environment variables on every deploy.
- [Spanlight](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/integrations/spanlight.md): Trace requests across services with OpenTelemetry.

## Customer stories

- [How Brightlane Labs halved code review time with preview environments](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/customers/brightlane-labs.md): A design tooling company gave every pull request its own live URL, so designers, PMs, and engineers review the real thing.
- [How Crestfield Digital retired 40 backup scripts](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/customers/crestfield-digital.md): A media company replaced hand-written backup and restore scripts with managed Postgres and infrastructure as code.
- [How Halcyon Health passed its security review with private networking](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/customers/halcyon-health.md): A healthcare scheduling company moved patient data services onto a private network and cut its audit preparation from weeks to days.
- [How Northstar Systems cut deploy time by 80%](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/customers/northstar-systems.md): A payments team moved 40 services off hand-built VMs in one weekend and now ships to production more than a dozen times a day.
- [How Orbit Commerce kept shipping through peak season](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/customers/orbit-commerce.md): A retail platform deployed more than 100 times during its busiest week of the year without a minute of downtime.
- [How a team of four at Summit Cloud runs AI workloads at scale](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/customers/summit-cloud.md): An AI startup runs inference APIs and background jobs for millions of requests a day without a dedicated ops team.
- [How VectorGrid absorbed a 50× launch spike without a single page](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/customers/vectorgrid.md): An analytics platform scaled from a steady baseline to fifty times its normal traffic on launch day, then back down, with no manual steps.

## Comparisons

- [Platform vs DIY Kubernetes](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/compare/diy-kubernetes/): Compare the platform with running Kubernetes yourself: setup time, upgrades, autoscaling, preview environments, and the hours your team spends on operations.
- [Platform vs Legacy PaaS](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/compare/legacy-paas/): Compare the platform with an older platform-as-a-service: pricing, private networking, preview environments, autoscaling, and region choice.
- [Platform vs Traditional VPS](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/compare/traditional-vps/): Compare the platform with virtual private servers: deploys, patching, backups, scaling, and the real cost of running your own machines.

## Blog

- [Introducing durable workflows](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/blog/introducing-durable-workflows.md): Run multi-step jobs that survive deploys, crashes, and timeouts. Each step is checkpointed, retried, and replayable from the dashboard.
- [How we cut cold starts in half](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/blog/cutting-cold-starts-in-half.md): A look at the snapshot cache, lazy module loading, and the routing change that brought the median cold start of a Node service from 410 ms to 190 ms.
- [Why deploy tokens now expire after one hour](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/blog/short-lived-deploy-tokens.md): Long-lived CI tokens are the easiest credential to leak. Here is how short-lived tokens work, and how to move your pipeline to them in a few minutes.
- [Set up a preview environment for every pull request](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/blog/preview-environments-for-every-pull-request.md): A step-by-step guide to deploying each pull request to its own URL, with its own database branch, and cleaning it up when the pull request closes.
- [Zero-downtime database migrations in five steps](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/blog/zero-downtime-database-migrations.md): Renaming a column while the app is serving traffic is safe if you split the change into small, backward-compatible deploys. Here is the pattern we use.
- [Set cost alerts before the surprise bill](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/blog/set-cost-alerts-before-the-surprise-bill.md): Budgets, per-service alerts, and spend caps: a short guide to knowing what you will pay before the invoice arrives.

## Changelog

- [Durable workflows are generally available](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-10-durable-workflows.md): Run background jobs with retries, timeouts, and step-level logs.
- [Short-lived deploy tokens by default](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-09-short-lived-deploy-tokens.md): CI tokens now expire after one hour and are scoped to a single project.
- [Faster builds with layer caching](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-09-build-layer-caching.md): Repeat builds are up to three times faster for Node and Python.
- [Log streaming no longer drops lines under load](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-09-log-streaming-fix.md): High-volume services now stream every line to the dashboard and the CLI.
- [Read replicas for Postgres](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-08-postgres-read-replicas.md): Add replicas in one click to scale read-heavy workloads.
- [Preview environments can start from a database snapshot](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-08-preview-database-snapshots.md): Seed every pull request with realistic data instead of an empty schema.
- [Smoother zero-downtime deploys](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-07-zero-downtime-deploys.md): Old instances now drain open connections before they stop.
- [Cron jobs with timezones and overlap control](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-07-cron-timezones.md): Schedule jobs in local time and decide what happens when a run is still going.
- [Node 22 is the default runtime, Node 18 is deprecated](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-06-node-22-default.md): New services start on Node 22. Node 18 builds stop on Dec 1, 2026.
- [Export audit logs to your own storage](https://kivo-astro.pages.dev/changelog/2026-06-audit-log-export.md): Stream every workspace and project event to an S3-compatible bucket.

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