The developer-friendly cloud experience you expect — with meaningful improvements that matter at scale.
LightYear cloud compute starts at $2.50/mo — half the price of the entry-level Nanode plan — making it more cost-effective to run development, staging, and small production workloads.
LightYear operates 32 data center regions worldwide — significantly more than the 11 core regions available on competing platforms — giving you better coverage for global deployments.
LightYear offers NVIDIA A16, A40, A100, and L40S GPU instances across multiple regions — a wider selection than platforms that limit GPU availability to a handful of locations.
LightYear includes up to 3 TB of outbound bandwidth per month on comparable plans — significantly more than most providers at the same price point.
LightYear is a focused cloud infrastructure provider — not a division of a large enterprise. That means faster product decisions, no feature deprecations driven by corporate strategy, and a team that cares about developer experience.
24/7 ticket and chat support is available to all LightYear customers — not just those on premium support plans. You get responsive help from day one.
A side-by-side look at what each platform offers.
★ indicates LightYear advantage. Pricing and features correct as of April 2025. Subject to change.
Most teams complete the migration from their existing provider to LightYear in under a day.
Create your LightYear account and add credit to your wallet. No credit card required for the free trial.
Take snapshots of your current instances. Export the images or use our ISO upload feature to bring your custom OS images across.
Deploy equivalent instances on LightYear in the same or closer regions. Our deploy wizard takes under 60 seconds per server.
Point your DNS records to your new LightYear IPs. Enjoy included DDoS protection and private networking from day one.
Yes. LightYear instances use standard SSH access, cloud-init, and the same Linux distributions you're used to. Your Ansible playbooks, Terraform configs, and deployment scripts work without modification.
You can migrate your workloads to LightYear Kubernetes clusters using standard kubectl and Helm workflows. Export your manifests, update your kubeconfig, and redeploy — the Kubernetes API is the same.
Both platforms bill hourly with a monthly cap. LightYear uses a prepaid wallet — you top up and pay as you go, with no surprise invoices at month end.
LightYear does not bundle a CDN. However, you can use any third-party CDN (Cloudflare, Fastly, BunnyCDN) with LightYear — often at a lower total cost than a bundled CDN that charges per GB.
Yes. New accounts receive free trial credit to test our platform. No credit card is required to get started.
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