Encore vs Hostless
Encore
encore.dev
Hostless
hostless.cloudSide by side
| Figure | Encore | Hostless |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $49/mo | $15/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 2 |
| Spec score · Preview Environment Software | 8.7 (#6) | 8.0 (#18) |
| Product | Encore automates infrastructure from local development through production for developers and AI coding agents. | Hostless is a developer-first platform as a service that builds and runs repository-based software without requiring customers to manage infrastructure. |
| Support | Starter includes Discord community support; Pro adds email support and free 14-day private onboarding, with private Slack support available as an add-on. | The documentation directs users who cannot find an answer to the Hostless community on Discord. |
Plans
In their own words
Encore
Encore automates backend infrastructure from local development to production for developers and AI coding agents. Its open-source SDK lets teams describe services, databases, Pub/Sub, and caches in application code. One command can run a complete backend locally, including databases and Pub/Sub; the same declarations can provision infrastructure in a user's AWS or GCP account and deploy to either cloud. The platform includes GitHub-integrated CI/CD, distributed tracing, metrics, architecture diagrams, and API documentation generated from code. Supported plans can create a temporary cloud environment for each pull request. Encore's full feature set supports TypeScript and Go; Python and Rust support is described as coming soon. Starter is free, with two development environments, 1M trace events monthly, seven-day log and trace retention, and one concurrent build. Pro is $49 per member per month, plus $99 per AWS/GCP environment and $2.50 per resource in each environment; cloud-provider charges are separate. Platforms listed include API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows.