# Ankra Cloud - The European Cloud Run by Automation and AI | Ankra Canonical: https://ankra.ai/cloud Ankra Cloud automates the work of running a cloud, puts AI agents on the same API, and passes the saving on: servers in Sweden and France from €1.49 a month, with managed Kubernetes and PostgreSQL in early access. Ankra Cloud · Early access # A cloud for the applications you want to build. European cloud servers, storage and networking from Ankra. Add Ankra Platform to deploy and operate your applications with your team and its agents. [Explore the cloud console](https://cloud.ankra.app/signup) [See plans & availability](https://ankra.ai/cloud#pricing) Ankra Cloud Stockholm · France ## Compute Cloud servers for the workload you choose. ## Storage Volumes and snapshots for your environment. ## Networking Private networks, public addresses and load balancers. Infrastructure is one part of the journey. Ankra Platform brings the application delivery and operations on top. Where the money goes ## A cloud bill, minus the overhead Running a cloud costs more than its hardware. The rest is management, and management is what software and AI are good at. Every line we automate is a line you stop paying for. On the bill A typical cloud Ankra Cloud Servers, power and network In the price In the price Operating the fleet Done by hand, on call Automated: upgrades and releases roll out on their own Routine requests Tickets and waiting One API, a CLI and AI agents Billing and invoicing A back office Metered and invoiced automatically IPv4 addresses Bundled into every server Optional, €4 a month when you need one Virtualisation licences Passed on to you None: open source and our own stack What the price covers Servers, plus overhead Servers. From €1.49 a month. [See it against DigitalOcean](https://ankra.ai/cloud#digitalocean) Upgrades ### A fleet upgrade stops no servers The node agent upgrades underneath running servers, one host at a time, and the rollout halts itself on the first failure. Releases ship through a pipeline that checks health before it switches over. Live in every zone Recovery ### A failed host is fenced, then replaced When a host stops answering it is powered off and cut from storage, and only then do its servers restart elsewhere. Before planned work, live migration empties the host first. In zones with replicated storage, rolling out zone by zone AI agents ### Every operation is a tool an agent can call The whole cloud sits behind one API, exposed over the Model Context Protocol. Our operators hand routine work to AI agents through it, and the same door is open to yours. Customer MCP server in preview The saving, on your invoice ## Same cores. Same memory. A fraction of the bill. Ankra Cloud's starter plans against DigitalOcean's Basic Droplets, size for size. IPv6 is included in every Ankra plan; add €4 a month when a server needs its own IPv4 address. - 1 vCPU · 1 GiB Ankra Cloud €1.49 €5.49 with IPv4 DigitalOcean $6 IPv4 included - 1 vCPU · 2 GiB Ankra Cloud €2.49 €6.49 with IPv4 DigitalOcean $12 IPv4 included - 2 vCPU · 4 GiB Ankra Cloud €4.99 €8.99 with IPv4 DigitalOcean $24 IPv4 included - 4 vCPU · 8 GiB Ankra Cloud €7.49 €11.49 with IPv4 DigitalOcean $48 IPv4 included - 8 vCPU · 16 GiB Ankra Cloud €14.49 €18.49 with IPv4 DigitalOcean $96 IPv4 included | Size | Ankra Cloud | With IPv4 | DigitalOcean | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 vCPU · 1 GiB | €1.49 starter-1c-1g · 20 GiB | €5.49 | $6 Basic Droplet · 25 GB | | 1 vCPU · 2 GiB | €2.49 starter-1c-2g · 20 GiB | €6.49 | $12 Basic Droplet · 50 GB | | 2 vCPU · 4 GiB | €4.99 starter-2c-4g · 40 GiB | €8.99 | $24 Basic Droplet · 80 GB | | 4 vCPU · 8 GiB | €7.49 starter-4c-8g · 80 GiB | €11.49 | $48 Basic Droplet · 160 GB | | 8 vCPU · 16 GiB | €14.49 starter-8c-16g · 160 GiB | €18.49 | $96 Basic Droplet · 320 GB | Monthly list prices in each provider's own currency, before VAT. DigitalOcean prices read from its own pricing pages on 3 October 2026; Droplets include an IPv4 address and more disk. Ankra Cloud bills by the hour and never more than the monthly price. AI on your side of the bill ## The second saving is your own time. A cheaper server only helps if it does not cost you an engineer to look after. The same automation and AI that keep our running cost down are there to keep yours down. ### Ask the cloud about itself Early access Ankra AI in the console answers from your own account: servers, plans, backups and spend. It drafts diagrams and runbooks, and it proposes rather than acts, so every change stays your decision. What is my biggest cost this month? Ankra AI worker-1 is the largest compute line item. I can compare its current plan with the available alternatives, including memory, disk and network options, before proposing a change. Drafted: runbook · change the plan of worker-1 Illustrative conversation · Enabled account by account ### Bring your own agent Preview An MCP server with more than 200 tools, one per API operation. A read-only token sees everything except secrets and changes nothing, and every write is audited. $ claude mcp add ankra-cloud \\ https://cloud.ankra.app/mcp - list\_servers 5 servers - get\_usage\_summary €62.94 this month - create\_server asks you first [Read the MCP guide](https://cloud.ankra.app/docs/mcp) ### An AI platform engineer on top Available Add Ankra Platform to deploy and operate applications on Kubernetes, with live context and scoped tools for your team and its agents. [Meet the AI platform engineer](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/ai-platform-engineer) - Investigates incidents and explains what broke - Reviews pull requests and failing pipelines, and opens the fix - Acts only as far as the autonomy you set The managed layer ## Ankra runs the parts of the stack nobody should run by hand Kubernetes, databases and caches on the same automated infrastructure. Each card says exactly where it stands today. Early access ### Managed Kubernetes A control plane run by Ankra, node pools on your Ankra Cloud servers, and the cloud controller and CSI driver already installed. Nobody to run the control plane Early access ### Managed PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 17 on a private network with TLS that verifies the server. From €15 a month for 1 vCPU and 2 GiB, plus €0.12 per GiB of storage. Nobody to patch and tune a database server Coming ### Managed caches Valkey, the open source successor to Redis, on the same managed-service engine as PostgreSQL. Existing Redis clients connect unchanged. Nobody to babysit a cache Also on the way, zone by zone ### Ankra Storage Replicated volumes, with live migration and automatic restart after a host failure. ### Object storage S3-compatible buckets in every zone, for backups and assets. ### Off-host backups Scheduled volume backups kept away from the host that runs the server. Ankra Cloud On-Prem Early access ## Your own cloud. In your own building. Bring the cloud operating model to your servers, racks and network. Plan an installation with Ankra, with compute, storage and networking underneath the applications you run. [Plan your installation](mailto:hello@ankra.ai?subject=Ankra%20Cloud%20On-Prem) [Explore private infrastructure](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/multi-cloud) Early-access engagements are scoped with your team, including hardware, connectivity, service availability and operational responsibilities. ### Application operations Ankra Platform for clusters, stacks, delivery and agents. ### Networking Private networks, public connectivity and load balancing. ### Ankra Storage Replicated storage and S3-compatible object storage. ### Compute Virtual machines on the servers your organisation owns. Your hardware · Your location · A shared operating platform Use cases ## What teams move to Ankra Cloud for [From €1.49 ### Leave DigitalOcean The same cores and memory as a Basic Droplet for a fraction of the list price, with a CLI and a Terraform provider so the move is code, not clicks. Compare the prices](https://ankra.ai/cloud#digitalocean) [No platform team ### Kubernetes without hiring for it Ankra Platform builds and operates clusters on Ankra Cloud servers, and its AI agents investigate and fix what breaks. See the AI at work](https://ankra.ai/cloud#ai) [€59 credit ### Idea to production in an afternoon A server in five minutes, billed by the hour. Add networks, load balancers and more servers as users arrive. Claim the credit](https://cloud.ankra.app/signup) [SE · FR ### Keep data in the EU A Swedish company under Swedish law, with servers only in Sweden and France. No US parent whose law reaches the data. Why it matters](https://ankra.ai/cloud#sovereignty) European sovereignty ## Cheaper is not the only reason A data centre in Frankfurt does not make a cloud European. What matters is who runs it and whose law they answer to. Your servers, disks and networks run only in EU zones, on infrastructure a Swedish company built and operates itself. - Stockholm 1 Sweden · eu-north · se-sto1 Live - France 1 France · eu-west · fr-lil1 Live | | Ankra Cloud | DigitalOcean | | --- | --- | --- | | Who you contract with | Ankra AB, a Swedish company | DigitalOcean, a US company listed on the NYSE | | Law and courts | Swedish law, Stockholm District Court | Subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act, wherever the data sits | | Where servers run | Sweden and France, nowhere else | Amsterdam, Frankfurt and London in Europe, plus regions in North America, Asia and Australia | | Billing | Euros, European VAT | US dollars | Pricing ## Hourly, with a monthly cap A resource's hourly price is its monthly price divided by 730, and it never costs more in a calendar month than its monthly price. Inbound traffic, private networks and private-network traffic are free. Cost-optimized €1.49 / month Starter plans, 1 to 16 vCPU. The lowest price per core. Balanced €3.95 / month Cloud native plans with more disk, sized for Kubernetes nodes. Dedicated CPU Coming soon Dedicated-core plans are not yet available. Use the console to see the current plan catalogue. Everything else - Public IPv6 /64 Included - Public IPv4 address €4.00 / month - Local NVMe block storage €0.039 / GiB-month - Snapshots €0.012 / GiB-month - Load balancer pair with IPv4 €6.98 / month - Outbound transfer 20 TiB included per server IPv6 first Every server gets a routed public IPv6 /64 in its price. IPv4 addresses are what make small servers expensive, so an IPv4 address is a €4 add-on. Most servers never need one: a network edge serves IPv4 clients, and NAT64 reaches the IPv4 internet. ``` $ ankra-cloud servers create --zone se-sto1 \ --hostname web-1 --plan starter-1c-1g --wait server web-1 running public ipv6 2001:db8:41:7::/64 public ipv4 none (add-on, €4.00 a month) ``` Prices are in euros and exclude VAT. [See the full catalogue](https://cloud.ankra.app/docs/billing) . ## Looking for Ankra Platform? Ankra Platform is the AI platform engineer that builds and operates Kubernetes on any cloud. Ankra Cloud is one more place it can run, with the same account and no lock-in either way. [Explore the platform](https://ankra.ai/features) Get started ## Pay for servers, not overhead. €59 to try it. Every new account gets €59 of credit for 60 days, applied automatically. Add a card and have a server in Stockholm or France in five minutes. Already on Ankra Platform? You are already signed in. [Open Ankra Cloud](https://cloud.ankra.app/signup) [Start with Ankra Platform](https://platform.ankra.app/auth/signup) Looking for the platform docs instead? They live at [docs.ankra.ai](https://docs.ankra.ai/) .