Haechy or InstaPods: who looks after the app?
Ask either one to "deploy this" and you get different things. InstaPods gives the app its own Linux server, with SSH and root access, for $3 a month (no database at that price; $7 with one). Haechy gives it a finished home: sign-in, a database, approved outside services and nightly backups already set up. If you are a developer who wants the machine, pick InstaPods. If the app is for colleagues who will never see a server, pick Haechy.
What a server leaves to you
InstaPods describes each pod as "a real Linux server" on its pricing page, with "Full SSH and root access". That suits a developer. It also means the app's setup is yours to arrange. For a team app, that includes:
- sign-in for the people who use it (we found none built in for an app's users on its pricing, docs or MCP pages, and a pod serves a public URL);
- limiting what the app can call on the internet (we found no setting for it described);
- keeping the app's own software and packages up to date;
- keeping the data in a place that fits your rules.
Per its pricing page, Launch is $3 a month with 1 vCPU and 512 MB and no database. Databases start with Build at $7. Daily backups are kept, 1 on Launch, 5 on Build, up to 30 on Turbo.
What Haechy has already done
Nobody opens a Haechy app without signing in. Colleagues get a one-time link by email and need no account, no password and no Claude subscription. Passkeys work too. On paid plans, you can let in everyone at your company's email domain. On paid plans, colleagues can also sign in with Google or Microsoft. The app runs in its own sandbox. Its only way to the internet is through the services you approved in the console. Claude can ask for one, with a reason, and cannot approve it. Each deploy is checked for passwords and keys left in the code. Then Haechy opens the app's pages and tells Claude about any errors, with a hint on the fix, before Claude says the app is ready. InstaPods' deploy tool checks that the address answers. Every Haechy app also has a Connections page listing what it can reach and who approved it, and Claude can make a read-only security summary to send to your IT team.
There is no server for you to patch, and no per-request or function-call limits. The machine each app gets is sized by plan. Free apps nap after 15 quiet minutes. Paid plans keep your busiest apps awake around the clock within your plan's memory. Scheduled jobs run on every plan, from hourly on Free to every minute on Team and Business. Paid plans include custom domains. The nightly database backup is restored by asking Claude, which saves a copy of today's data first, and if a code change goes wrong Claude puts the previous version back in one step. To skip the blank page, start from one of five starter apps: expense claims, leave requests, room booking, an approvals tracker or a weekly team check-in.
Region, in a paragraph
The app should sit near its people, and personal data kept in its own region stays under that region's privacy law without an international transfer to manage (why the region matters). InstaPods hosts in France for its EU region, and in Canada and the United States, with backups in Germany. Haechy offers the United States, the EU (Ireland), the UK (London) and Australia (Sydney) for the app, its database, its backups and uploaded code. Your Haechy account and app settings live in the US. Some services we use to send email, verify phone numbers and take payments process data outside your chosen region. See our sub-processors.
Where InstaPods is the better fit
If you want to install your own software, run PHP, Go or a Docker image, or host a tool such as n8n or Uptime Kuma with one click, InstaPods is made for that. Its entry prices are also lower than the other two hosts we compare. Haechy's Pro is $25 a month.
A few facts side by side
| Question | InstaPods | Haechy |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A Linux server per app | A finished app for a team |
| Access for an app's users | None built in on its pages | Private by default, company-email access on paid plans |
| Outside services the app can call | No limiting setting described | Only the ones you approve, listed on the app's Connections page |
| Check after deploy | Checks the address answers | Opens the app's pages and reports errors to Claude |
| Backups | Daily, 1 to 30 kept by plan | Nightly, 7 days on Free and 30 on paid plans, plus earlier code versions to go back to |
| Entry price | $3 (no database); $7 with databases | $25 a month (Pro, as listed) |
| Free | No ongoing plan; a 90-minute trial pod | 2 apps, 5 people, no card |
Facts about InstaPods checked November 7, 2026, from its pricing, privacy and MCP documentation. Plans and limits there can move, so read the current pages before you decide.
If the app is for people at work, the free plan lets you try it with a few of them, with no card. See the setup steps for Claude.
Looking at other hosts? See Haechy or Hatchable, Haechy or AppDeploy, the connector guide and the full list of comparisons. Haechy is an independent product of DT Global Ventures Ltd. It is not made, sponsored or endorsed by Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC.