What Zerops does

Zerops s.r.o. is a Prague-headquartered, privately-held Platform-as-a-Service company that operates a developer-first cloud platform on its own bare-metal infrastructure. The platform is built from scratch — without Kubernetes or hyperscaler middleware — using Incus system containers running on AMD EPYC hardware with NVMe storage and ECC RAM, with custom orchestration, per-project VXLAN networking, own L3/L7 balancers, Zabbly mainline Linux kernel tracking, and a VictoriaLogs-based embedded logging stack. Every project receives its own dedicated private network, internal DNS, firewall, automatic TLS, and balanced ingress; the same infrastructure and managed services (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Typesense, Kafka, NATS, Valkey, KeyDB, Qdrant, S3-compatible and POSIX storage) run across dev, stage, and production with no environment tiers. A zerops.yaml file drives build and deploy, and curated recipes let developers deploy full-stack projects for 20+ languages and frameworks in minutes.

Zerops monetizes primarily through per-minute usage-based billing for shared and dedicated CPU, RAM (in 0.125 GB steps), and disk, combined with a $10/month Serious project core subscription and a free Lightweight tier. Enterprise customers can purchase dedicated nodes up to 128 cores / 512 GB RAM with premium support via direct sales. The product-led growth funnel uses a $65 free-credit sign-up, no credit card required, and a self-serve web app (app.zerops.io) and zCLI; a community-led motion layers Discord (500+ developers), X, LinkedIn, conference presence led by a dedicated DevRel lead, and a flagship deployment partnership with the Analog.js / spartan.ng Angular ecosystem. The company serves individual developers and small teams as its primary segment, with enterprise and RAG/AI application builders as secondary segments; in May 2026 it launched a public preview of ZCP (Zerops Control Plane), an MCP-addressable CLI layer that turns bring-your-own AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity, Grok Build) into Zerops power-users.

The company was originally developed inside vshosting.eu starting in 2019 and shut down by its Contabo Group corporate owner at the end of 2022. The original dev team (co-founder/CEO Aleš Rechtorík and co-founder Honza) carved out the IP and re-launched Zerops as an independent company on June 20, 2024, closing a $500K pre-seed from Presto Ventures and Gi21 Capital on day one and a $2M seed led by Gi21 Capital in May 2026. As of mid-2026 the team numbers approximately 30 people across Prague, live datacenters operate in Prague (prg1) and New York (ny1), with Seattle (sea1) and Singapore (sgp1) announced for near-term launch; SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications were in progress against an April completion target.

Name

Zerops

Legal name

Zerops s.r.o.

Website

https://zerops.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Zerops is a Prague-based developer-first PaaS running on its own AMD EPYC bare-metal infrastructure with Incus system containers, per-project VXLAN networking, and a broad managed-services catalog, serving individual developers, small teams, and AI-coding-agent users via self-serve and direct sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Infrastructure

NAICS

Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Managed DevOps / Platform Operations (Run & Operate) (BPAEAKAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hyperscale & OCP Server Designs (HDABADAB), DevSecOps & Supply Chain Security (DevOps toolchain security) (BPAEAKAI), Data Center Operations & Managed Services (Remote Hands, NOC/SOC) (HDABANAA)

Keywords

• Platform as a service
• Cloud infrastructure platform
• Managed database services
• Container orchestration platform
• Developer cloud platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Praha

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Usage-based resource consumption (per-minute): Core revenue stream. Customers pay per minute for Shared CPU ($0.60/core), Dedicated CPU ($6.00/core), RAM ($3.00/GB, 0.125-48 GB), and Disk ($0.10/GB, 1-250 GB). Resources scale automatically up/down with demand.
2. Project Core Packages: Two tiers — Free 'Lightweight' project core for smaller projects (single container instead of 5) and $10/month 'Serious' project core for production environments with generous build time, egress, and proxy/balancer access.
3. Enterprise Dedicated Nodes & Premium Support: Dedicated nodes up to 128 cores and 512 GB RAM plus premium support for enterprise customers via [email protected] contact. Quote-based.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Zerops is a developer-first Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that provides full Linux system containers (Incus), managed services (databases, search, queues, caches, vector DBs), per-project VXLAN private networking with dedicated L3/L7 balancers, and a build & deploy pipeline defined in zerops.yml. It runs on the company's own AMD EPYC bare-metal hardware across multiple datacenters and supports environment parity from local/dev through stage to production. Customers pay per-minute for resources with no feature tiers or seat fees, and can subscribe to a $10/month Serious project core or use a free Lightweight core for smaller projects.

Product overview

Zerops is a developer-first Platform-as-a-Service cloud platform composed of a single core platform — the Zerops PaaS — with three named modules layered on top: zCLI for terminal and CI/CD automation, Recipes for curated one-click infrastructure templates, and ZCP (Zerops Control Plane) for AI coding-agent infrastructure. The Zerops PaaS provides full Linux system containers (Incus), per-project VXLAN networking with dedicated L3/L7 balancers, a zerops.yml-defined build & deploy pipeline, and a broad catalog of managed services (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Typesense, Kafka, NATS, Valkey, KeyDB, Qdrant, S3-compatible object storage, shared POSIX storage). ZCP is the AI-coding-agent module that exposes the Bootstrap and Develop workflows as MCP primitives so agents like Claude Code can operate the same Zerops project a human developer would. Recipes package production-ready topologies as one-click deploys that span the full development lifecycle.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ZCP (Zerops Control Plane): A CLI with Zerops MCP that turns a coding agent (Claude Code and others) into a Zerops power-user, enabling it to operate the platform through bootstrap and develop flows against real production-shape infrastructure.

Products and services

• Zerops PaaS Platform A developer-first Platform-as-a-Service cloud platform that delivers full Linux system containers (powered by Incus), managed services, per-project VXLAN networking, and a CI/CD pipeline defined in zerops.yml. Exposes managed databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse), search (Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Typesense), queues (Kafka, NATS), caches (Valkey, KeyDB), a vector database (Qdrant), S3-compatible object storage and shared POSIX storage, runtime services across Node.js, Bun, Deno, Go, Java, Python, Rust, Gleam, Ruby, PHP, .NET and major JS frameworks, plus a VM-based Docker service and a static-app service.
• ZCP (Zerops Control Plane) An MCP-addressable layer on top of the Zerops PaaS that turns a bring-your-own AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity, Grok Build) into a Zerops power-user. Runs as a CLI plus the Zerops MCP, optionally hosted in a zcp service container with a Cloud IDE, and walks the agent through Bootstrap and Develop workflows against the project's real managed services and pipeline.
• zCLI

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

AI capability8 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered flagship — receives major share of devrel budget, flagship — bundled with analog partnership, strategic infrastructure partner, foundational — parent/origin company and personal champion of partnership.

• Analog.js (Analog)flagship — receives major share of devrel budgetStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 January 2025Zerops is the official deployment partner of Analog.js — the full-stack Angular meta-framework. Co-marketing, one-click Zerops deploy integration into Analog examples, joint go-to-market in the Angular community. Includes Analog bonus: $50 extra free credits after account verification via [email protected]. Partnership motivated by long-standing relationship between Aleš (Zerops co-founder) and Brandon Roberts (Analog creator), going back to early Angular ecosystem work.
• spartan.ng (spartan/ui and spartan/stack)flagship — bundled with analog partnershipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 January 2025Sponsored alongside Analog.js. Spartan/ui provides unstyled primitives UI framework; spartan/stack provides opinionated stack built on Analog. Together with Analog, the partnership aims to build Angular-ecosystem alternatives to popular Next.js + Tailwind + shadcn official examples for open source projects like Medusa.js and Strapi.
• Contabo Groupstrategic infrastructure partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 June 2024Contabo (parent of former vshosting.eu) stayed on as a strategic infrastructure partner after Zerops re-launched as a standalone startup in 2024. Zerops originated as vshosting.eu PaaS initiative before being shut down by corporate owner, then spun off into independent company with original dev team. Contabo provides underlying infrastructure relationship.
• vshosting.eufoundational — parent/origin companyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 June 2024vshosting.eu is the parent company that originally built Zerops starting 2019 as their internal PaaS. Zerops was shut down by vshosting/Contabo corporate owner in late 2022, then original dev team acquired IP and re-launched as independent company in June 2024. Inherits 20+ years of managed hosting expertise from vshosting.
• Brandon Roberts (Analog founder)personal champion of partnershipGTM or Marketing PartnerBrandon Roberts is the founder of Analog.js. Aleš (Zerops co-founder/CEO) personally sponsored Brandon with $500/month during early Analog development in 2022 before the Zerops project was shut down. Personal relationship drove the official deployment partnership announcement.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Render: Developer-focused PaaS offering web services, background workers, cron jobs, managed databases (Postgres, Redis, Key-Value), and managed infrastructure with per-resource pricing. Most direct analog to Zerops in target customer (indie/SMB developers), pricing model, and product surface area.
• Fly.io: Application platform that runs full-stack apps and databases close to users via global edge infrastructure using Firecracker microVMs. Competes with Zerops for developers wanting full-system access, managed Postgres, and per-resource pricing outside the hyperscaler ecosystem.
• Railway: Developer PaaS with one-click deploys, managed Postgres/Redis, Nix-based buildpacks, and usage-based pricing. Direct PLG competitor to Zerops for individual and team developers self-serving through a credit-card-free trial flow.
• Vercel: Frontend cloud platform with strong DX for Next.js and modern web frameworks, edge functions, managed databases, and AI/agent tooling. Competes with Zerops in the developer-cloud category, especially via its own AI agent integration (v0, AI SDK) and framework-first partnerships.
• Northflank: Developer PaaS with build pipelines, managed databases (Postgres, MongoDB, Redis), per-second billing, and bring-your-own-cloud options. Comparable to Zerops as a Kubernetes-backed alternative targeting teams that need production-grade containers without hyperscaler lock-in.

Broad incumbents

• Heroku: Pioneer developer PaaS (now owned by Salesforce) offering dynos, managed Postgres/Redis, Heroku Pipelines, and add-on ecosystem. Quoted Zerops customer Louis explicitly migrated from Heroku; it remains the default incumbent Zerops positions against for simplicity and ease of deployment.
• DigitalOcean App Platform: Managed application platform within the broader DigitalOcean cloud, offering app deploys, managed databases, and simple pricing for SMBs and indie developers. Quoted Zerops customer Louis migrated from DigitalOcean; competes on the same low-cost, simple-cloud axis.

Emerging players

• Coolify: Open-source self-hostable PaaS for deploying apps, databases, and services on own infrastructure. Comparable to Zerops's appeal for developers coming off DIY setups (Caprover/Hetzner) who want Heroku-like DX without cloud vendor lock-in or per-month fees.
• Dokku: Self-hosted mini-Heroku built on Docker, popular with developers who want Heroku-style git push deploys on their own VPS. Comparable to Zerops as part of the 'above raw VPS, below hyperscaler' developer tooling alternative the company targets.
• Caprover: Docker Swarm-based self-hosted PaaS with one-click app deploys, managed databases, and SSL. Directly referenced by a quoted Zerops customer as the prior setup being replaced; represents the DIY segment Zerops positions against.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/zeropsio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zerops

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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