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.

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Ankra CloudStockholm · 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.

Servers, power and networkIn the price
Operating the fleetDone by hand, on callAutomated: upgrades and releases roll out on their own
Routine requestsTickets and waitingOne API, a CLI and AI agents
Billing and invoicingA back officeMetered and invoiced automatically
IPv4 addressesBundled into every serverOptional, €4 a month when you need one
Virtualisation licencesPassed on to youNone: open source and our own stack
What the price coversServers, plus overheadServers. From €1.49 a month.See it against 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$6IPv4 included
  • 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
    Ankra Cloud€2.49€6.49 with IPv4
    DigitalOcean$12IPv4 included
  • 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
    Ankra Cloud€4.99€8.99 with IPv4
    DigitalOcean$24IPv4 included
  • 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
    Ankra Cloud€7.49€11.49 with IPv4
    DigitalOcean$48IPv4 included
  • 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
    Ankra Cloud€14.49€18.49 with IPv4
    DigitalOcean$96IPv4 included

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_servers5 servers
  • get_usage_summary€62.94 this month
  • create_serverasks you first
Read the MCP guide

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
  • 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 installationExplore private infrastructure

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 pricesNo 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€500 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 creditSE · 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
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 1Sweden · eu-north · se-sto1
    Live
  • France 1France · eu-west · fr-lil1
    Live
Ankra CloudDigitalOcean
Who you contract withAnkra AB, a Swedish companyDigitalOcean, a US company listed on the NYSE
Law and courtsSwedish law, Stockholm District CourtSubject to US law, including the CLOUD Act, wherever the data sits
Where servers runSweden and France, nowhere elseAmsterdam, Frankfurt and London in Europe, plus regions in North America, Asia and Australia
BillingEuros, European VATUS 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

€2.49 / 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 /64Included
  • 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 transfer20 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.

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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.

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