An open cloud built for accountability
LayerRail exists because launching infrastructure got easy, but explaining it never did.
Why we build LayerRail
Modern teams can launch cloud resources in seconds. But the story around those resources falls apart just as fast: ownership drifts, costs surprise, and when finance, compliance, or a grant reviewer asks what ran where and why, the answer usually means a week of spreadsheet archaeology.
LayerRail is a cloud platform that keeps infrastructure explainable after it has been deployed. Virtual machines, private networking, managed PostgreSQL and Kubernetes, GitHub runners, storage, and AI inference all run from one project-centered console — with usage and pricing records kept beside the resources they describe.
And because the control plane is open source, the rules that govern your infrastructure are inspectable, and leaving is always an option. That changes the power balance between platform and customer in a way closed clouds structurally cannot.
What we optimize for
Resources and receipts together
Who created a resource, where it runs, what it costs, which project owns it — the answers live next to the resources themselves, not scattered across billing portals and dashboards.
Open by default
The control plane is source-available under AGPL-3.0, built on the Ubicloud open source foundation. You can audit it, self-host it, and keep a real exit path.
Budgets on rails
Per-minute billing capped at 672 hours per monthly invoice window, workspace budget controls, and usage records that make cost reviews take minutes instead of weekends.
Evidence, not archaeology
Deployment records carry runtime, region, owner, and provider context — ready for finance, compliance, and grant reporting without reconstruction work.
LayerRail at a glance
- 5
- Regions: East US, East US 2, Central US, UK South, South Africa North
- AGPL-3.0
- Open source control plane license
- Per minute
- Usage-based billing for every resource
- 100K
- Free AI inference tokens per project, monthly
Built in the open
LayerRail is developed publicly on GitHub and shaped by the people who run it. Read the source, open an issue, or join the community — the roadmap is a conversation, not a press release.
