Hosting options overview
There are two ways to run Arcade: use Arcade Cloud, our fully-managed service, or run Arcade in your own infrastructure. This page helps you choose and points you to the right guide.
Arcade Cloud
Arcade Cloud is the easiest way to start — sign up and build immediately, with no infrastructure to manage:
- Zero infrastructure: no servers or databases to run
- Automatic updates: always on the latest and features
- Built-in scaling: handles traffic spikes for you
- Free tier: start building without a credit card
See Arcade Cloud infrastructure for data residency, storage, and security details.
Run Arcade in your own infrastructure
Deploy the full Arcade platform into your own cloud or cluster when you need data residency, network isolation, or to meet compliance requirements. There are two paths.
Cloud marketplaces (recommended)
Deploy a turnkey, Arcade-operated platform into your own cloud :
- Azure Marketplace — available now as a managed application
- AWS — available through a private offer
- GCP — coming soon
Self-host with Helm
Prefer to run it yourself? Deploy the platform with Helm on your own Kubernetes cluster and manage it end to end.
The marketplace and Helm options are full platform deployments. The features below run on top of Arcade — they aren’t ways to stand up the platform.
Related features
These connect your and clients to Arcade. They are not platform deployments:
- Arcade Deploy — host your server on Arcade Cloud with the
arcade deploycommand. - Hybrid servers — run in your own environment and connect them to Arcade Cloud, so reach private resources.
- Warp Pipes — connect external AI clients to a self-hosted Arcade runtime without opening inbound ports.
Customizing auth
You don’t have to self-host to customize your auth experience. Arcade Cloud supports many auth providers out of the box, and you can supply your own OAuth app credentials to brand the end- experience. We recommend this for all production use cases.