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Elixir + BEAM VM: concurrency at scale

Fault tolerance and Phoenix ready to ship. All the robustness of Erlang/OTP on a modern runtime.

Why run on Square Cloud

Everything optimized, production-ready.

Actor Model concurrency

Millions of lightweight processes on BEAM VM.

Supervision and fault tolerance

Native OTP — self-healing systems.

Automatic Mix

Hex, Rebar, and deps resolved on first boot.

Phoenix, LiveView, Ecto

Full modern Elixir stack supported.

Ideal use cases

Where this runtime shines on our platform.

Phoenix and LiveView applications

Real-time web without heavy JavaScript, with reactive server-side rendering and Hooks.

Robust APIs with Plug and Ecto

Idiomatic backends with versioned migrations, repo pattern, and declarative validations in production.

Chat and pub/sub systems

Phoenix Channels and PubSub at scale with presence tracking and millions of concurrent connections.

Broadway and GenServer workers

Resilient data pipelines, concurrent processing, and supervision trees for critical workloads.

Discord bots with Nostrum

Elixir bot hosting with hot code reload, OTP fault tolerance, and ultra-low latency.

Fault-tolerant backends and IoT

Self-healing distributed systems for IoT, telemetry, and critical fault-tolerant workloads.

Available versions

Pick the track that best fits your project.

Current version

1.19

Single stable toolchain

Technical specs

Everything you need to configure your app.

Accepted extensions
.ex.exs
Dependency file
mix.exs
RUNTIME= aliases
elixir

Minimal config

Create a squarecloud.app file at your project root:

squarecloud.appElixir
MEMORY=512
DISPLAY_NAME=Meu App
VERSION=recommended

A plan for every stage of your project

Start small and scale when you need to, with no loyalty contracts.

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