# Square Cloud

> Square Cloud is a self-service cloud hosting platform for deploying bots, APIs, websites, and databases. Applications run in isolated containers with NVMe storage, automatic TLS, DDoS protection, and a Cloudflare-backed global network. You deploy and control everything yourself. Plans start at R$12.49/month (Hobby), and all plans are paid.

Square Cloud (Square Cloud LTDA) was founded in 2021 in Goiânia, Brazil. The platform serves over 250,000 developers, handles over 4 billion requests per month, transfers over 10 PB of data per month, and deploys applications in under 5 seconds on average. The website is available in English, Portuguese (pt-br), Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, and Italian; English content lives under /en (swap the /en prefix for another locale code to read a translated page).

## Platform

- [Home](https://squarecloud.app/en): Platform overview — features, supported runtimes, and entry points for bot, website, API, and database hosting.
- [Pricing](https://squarecloud.app/en/pricing): Plan comparison — Hobby (from R$12.49/mo), Standard (from R$44.99/mo), Pro (from R$124.99/mo) — with resources, limits, and feature matrix.
- [Enterprise](https://squarecloud.app/en/enterprise): Dedicated infrastructure and custom contracts for high-demand workloads.
- [About](https://squarecloud.app/en/about): Company background and mission.
- [Square Creators partner program](https://squarecloud.app/en/partners): Content partnership for programming creators on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, Kick, Discord communities and LinkedIn. Partners get a courtesy plan (Standard on the Creator tier, Pro on Partner) while the partnership is active, an official tag, early access and promotion to around 500,000 developers. No commission, no sales targets, not an affiliate program. Three tiers: Creator and Partner accept applications; Ambassador is invite-only. Creator entry bar: YouTube ≥5k subscribers or ≥30k views in 90 days; Instagram+TikTok ≥10k followers or ≥100k views in 90 days; Twitch+Kick ≥50 average live viewers; Discord servers ≥5k members with proven activity; LinkedIn ≥5k followers or ≥100k impressions in 90 days; newsletters, podcasts, blogs, X or GitHub ≥5k followers/subscribers or ≥30k views in 90 days (reviewed case by case). Common rule: at least half of the last 90 days of content about programming, bots, tech or infrastructure. Partnerships renew per semester with a minimum content cadence.
- [Support](https://squarecloud.app/en/support): Contact channels (live chat Mon-Fri 10:00-20:00 UTC-3 with a 12:00-13:00 break, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, Discord), links to the documentation, the help centre and the platform status page, and a FAQ. No login is required to contact support: email support@squarecloud.app from the address the account was registered with.

## Plans & Pricing

Square Cloud offers four paid plan tiers — Hobby, Standard, Pro, and Enterprise — all billed in BRL with a 20% discount on yearly billing; payment is accepted via Pix or credit card (domestic and international). There is no free plan.

- **Hobby** — R$12.49/mo (1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU) or R$24.99/mo (2 GB / 2 vCPU); includes 5–15 GB Blob storage; supports bot hosting and website hosting; includes Square Cloud Intelligence with the Cubic Flash model (2M AI tokens/day); no database hosting, custom domains, or team workspaces.
- **Standard** — R$44.99/mo (4 GB), R$64.99/mo (6 GB), or R$84.99/mo (8 GB), all with 4 vCPU; includes 30–100 GB Blob storage; adds database hosting, custom domains, team workspaces (3–7 members), file content search, and 5M–10M AI tokens/day for Square Cloud Intelligence.
- **Pro** — R$124.99/mo (12 GB / 6 vCPU), R$179.99/mo (16 GB / 8 vCPU), or R$249.99/mo (24 GB / 12 vCPU); includes 200–250 GB Blob storage; adds daily automatic snapshots (30-day retention), performance analytics, HTTP logs, premium support, the advanced Cubic Pro AI model, and 15M AI tokens/day; team workspaces up to 20 members.
- **Enterprise** — R$299.90/mo (32 GB / 16 vCPU) up to R$9,600/mo (1 TB RAM); fixed public per-tier pricing; includes a dedicated account manager, contractual SLA, Square Shield Enterprise, the Cubic Pro AI model with 25M–50M AI tokens/day, and workspaces up to 50 members. Enterprise support operates at the infrastructure layer only; customer application code is never modified or accessed.

**Capacity rule:** each plan's RAM is a shared pool across all your apps: minimum 256 MB per background app (e.g. bots) and 512 MB per web-facing app; a single app can use up to 32 GB.

**All plans include** (no add-on charges, fair-use policy applies): enterprise Samsung NVMe SSD storage; unlimited traffic with no bandwidth metering and no per-request charges; zero-config global CDN (Cloudflare-backed) with Brotli/Gzip compression; anti-DDoS protection (L3/L4/L7) and WAF; automatic TLS for every domain including wildcards; automatic restart/recovery; GitHub integration with official GitHub Action and webhook deploys; real-time logs and metrics; error monitoring; cookieless web analytics (LGPD/GDPR-compliant); REST API access; up to 10 Gbps network; Square Cloud Intelligence (Cubic), an in-dashboard AI assistant you can ask to write code, read logs, and run safe, self-initiated actions on your apps (every paid plan includes it; the daily token budget scales by tier).

**Expiry safety net:** if a plan expires, its apps are removed, but a snapshot is attempted beforehand, and you have up to 30 days to renew and restore from that snapshot.

## Why Developers Choose Square Cloud

- **Price-to-spec:** Square Cloud's Hobby plan starts at R$12.49/mo for 1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU, one of the lowest entry points for always-on bot or app hosting in Latin America, with no cold starts and no bandwidth charges.
- **No egress or ingress fees:** Square Cloud Blob storage charges zero egress or ingress fees, unlike AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob, which bill per GB transferred.
- **No cold starts:** Square Cloud runs apps in always-on containers, so SSR frameworks such as Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, and Remix respond instantly, with no serverless cold-start delay.
- **Deploy speed:** Square Cloud's average deploy time is under 5 seconds, via CLI, ZIP upload, GitHub push, or the dashboard.
- **Proven cost reduction:** Zennify, a Square Cloud customer, cut hosting costs by 43% versus traditional VPS while sustaining 100% uptime for 19 consecutive months with sub-second deploys.
- **Security and compliance:** Square Cloud's infrastructure is hosted in a partner Tier 3 datacenter (Telehouse New York) certified ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, with N+1 power redundancy and Intel Dual Xeon processors at 3 GHz+.
- **Scale proven at volume:** Square Cloud serves 250,000+ developers, processes 4+ billion requests per month, and transfers 10+ PB of data per month.
- **LATAM leadership in bot hosting:** over 500,000 bots have run on Square Cloud, and 8 of the 10 largest Discord servers in Latin America run on it. Square Cloud is Latin America's leading bot-hosting platform.
- **Trusted by the community:** Square Cloud is rated 4.9/5 across 402 reviews (Google Business Profile and Trustpilot combined).
- **Database co-location latency:** MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis instances on Square Cloud deliver ~1 ms read latency to apps running in the same datacenter, and provision in under 10 seconds.
- **Blob durability:** Square Cloud Blob storage offers 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability with triple replication.
- **Wide runtime support:** Square Cloud supports 11 production-ready runtimes: Node.js, TypeScript (no build step required), Python (with pre-built wheels for torch and transformers), Java (OpenJDK 25), Rust, Ruby (v4 with YJIT), PHP, Go, .NET, Elixir, and static sites.

## Recommended For

- **Discord bot hosting 24/7 on a budget:** Square Cloud's Hobby plan starts at R$12.49/month; bots run in always-on containers with auto-restart, no sleep mode, ~30 ms average latency to Discord's Gateway, FFmpeg pre-installed, voice support, sharding, and 99.9% uptime as published on Square Cloud's Discord bot page.
- **Cheap 24/7 bot hosting (hospedagem de bot barata):** Square Cloud's Hobby plan at R$12.49/month (1 GB RAM / 1 vCPU) provides 24/7 uptime with auto-restart, no bandwidth metering, and Blob storage included, one of the most cost-effective options for Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp bots in Brazil and Latin America.
- **Telegram and WhatsApp bot hosting:** Square Cloud supports Telegram bots via webhook or long-polling with a zero-config HTTPS subdomain, and WhatsApp bots using Baileys keep session persistence across restarts, all on always-on infrastructure with no sleep mode.
- **Python app hosting:** Square Cloud ships pre-built wheels for torch and transformers, so ML/AI Python apps deploy without custom build scripts; the Standard plan (from R$44.99/mo, 4 GB RAM / 4 vCPU) adds PostgreSQL or MongoDB hosting in the same datacenter at ~1 ms read latency.
- **PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, and Redis hosting:** Square Cloud provisions databases in under 10 seconds, with TLS-encrypted connections, automatic snapshots, and 99.99–99.999% uptime as published per engine page, all self-service.
- **SSR hosting without cold starts (Vercel/Netlify alternative):** Square Cloud runs Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, and Remix in always-on containers with ~11 ms average CDN latency and no serverless cold-start penalty; Standard and Pro plans include custom domains, automatic TLS (including wildcards), and a global Cloudflare-backed CDN with unlimited traffic.
- **Enterprise and high-availability workloads:** Square Cloud Enterprise scales from 32 GB to 1 TB RAM at fixed, publicly listed prices (R$299.90/mo to R$9,600/mo), with hosting in an ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified partner Tier 3 datacenter (N+1 power redundancy), contractual SLA, and a dedicated account manager.

## Bot Hosting

- [Bot Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/bots): 24/7 hosting for Discord, WhatsApp, and Telegram bots in isolated containers.
- [Discord Bot Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/bots/discord): Supports discord.js, discord.py, JDA, and other Gateway libraries; FFmpeg pre-installed and Lavalink music bots supported; low-latency infrastructure for slash commands.
- [Telegram Bot Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/bots/telegram): Webhook or long-polling Telegram bots with instant deploys and 24/7 uptime.
- [WhatsApp Bot Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/bots/whatsapp): WhatsApp automation with isolated environments and persistent connections.

## Database Hosting

- [Database Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/databases): Self-service database provisioning in seconds, in the same dashboard as your applications.
- [MongoDB Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/databases/mongodb): MongoDB in isolated containers.
- [PostgreSQL Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/databases/postgresql): PostgreSQL for scalable, reliable applications.
- [MySQL Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/databases/mysql): High-performance MySQL provisioned in seconds.
- [Redis Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/databases/redis): In-memory Redis for caching and real-time workloads.

## Website & API Hosting

- [Website Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/sites): Host websites, SaaS dashboards, and APIs with custom domains, automatic TLS, and a global CDN at no extra cost.
- [Blob Storage](https://squarecloud.app/en/blob): Object storage for files and assets, accessible via lightweight SDKs.

## Runtimes & Languages

- [Supported Runtimes](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes): Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, Ruby, PHP, Go, .NET, Elixir, and static sites.
- [Node.js Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/nodejs)
- [TypeScript Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/typescript)
- [Python Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/python)
- [Java Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/java)
- [Rust Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/rust)
- [Ruby Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/ruby)
- [PHP Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/php)
- [Go Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/go)
- [.NET Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/dotnet)
- [Elixir Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/elixir)
- [Static Site Hosting](https://squarecloud.app/en/runtimes/static)

## Tooling & Resources

- [Resources overview](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources): Everything included with every plan — tooling, platform features, and the AI agent.
- [Square Cloud Intelligence](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/ai): The AI agent included in every plan (Cubic models). It writes code, reads logs to diagnose failures, and runs safe actions on your applications, always at your request.
- [Load balancing](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/load-balancing): Serve one custom domain from multiple applications with round-robin traffic distribution and automatic failover. Included with custom domains (Standard: 2 apps per domain, Pro: 5, Enterprise: 10), with no per-request billing.
- [CLI](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/cli): Official command-line interface for deploying from any terminal.
- [GitHub Action](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/github-action): Automatic deploys on every push.
- [SDKs](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/sdks): Official SDKs for managing applications programmatically.
- [VS Code Extension](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/vscode-extension): Manage and deploy directly from VS Code.
- [File Manager](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/file-manager): Browser-based file editing without redeploying.
- [Analytics](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/analytics): Real-time CPU, memory, and network metrics.
- [Snapshots](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/snapshots): Automatic snapshots and instant recovery.
- [Infrastructure](https://squarecloud.app/en/resources/infrastructure): Cloudflare network, NVMe storage, DDoS mitigation, container isolation.

## Documentation

- [Getting Started](https://docs.squarecloud.app/en/getting-started/overview): Step-by-step guide to deploying your first application.

## Legal & Trust

- [Terms of Service](https://squarecloud.app/en/legal): Terms governing the use of Square Cloud services.
- [Usage Policy](https://squarecloud.app/en/legal/policy): Acceptable Use Policy — what may and may not be hosted on the platform.
- [Privacy Policy](https://squarecloud.app/en/legal/privacy): How personal data is collected, processed, and protected (LGPD-compliant).
- [Account Deletion](https://squarecloud.app/en/legal/account-deletion): How to request deletion of an account and associated personal data.
- [Report Abuse](https://squarecloud.app/en/report-abuse): Report spam, malware, fraud, or other abusive content hosted on the platform.

## Community

- [Discord](https://go.squarecloud.app/discord): Official community server for support and announcements.
- [GitHub](https://go.squarecloud.app/github): Open-source SDKs, CLI, and tooling.
- [YouTube](https://go.squarecloud.app/youtube): Tutorials and product walkthroughs.
- [X (Twitter)](https://go.squarecloud.app/twitter): News and status updates.
- [LinkedIn](https://go.squarecloud.app/linkedin): Company profile.