Macaly Cloud is an infrastructure and skills layer that you add on top of the AI agent you already use. It connects to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot, and also works inside Claude Code and Codex, so you can build apps and websites without leaving the chat or terminal you are already working in. Once connected, your agent gets a database, hosting, a domain and more than 70 other skills — everything the code needs to go live. Macaly sums the idea up as "bring your own agent": Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot writes the code, while Macaly Cloud supplies the production infrastructure that turns a chat conversation into something published on the internet. It is built for people who already pay for an AI subscription and want a real, live product at the end of it, with nothing to set up themselves.
Vibe coding elsewhere usually means paying twice. Tools such as Lovable and Base44 charge AI credits for every message, so if you already have a Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot subscription, paying for a second AI subscription makes little sense. The do-it-yourself route is not cheap either. Macaly's own comparison lays out the alternative: hosting billed monthly, a database billed monthly, a domain paid yearly, plus CI/CD that eats a Saturday and environment variables that eat a Sunday — two AI agents, two subscriptions and relentlessly charged credits. Every change, from building a landing page to making a signup form to putting it back how it was, carries its own credit cost. With Macaly Cloud, the bill you already pay for Claude or ChatGPT is the bill you keep, and the infrastructure comes with it.
Getting started is deliberately short. Macaly describes three steps. First, Connect: one click and a sign-in is the whole setup. Second, Ask: you say what you want and your agent builds it. Third, Publish: you say publish and it is on the internet. You never leave your Claude or ChatGPT chat to do any of this, which means there is no new editor to learn, no separate dashboard to switch between and no context to rebuild. The conversation that produced the idea is also the conversation that produces, tests and ships the implementation. Macaly frames the promise simply as building apps in Claude or ChatGPT with nothing to set up.
Macaly Cloud handles two things that most often slow a project down. The database normally means a separate service with its own subscription; here it is created the moment the code needs it, and it is tested by your agent first, so the agent can verify its own work before you ever look at it. Hosting, previews and a live address work the same way. Elsewhere you would buy a hosting plan and spend a weekend configuring it. Here every change produces a preview link, and a single message puts the finished version live on your own macaly.app address. Previews make it possible to check each iteration as the agent works, and publishing becomes a sentence rather than a deployment pipeline.
User accounts are the part every platform charges for and every DIY builder gets wrong. Macaly Cloud provides them out of the box, with Google sign-in, email or one-time codes, so the app you described in the chat can have real users from the start without you writing authentication logic. SEO arrives on the same basis — metadata, server-side rendering and favicons ship in every build, and the site is indexable from day one with no plugin to purchase. Macaly presents this as SEO that would be an upsell elsewhere: the fundamentals of being found in search are part of the build rather than an add-on you discover you need later.
AI features can be added to your own app without API keys. Chatbots, summaries, image and video generation and even voice all become features of the product you are building, with nothing extra to sign up for and no separate bill to manage. On top of that, more than 70 skills let your agent extend its reach: email, analytics, payments and voice, plus connections to the tools you already use. Your agent picks these skills up mid-conversation, which means the capabilities available to it grow as the project demands them rather than being chosen and configured up front. Macaly also notes that some skills may still use Macaly AI credits.
The overall approach is to keep your existing agent as the thing that writes code, and to make Macaly Cloud the layer that makes that code real. Infrastructure is provisioned on demand while the conversation continues: the database appears when the code needs it, previews appear with every change, and publishing happens on request. Your app stays live on a macaly.app address at no cost. A custom domain is the one thing nobody can hand out for free — you can buy one through Macaly or connect one you already own, and Macaly handles the records and the certificate. Your site and its data run on European infrastructure in Frankfurt and Ireland, Macaly is GDPR compliant, and your content is never used to train AI models. The source code and all of the data are yours, and you can export them at any time.
The practical benefit is that the only payment you make is the one you were already making. Macaly Cloud's own receipt illustration shows a $10.00 monthly price struck through to $0.00 during early access, with message credits, coding, database, hosting, domain, previews, publishing, debugging and agent skills all listed at $0.00. You stop paying credits for every message and you stop paying for a second AI subscription. Instead, an agent you already trust turns a description into a deployed application with a database, user accounts and search visibility — and you do the whole thing from the chat window or terminal where you already work.
Concrete workflows follow the connect-ask-publish loop. A founder or marketer can describe a landing page in Claude, see it as a preview link, and say publish to put it live on a macaly.app address. A builder can ask for a signup form and get Google sign-in, email or one-time codes without writing auth code by hand. Someone shipping a small product can have the database created as the code needs it, tested by the agent first. Teams adding AI can turn on chatbots, summaries, image or video generation and voice inside their own app without any API keys. And anyone wanting a branded destination can buy or connect a domain while Macaly handles the records and the certificate.
Macaly Cloud is designed for people who already have a Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot subscription, including users of Claude Code and Codex, and it fits indie builders, small teams and agencies. Named connections and integrations include Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex, Google sign-in, email, one-time codes, payments, analytics and voice. The tech stack your agent builds on is a modern web stack: React and Next.js on the front end with a managed Postgres database behind it, and you never have to pick, install or configure any of it. Early access is free until October 1st, after which Macaly Cloud becomes a standalone plan at $10 a month. The free period covers a database with a free base allowance, hosting, previews, a macaly.app address, SEO, analytics and 70+ other skills, with some skills possibly still using Macaly AI credits. Teams, agencies and anything bigger than the standard plan are handled by a person — write to hi@macaly.com and tell them what you need.
Macaly Cloud's value proposition is simple and specific: bring your own agent, keep your existing subscription, and get a database, hosting, a domain, user accounts, SEO, AI features and 70+ skills without a second bill. Your agent writes the code; Macaly Cloud makes it live.