
Lizard is hosting built for AI coding agents rather than for people clicking through a dashboard. Claude Code, Codex or Cursor runs lizard up, reads the logs when a deploy fails, fixes the problem and ships again. Postgres, Redis and S3-style storage are each one command away. Two choices set it apart from the usual hosting platform. Its build tool, lizardpack, writes a real Dockerfile you can read and take somewhere else, so you're not locked in. And you pay per second for the CPU and memory you actually use, with $5 of free credit and no card for the first month. Railway, Render and Fly can run the same containers. Lizard's pitch is that its output is written for agents to read, and that it can bring back services you deleted by accident. It's a developer tool, so skip it if you don't ship code.
npm i -g @lizard-build/cli, then lizard up. Output is for the model, not a pretty TTY.Lizard treats the coding agent, not the human, as its main user. Given how many deploys agents now run, that's a bet worth taking seriously. The dashboard is there so you can watch. The command-line tool is where the agent does the work, and every design decision follows that split.
The Dockerfile it writes is yours to keep and take elsewhere, which is rare in this category. Idle time is billed by the second. Still, any host has to prove itself on a failed build at 2 a.m., so try it on a throwaway project first.
If you already think in Railway services and like a dashboard built for humans, stay where you are. If you need Vercel for a marketing site, or SOC 2 is your first question (that's their Enterprise tier), Lizard isn't for you yet. If Claude Code is what ships your side project, spend the $5 of free credit before you move anything with real customers on it.