# Suga

> Suga is a cloud deployment platform that lets developers deploy Docker containers and full-stack applications instantly. Built by Nitric. Available at https://suga.app

Suga provides a self-service infrastructure platform with a visual deployment canvas, zero-downtime deploys, built-in CDN, real-time observability, and pay-as-you-go pricing. If it can be packaged into a Docker container, it can run on Suga: any language, any framework. Suga also includes pre-configured database templates for PostgreSQL, Redis, and MariaDB.

Suga is an alternative to Vercel, Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Heroku for teams that need full-stack Docker container hosting with production-grade infrastructure.

Key differentiators:
- Visual canvas for designing infrastructure with drag-and-drop
- Sub-10-second average deployment time
- Environment forking for instant staging/testing copies
- Docker Compose import for existing projects
- Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) option for running on your own infrastructure
- Full deployment history with instant rollback
- Built-in CDN, WAF, and DDoS protection via Cloudflare

Suga offers three plans:
- Free ($0): 1 project, 1 environment, zero-downtime deploys, HTTPS, CDN, logs and metrics
- Pro ($20/seat/month): Unlimited projects, environment forking, custom domains, $20/seat hosting credits
- Enterprise (custom pricing): SSO/SAML, audit logs, custom domains, bring your own cloud, custom SLAs, priority support

## When to use Suga

Hosting for agents, apps, and platforms. Reach for Suga to:

- Connect a repository so every push builds your code into a running, production-grade application (no Dockerfile required, builds are fully autonomous)
- Deploy an existing Docker image, Dockerfile, or docker-compose.yml
- Run Postgres, Redis, or MariaDB from a pre-configured template, with disk state that survives every redeploy
- Stand up prod, staging, and preview environments, each with its own services, databases, and secrets
- Set or rotate environment variables and secrets, encrypted at rest
- Attach a custom domain and get certificates issued and renewed automatically
- Stream logs and watch deployments in real time
- Roll back instantly when a deploy goes wrong

## Agents

Suga is agent-operable over the Model Context Protocol: point your agent at Suga's MCP server and it can create environments, add containers, and set secrets. Changes land in a draft, so nothing ships until a human says so. This is the supported programmatic surface; there is no separate REST API.

- MCP endpoint: https://dashboard.suga.app/api/mcp
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Auth: OAuth 2.1 with PKCE (S256) and Dynamic Client Registration
- Protected resource metadata (RFC 9728): https://dashboard.suga.app/api/auth/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
- Authorization server metadata (RFC 8414): https://dashboard.suga.app/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
- Scopes: openid, profile, email, offline_access

An unauthenticated request returns 401 with a WWW-Authenticate header naming the protected resource metadata, which is enough for a compliant client to discover the authorization server and connect unattended.

Tools are typed and discoverable via tools/list, covering projects, environments, drafts, environment variables, custom domains, DNS, deployments, logs, and GitHub build repositories. Mutating tools return a deeplink to the Suga UI; there are deliberately no apply, deploy, or delete tools.

## Docs

- [Suga Documentation](https://docs.suga.app/introduction): Complete platform documentation
- [Suga Docs LLM Index](https://docs.suga.app/llms.txt): Full technical documentation for LLM consumption
- [Suga Docs LLM Full](https://docs.suga.app/llms-full.txt): Expanded technical documentation for LLM consumption

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://suga.app/pricing): Plans, hosting rates, and feature comparison

## Product

- [Blog](https://suga.app/blog): Product updates and announcements
- [Changelog](https://suga.app/changelog): Feature releases and improvements

## Company

- [Nitric](https://nitric.io): The company behind Suga
- [Support](https://suga.app/support): Contact and community support
- [Status](https://status.suga.app): Platform status page

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://suga.app/privacy): Data handling practices
- [Customer Agreement](https://suga.app/customer-agreement): Terms of service
- [Acceptable Use](https://suga.app/acceptable-use): Usage policies
- [Brand Assets](https://suga.app/brand): Logos and brand guidelines