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The Impulse platform

Your entire backend, in one project

Spin up eight managed services — Postgres, storage, cache, auth, search, realtime, secrets, and messaging — as a single project, billed as one flat price. Connect with a ready-made .env and ship. No per-request meters, no lock-in.

Free tier · no credit card · ready in ~30 seconds

Everything an app needs, bundled

Pick a plan and a region. All eight bundled services provision, scale, and bill together — one dashboard, one invoice. Attach hosting, Cloud VPS, or transactional mail alongside.

Database
ImpulseDB · PostgreSQL
Managed Postgres with pgvector and PostGIS, connection pooling, and automated backups. Standard wire protocol — connect any client.
Object storage
ImpulseDrive · S3-compatible
Buckets, access keys, and a file browser behind an S3-compatible API. Works with the AWS CLI, any S3 SDK, and your existing tooling.
Cache
ImpulseCache · Valkey
A Redis-compatible in-memory cache for sessions, queues, and hot data. Shared on entry plans, dedicated from Launch up.
Auth
ImpulseAuth · OAuth + OIDC
Drop-in user management with email/password, OAuth, and OpenID Connect. Supabase-compatible client libraries work out of the box.
Secrets
ImpulseSecrets · Secrets manager
Centralized secrets management with environment scoping, versioning, and access control — every project gets a vault.
Search
ImpulseSearch · Full-text
Typo-tolerant instant search with facets, filters, and synonyms. Index your content straight from your project.
Realtime
ImpulseRealtime · WebSockets
Channels, presence, and broadcast over standard WebSockets — wired to your project's auth out of the box.
Messaging
ImpulseMessaging · Queues
Durable queues, ordered streams, and signed webhooks for background jobs and event-driven services.
One connection file
.env · ready to copy
Every component contributes its credentials to a single, copyable .env for your project. Wire it up once and ship.

Deploy, connect, scale

From zero to a running backend in three steps — and the same flow scales from a weekend prototype to production.

01 / Deploy
Create a project
Name it and choose a plan — Dallas region for the beta, more on the way. The Free plan starts instantly with no credit card; provisioning begins the moment you land on the dashboard.
02 / Connect
Copy your .env
Open the Connect tab for a unified set of connection strings and keys. Reveal secrets when you need them, copy the whole block in one click.
03 / Scale
Change one plan
Move from Spark to Launch and every component scales together — shared tenants graduate to dedicated infrastructure. Downgrade checks run before anything changes.

One project. One .env.

No copying credentials from four dashboards. Your project exposes every connection surface in one place, with standard variable names your framework already expects.

  • Every bundled service's keys in a single block
  • Auth endpoint and keys ready for Supabase-compatible SDKs
  • Secret values stay masked until you reveal them
my-app · .env
# Database
DATABASE_URL=postgres://…@db.my-app.impulse:5432
# Object storage
S3_ENDPOINT=https://s3.dfw.impulse
S3_ACCESS_KEY=AKIA••••••••
S3_SECRET_KEY=••••••••••••
# Cache
REDIS_URL=rediss://…@cache.my-app.impulse
# Auth
AUTH_URL=https://auth.my-app.impulse
AUTH_ANON_KEY=eyJhbGci••••

Shared to start, dedicated when it matters

The same project, the same connection strings — the infrastructure underneath upgrades as you do.

Free & Spark
Shared infrastructure
Multi-tenant versions of all eight bundled services on managed pools. Ideal for prototypes, side projects, and getting to a working backend fast.
  • Instant provisioning, generous limits
  • Free plan needs no credit card
  • Upgrade in place — no migration, same endpoints
Launch & Scale
Dedicated infrastructure
Dedicated Postgres and cache on their own resources, higher storage and auth limits, point-in-time recovery, read replicas, and an uptime SLA.
  • Dedicated database & cache per project
  • Point-in-time recovery and read replicas
  • Priority human support and 99.9% SLA

The platform model, without the meter

Flat, predictable pricing — and the only one of these that also gives you real servers, web hosting, and domains under the same roof.

 
Impulse
Supabase
Railway
Flat monthly pricing
metered
metered
DB + storage + cache + auth in one plan
no cache
add-ons
Dedicated-infrastructure plans
Open protocols, no lock-in
partial
Also: VPS, bare metal, web hosting, domains
Free tier, no credit card
trial

Common questions

Still curious? Talk to us — a real person will answer.

What exactly is a project?
A project is a bundle of eight managed services — Postgres, object storage, cache, auth, search, realtime, secrets, and messaging — that provision, scale, suspend, and bill together. You pick one plan and one region; everything inside the project follows it.
Do I have to use all the services?
No. A project gives you everything ready to go, but you only have to connect what you need. Prefer to run just one service standalone? You can subscribe to individual services à la carte instead.
Is the Free plan really free?
Yes. The Free plan needs no credit card and starts instantly. You only enter billing details when you upgrade to a paid plan. Free projects pause after 30 days of inactivity and resume in one click.
Can I move off Impulse later?
Always. Everything speaks standard protocols — your database is plain PostgreSQL, storage is S3-compatible, cache is Redis-compatible. Export your data any time. No proprietary formats, no exit fees.
How is this billed?
One flat monthly price per project, on a single invoice. No per-request charges, no bandwidth metering, no surprise overages. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel any time from your client area.

Ship your backend today

Create a free project in under a minute. No credit card required.