Synap Cloud
Hosted control-plane services that remove operational complexity while keeping your pod-centric model
Product: synap.live
Synap can be self-hosted end to end.
Synap Cloud exists for teams that want the Synap model without day-one ops burden.
Why Synap Cloud exists
For most teams, the hard part is not only running containers. It is lifecycle operations around them:
- account and session management
- pod creation and updates
- subscription and plan transitions
- integration onboarding (OAuth connectors, add-on services)
- consistent policy/security boundaries between app, agents, and pod access
Synap Cloud handles these flows so users can move directly to capturing and operating data.
What Synap Cloud does (public view)
- Identity and access lifecycle: managed sign-in/session and account lifecycle across Synap surfaces
- Pod lifecycle orchestration: provisioning, updating, and operational workflows for hosted pods
- Optional pod pairing (when enabled for your plan): link two pods you own as primary ↔ replica for event-log replication — see Pod replication & pairing
- Commercial operations: billing/subscription lifecycle for hosted plans
- Connector control plane: managed OAuth session flow for external providers
- Optional managed add-ons: e.g. managed OpenClaw onboarding path when available
What Synap Cloud does not replace
- Your data model still lives in the pod (entities, views, channels).
- Your integration surface for external tools remains Hub Protocol on the pod.
- You can still choose self-hosting for full infrastructure control.
Typical usage path
- Create account on synap.live
- Provision and access your workspace/pod
- Connect providers and automation paths as needed
- Enable intelligence layer (managed or self-managed)
When to choose Cloud vs self-hosting
Choose Synap Cloud when you want:
- fastest onboarding
- managed lifecycle operations
- less operational overhead
Choose self-hosting when you need:
- full infrastructure sovereignty and custom ops control
- custom networking/compliance constraints
- fully internalized deployment pipelines
Continue
- Installation options
- Pod updates & policies — manual vs automatic updates and what the control plane compares
- Synap Intelligence
- Build & Integrate