# What is Clanker Cloud?

Clanker Cloud is a local-first desktop app for infrastructure operations. It lets teams ask questions about live environments, inspect topology and cost signals, review change plans, and then explicitly approve execution from one workspace.

## Best fit

- Builders moving AI-built apps from repo to production.
- Lean DevOps, platform, and SRE teams working across providers and clusters.
- AI researchers and agent workflows that need grounded infrastructure context.

## Core characteristics

- Local-first credential custody.
- Provider-agnostic workflow across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, GitHub, and BYOK AI providers.
- Open-source Clanker CLI engine under the hood.
- Review-first operation model instead of silent autonomous apply.
- Local MCP endpoint for agent interoperability.

## Not a fit

- Teams that only want a hosted browser copilot with no local runtime.
- Organizations that want a vendor-managed control plane to store privileged access for them.
- Single-purpose workflows already fully solved by one narrow point tool.

## Related pages

- [How Clanker Cloud works](https://clankercloud.ai/how-clanker-cloud-works)
- [Security and trust boundary](https://clankercloud.ai/security)
- [Pricing](https://clankercloud.ai/pricing)
- [Clanker Cloud vs hosted AI copilots](https://clankercloud.ai/clanker-cloud-vs-hosted-ai-copilots)
- [Local-first AI DevOps vs hosted AI DevOps](https://clankercloud.ai/local-first-ai-devops-vs-hosted-ai-devops)