Tools
This is a maintained shortlist, not a giant software directory. Products are included when I use them on loke.dev or when there is a specific developer workflow worth evaluating.
Independent tools
Automation
Estimate monthly workflow executions, match them to current Cloud plan references with capacity headroom, and compare that price with a self-hosted total that includes maintenance time.
Open calculator →AI app builders
Check code ownership, authorization, secrets, tests, monitoring, backups, and rollback before an AI-built app carries real users or customer data.
Open scorecard →Cloud hosting
Compare compute, backups, storage, bandwidth, shared services, and engineering time instead of choosing from the server price alone.
Open calculator →Developer tooling
Test whether a paid Git tool can recover its seat cost using your observed conflict work, other Git time, team size, and hourly value.
Open calculator →Credential security
Compare editable plan prices, member and guest limits, Business-only requirements, and the first-year time needed to roll out a shared password manager.
Open calculator →Managed WordPress
Compare monthly and annual plan references, common add-ons, VAT, migration work, and ongoing administration with an editable self-managed alternative.
Open calculator →Edge compute
Separate free static asset traffic from Worker invocations, test the Free plan’s daily and CPU limits, and estimate Standard request and CPU charges.
Open calculator →AI coding
Compare monthly AI model usage with Kilo Pass base and bonus credits, top-ups, expiring bonus value, direct credits, and an editable BYOK alternative.
Open calculator →3 tools
Hosted workflow automation with visual orchestration, code steps, integrations, and AI workflow support.
Good fit: A candidate for developers who want managed automation without operating the n8n service themselves.
AI-assisted web application builder with managed publishing, GitHub sync, and full-stack development features.
Good fit: A candidate for developers and technical founders who want a fast first build while keeping a path to code review, external hosting, and independent operation.
AI coding tools across IDEs, CLI, cloud agents, code review, app building, and a multi-provider model gateway.
Good fit: A candidate for developers who want one coding workflow across many models, with a choice between Kilo credits, a bonus-credit subscription, free models, or their own provider keys.
3 tools
Workers, static assets, edge caching, DNS, security, and related platform services.
Good fit: A strong fit when an application benefits from global edge execution or consolidating delivery and security in one platform.
Developer-focused cloud platform with virtual machines, managed application hosting, databases, storage, Kubernetes, and AI infrastructure.
Good fit: A candidate for developers who want a smaller cloud platform with a choice between managed deployment and direct server control.
Managed WordPress hosting with staging, backups, migrations, CDN, security controls, and developer access.
Good fit: A candidate for business or client WordPress sites where managed operations, support, staging, and predictable recovery work can justify a premium over a basic server.
2 tools
Structured content platform with a programmable editing environment and APIs.
Good fit: Useful when content needs a real schema, editorial workflow, and reuse across several frontends.
Transactional email API designed for application developers.
Good fit: A small, focused choice for contact forms and product email sent from application code.
4 tools
Application error reporting, performance monitoring, tracing, and logs.
Good fit: Worth adding when production failures need enough context to reproduce and prioritize them.
Git desktop, CLI, IDE, worktree, merge, code review, and agent workflow tools for individual developers and teams.
Good fit: A candidate when visual history, private repository access, conflict handling, worktrees, or multi-repository work saves enough measured time to justify the subscription.
Password, passkey, SSH key, API credential, shared vault, and developer secrets tooling for individuals and organizations.
Good fit: A candidate for developer teams that need shared credential ownership, controlled vault access, account recovery, and a path from human secrets to CLI or service-account workflows.
Password and passkey management, SSH agent, command-line tools, developer secrets, EU cloud, and supported self-hosting options.
Good fit: A candidate for developers who prioritize a permanent free tier, published source, modular password and secrets tooling, or operating an official self-hosted deployment.