#14 · Primary category: AI Cloud Platforms & PaaS
instant
Instant is the best backend for AI-coded apps. You get auth, permissions, storage, presence, and streams — everything you need to ship apps your users will love.
Project last updated:08/28/26
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Apache-2.0
Why we included this project
Instant is a hosted realtime database you can query straight from the frontend, so a client-heavy app can skip standing up a server. You write relational queries in the shape of the data you want, and it handles fetching, permission checks, offline caching, and optimistic rollbacks; every query is multiplayer by default. That covers much of what chat apps, collaborative editors, and live dashboards need. Teams on JavaScript, React, or React Native get auth, presence, and storage bundled instead of stitching several services together. Worth a look when the bottleneck is plumbing data between clients and a backend rather than the ML logic itself.
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