Simple development
for complex problems

Encore is a backend framework and cloud platform for building distributed systems with automated infrastructure and end-to-end type-safety.

✓ Open Source framework for declaring infrastructure semantics in application code
✓ Fully automates infrastructure in local dev, preview environments, and your cloud on AWS/GCP
✓ Built-in observability with tracing, logs, and metrics

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Loved by pioneering engineering teams, from fast-moving startups to $100M+ scaleups

See what people are building with Encore

Leave the maze of complexity behind

Open Source
Backend Framework

Simple and type-safe microservices development

Define and call APIs like normal functions, with full type-safety and auto-complete in your IDE. Encore generates the protocol communication boilerplate automatically.

Infrastructure is a type-safe part of your app

Use the backend framework to define infrastructure semantics directly within your application code, removing the need for separate configuration tools like Terraform.

Encore parses your code to model the infrastructure requirements, ensuring end-to-end type-safety.

Higher state of (local) development

Faster development with hot reload and automatic local infra

encore run starts your local environment, including all infrastructure. Forget YAML, Docker Compose, and the usual headaches.

Infrastructure namespaces for productive context switching

Seamlessly switch branches using local infrastructure namespaces to keep your state and changes intact.

Built-in
Observability
Understand-ability

API Explorer

Test your APIs from the local development dashboard.

Distributed Tracing

Understand your application behavior with built-in tracing. See traces for all your requests and tests from the local development dashboard.

Architecture Diagrams

Automatic architecture diagrams give you a real-time overview of your application.

Service Catalog

Always up-to-date Service Catalog with automatic API documentation.

Enjoy every deploy

DevOps automation for your cloud on AWS/GCP

When you don't want to manually handle deployment, Encore's Cloud Platform provides a seamless workflow with CI/CD, testing, and automatic infrastructure provisioning in your cloud on AWS/GCP.

Using your application code as the source of truth for infrastructure requirements, Encore automatically ensures all your environments stay in sync.

Integrates with GitHub

> git push█

Building application graph

Generating boilerplate

Compiling application code

Running tests

Provisioning ephemeral environment

Preview Environments for every PR

Speed up end-to-end testing and collaboration with automatic Preview Environments for each pull request.

Integrates with Vercel

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Deployed just now

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Consistent and secure by default

Encore sets up infrastructure in your cloud using battle-tested services from AWS/GCP, applying best practices for security and scalability. Including automatic management of least-privilege IAM roles.

Review and approve planned changes before each deploy, and customize configuration in Encore's simple dashboard.

You maintain full access to your infrastructure through your cloud provider's console, with all changes automatically synced between Encore and your cloud.

Deploys to

Provisioning infrastructure for production env

Database Clusters (1)

sqldb-server-d03802
Cloud SQL Server
Google Cloud Platformus-central1
Approval
Required

Pub/Sub (1)

topic-369942
Pub/Sub Topic
Google Cloud Platformglobal
Approval
Required

Compute Instances (2)

kubernetes-88fc01
Kubernetes Cluster
Google Cloud Platformus-central1
Approval
Required
cloud-run-0aa3a5
Cloud Run Service
Google Cloud Platformeu-west1
Approval
Required

Metrics & Logging

Automatically get metrics and logging for the things you care about. Define custom metrics and time series with one line of code.

Integrates with

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LLM Chat Room

Create an LLM powered chat room, with bots that integrate with Discord/Slack

Event-Driven System

Create an event-driven uptime monitoring system with this template.

GenAI Text-to-Speech App

Create your own GenAI web app with this template.

Booking System

Create a full-stack appointment booking app with this template.

Listen to the liberated

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Finding Encore was the missing piece — our DevOps workload has dropped 90% for services migrated to Encore.

Before we might have spent a whole day dealing with Terraform, Kubernetes, ingress, etc. With Encore we're done in less than an hour.

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Mason Stewart
CTO, Bookshop.org

Antonio Santiago Dueñas, CTO, Lizza (YC W22)

Lizza's backend team loves Encore! We've skipped the whole "hiring a DevOps team" thing and can concentrate on dishing out awesome new features to our users.

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Antonio Santiago Dueñas
CTO, Lizza (YC W22)

Encore is great. Imagine having a platform team as great as Spotify or Monzo, but from day 0.🚀

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Simon Vans-Colina
CTO, Pave Bank

Encore has been a game-changer for us. We now do 85% less DevOps work and the whole team can focus on product development without getting distracted.

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Jakob Nordfeldt
CEO, Skrym

Encore solved our platform-related problems and saved us weeks of work on DevOps. We can focus on the real product and react to customer feedback within hours.

David Mytton
CEO, Console.dev

The local development is awesome, I just run 'encore run' and then I have locally what we actually have in production.

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Pawel Slomka
Staff Engineer, Carla

Encore helped us scale our product and infrastructure — without additional hiring. The ROI we've seen is outstanding, easily 10x.

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Daniel Stocks
CTO, Carla

Encore lets us go from idea to shipped product at least 3x faster and saves us hours of dev ops work every week. It's invaluable to have all of the tooling built for us out of the box.