Startups

Move fast. Don't break things.

Your 3-person engineering team ships like a 30-person one. Self-service databases, 80% cost reduction, and zero ops overhead from day one.

80%

Infra cost reduction

vs always-on environments

DB fork time

not 2 hours

3→30

Ship like a larger team

without the headcount

Ops tickets

developers are self-served

Cost impact

The infrastructure bill you didn't know you were paying

Most early-stage teams run full database instances 24/7 for dev and staging. You only use them 8 hours a day. Guepard flips that.

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Before

With Guepard

Dev environment (per developer)

Before:$300/mo

Now:$12/mo96% less

Staging database

Before:$400/mo

Now:$0Ephemeral

CI/CD database instances

Before:$600/mo

Now:$40/mo93% less

Ops time on environment management

Before:8h/week

Now:0h/weekFully automated

How it works

Your new database workflow in 4 steps

Initialize your database

One command sets up a versioned database. PostgreSQL or MySQL. GFS handles the rest via Docker.

$ gfs init --database-provider postgres --database-version 17

Branch for any task

New feature? Bug fix? AI agent experiment? Branch your DB in seconds. Every developer works in isolation.

$ gfs checkout -b feat-payments

Test, iterate, merge

Run your test suite against real data. Catch data bugs before they hit users. Merge when it's green.

DATABASE_URL=$(gfs status --url) npm test

Branches clean up automatically

When work is done, environments tear down. You only pay for active usage. No idle costs.

$ gfs compute stop ✓ environment stopped

Features

Everything a lean team needs

Up to 80% cost reduction

Ephemeral environments plus auto-cleanup means you pay for active use only. Not idle machines at $300/mo.

No ops team needed

Self-service portals let every developer spin up their own environment. No tickets, no waiting, no infrastructure team.

5-minute onboarding

Connect your first database in 5 minutes. Fork it in under 5 seconds. Integrate with CI in 10. Start shipping.

Time-travel built in

Snapshot your DB state before any risky migration. Something breaks? Restore to pre-migration in seconds. Full data fidelity.

CLI-first workflow

Fork, snapshot, compare, restore. All in the CLI. Scriptable, automatable, CI-friendly.

Branch like code

Database branches mirror your git branches. PR opened? DB fork appears. PR merged? DB fork disappears.

Grows with you

The right plan at every stage

0→1

Solo founder or early team

Use the free plan. 3 forks. Full CLI. No credit card. Get real data workflows without setting up a staging server.

Free forever

3–10 engineers

Upgrade to Pro. Unlimited forks, 5 databases, GitHub Actions integration. Your team stops stepping on each other instantly.

Talk to sales

Series A+

10+ engineers, compliance needs

Enterprise tier with SSO, PII masking, custom SLAs, and a dedicated Slack channel with the Guepard team.

Custom

“As a two-person team, we couldn’t justify a DevOps hire. Guepard gave us proper database environments without the overhead. We ship features we couldn’t before.”

James L.

CTO & Co-founder, early-stage SaaS

Free plan

Start for free. No credit card. No limits on time.

3 database forks

1 connected database

Snapshots (7-day retention)

Full CLI + API access

Community support

Instant setup, no credit card