What is Helipod
A cloud platform for running apps, servers, domains and email, from one dashboard or one API.
Helipod is a cloud platform for developers and businesses in Indonesia. You can run a website, an API, a database or an AI agent without managing the servers yourself, and you can still get a full virtual server when you need one.
Everything you can do in the dashboard is organised in projects. A project holds your containers, virtual servers, databases, storage and team members, and it is billed from one prepaid wallet in Rupiah.
What you can build
Containers
Deploy from a Git repository, a container image or a Dockerfile. Get HTTPS on a *.helipod.app domain or your own domain, variables, volumes, scaling and logs.
VPS
Virtual servers with root access, a choice of operating systems, firewall rules and backups.
Databases
Managed Postgres that scales to zero when idle, with a branch per environment and a SQL console. Plus managed Redis for caching.
Domains
Search and register domains (including .id domains), manage DNS records and nameservers.
Send transactional and bulk email from your own domain, and receive mail in a webmail inbox.
AI Gateway
One API key for many open models, compatible with the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, paid per token in Rupiah.
Monitoring
Logs and metrics for every service, and dashboards you arrange yourself.
The Helipod APIs
The same things are available over HTTP, so you can automate them from scripts, CI pipelines or AI agents.
| API | Base URL | Key |
|---|---|---|
| Container API | https://api.helipod.io/api/containers | Helipod API key with Container API |
| VPS API | https://api.helipod.io/api/vps | Helipod API key with VPS API |
| Database API | https://api.helipod.io/api/databases | Helipod API key with Database API |
| Domain API | https://api.helipod.io/api/domains | Helipod API key with Domain API (whole account) |
| Email API | https://mail.helipod.io/api/email | Helipod API key with Email API, or an email API key |
| AI Gateway | https://ai.helipod.io/v1 | AI key (hel_ai_...) |
| AI API | https://api.helipod.io/api/ai | Helipod API key with AI API (balance and top-ups: whole account) |
| Account API | https://api.helipod.io/api/account | Helipod API key with Account API (wallet, invoices, tickets: whole account) |
All APIs speak JSON and authenticate with Authorization: Bearer <key>. All but the AI Gateway use the same response envelope; the AI Gateway follows the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs instead. Start with API keys, then pick the API you need.
Built for automation
In the Container, Database, Domain and AI APIs and for email plans, calls that cost money accept ?dryRun=true to show the price first, and the ones that create or buy things take an Idempotency-Key header so a retried request never does it twice. See Requests and errors.