Cube Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Cube hosting and serve one set of metrics to every app, dashboard and AI agent from your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Cube Core v1.6.39 image with a private PostgreSQL 17 data source and a Cube Store sidecar, generates the API secret, mounts persistent volumes and publishes the REST and GraphQL API over HTTPS in minutes — with an example cube ready so your first query works straight away.

  • No terminal
  • No technical skills needed
  • No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Cube?

Cube Core is an open-source semantic layer. It sits between your data sources and everything that asks questions of them, defining metrics, dimensions and business logic in one place so the same numbers come back everywhere.

It is headless: there is no built-in dashboard, only APIs — REST, GraphQL and a Postgres-compatible SQL API — plus a built-in caching engine. Upstream describes using it to build embedded analytics in your own applications, to create your own business intelligence tool, or to provide context about data to AI agents.

From Sign-Up to a Live Analytics API In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Cube stack normally means the Cube server, a Cube Store, a data source, an API secret, volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first query. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

  1. Step 01

    Sign Up

    Create your xCloud account and pick Cube (Cube Core) from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.

  2. Step 02

    We Deploy It For You

    One click. We bring up Cube Core, a Cube Store sidecar and PostgreSQL 17 — all pinned by immutable digest, with the database and Cube Store kept off the public internet — mount the cubejs_conf, cubejs_db and cubejs_store volumes, generate the API secret and SQL API password, and publish the API over HTTPS on your domain.

  3. Step 03

    Run Your First Query

    Copy the API secret from the installation credentials, sign an HS256 JWT with it and call the REST API at your HTTPS URL. Query the example cube that is created on first boot, then add your own data model files.

Everything Cube Does, On Your Own Server

Cube Core runs in full here as a headless API: your metrics are defined once and served over three interfaces, from a server you control.

  • A Semantic Layer For Your Metrics

    Define metrics, dimensions and business logic once in a data model, then reuse them across BI tools, embedded analytics and AI agents.

  • REST, GraphQL And SQL APIs

    Query the same data model over REST and GraphQL on your HTTPS domain, or through the Postgres-compatible SQL API on its own TCP port.

  • Token-Protected By Default

    Every data request needs an HS256 JWT signed with the generated API secret; requests without a valid token are rejected.

  • Bundled PostgreSQL Data Source

    A private PostgreSQL 17 database is included and wired up. Point Cube at your own warehouse later by editing the CUBEJS_DB_* settings in the Environment editor.

  • Cube Store Included

    A Cube Store sidecar runs alongside the server, so production mode can serve queries and pre-aggregations can be built once you enable the refresh worker.

  • An Example Cube On First Boot

    A one-cube example model with five sample rows, grouped by plan, is created on first boot so you can test a query before writing your own data model.

Everything You Need To Run Your Analytics API 24/7

Managed hosting for Cube, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

  • Cube Core v1.6.39 deployed instantly
  • Official images pinned by digest
  • API secret and SQL password generated for you
  • Kept behind xCloud nginx
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Server backups and snapshots
  • Server security updates included
  • 30+ server locations
  • Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Cube

  • Embedded analytics in your product

    Serve charts and numbers to your own application's users from a token-protected API, with the metric definitions kept in one data model instead of scattered across front-end code.

  • One definition of every metric

    Write revenue, active users or any other measure once, and have every tool that connects get the same answer instead of re-deriving it in each report.

  • Context for AI agents

    Give agents a governed, queryable description of your data through the same APIs, rather than letting them guess at raw tables.

  • Your own BI front end

    Build a custom analytics interface on top of the REST or GraphQL API, or connect SQL clients through the Postgres-compatible SQL API.

Cube Screenshots

Cube API root served over HTTPS in production mode
Cube API rejecting a request that carries no token

Cube vs Alternatives

Apache Superset
A full business intelligence web application with its own dashboards. Cube Core is headless: it provides the metrics and APIs, and you bring the front end.
Metabase
A BI tool with a built-in interface for exploring data. Cube Core has no built-in interface and instead exposes a semantic layer over APIs.
Proprietary BI semantic layers
Upstream notes that most semantic layers are proprietary and tightly coupled to a specific BI platform. Cube Core is open source and reachable over standard APIs, so it is not tied to one tool.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Cube hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Most popular

A metrics API for one product or team.

$24.99per month

  • 6 GB RAM
  • 4 vCPU cores
  • 100 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
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Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Cube sits alongside other analytics and data tools.

$59.99per month

  • 16 GB RAM
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Cube Core is licensed by its maintainers under Apache-2.0.

Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Cube on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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$5per server / month

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The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

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$3per server / month

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I sign in?

There is no login. Cube is an API: sign an HS256 JWT with the API secret shown in your installation credentials and send it in the Authorization header. Requests without a valid token are rejected.

Is there a Playground or dashboard?

No. Cube here is an API only; the developer Playground is not enabled and there is no browser UI.

What runs alongside Cube?

A bundled PostgreSQL 17 data source and a Cube Store sidecar. Both are private, with no host ports.

Can I use my own database or warehouse?

Yes. The bundled PostgreSQL is the starting data source; to use another one, edit the CUBEJS_DB_* settings in the Environment editor and redeploy.

How do I add my own data model?

Copy YAML or JavaScript model files into /cube/conf/model inside the app container with docker cp, then restart the app. Files you add there are never overwritten; only the example cube is seeded, and only on first boot.

Is the SQL API public?

The SQL API is a public TCP port. It is password-protected, but it is reachable from the internet, so restrict it to your SQL clients' IP addresses in your own firewall, or block it if you only use the REST API.

Why do pre-aggregation queries fail with "No pre-aggregation partitions were built yet"?

Pre-aggregations in your own data model are not built until you set CUBEJS_REFRESH_WORKER=true in the Environment editor and redeploy.

What happens if I change the API secret?

Changing CUBEJS_API_SECRET and redeploying invalidates every token already issued. Treat the secret like a password.

What should I back up?

The cubejs_conf volume (your data model), the cubejs_db volume (the bundled PostgreSQL data) and the cubejs_store volume (Cube Store data), plus the stable .env values. Keep the generated credentials private.

What survives a restart?

Your data model, Cube Store data and the bundled database survived an xCloud Restart in QA, because they live on persistent named volumes.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Cube?

No. The template pins Cube Core v1.6.39 by immutable digest; new installations use the pinned release, existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the image tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk; measured idle use in QA was about 166 MiB. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Cube?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Cube project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Cube Core project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.

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