Upsun recognized for third consecutive year in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Upsun acknowledged for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Upsun is proud to be recognized for a third year in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms alongside other evaluated CNAP platforms.

Upsun empowers development teams to ship better software, faster, not just by simplifying infrastructure management, but by rethinking how the entire software development lifecycle works in an era of AI-powered development. As more organizations modernize legacy systems and adopt agentic approaches to building software, Upsun provides the flexibility, performance, and enterprise-grade control required to deliver meaningful results at scale. 

"We believe our recognition for the third consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms reflects the strength of the platform we have been building and the trust of the customers who rely on it every day. As AI transforms how software is built and shipped, Upsun is designed to meet that moment, giving teams the infrastructure they need to move fast without losing control." — Fred Plais, Co-Founder and CEO, Upsun

Over the past year, Upsun has introduced new capabilities to support the growing demands of modern software teams:

• Upsun Dispatch™, a platform for the agentic software development lifecycle, enabling teams to run AI agents across their full delivery workflow, with human oversight, isolated cloud environments, and a logged cost record for every run
• Upsun MCP Server, giving AI coding assistants real-time, secure access to live infrastructure and logs directly from the IDE, reducing context switching and speeding up debugging
• Guaranteed CPU resources and automated horizontal scaling, providing dedicated, non-shared computing power and automatic resource adjustment based on real-time demand, with no manual intervention required

We believe Upsun continues to stand out for its approach to AI-ready, enterprise-grade application delivery. With features including production-perfect preview environments on every Git branch, full audit logs, role-based access control, and seamless multicloud support, the platform gives organizations the confidence to scale and innovate without sacrificing control.

Read the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms to learn more about how Upsun was recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

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1. Source: Gartner, Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, Mukul Saha, Alex Coqueiro, et al., 3 August 2026.

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