Okteto blog · Feb 2026
Okteto argued that agentic development needs runtime feedback loops and production-like environments, positioning its platform as the missing infrastructure layer for validating AI-generated code.
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okteto.com
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA; Denver, CO, USA; Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain; Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina; Remote
11-50
B2B
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Okteto is a remote-first developer platform that helps teams build, test, preview, and validate cloud-native applications in production-like Kubernetes environments, now also positioning those environments for AI agent workflows.
Primary product
Kubernetes-native cloud development environments and preview/testing environments for developers and AI agents
Founded
2018
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / cloud development environments / platform engineering
Offices
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States (HQ)
1459 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
2250 24th St 224, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
enterprise subscription
self-hosted deployment
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
freemium starter tier
marketplace sales
Funding
Stage
Series A / early-stage venture
Total raised
$18.2M
Latest round
Series A · Feb 2022
Latest amount
$15M
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-founder
CTO & Co-founder
CPO & Co-founder
Work & culture
Remote-first, distributed, and developer-experience focused; emphasizes fast feedback loops, cloud-native productivity, and a community-oriented builder culture.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public YC job data shows US-remote roles around $150K-$175K base with 0.20%-0.30% equity for a Customer Success Lead; broader public compensation data is limited.
Benefits
Remote-first / 100% remote from day one
Unlimited PTO (3 weeks minimum encouraged)
16 weeks paid parental leave
100% medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees
50% medical, vision, and dental coverage for dependents
Yearly company offsite
$1,000 work-from-home stipend
Product & market
Pricing
Free Starter tier (5 seats), plus contact-sales Scale and Enterprise tiers; available as SaaS, self-hosted, or BYOC; payment by credit card or invoicing.
Differentiators
- —Production-like ephemeral development environments on Kubernetes
- —Environment-as-code via Okteto Manifest
- —Supports build, deploy, dev, and test workflows in one platform
- —Preview environments for every pull request
- —Can run as SaaS, self-hosted, or BYOC
- —Governance controls such as RBAC and resource limits
- —Designed for both human developers and AI agents
- —Fast inner-loop feedback that reduces setup and CI friction
Technology
Kubernetes
Helm
Docker Compose
GitHub Actions
GitHub
GitLab
CircleCI
Go
YAML manifests
RBAC
Namespaces
Preview environments
Okteto Manifest
Customers
monday.com
LaunchDarkly
Replicated
Privacy Dynamics
Fortune 500 global insurance company
U.S. government research team
healthcare unicorn
Playable Worlds
Lema.ai
Ruggable
Competitors
Qovery
mirrord
Wrk
Exceptionly
Richweb
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
USD 1M-$10M (reported annual revenue about USD 2.4M)
Estimated monthly visits
14.6K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Okteto blog · Jun 2025
Okteto introduced AI Agent Fleets beta, letting each agent get its own ephemeral environment to build, deploy, and test code with production-like validation.
Okteto blog · Apr 2025
Okteto highlighted its Divert feature for scaling dev environments by mixing isolated services with shared backend dependencies.
Okteto blog · Mar 2025
Okteto reported seven G2 badges, highlighting customer praise for ROI, ease of use, support, and developer productivity.
Okteto blog · Dec 2024
Okteto summarized 2024 product work, including cost optimization, testing improvements, marketplace availability, and security features such as air-gapped installation support.
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