iwinv
A Korean cloud with a Seoul data centre, ₩5,600/month VMs, GPU boxes, a real CLI, and an MCP server you can drive from Claude Code.
Everything else in this category is a US or EU platform. iwinv is the odd one out: a Korean IaaS run by Smileserv since 2002, out of its own data centre in Gasan, Seoul. If your users are in Korea, that’s a 5ms round trip instead of 150ms to Tokyo or Oregon — and the bill comes in won, from a company you can phone.
It’s not a “vibe” platform in the Vercel sense. It’s plain VMs, bare metal, GPU servers, block and object storage, load balancers, and managed MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB. What earns it a page here is that all of it has an API, a CLI, and an MCP server, so an AI agent can stand the infrastructure up for you.
What it costs
| Thing | Price (2026) |
|---|---|
Smallest VM, vgna_1_n — 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB NVMe | ₩5,600/month (~$4) |
| V100 GPU server | ₩349,000/month |
| RTX 4090 GPU server | ₩495,000/month |
| RTX PRO 6000 GPU server | ₩2,375,000/month |
| New accounts | A 3-month free trial event (check the current terms) |
Billing is metered hourly, so a server you create and delete in an afternoon costs an afternoon. Prices above are the monthly ceiling.
The CLI
curl -sL https://cli.iwinv.kr/install.sh | bash # Linux / macOS
Create an API key pair in the console, then:
iwinv login # prompts for Access Key / Secret Key; endpoint api-kr.iwinv.kr
iwinv account # confirm the profile
iwinv zones
iwinv images
iwinv flavors --type GENERAL --max-mem 4096
iwinv ssh-keys
iwinv instances create
iwinv instances show
iwinv instances vnc # a browser console URL for when SSH is broken
iwinv instances delete
Flavor names encode the tier: vgna_* is shared general purpose, gna_* and hpa_*
are dedicated, soi_* is storage-optimised. iwinv flavors -h lists the filters
(--type GPU, --min-gpu 1, and so on).
iwinv bill prints the current charges, which is the command to run before you forget
about a GPU box.
The MCP server
This is the interesting part. https://mcp.iwinv.kr is a remote MCP server with
OAuth login, so any MCP client can manage your account in plain language.
claude mcp add --transport http iwinv https://mcp.iwinv.kr
claude mcp list
A browser opens for the iwinv login; after that, “spin up a 2-core Ubuntu box in Seoul and add my SSH key” is a sentence rather than a console session. Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI are documented too, and in Claude.ai it’s a custom connector with the same URL.
Treat it like any agent with a credit card: create and delete are both one sentence
away. Keep a separate API key for the agent, and run iwinv instances show yourself
before you trust “done.”
Where it fits
| Good fit | Poor fit |
|---|---|
| Korean users, Korean latency, KRW invoices | A global audience — use Fly.io |
| A cheap always-on VM for a side project | Push-to-deploy with zero ops — Railway |
| Renting a 4090 by the hour for a fine-tune | Anything that needs a managed serverless stack |
| Teams that want a support desk in Korean | Anyone allergic to SSH and a Linux box |
It replaces the hosting slot for a Korea-first product. The rest of the stack — Postgres via their managed DB or your own on the VM, Cloudflare R2 or their object storage, Sentry — still applies.
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Last updated 13 Sep 2026, 00:00 UTC.