{"slug": "arcentry-is-back-create-beautiful-3d-infrastructure-diagrams", "title": "Arcentry is back – create beautiful 3D infrastructure diagrams", "summary": "Arcentry has relaunched as a tool for creating 2D and 3D infrastructure diagrams, offering more than 700 handcrafted components covering AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM, Oracle, OpenAI, Hetzner and open-source stacks such as Postgres, Redis, HashiCorp and NGINX. The service can generate diagrams automatically by importing Terraform or CloudFormation templates, describing an architecture to its AI Chat, or listing a stack, and its real-time REST API streams monitoring metrics, deployment state and auto-scaling changes into live diagrams. Arcentry is free forever on its base plan, costs $9.90 per month for the Standard plan, and offers custom self-hosted deployment for enterprises.", "body_md": "### Design Yourself\n\nDesign beautiful 2D and 3D infrastructure diagrams with 800+ handcrafted components for cloud, on-premises and open-source technologies. Intelligent layout tools speed up the process while keeping you in complete creative control.\n\nCloud architecture, made beautiful\n\nDesigned and updated by hand, from Infrastructure as Code Templates or programmatically via Arcentry's API.\n\nTrusted by infrastructure teams at\n\nTry it out\n\nEmbed interactive diagrams in blog posts and presentations, or bring them to life with real-time updates. Use them as overview dashboards and entry point into your monitoring stack.\n\nTurn infrastructure into diagrams automatically. Import *Terraform* or *CloudFormation*,\ndescribe the\narchitecture you want to Arcentry's *AI Chat*, or simply list your stack and let Arcentry build and\nlay out the diagram for\nyou.\n\nBring your diagrams to life with Arcentry’s real-time API. Stream monitoring metrics, deployment state and auto-scaling changes directly into your diagrams to create a live, visual view of your infrastructure.\n\nA diagram that does more\n\nHundreds of components, live monitoring, custom visuals, interactive embeds and exports at any resolution.\n\nArcentry comes packed with more than 700 components, covering everything from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM and Oracle to OpenAI, Hetzner and many more.\n\nPostgres, Redis, HashiCorp, NGINX and more — chances are, your open source stack already comes in the box.\n\nTurn complex infrastructure into a clear, well-organized diagram. Upload your IaC template, describe your infrastructure in AI Chat, or provide a simple list. Arcentry automatically selects components, arranges groups and routes connections for you.\n\nVisualize your own infrastructure with fully customizable components. Pick 3D models, colors and icons, or upload your own images.\n\nChange any aspect of your infrastructure diagrams programmatically via our API and see the updates in real-time.\n\nTurn your diagram into a live view of your deployment. Add charts, scaling groups, status indicators and live monitoring data.\n\nBuilt for the conversations that matter\n\nExplore system boundaries, dependencies, network paths, and trade-offs before implementation begins.\n\nEmbed an interactive view in a wiki, runbook, blog post, or customer portal and update it from one source.\n\nBring charts, status, metadata, and operational signals into the map teams already understand.\n\nFrom blank canvas to shared context\n\nStart with provider components and arrange the system in the level of detail you need.\n\nAdd labels, metadata, live metrics, or automate the whole document through the API.\n\nInvite collaborators, export an image, or publish an interactive embed.\n\n```\n# Update an existing object\ncurl \\\n  --request POST \\\n  --url https://arcentry.com/api/v1/doc/{docId}/obj/{objId} \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \\\n  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  --data '{\n    \"props\": {\n      \"color\": \"#F0000F\",\n      \"position\": {\"x\": 5, \"y\": 2}\n    }\n  }'\n```\n\nSimple pricing\n\nNo credit card is required for the free plan. Cancel the Standard plan at any time.\n\n**$0** forever\n\nFor exploring Arcentry and building your first cloud maps.\n\n**$9.90** per month\n\nFor individuals and teams building without architecture limits.\n\n**Custom** deployment\n\nFor organizations that need Arcentry in their own environment.\n\nGood to know\n\nFor anything not covered here, write to [info@arcentry.com](mailto:info@arcentry.com).\n\nNo. Create an account and use the free plan without adding payment details.\n\nYes. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, open-source, generic, and on-premise components can live on the same canvas.\n\nYes. The REST API can create and update documents, objects, metadata, images, and embeds.\n\nArcentry Enterprise is designed for self-hosted deployments and integration with organizational authentication and permissions.\n\nMake the system visible\n\nStart with a free diagram, then connect the data and workflows that keep it useful.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcentry-is-back-create-beautiful-3d-infrastructure-diagrams", "canonical_source": "https://arcentry.com/?src=hn", "published_at": "2026-09-23 08:01:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-23 08:24:13.010085+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Arcentry", "AWS", "Google Cloud", "Azure", "IBM", "Oracle", "OpenAI", "Hetzner"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcentry-is-back-create-beautiful-3d-infrastructure-diagrams", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcentry-is-back-create-beautiful-3d-infrastructure-diagrams.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcentry-is-back-create-beautiful-3d-infrastructure-diagrams.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/arcentry-is-back-create-beautiful-3d-infrastructure-diagrams.jsonld"}}