One thing I wanted to fix in this refresh: there was no good answer to “can I just try it?” that didn’t start with a sales conversation. There are now three ways in, each one step closer to your own data.
0 - Synthetic demo (live now)
No account, nothing to install. A realistic storefront’s traffic is captured continuously by a Floocus-hosted Spider instance, decrypted and traced across all five protocols - HTTP, gRPC, Redis, PostgreSQL and Kafka. It’s the fastest way to see what Spider’s UI and analysis actually look like on real-shaped traffic. Try it now.
1 - Hosted sandbox (live now)
Install Spider’s agents on your own cluster, pointed at a hosted, non-production Spider backend we run for you. This is the first step onto your traffic without standing up any infrastructure of your own - useful for evaluating capture and decode against your real protocols and payload shapes before committing to a deployment. Start the sandbox.
2 - Self-host trial (live now)
Register a licence and deploy the full Spider stack on your own infrastructure. Your data never leaves your cluster - this is the closest thing to production, run as a trial. Get a trial licence.
What’s live today
Update, 18 July 2026: all three are now live and self-serve - no sales conversation required. Tier 0 needs no account; the hosted sandbox and the self-host trial both start from a free Floocus account and you’re going in minutes. See all three ways in, or get in touch if you’d like a hand - we reply fast.
Cheers, Thibaut