A method for dynamically provisioning a target platform to host an application with one or more application program interfaces (APIs) is provided. The method determines whether one or more APIs are supported on one or more of at least two hosting platforms and whether one or more instructions for the application are permitted to be executed on the one or more of the hosting platforms, and executes the one or more instructions for the application on a supported and permissible platform having the lowest performance metric for running the application.