European PaaS Platforms

#1 Scalingo

Strasbourg, France Containers cost €7.20 (256 MB) to €230.40 (8 GB) per 30 days in the standard region and €8.64 to €276.48 in the SecNumCloud region; VAT excluded A "Start for Free" button is shown; its terms were not checked

Best for: French and EU teams wanting git-push deploys with a sovereign hosting region as an option

• Operating company. Scalingo SAS, SIRET 808 665 483 00034, share capital €35,291.90
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. France; the SecNumCloud region runs on Outscale infrastructure
• Independent checks. HDS hosting is discussed in the pricing FAQ; SecNumCloud region
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku, Render

Scalingo is a platform-as-a-service that builds an app from a git push, from GitHub or GitLab, or from a tar archive, using open-source buildpacks, and can create review apps for pull and merge requests. It runs the app and its managed databases but does not run your tests, so continuous integration stays elsewhere. Containers range from 256 MB to 8 GB, and billing is by the minute.

Scalingo SAS is named in the legal notice in Strasbourg, with share capital of €35,291.90 and SIRET 808 665 483 00034, under French law. Standard container prices run from €7.20 to €230.40 per 30 days, excluding VAT, and the SecNumCloud region on Outscale infrastructure costs about 20 percent more. The pricing FAQ discusses HDS health-data hosting, with a minimum infrastructure level attached.

Standout feature. Scalingo is the only tool on this page that combines a git-push flow with a SecNumCloud-qualified hosting region.

#2 Zerops

Prague, Czech Republic Founded 2024 Project core package free (Lightweight) or $10 each month (Serious), plus resources: shared CPU $0.60 per core, RAM $3.00 per GB and disk $0.10 per GB per 30 days Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Developers who want to size CPU and RAM themselves and pay for exactly that

• Operating company. Zerops s.r.o.
• Jurisdiction. EU (Czech Republic)
• Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages read; Zerops says it runs its own hardware
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Render, Railway, Fly.io

Zerops sells a project, which is a group of Linux containers that share a private network, and you describe both the build and the runtime in one zerops.yaml file. The same definition produces a development, staging or production environment, and an environment costs money only while it runs. Managed PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Valkey and Kafka come with credentials injected into the services.

Zerops s.r.o. is a Prague company that says it was founded in 2024 as a spin-off of the Czech hosting provider vshosting.eu, with Incus containers on its own AMD EPYC servers. The home page lists ISO 27001 and GDPR. The pages read do not state the country of the servers, and two of the three product lines, Mate and Box, are not yet released.

Standout feature. Zerops publishes a unit price for each core, gigabyte of RAM and gigabyte of disk, so the invoice can be predicted from the resource sizes.

#3 Sliplane

Berlin, Germany App Runtime from €9 each month (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB), managed PostgreSQL from €19 each month, object storage from €5 for 250 GB; prices exclude VAT Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Developers and agencies running many small apps that should share one predictable server bill

• Operating company. Sliplane GmbH
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Germany, Finland, US East, US West and Singapore; a separate Germany (Confidential) region with dedicated CPUs
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Render, Railway, Heroku

Sliplane makes the server, not the application, the unit of purchase: the Starter server is 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of storage for €9 a month, and every container that fits on it costs nothing extra. Larger sizes step up to Base at €17.80, Large at €45.00 and XX-Large at €224.00, with 20 percent off for monthly and 33 percent off for yearly billing.

Sliplane GmbH is a Berlin company, registered at the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg under HRB 290880 B, and describes itself as two former freelance web developers who ran client hosting for over ten years. It deploys GitHub repositories and Docker images, offers managed PostgreSQL and S3-compatible storage, and has a Germany (Confidential) region with dedicated CPUs. Apps share a server, so a busy one can starve the others.

Standout feature. Sliplane lets an agency run dozens of small containers on one server and receive one invoice for it.

#4 Upsun

Paris, France Starts at €0 with a 15-day trial, then hourly billing on provisioned resources (guaranteed application CPU €0.100 and 1 GB of memory €0.013 in the hourly view) 15-day free trial, no card required

Best for: Agencies and product teams that need a full copy of the stack for every branch

• Operating company. PLATFORM.SH SAS (Upsun), SIREN 521 496 059, active in the French register
• Jurisdiction. EU (France) by default; the terms pick the contracting entity from the billing address, including a US company for US addresses
• Where the data sits. AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud or OVHcloud regions chosen by the customer
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku, Vercel

Upsun, from the Platform.sh company, builds a complete preview environment for each Git branch and describes its automation as GitOps for the whole platform. Projects deploy to AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud or OVHcloud regions that the customer chooses, which makes it the platform on this page with the widest choice of underlying clouds. A newer product, Dispatch, targets workflows run by people and AI agents with approval gates.

The French register lists PLATFORM.SH SAS, trading as Upsun, in Paris as active. Its terms choose the contracting entity from the billing address: a French SAS by default, other European entities, and a US company when the billing address is in the United States. Pricing begins at €0 with a 15-day trial and then bills provisioned resources by the hour, so the monthly total depends on what you provision.

Standout feature. Upsun lets one project pick its cloud from a list of five, including the French provider OVHcloud.

#5 Clever Cloud

Nantes, France Founded 2010 From €1.49/month Trial only via a sales call

Best for: European developers wanting fully managed PaaS

• Operating company. Clever Cloud
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku, Vercel, AWS

Clever Cloud is a Nantes platform that deploys by git push, detects the runtime and handles scaling, with support for Node.js, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Scala, .NET and Docker. Its site also lists Heptapod Cloud, a hosted forge published by Octobus, derived from GitLab Community Edition, which supports Git and Mercurial and includes a Clever Cloud runner for builds.

The legal notice names Clever Cloud SAS, RCS Nantes B 524 172 699, with share capital of €22,952, and the company dates from 2010. The compliance menu lists Health Data Hosting, ISO 27001 and SecNumCloud, but the pages checked do not say what each covers. PaaS prices come from a client-side estimator rather than page text, and the tool page quotes "from €1.49/month".

Standout feature. Clever Cloud is the single platform in this list that also hosts a Git forge with its own build runner.

#6 Koyeb

Boulogne-Billancourt, France Pro $29 each month plus compute ($10 included), Scale $299 each month plus compute ($100 included), Enterprise custom; compute billed per second, GPU instances from $0.50 per hour; prices in US dollars Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Teams that run GPU inference or bursty APIs and want to pay by the second and scale to zero

• Operating company. Koyeb SAS
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. Regions in the US, EU and Asia on the paid plans; serverless Postgres in Washington D.C., Frankfurt or Singapore
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Render, Heroku, Fly.io

Koyeb deploys a Git repository or container image as an autoscaling service, and its home page describes scale-to-zero with a CPU cold start under 250 ms. Compute is accounted per second and charged at the end of the calendar month. GPU instances run from an RTX-4000-SFF-ADA at $0.50 per hour to eight-GPU H200 nodes at $24.00 per hour. Serverless Postgres, with pgvector, can sit in Frankfurt.

Koyeb SAS is registered at the Nanterre trade register under 850 183 948, with share capital of €37,518.80, and its terms are governed by French law. The site carries a banner saying Koyeb is joining Mistral AI, and the February 2026 changelog lists a definitive agreement. Pro is $29 a month with $10 of compute; Scale is $299 with $100 of compute and a 99.9% uptime SLA.

Standout feature. Koyeb bills GPU instances by the second and lets a service fall to zero between requests.

#7 Northflank

London, United Kingdom Free Sandbox plan (2 services, 1 database, 2 cron jobs) / pay-as-you-go from $0.01667 per vCPU/hour and $0.00833 per GB RAM/hour / Enterprise priced individually Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Container-minded teams that want managed Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB or Redis next to their services

• Operating company. Northflank Ltd
• Jurisdiction. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
• Where the data sits. 6+ cloud regions, plus bring-your-own-cloud across 600+ regions
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku, Render, Railway

Northflank is a PaaS that treats the database as an add-on to the app: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis are provisioned inside the same project, and compute and data are billed per second together. The free Sandbox plan holds 2 services, 1 database and 2 cron jobs, and pay-as-you-go starts at $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and $0.00833 per GB of RAM-hour.

Northflank Ltd is registered in London, company number 11918540, so the contract is under United Kingdom rather than EU law, and the UK holds an adequacy decision from the EU. Its privacy policy names an EEA representative. Deployments run on its own regions or on your cloud account in more than 600 regions. The design leans towards containers and Kubernetes-style workloads rather than a plain git push.

Standout feature. Northflank puts a database on the same per-second invoice as the service that uses it.

#8 fortrabbit

Berlin, Germany Founded 2012 7-day free trial; a small website with PHP, MySQL, backup and traffic components is €4.50 each month; components range from €1 upward Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Freelancers and agencies hosting PHP sites such as Craft, Statamic or Laravel for clients

• Operating company. fortrabbit GmbH
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Ireland (EU) or Virginia (US), chosen per app
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku PHP, Render web services for PHP

fortrabbit hosts PHP and nothing else, and has done so since 2012. Its site lists Craft CMS, Statamic, Kirby, Laravel, Symfony, Filament, October CMS and WordPress as software with presets and guides. An app groups the environments of one project, and each environment has its own components, domain and Git branch, with SSH, SFTP and rsync into persistent storage.

fortrabbit GmbH is a Berlin company registered at the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg under HRB 154552 B. Prices are built from components sized XS to 2XL: a PHP SM component with 256 MiB is €2, an LG with 1 GiB is €12 and a MySQL XS is €1, billed post-paid and aggregated daily. A client can be invited to pay for an app directly. The new platform is labelled beta.

Standout feature. fortrabbit lets an agency hand an app to a client who then pays for it directly on the same platform.

#9 Qovery

Paris, France Founded 2020 Business $2,999/month paid yearly (save 20% vs monthly), 20 users included / Enterprise: custom pricing, annual billing only Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Companies with a cloud account and compliance duties that want a managed deployment layer on top of it

• Operating company. BIRDSIGHT SAS (trading as Qovery)
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. Deploys into your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account; self-hosted control plane available on Enterprise
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku, Render, in-house Kubernetes platform engineering

Qovery is a bring-your-own-cloud control plane: your applications and data stay in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account while Qovery operates the deployment pipeline, environments and day-two tasks. It includes CI/CD, creates a preview environment for each pull request, and on the Business plan provisions and upgrades Kubernetes clusters. An Enterprise customer can self-host the control plane.

BIRDSIGHT SAS, trading as Qovery, is a Paris company founded in 2020 whose contracts fall under French law. It states SOC 2 Type II and GDPR, with HIPAA, HDS, ISO 27001 and DORA in an add-on package. There is no free tier, only a 14-day trial. Business costs $2,999 a month billed yearly for 20 users, and the cloud bill is paid separately.

Standout feature. Qovery runs the pipeline, previews and Kubernetes upkeep while the workloads stay in the customer's cloud account.

#10 Stackhero

Paris, France Node.js from $15 each month (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD) up to $299 each month; billed per hour, other currencies selectable Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Teams that want an app host and its databases and tools from one French provider

• Operating company. Stackhero
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. Europe or USA, selected per service
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku add-ons, Render databases

Stackhero sells services, each a dedicated instance of fixed vCPU, RAM and SSD, created in about two minutes and billed per hour on one monthly invoice. The Node.js service has six sizes, from Hobby at $15 for 1 vCPU and 1 GB to Enterprise at $299 for 16 vCPUs and 64 GB, with deployment by git push. PHP, Python, Ruby and Docker hosts sit beside more than forty data stores and tools.

The company is registered in Paris under RCS Paris 512 366 378, and its terms are governed by French law. The product pages state a 99.9 percent SLA with compensation, premium support in every plan, ISO 27001 and backups every 24 hours kept for up to three months. Servers can be in Europe or the USA per service, and high availability is a custom request.

Standout feature. Stackhero puts a Node.js host and over forty managed services under one hourly invoice.

#11 Elestio

Dublin, Ireland Founded 2021 From about $10/month per service plus the underlying infrastructure cost Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Teams that want managed open source without handing over ownership of the infrastructure

• Operating company. ELESTIO LIMITED (Dublin, per its terms)
• Jurisdiction. EU (Ireland)
• Where the data sits. Your own cloud account or chosen EU region
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. AWS managed services, Heroku, DigitalOcean managed databases

Elestio deploys and operates open-source software on infrastructure you own, such as a Hetzner, Scaleway, AWS or DigitalOcean account, or on dedicated European hardware. Its catalogue holds more than 350 services, among them PostgreSQL, Redis, Grafana, n8n, Keycloak and Metabase, each with updates, backups, monitoring and TLS handled. Stopping payment removes the management layer, while the servers keep running.

Its own terms name ELESTIO LIMITED in Dublin, Ireland, company number 755058, whereas the older text of the Elestio tool page describes a Romanian company, so confirm the entity on your order. Pricing starts at about $10 a month per service plus the infrastructure cost, and the vendor says the platform was founded in 2021. The management layer is proprietary and the company is small.

Standout feature. Elestio runs the software but leaves the servers in the customer's account, so leaving it does not mean migrating the data.

#12 alwaysdata

Paris, France Free €0; Plus from €5 each month excl. VAT (30 days free); Max from €369 each month excl. VAT Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Agencies and individuals hosting several small sites, apps and mailboxes on one account

• Operating company. ALWAYSDATA (SARL)
• Jurisdiction. EU (France)
• Where the data sits. Data location absent from the pages read
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Heroku hobby apps, Render static and web services

alwaysdata gives each account any number of websites, databases and mailboxes, and each site picks its own language and version from PHP, Python, Node.js, Ruby and Java. Databases include MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL, SSH is on every plan, and scheduled tasks, daemons and Let's Encrypt certificates are included. Backups of files, emails and databases are automatic.

ALWAYSDATA is a SARL registered at RCS Paris 492 893 490. The Free plan has 1 GB of SSD, 256 MB of RAM and a quarter CPU for personal use, with no time limit. Plus starts at €5 a month excluding VAT with 30 days free, and Max, a private server with 16 GB of RAM and 8 CPUs, starts at €369 with 24/7 support. No Git-push pipeline is described, and the server location is not stated.

Standout feature. alwaysdata includes unlimited databases and mailboxes on the same account as the websites, even on a €5 plan.

#13 Ploi

The Netherlands, Netherlands Free €0; Basic €8, Pro €13 and Unlimited €30 each month; yearly billing saves 10 percent; server fees are not included Trial only via a sales call

Best for: Laravel and PHP developers who want a Forge-style panel run by a Dutch company

• Operating company. WebBuilds B.V.
• Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
• Where the data sits. Your servers sit with the provider you choose; Ploi states it is hosted in Europe
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Laravel Forge, Heroku for PHP, Render web services

Ploi does not host your code: you rent a server from Hetzner, DigitalOcean, UpCloud or another provider, connect it, and Ploi installs the web stack and manages sites, deployments, queues, cron jobs and certificates. It detects Laravel applications, offers one-click installs for WordPress, Statamic, Craft CMS and Nextcloud, and lists load balancing, status pages, teams and monitoring.

WebBuilds B.V. is the Dutch company behind it, and the about page calls the project bootstrapped. The Free plan covers one server and one site with five deployments a month; Basic is €8, Pro €13 and Unlimited €30 a month, with 10 percent off for yearly billing. The server bill goes to your provider, support is not 24/7, and NodeJS is supported but PHP is the focus.

Standout feature. Ploi gives a Laravel developer a hosted deployment panel over cheap servers that stay in the developer's own account.