Cloudfleet
Berlin start-up whose single managed cluster stretches over Hetzner, OVH, AWS and your own machines, with plans priced openly in euros
Quick Overview
| Company | Cloudfleet GmbH |
|---|---|
| Category | Kubernetes Platforms |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
| Founded | Not stated |
| EU Presence | Yes - Germany (EU) |
| Data Location | Control plane region of your choice (Europe or North America); nodes wherever you connect them |
| Open Source | No |
| GDPR Compliant | Yes |
| Self-Hosting | Partly - self-managed nodes can be added on-premises, the control plane stays hosted |
| Main Features | Managed control plane, node auto-provisioning, on-premises node support, encrypted WireGuard overlay, container registry, Helm chart marketplace, SSO via SAML and OIDC |
| Pricing | Basic €12, Pro €69, Enterprise from €499 per cluster per month, each with included vCPUs and a per-vCPU fee above; €200 trial credit |
| Best For | Teams that spread workloads over several providers or want cheap European nodes with a managed control plane |
| Replaces | Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine |
Detailed Review
Cloudfleet takes a different route from clouds that sell their own Kubernetes. Its engine, CFKE, keeps the control plane in Cloudfleet's environment and lets nodes come from many places: the provider list on its homepage includes Hetzner, OVH, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, Proxmox and VMware vSphere.
The company is Cloudfleet GmbH, registered in Berlin under HRB 279792 B, and its terms are a contract with that German entity. The pricing page is rendered in plain HTML, which is rare in this category.
Pricing you can read
Three plans are listed per cluster per month: Basic at €12 with 8 vCPUs included, Pro at €69 with 24, and Enterprise from €499 with 96. Above the allotment, each extra vCPU costs €2.45, €4.95 or €7.25 respectively, billed by the minute.
New accounts get €200 of credit valid for 30 days, which covers the cluster engine and the registry.
Tiers and what changes between them
Basic runs the control plane in a single availability zone on shared capacity with best-effort uptime and billing-only support. Pro moves to a multi-zone control plane with dedicated resources, a 99.95% SLA and technical support with an 8-hour response. Enterprise adds a 99.99% SLA, a named technical account manager and compliance reports.
Features such as SSO, audit logging and version pinning appear in the plan comparison, so check which tier carries the ones you need.
Where data goes
The security documentation separates a management layer, which holds users, organisations and billing data, from the per-cluster control plane, which sits in a Europe or North America region you select. Pods, volumes and logs stay on your nodes, and node traffic runs over a WireGuard overlay.
Because nodes can sit on AWS or Google Cloud, European data residency is a result of your node choices rather than something the platform enforces by default.
Limitations to Consider
The vendor's SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications are listed as in progress. Single-zone, best-effort control planes on Basic are suited to development, not production. The control plane hosting provider is not named on the pages I read, and control plane regions include North America. The service is a managed control plane only, so ingress, monitoring and policy remain your work (the registry and Helm chart catalogue help). For Swiss-only hosting see Nine.
Who Should Use Cloudfleet
Small and mid-sized engineering teams that want one place to run Kubernetes across providers, particularly those using inexpensive European nodes such as Hetzner, and that value open pricing.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Public euro pricing with per-minute billing
- One cluster over several clouds and on-premises nodes
- German GmbH with a German-law contract
- Included OCI container registry
- €200 credit to test with
Cons
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001 still in progress
- Basic tier has no uptime commitment
- Control plane region can be North America
- Node jurisdiction left to the customer
Alternatives to Cloudfleet
Other European kubernetes platforms worth comparing before you decide:
Giant Swarm
Germany · Curated open source platform stack, run for you or by you
Nine
Switzerland · Swiss managed Kubernetes in Zurich with 24/7 engineer support
Kubermatic
Germany · Kubernetes management platform for fleets across clouds and edge
Exoscale
Switzerland · Swiss cloud with a free-tier SKS control plane and Pro tier
See all European kubernetes platforms or compare them directly against Red Hat OpenShift on our alternatives page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you choose the providers you connect, for example Hetzner or OVH, and you pick the control plane region. Nothing forces nodes onto a US cloud, but AWS and Google are also supported.
It is a managed Kubernetes control plane with extras such as a registry and chart catalogue, not a full bundled platform. Cloudfleet publishes its own OpenShift comparison page that frames it as a single multi-cloud cluster instead of separate clusters.
A base fee per cluster per month includes a vCPU allotment, then a per-vCPU monthly fee applies, prorated by the minute. Prices are shown in euros with dollars for reference.