Hosting · Updated 10 November 2026 · 9 min read

European alternatives to Render in 2026

Which European platforms run a web service, a background worker, a cron job and Postgres together, what each costs, and where Eurobase only covers part of a Render setup.

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If your Render setup is a web service, a worker, a cron job and Postgres, Scalingo and Clever Cloud cover all four from a company in France. Upsun covers them too and adds a full environment per branch, while Koyeb and Sliplane suit container apps with a managed database. Eurobase covers only the web service part, so it fits apps that keep their database elsewhere and don't need workers.

Render's building blocks, side by side

Platform	Company	Background workers	Cron jobs	Managed Postgres	Starts at
Render	Render Inc., terms under California law	Yes	Yes	From $6 a month	$0 + compute, $7 a month for 512 MB
Scalingo	Strasbourg, France	Yes, in the Procfile	Yes, with cron.json	From €7.20 a month, excl. VAT	€7.20 a month for 256 MB, excl. VAT
Clever Cloud	France	Yes, except Docker apps	Yes, except Docker apps	Yes, with a free plan for testing	Free credits, then by instance size
Upsun	Platform.sh SAS, doing business as Upsun, Paris, France	Yes	Yes	Yes	€9 per project and €10 per user a month, plus resources
Koyeb	Boulogne-Billancourt, France	Yes	Not documented	From $29.76 a month, plus one free database	$29 a month + compute
Sliplane	Berlin, Germany	Not documented	Not documented	From €19 a month, excl. VAT	€9 per server, excl. VAT
Eurobase	Warsaw, Poland	No	No	No	Free, then €10 a month + VAT

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026. Render's numbers are in US dollars, as Render publishes them.

What to check before you leave Render

Every service type you run. A Render workspace can run web services, private services, background workers, cron jobs, Postgres and Key Value. Write each one down and find its home on the new platform before you pick it.
Who signs the contract. Render has a Frankfurt region, but Render Inc. is a US company with terms under California law. A European region doesn't change the company you deal with. EU region or EU company explains the difference.
Where the database's backups go. Compare backup frequency, retention and point-in-time recovery on the plan you'd actually buy, not the top tier.
How the bill grows. Render charges a workspace fee plus compute per service. Scalingo, Clever Cloud, Upsun and Koyeb also price by resource, Sliplane prices by server, and Eurobase charges one flat price per workspace.
Docker. Render runs Docker images. Clever Cloud doesn't start workers or cron jobs inside Docker apps, and Eurobase doesn't build from a Dockerfile.

1. Scalingo

Scalingo is a platform from Strasbourg in the Heroku mould. You declare a web process and a worker process in a Procfile, size each one separately, and put scheduled tasks in a cron.json file that the Scalingo Scheduler reads at deploy time. Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and caching sit in the same account.

Best for: a Render app built around Postgres, with workers and scheduled tasks, that you want to move with little rework.
Price: containers from €7.20 a month for 256 MB and €14.40 for 512 MB, and Postgres Starter from €7.20 a month for 512 MB, all estimated over 30 days and excluding VAT. Containers never sleep.
What it lacks: a single price for the whole app. Starter databases run on one node with a 98% SLA, so production data usually needs a Business plan.

2. Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud deploys from a Git push onto infrastructure it operates in France. A worker is a command that runs next to your app on each instance and restarts when it fails. Scheduled jobs go in clevercloud/cron.json, and managed PostgreSQL is backed up daily with seven days of retention, with point-in-time recovery available.

Best for: teams that need ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and a long list of languages and managed add-ons.
Price: by instance size and number of instances, with free credits to start. The PostgreSQL DEV plan is free, for testing only.
What it lacks: workers and cron jobs in Docker apps, where you start them from your own image. Regions also exist outside Europe, so pick a European one.

3. Upsun

Upsun, the trading name of Platform.sh SAS in Paris, builds an environment for every Git branch, with its services, which is close to Render's full-stack previews. Worker instances and cron jobs are both part of the app config, and PostgreSQL is one of its managed services.

Best for: teams that review every branch on a running copy of the whole stack.
Price: €9 per project and €10 per user a month, plus CPU, memory and storage billed by the second on what you allocate.
What it lacks: its own infrastructure. Regions run on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or OVHcloud, and the regions page names the provider for each one, so check it before you choose.

4. Koyeb

Koyeb is based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and is joining Mistral AI. It runs web services and workers as containers from buildpacks or a Dockerfile, with serverless Postgres and GPUs.

Best for: Docker-based services, especially if you also need GPUs.
Price: Pro at $29 a month with $10 of compute included, then compute by the second. Serverless Postgres starts at $29.76 a month, and the free tier includes one database.
What it lacks: a spending limit. Its regions include Washington, D.C., Singapore and Tokyo as well as Frankfurt and Paris.

5. Sliplane

Sliplane is headquartered in Berlin. It detects your framework automatically, or builds from a Dockerfile or runs an image, on servers you rent at a fixed price. Every service you put on a server is included in its price, and managed PostgreSQL comes with point-in-time backups.

Best for: several small Docker services and a database at a predictable price.
Price: servers from €9 for 1 vCPU and 1 GB, and managed PostgreSQL from €19 a month for 1 vCPU and 1 GB with 10 GB of storage, excluding VAT.
What it lacks: documented background workers and cron jobs on its pricing page. Because it also offers the US and Singapore, confirm the server's location when you set it up.

6. Eurobase

Eurobase builds servers in Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET with buildpacks and runs them as containers that scale to zero. Next.js, Astro, Nuxt and other frameworks run on V8 isolates. It deploys from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea, and coding agents can deploy through its MCP server and CLI.

Best for: the web service of a Render app, or a site and API that don't need workers, cron jobs or a managed database.
Price: a Free plan, then €10 or €20 a month + VAT for the workspace. There are no usage charges today: work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions stop until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving.
Company: a business registered in Warsaw, Poland, on infrastructure operated by Scaleway, a French provider.
What it lacks: background workers, cron jobs, managed Postgres or Redis, preview deployments and Dockerfile builds. Each project runs one web service, and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are still in progress. Your app can connect to a Postgres database hosted elsewhere, such as Supabase in an EU region.

How to choose

Pick Scalingo or Clever Cloud to move a web service, worker, cron job and Postgres with the least change.
Pick Upsun if full-stack previews per branch are the Render feature you'd miss most.
Pick Koyeb if your services ship as Docker images or need GPUs.
Pick Sliplane if you'd rather pay per server and pack services onto it.
Pick Eurobase for the web part at a flat euro price, with the database on another EU provider.
Stay on Render if you need its larger instance sizes or its Key Value store, and a US company is acceptable.

Moving off Render

Export your service list, environment variables and cron schedules from the Render dashboard or your render.yaml.
Create the database on the new platform, then restore a dump of Render Postgres into it.
Deploy the web service and worker on their default URLs and point them at the new database.
Recreate each cron job in the new platform's format and run it once by hand.
Bring the DNS TTL down early, switch the domain, and only shut Render down once its traffic has dried up.

For the web service part, Eurobase has a step-by-step guide: Migrate from Render. See also Eurobase vs Render.

Frequently asked questions

What is the closest European alternative to Render?

Scalingo and Clever Cloud match a typical Render stack well, because both run web processes, background workers, scheduled jobs and managed Postgres from a company in France.

Does Render's Frankfurt region make my app European?

It keeps your services in Germany, but your provider is still Render Inc., a US company with terms under California law. If you need an EU business as your provider, the region alone doesn't settle it.

Is Northflank a European alternative to Render?

Northflank's terms are with Northflank Ltd and governed by the laws of the United Kingdom. It runs services, cron jobs and databases such as Postgres, but the UK isn't in the EU, so check whether that meets your requirement.

Can I run a background worker on Eurobase?

No. Each Eurobase project runs one web service, with no background workers or scheduled jobs. Scalingo, Clever Cloud, Upsun and Koyeb all run workers.

Which European platform has a free Postgres database?

Koyeb's free tier includes one Postgres database, and Clever Cloud's PostgreSQL DEV plan is free for testing, without backups or an SLA.