European alternatives to MongoDB Atlas in 2026

For a managed MongoDB run by a European company, start with OVHcloud, which sells three-node replica sets in eight European regions, or IONOS, which has a free sandbox and German, French and Spanish data centres. STACKIT suits larger companies already buying from the Schwarz Group, and Scalingo or Clever Cloud make sense when the app lives on the same platform. If you'd rather leave MongoDB itself behind, FerretDB speaks the MongoDB protocol on top of PostgreSQL.

MongoDB Atlas can already keep your data in Europe: on AWS alone it lists Frankfurt, Ireland, Stockholm, London, Paris, Milan, Zurich and Spain. The company behind it, though, is MongoDB, Inc., headquartered in New York, and the terms of use on its website are governed by New York law.

Managed MongoDB in Europe at a glance

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 10 November 2026.

What to check before you move off Atlas

• The MongoDB version you get. OVHcloud lists 8.0 as its latest release, IONOS supports 6.0 and 7.0, and Clever Cloud's add-on installs 4.0.3.
• Who you sign with. An Atlas cluster in Frankfurt is still a service of a US company. If your customers ask for an EU provider, read EU region vs EU company.
• Atlas-only features. Atlas sells Search, Vector Search, Stream Processing, Data Federation and Charts on top of the database. If your app uses any of them, find a replacement before you move.
• Backups and restore window. Compare snapshot retention and whether point-in-time recovery exists on the plan you can afford.
• Where your app connects from. MongoDB drivers open a long-lived TCP connection. Make sure your app host allows that and that the database accepts its traffic.

1. OVHcloud Managed MongoDB

OVHcloud runs MongoDB as part of its Public Cloud databases. Every plan starts with a three-node replica set, backups are stored in a remote location, and the Production plan adds multi-zone failover, snapshots kept 14 days and a 99.95% SLA. Its availability table ticks MongoDB in Gravelines, Strasbourg, Roubaix, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, London and Warsaw. A cheaper Discovery plan is marked as coming soon.

• Best for: production apps that want real MongoDB with failover from a French company, in a region close to their users.
• Price: Production starts at €17.082 per node a month excl. VAT. The smallest size, DB2-2 with 2 GB of memory per node and 10 to 100 GiB of storage, comes to about €51.25 a month excl. VAT for three nodes. Advanced, with point-in-time recovery kept 30 days and a 99.99% SLA, starts at €161.914 per node a month excl. VAT.
• What it lacks: a small entry plan today, since Discovery hasn't launched.

2. IONOS DBaaS MongoDB

IONOS, the German provider, sells managed MongoDB in three editions. Playground is a free sandbox: one instance costs nothing, and clusters are deleted 30 days after they're created. Business runs production workloads on one replica set with up to 128 GB of memory and 1.28 TB of storage. Enterprise adds dedicated cores, sharding, up to 230 GB of memory and up to 4 TB of storage. All three support MongoDB 6.0 and 7.0. IONOS handles provisioning, patching and monitoring, and keeps daily backups for 7 days with point-in-time restore.

• Best for: teams that want to try a European MongoDB for free before paying, or need data centres in Germany or Spain.
• Price: the MongoDB docs don't list it, so use the IONOS price calculator.
• What it lacks: horizontal scaling below the Enterprise edition, and resizing Enterprise goes through support.

3. STACKIT MongoDB Flex

STACKIT is the cloud provider of the Schwarz Group, with its team in Neckarsulm, and says your data is hosted only in Europe. MongoDB Flex runs the Enterprise version of MongoDB in replica sets of at least three servers, and can also deploy sharded clusters. It includes continuous backups for point-in-time recovery, encryption at rest and an API to create and manage instances. Storage is ordered separately from CPU and memory.

• Best for: larger companies, especially in Germany, that already use STACKIT or need its certificates.
• Price: the smallest listed replica set, MongoDB-Flex-1.2 on 3 nodes, costs €0.34 an hour net, about €246.68 for a 720-hour month.

4. Scalingo for MongoDB

Scalingo, a platform from Strasbourg, adds MongoDB to an app as an addon. On Business plans it builds a replica set with a leader, a follower, a shadow node used for backups and an arbiter, with encrypted traffic between them. Backups run daily, and you can upgrade the engine version from the database dashboard.

• Best for: apps already hosted on Scalingo that want the database billed and managed in the same place.
• Price: shown per database size on Scalingo's pricing page.
• What it lacks: a replica set on Starter plans.

5. Clever Cloud MongoDB add-on

Clever Cloud, based in Nantes, offers MongoDB on dedicated plans with daily backups kept seven days, monitoring and encryption at rest. To stay within MongoDB's Server Side Public License, the add-on installs version 4.0.3. If you hold a licence for a newer MongoDB, Clever Cloud asks you to contact it. There's no free DEV plan for MongoDB.

• Best for: small apps on Clever Cloud whose code works with MongoDB 4.0.
• Price: set by plan size on its pricing page.
• What it lacks: a current MongoDB version without a separate licence.

6. FerretDB on your own European server

FerretDB is an open-source proxy that accepts the MongoDB 5.0+ wire protocol and stores data in PostgreSQL with the DocumentDB extension. It works with MongoDB drivers, though its own docs list known differences and supported commands, so test your queries first. You can run it on any European server. A small Hetzner cloud server, the CPX02, is listed from €5.49 a month excl. VAT in Helsinki and €6.49 in Falkenstein or Nuremberg, though Hetzner's cheapest plans showed as unavailable to order on 10 November 2026.

• Best for: teams that want MongoDB-style code on top of Postgres and are ready to run the server.
• Price: the software is free; you pay for hosting.
• What it lacks: full MongoDB compatibility, and backups, failover and upgrades are yours to handle.

7. Eurobase, for the app next to the database

Eurobase hosts your app, not your MongoDB. The business is registered in Warsaw, Poland, and your app runs on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider.

Choose the runtime with care. Apps on V8 isolates don't support outbound TCP connections, which a MongoDB driver needs. Deploy a Node.js, Python or Go server as a container instead: containers can use native database drivers when the database has a public IPv4 address. There's no fixed outbound IP address to put on the database allowlist, so rely on TLS and strong credentials.

• Best for: a web app or API in Europe that uses one of the databases above.
• Price: a Free plan, then Starter at €10 and Pro at €20 a month + VAT. 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.
• What it lacks: a managed database of its own, MongoDB or otherwise.

Moving your data off Atlas

1. Create the new cluster in the region you want and note its MongoDB version.
2. Export from Atlas with mongodump, which writes a copy of your databases to files.
3. Load it with mongorestore, using --nsFrom and --nsTo if the database name changes.
4. Test a staging copy of your app against the new connection string, then stop writes on Atlas, restore a final dump and switch production over.

Frequently asked questions

Does MongoDB Atlas have EU regions?

Yes. On AWS it lists Frankfurt, Ireland, Stockholm, London, Paris, Milan, Zurich and Spain, and it also runs on Azure and Google Cloud. The company behind it is MongoDB, Inc., based in New York.

Is there a free MongoDB hosted in Europe?

IONOS gives you one free Playground instance, deleted after 30 days. Atlas has a free M0 cluster with 512 MB of storage, but it's still a MongoDB, Inc. service.

Which European MongoDB service is cheapest for production?

Among the published prices here, OVHcloud's Production DB2-2 replica set is about €51.25 a month excl. VAT. IONOS and Scalingo price through their own calculators and tables, so compare at the size you need.

Can I keep my MongoDB code and move to Postgres?

FerretDB lets MongoDB drivers talk to PostgreSQL, so some apps run with little change. Check its list of supported commands first. If you're moving to Postgres anyway, European Supabase alternatives covers managed options.

Can an app on Eurobase use MongoDB?

Yes, when it runs as a container and the database has a public IPv4 address. Apps on V8 isolates can't make the TCP connection a MongoDB driver needs.

Sources

• MongoDB pricing, Atlas on AWS regions and MongoDB terms of use
• OVHcloud Managed MongoDB, OVHcloud Public Cloud prices and OVHcloud regions
• IONOS MongoDB overview
• STACKIT MongoDB Flex and Why STACKIT
• Scalingo for MongoDB and Scalingo pricing
• Clever Cloud MongoDB
• FerretDB documentation
• Hetzner Cloud
• Eurobase containers, Eurobase Workers, Eurobase pricing and European cloud providers