European alternatives to Northflank in 2026

For a Northflank setup with services, jobs, databases and preview environments, Upsun is a close European match, since it builds a full environment for every Git branch. Clever Cloud and Scalingo cover services, scheduled tasks and managed databases from France, Koyeb and Sliplane suit Dockerfile-based apps, and Eurobase fits only the web part of a stack, at a flat €10 or €20 a month.

Who runs Northflank

Northflank's terms are an agreement with Northflank Ltd, registered in England as company 11918540 with an office in London. The terms are governed by the laws of the United Kingdom, and disputes go to arbitration seated in London. If you're a consumer living in the EU, the terms add that the mandatory protections of your own country still apply.

Its managed cloud lists European regions in Frankfurt, the Netherlands, Zurich and a general Europe West region, next to regions in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia. So your app can run in the EU, but the company you sign with is outside it. Whether that matters depends on your contracts and your customers' questions. EU region vs EU company walks through the difference.

Northflank and EU-run options at a glance

Platform	Company	Preview environments	Managed Postgres	Builds a Dockerfile	Starts at
Northflank	Northflank Ltd, London, UK	Yes	Yes	Yes	Free Sandbox, then $12 a month for 0.5 vCPU and 1 GB
Upsun	Platform.sh SAS, doing business as Upsun, Paris, France	Every branch	Yes	Not documented	€9 per project and €10 per user a month, plus resources
Clever Cloud	France	Not documented	Yes	Yes	Free credits, then by instance size
Scalingo	Strasbourg, France	Review Apps per pull or merge request	From €7.20 a month, excl. VAT	Not documented	€7.20 a month for 256 MB, excl. VAT
Koyeb	Boulogne-Billancourt, France	Not documented	Yes	Yes	Pro at $29 a month with $10 of compute
Sliplane	Berlin, Germany	Not documented	From €19, excl. VAT	Yes	€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. Northflank and Koyeb publish prices in US dollars.

What to check before you move

• The contracting company. A Frankfurt region doesn't change who signs your DPA. If procurement asks for an EU business, that rules Northflank out on its own terms.
• Previews. Northflank includes preview environments. On this list, only Upsun and Scalingo document something similar: Upsun copies the whole stack per branch, Scalingo creates an app per pull request.
• How images get built. Northflank builds from a Dockerfile or with buildpacks, and also runs images from a registry. Check which of these each new host accepts before you rewrite anything.
• Jobs and databases. Northflank runs cron jobs and databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis beside your services. List every job and addon you run and find each one a home.
• Bring your own cloud. Northflank can deploy into your AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or Civo account. This comparison covers each alternative's managed hosting, so if you rely on that model, ask a replacement directly whether it can run in your account.
• How the bill behaves. Per-second billing follows traffic. Flat plans and spending caps stay predictable but stop or refuse work at the limit.

1. Upsun

Upsun builds a full copy of your app and its services for each Git branch, which is the nearest thing here to Northflank's preview environments. Workers, cron jobs and managed PostgreSQL are part of the app config. Upsun doesn't own the servers: each region sits on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or OVHcloud, and its regions list shows which one.

• Best for: teams that review every change on a running copy of the whole stack.
• Price: €9 per project and €10 per user a month, plus resources billed per second on their allocation.
• What it lacks: its own hardware. Pick a region whose underlying provider you're comfortable with.

2. Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud takes your code from Git and hosts it in French datacenters it operates itself. It can also build from a Dockerfile in your repository, offers PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis as add-ons, and reads scheduled tasks from a cron.json file. The company is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

• Best for: companies that want a certified French host with many languages and add-ons.
• Price: depends on how many instances you run and how large they are, charged by the second. You can try it on free credits without a card and set a spending cap.
• What it lacks: documented preview environments. In Docker apps, the platform's workers and cron.json don't apply, so you run background processes and schedules inside your own image.

3. Scalingo

Scalingo runs Heroku-style apps from Strasbourg. Processes are declared in a Procfile, scheduled tasks in cron.json, and Review Apps create an app for each pull or merge request. It's ISO 27001 certified, with an HDS option and a SecNumCloud region.

• Best for: source-built apps with Postgres that need French certifications and per-PR review apps.
• Price: containers from €7.20 a month for 256 MB, or €8.64 in the SecNumCloud region, and PostgreSQL from €7.20 a month for 512 MB and 10 GB, all excl. VAT. There's a 30-day free trial.
• What it lacks: documented support for building your own Dockerfile.

4. Koyeb

Koyeb is a French company based in Boulogne-Billancourt that has agreed to join Mistral AI. It runs services and workers from buildpacks, a Dockerfile or a ready image, bills compute by the second, and sells GPU instances and serverless Postgres. In Europe you can deploy to Frankfurt or Paris.

• Best for: Northflank users who rely on Dockerfiles or GPUs and want a French contract.
• Price: Pro at $29 a month with $10 of compute included, then usage by the second. Koyeb says its Starter plan will soon be removed, leaving new users to choose a paid plan.
• What it lacks: spending limits, which its FAQ says aren't available yet. More in Koyeb alternatives.

5. Sliplane

Sliplane, from Berlin, detects your framework on its own or builds from a Dockerfile, and it can also run an image from a registry. You rent a server and put as many services on it as it can hold, with managed PostgreSQL on top.

• Best for: several small Docker services and one database at a fixed price.
• Price: servers from €9 for 1 vCPU and 1 GB, and PostgreSQL from €19 for 1 vCPU, 1 GB and 10 GB of storage, both excl. VAT.
• What it lacks: documented preview environments, and billing finer than hourly. Its locations include the US and Singapore as well as Germany and Finland, so pick a European one.

6. Eurobase

Eurobase covers part of a typical Northflank stack. It connects to GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea, builds Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET servers with buildpacks, and runs them as containers that scale to zero. Framework apps such as Next.js, Nuxt and Astro run on V8 isolates instead. It's a business registered in Warsaw, Poland, on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider, and coding agents can deploy through its MCP server and CLI.

• Best for: web apps and APIs that keep their database elsewhere and want one price for the workspace.
• Price: a Free plan, then €10 or €20 a month + VAT, with no per-seat fee. 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: preview deployments, Dockerfile builds, managed Postgres, MySQL or Redis, background workers and scheduled jobs. It doesn't hold ISO 27001 or SOC 2 yet; both are in progress.

How to choose

• You depend on preview environments for every branch: Upsun.
• You want a French host with ISO 27001 and per-second billing: Clever Cloud.
• You build from source and want review apps per pull request: Scalingo.
• You need Dockerfiles or GPUs: Koyeb, or Clever Cloud for Dockerfiles alone.
• You want a fixed server price for many containers: Sliplane.
• You only need the web layer at a flat price: Eurobase, with the database hosted elsewhere.

Frequently asked questions

Is Northflank a European company?

Northflank Ltd is registered in England, with its office in London, and its terms are governed by UK law. The UK is in Europe but not in the EU, so it may or may not meet a requirement written as an EU provider.

Does Northflank have EU regions?

Yes. Its managed cloud lists Frankfurt, the Netherlands, Zurich and Europe West among its regions. Zurich is in Switzerland, so for an EU location pick Frankfurt or the Netherlands.

Which European platform has preview environments like Northflank?

Upsun builds an environment for every branch, including its services, and Scalingo's Review Apps create an app for each pull or merge request. Eurobase doesn't offer preview deployments.

Is there a free European alternative to Northflank?

Eurobase has a Free plan with hard limits, Clever Cloud starts new accounts with free credits, and Scalingo has a 30-day trial. Northflank's own Sandbox tier is free up to $20 a month of resources.

Can I run Northflank in my own cloud account in Europe?

Northflank's bring-your-own-cloud option deploys into your AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or Civo account, so the servers sit in your chosen region. Your contract for the platform is still with Northflank Ltd, and the cloud contract is with that cloud provider.

Sources

• Northflank terms, Northflank pricing and Northflank Cloud regions
• Upsun pricing and Upsun regions
• Clever Cloud, Clever Cloud pricing and Clever Cloud Docker apps
• Scalingo pricing and Scalingo Review Apps
• Koyeb pricing, Koyeb pricing FAQ, Koyeb regions and Koyeb joining Mistral AI
• Sliplane and Sliplane pricing
• Eurobase containers, Eurobase plans and limits, Eurobase pricing, Eurobase subprocessors and EU region vs EU company