# PythonAnywhere alternatives in 2026

Last updated: 2026-11-10

For a Flask or FastAPI app leaving PythonAnywhere, **Eurobase** is a close match: push the code to a Git host and it's built and served from Europe, free to start and €10 a month on Starter. A Django site that needs its database alongside fits **Scalingo** or **Clever Cloud**, two French platforms that sell managed Postgres next to the app. **Render** has a free tier that sleeps when idle, **Sliplane** puts several Docker services on one fixed-price server, and **Hetzner** suits you if you'd rather manage a Linux server yourself.

## PythonAnywhere and its alternatives at a glance

| Platform | Company | Cheapest paid option | Free start | Deploys from Git | Managed Postgres |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PythonAnywhere | Richmond, UK | €10 a month on eu.pythonanywhere.com, $10 on the main site | Beginner account | No, you upload files or pull in a console | Extra on custom plans |
| Eurobase | Warsaw, Poland | €10 a month + VAT per workspace | Free plan, limits enforced | Yes | No |
| Scalingo | Strasbourg, France | €7.20 a month excl. VAT, 256 MB container | 30-day trial | Yes | Yes, from €7.20 a month excl. VAT |
| Clever Cloud | France | No flat price, per-second billing | Sign-up credits without a card | Yes | Yes |
| Render | Not stated | $7 a month for 512 MB | Free web services that sleep | Yes | Yes |
| Sliplane | Berlin, Germany | Server from €9, excl. VAT | 48-hour demo server | Yes, from GitHub | Yes, from €19 excl. VAT |
| Hetzner | Germany | Cloud servers from €5.49 a month excl. VAT, cheapest unavailable to order on 10 November 2026 | Not stated | No, you set it up | Not documented |

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026.

## Why people leave PythonAnywhere

PythonAnywhere is a Python-only host with a browser IDE, consoles and SSH. In January 2026 it changed its free accounts: new ones lost scheduled tasks and MySQL, unused web apps now expire after 1 month instead of 3, and support moved to the community forums. A free account gets 100 CPU-seconds a day, 512 MiB of disk, one web app with one worker and two consoles with restricted outbound internet access.

Its async support is also limited. The help page for ASGI sites such as FastAPI calls the feature experimental: there are no static file mappings, the command line syntax may change and long-term pricing isn't settled. And it's run by PythonAnywhere LLP, a company registered in England and Wales. The EU system at eu.pythonanywhere.com runs in AWS's Frankfurt region.

## What to check before you move

- **Git or a browser editor.** Most alternatives deploy from a Git repository. If you edit files in PythonAnywhere's web editor today, you'll need to push your code to GitHub, GitLab or Codeberg first.
- **WSGI or ASGI.** Flask and classic Django run under gunicorn or uWSGI. FastAPI needs uvicorn. Confirm the host runs the server your app expects.
- **Where your data lives.** PythonAnywhere gives you MySQL next to the app on paid plans. Moving means choosing a managed database or renting one elsewhere and connecting over the network.
- **Scheduled jobs and long-running tasks.** If you rely on PythonAnywhere's scheduled or always-on tasks, check that your new host has cron jobs or worker processes.
- **Who you sign with.** PythonAnywhere's EU servers sit in Frankfurt, but the contract is with a UK partnership. If a customer or a public tender needs a company based in the EU, [EU region vs EU company](/i/eu-region-vs-eu-company-cloud-act) explains the difference.

## 1. Eurobase

Connect a repository on GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea and Eurobase turns it into a container image using the Paketo buildpack for Python. The app then serves from European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider. If your code has a FastAPI or Flask entry point and depends on uvicorn or gunicorn, Eurobase fills in the start command, and one `web:` line in a `Procfile` replaces it. An idle app is stopped and starts again on the next request, which then takes a little longer. The MCP server and CLI let a coding agent do the deploy. The [FastAPI guide](/docs/guides/fastapi) walks through it.

- **Best for:** a FastAPI or Flask project you're ready to keep in Git, with a bill that doesn't move from month to month.
- **Price:** a Free plan, then €10 on Starter or €20 on Pro a month + VAT, covering every project in the workspace. New apps get the smallest size, 0.1 vCPU with 256 MB of memory. 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:** the database PythonAnywhere gives you, since there's no managed MySQL, Postgres or Redis. Django isn't supported yet, Dockerfile builds aren't available, and a project runs a single web service with no background workers or scheduled jobs. The ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audits haven't finished.

## 2. Scalingo

Scalingo, from Strasbourg, deploys when you push to Git, much like Heroku did. You can pick any Python from 3.11 to 3.15, follow its Django getting-started page, or use the Celery with Flask page for background jobs. PostgreSQL and MySQL are available as managed add-ons on the same account.

- **Best for:** a Django or Flask site with a database, moved from PythonAnywhere with as little rework as possible.
- **Price:** €7.20 excl. VAT for the 256 MB S container and the same for the smallest Postgres, 512 MB with 10 GB of storage, each estimated over 30 days. In its SecNumCloud region, built on Outscale, that container is €8.64 excl. VAT. You can try it free for 30 days.
- **What it lacks:** a free plan after the trial. Its pricing page says containers never sleep, so a small app plus database costs about €14.40 a month excl. VAT.

## 3. Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud, a French host, builds Python apps pushed over Git. Set `CC_PYTHON_MODULE` to your app, such as `mymodule:app`, and `CC_PYTHON_BACKEND` to daphne, gunicorn, uvicorn or uwsgi; without it you get uwsgi. Django users can list `migrate` and `collectstatic` in `CC_PYTHON_MANAGE_TASKS` so they run at build time, though only in the legacy deployment mode, not with native uv builds.

- **Best for:** a Django project where certified hosting and a managed database both matter.
- **Price:** you set limits and pay per second for what runs inside them. Sign-up comes with free credits and doesn't ask for a card.
- **What it lacks:** a published flat starting price. You estimate the bill with its calculator.

## 4. Render

Render deploys Python, Node, Go and other runtimes from Git or a Docker image. Of its regions, Frankfurt, Germany is the European one, alongside Oregon, Ohio, Virginia and Singapore.

- **Best for:** a hobby project that should stay free and can live with a slow first request.
- **Price:** the Hobby workspace is $0 plus compute. A free web service has 512 MB, and the smallest paid instance is $7 a month for 512 MB and 0.5 CPU.
- **What it lacks:** an always-on free tier. A free web service sleeps after 15 minutes without traffic and takes about a minute to wake, it loses local files, including SQLite databases, whenever it restarts, and free Postgres databases expire 30 days after creation.

## 5. Sliplane

Sliplane, based in Berlin, runs Docker containers on a server you rent at a fixed price, and you can deploy as many services on it as fit. It can detect your framework, build from a Dockerfile or run an existing image.

- **Best for:** apps that need a worker or a scheduled script next to the web process, without paying per service.
- **Price:** servers start at €9, excl. VAT. Managed Postgres starts at €19 excl. VAT for 1 vCPU, 1 GB and 10 GB. A free demo server is deleted after 48 hours unless you add a payment method.
- **What it lacks:** a browser IDE or Python-specific tooling. Servers are also offered in the US and Singapore, so check the region before you create one.

## 6. Hetzner

Hetzner rents virtual servers. Python, gunicorn or uvicorn, a reverse proxy and the database are all yours to install.

- **Best for:** people comfortable with Linux who want full control of the stack.
- **Price:** cloud servers are listed from €5.49 a month excl. VAT for the CPX02 in Helsinki, or €6.49 in Falkenstein or Nuremberg. On 10 November 2026 the cheapest plans showed as unavailable to order, so check stock before you plan around them.
- **What it lacks:** any managed layer. Security updates, TLS, backups and restarts are your job.

## Moving off PythonAnywhere

1. Put your code in a Git repository and add a `requirements.txt` with every package your virtualenv uses.
2. Write down your WSGI or ASGI entry point, environment variables and the static file mappings from the Web tab.
3. Export your MySQL database with `mysqldump` from a PythonAnywhere console and import it into the new database.
4. Recreate scheduled and always-on tasks as cron jobs or worker processes on the new host.
5. Deploy, test on the new address, then change your domain's DNS records and keep the old app until traffic has moved.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is there a free alternative to PythonAnywhere?

Yes. Eurobase's Free plan runs Flask and FastAPI within fixed monthly limits. Render's free web services also work but sleep after 15 minutes idle and lose local files on restart. Scalingo has a 30-day trial and Clever Cloud gives free credits, but neither is free for good.

### What's the best PythonAnywhere alternative for Django?

Scalingo and Clever Cloud, both French, have Django instructions in their docs and a managed Postgres you attach to the app. Eurobase doesn't support Django yet.

### Can I host FastAPI on PythonAnywhere?

Partly. Its ASGI hosting is labelled experimental, has no static file mappings and has no settled long-term pricing. Eurobase prefills a uvicorn command for FastAPI, and Clever Cloud lists uvicorn among its supported Python backends.

### Is PythonAnywhere hosted in the EU?

You can sign up on eu.pythonanywhere.com, a system kept apart from the main one, hosted in AWS eu-central-1 in Frankfurt and billed in euros. The business behind both, PythonAnywhere LLP, is a UK partnership registered in England and Wales.

### Does PythonAnywhere still have scheduled tasks on the free plan?

Only for free accounts created before 15 January 2026, or 8 January on the EU system. New free accounts need the €10 or $10 Developer plan for scheduled tasks and MySQL.

## Sources

- [PythonAnywhere pricing](https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/), [PythonAnywhere EU pricing](https://eu.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/), [Changes on PythonAnywhere free accounts](https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/221/), [Free account features](https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/FreeAccountsFeatures), [Scheduled tasks](https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/ScheduledTasks/), [ASGI sites help page](https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/ASGICommandLine), [EU servers announcement](https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/176/) and [PythonAnywhere terms](https://www.pythonanywhere.com/terms/)
- [Scalingo pricing](https://scalingo.com/pricing), [Scalingo Django guide](https://doc.scalingo.com/languages/python/django/start) and [Scalingo Python documentation](https://doc.scalingo.com/languages/python/start)
- [Clever Cloud pricing](https://www.clever.cloud/pricing/) and [Clever Cloud Python documentation](https://www.clever.cloud/developers/doc/deploy/applications/python/)
- [Render pricing](https://render.com/pricing), [Render free instances](https://render.com/docs/free) and [Render regions](https://render.com/docs/regions)
- [Sliplane pricing](https://sliplane.io/pricing) and [Sliplane home page](https://sliplane.io/)
- [Hetzner cloud](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/)
- [Eurobase FastAPI guide](/docs/guides/fastapi), [Eurobase FastAPI hosting](/hosting/fastapi), [Containers and static sites](/docs/containers), [Plans and limits](/docs/plans), [Eurobase pricing](/pricing) and [Eurobase subprocessors](/legal/subprocessors)
- Related: [Cheap Python hosting in Europe](/i/python-hosting-europe) and [FastAPI hosting with Postgres in Europe](/i/fastapi-hosting-europe)