# Upsun and Platform.sh alternatives in 2026

Last updated: 2026-11-10

For an Upsun project that pairs PHP, Python or Node.js with MySQL, Redis or Elasticsearch, **Clever Cloud** and **Scalingo** match it most closely in Europe, and both can deploy a review app for each pull request. **Sliplane** suits apps packaged as containers that should share one server at a known price, **Eurobase** suits web apps whose data lives elsewhere, for a flat €10 or €20 a month, and **Coolify on Hetzner** suits teams prepared to operate their own machine.

None of them copies Upsun's full environment per Git branch, where a new environment can inherit the databases and files of its parent. If your team leans on that every day, count it as a cost of moving.

## Upsun and its alternatives at a glance

| Platform | Company | Starts at | Managed MySQL and Redis | Previews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upsun | Platform.sh SAS, doing business as Upsun, Paris, France | €9 per project and €10 per user a month, plus resources | Yes | Every branch, with its services |
| Clever Cloud | France | Free credits, then by instance size, billed by the second | Yes | Review app per pull request, through a GitHub Action |
| Scalingo | Strasbourg, France | €7.20 a month for a 256 MB container, excl. VAT | Yes | Review Apps per pull or merge request |
| Sliplane | Berlin, Germany | €9 per server, excl. VAT | Managed Postgres only | Not documented |
| Eurobase | Warsaw, Poland | Free, then €10 a month + VAT | No | No |
| Coolify on Hetzner | Open-source software on a German host | Free software, servers from €5.49 a month excl. VAT, if available to order | You run them yourself | Not documented |

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

## What to check before you leave Upsun

- **Every service in your config file.** The `.upsun/config.yaml` of a project can declare PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, Valkey, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Kafka and more. Write the list down, then confirm the new platform offers each one or that another EU provider can.
- **How often branch environments get used.** Upsun spins up an environment for a branch on demand. Scalingo and Clever Cloud create a fresh app per pull request instead, and the remaining options here don't describe anything comparable.
- **Who owns the hardware.** Upsun rents its European capacity from other clouds: AWS for Ireland and Sweden, Google for Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and OVHcloud and Azure for its two French regions. When a US hyperscaler underneath is a deal breaker, read [EU region or EU company](/i/eu-region-vs-eu-company-cloud-act) and request each candidate's subprocessor list.
- **How the invoice is built.** On Upsun you pay per project, per user and for resources by the second, and standard support is added by default at 10% of global spend. Put your real headcount into the comparison against a price per container, per server or per workspace.
- **Which certificates your auditor expects.** Upsun's pricing page lists SOC 2 Type 2, PCI Level 1 and ISO 27001. Confirm the replacement covers whatever your contracts name.

## 1. Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud is a French PaaS: you `git push` and it builds and deploys without a Dockerfile. Runtimes include PHP, FrankenPHP, Python, Node.js, Java, Ruby, Go and Rust, and databases include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch. The company operates its own French datacenters and is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and for health data hosting, known as HDS.

- **Best for:** PHP or Python projects on Upsun with a relational database, a cache and search, where an auditor will ask for certificates.
- **Price:** set by instance size and count and billed by the second. New accounts get free credits without entering a card.
- **What it lacks:** a fixed monthly figure. You estimate the bill with its price calculator.

## 2. Scalingo

Scalingo SAS, headquartered in Strasbourg, offers a Heroku-style platform for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js, Python, Java and Go. You can attach managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, and Review Apps give every pull or merge request its own app. For French regulated workloads there's also a SecNumCloud region running on Outscale.

- **Best for:** teams that review changes on a live copy per pull request and want the usual managed databases.
- **Price:** €7.20 a month for a 256 MB container, and the same for the smallest Postgres with 512 MB and 10 GB, excl. VAT and estimated over 30 days. That container is €8.64 in the SecNumCloud region. You can try it free for 30 days.
- **What it lacks:** a single price for the stack, since containers and databases are billed separately.

## 3. Sliplane

Sliplane bills per server and lets you place as many Docker services on that server as its resources allow. It detects your framework automatically, can build from a Dockerfile or start a ready-made image, and includes daily volume backups and free egress. Managed Postgres and object storage are sold as their own products.

- **Best for:** Upsun apps that can run as containers, for teams that would rather pay for a server than for resources by the second.
- **Price:** from €9 excl. VAT for a server with 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of storage. A demo server runs free for 48 hours.
- **What it lacks:** managed MySQL or Redis on its pricing page, and branch previews. Some of its regions are in the US and Singapore, so create the server in one of its European locations.

## 4. Eurobase

Eurobase builds from repositories on GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea. Frameworks such as Next.js, Astro and Nuxt run on V8 isolates, while PHP, Python, Node.js, Go, Java, Ruby and .NET servers are built with buildpacks and run as [containers](/docs/containers) that scale to zero when idle. Coding agents can set up and ship projects through its MCP server or CLI.

- **Best for:** the web layer of an Upsun project, such as a frontend, a marketing site or an API, when the database already lives with another EU provider and you want a predictable bill.
- **Price:** a Free plan, then €10 or €20 a month + VAT per workspace, however many members join. There are no usage charges today: work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions pause until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving.
- **Company:** registered in Warsaw, Poland, and hosted on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider.
- **What it lacks:** managed MySQL, Postgres or Redis, preview deployments and Dockerfile builds, so it replaces only part of a typical Upsun stack. Work toward ISO 27001 and SOC 2 has started, but neither is held yet. To keep a database, connect to an external one such as [Supabase in an EU region](/docs/supabase).

## 5. Coolify on Hetzner

Coolify is an open-source dashboard that turns a server you rent into a Git deploy target with databases and services. Hetzner, a German host, prices cloud servers from €5.49 a month excl. VAT for a CPX02 in Helsinki, or €6.49 in Falkenstein or Nuremberg, though its cheapest plans showed as unavailable to order on 10 November 2026.

- **Best for:** technical teams after Upsun-style Git deploys for the price of plain servers.
- **Price:** free to self-host. Coolify Cloud, where Coolify hosts the dashboard and you bring the servers, starts at $5 a month.
- **What it lacks:** a provider that fixes things for you. Updates, backups, database upgrades and incidents are your team's job.

## How to choose

- Pick **Clever Cloud** for a PHP or Python app with MySQL, Redis and search on a provider that owns its datacenters in France.
- Pick **Scalingo** if a live copy per pull request and a SecNumCloud region matter most.
- Pick **Sliplane** to run several Docker services on one server for a known price.
- Pick **Eurobase** if the app is mainly web traffic and you want one flat bill per workspace, with any database hosted elsewhere.
- Pick **Coolify on Hetzner** if a low bill matters more than the hours spent keeping servers running.
- Stay on **Upsun** if branch environments with inherited data, or its certificates, are non-negotiable.

## Moving a project off Upsun

1. Export the data of each service: a `mysqldump` or `pg_dump` per database, plus the mounted files of every environment you plan to keep.
2. Translate the build and start steps in `.upsun/config.yaml` into whatever the new platform expects.
3. Create the services again, load the dumps and copy across your environment variables.
4. Deploy to the new platform's default URL and walk through the key user flows and any cron jobs.
5. A day ahead, shorten how long DNS resolvers cache your records, then switch the domain, and remove the Upsun project only once requests stop reaching it.

For a wider view, see [Best European PaaS providers](/i/best-european-paas), [Upsun vs Scalingo](/i/upsun-vs-scalingo) and [European Heroku alternatives](/i/european-heroku-alternatives).

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Upsun the same as Platform.sh?

Yes. Upsun is how Platform.sh SAS, a Paris company, trades today, and its region hostnames such as eu.platform.sh still carry the old name.

### Is Upsun a European cloud?

The company is French, but the servers belong to other providers. In Europe it uses AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and OVHcloud, with the provider shown for every region on its regions page. The OVHcloud region in France is the one to choose if you want a European company underneath as well.

### What is the cheapest alternative to Upsun?

Self-hosted Coolify has no licence fee, though the server and the time spent running it still cost you. Among managed platforms, Eurobase has a Free plan, Scalingo starts at €7.20 a month excl. VAT for a small container, and Sliplane starts at €9 per server excl. VAT.

### Which Upsun alternative has preview environments?

Scalingo's Review Apps and Clever Cloud's review app GitHub Action both create a new app for each pull request. Neither inherits a parent environment's data the way Upsun can. Eurobase doesn't offer preview deployments yet, and Sliplane and Coolify don't document a per-branch environment on the pages listed below.

### Can I move a Drupal or Symfony app from Upsun?

Clever Cloud and Scalingo both run PHP with managed MySQL and Redis, the usual setup for those frameworks. Eurobase runs PHP as a container, but the database would have to stay with another provider.

## Sources

- [Upsun pricing](https://upsun.com/pricing/), [Upsun regions](https://docs.upsun.com/development/regions.html), [Upsun services](https://docs.upsun.com/add-services.html) and [Upsun environments](https://docs.upsun.com/environments.html)
- [Clever Cloud](https://www.clever.cloud/), [Clever Cloud pricing](https://www.clever.cloud/pricing/) and [Clever Cloud GitHub integration](https://www.clever.cloud/developers/doc/tools/github/)
- [Scalingo pricing](https://scalingo.com/pricing) and [Scalingo Review Apps](https://doc.scalingo.com/platform/app/review-apps)
- [Sliplane pricing](https://sliplane.io/pricing)
- [Coolify pricing](https://coolify.io/pricing/) and [Hetzner Cloud](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/)
- [Eurobase pricing](/pricing), [Eurobase containers](/docs/containers) and [Eurobase subprocessors](/legal/subprocessors)