# Alternatives to Scalingo Scalingo is a France-based PaaS founded in 2013 that offers Heroku-style git-push deployment, autoscaling, managed databases, and add-ons, targeting European teams that need GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted infrastructure with predictable flat-rate pricing. Scalingo ranks #9 of 12 in Cloud PaaS, with an Alt Score of 86. It is available on the web. 10 of 10 checklist rows are verified against a public source. Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/scalingo/ Category: Cloud PaaS ## Where Scalingo stands out - **Pricing predictability** — 4 of 12 apps with a verified answer have this ## Overview - **Who it's for**: Scalingo targets developers and small-to-midsize tech teams, primarily in Europe, who want to deploy and run web applications and managed databases without operating their own servers or Kubernetes clusters. It is also positioned for organizations with European data-sovereignty or regulatory requirements (e.g. health-data hosting, SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure). - **What you get**: Scalingo provides application hosting on sized containers (S through 3XL) with git-based deploys, buildpack-based language auto-detection, autoscaling, review apps (per pull/merge-request preview environments), a task scheduler for cron-style jobs, and free WireGuard-based private networking between containers. Managed databases are offered for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and InfluxDB, billed per minute alongside compute. - **How it works**: Applications are deployed by pushing code to Scalingo over git (or via GitHub/GitLab integration), where a buildpack detects the language, installs dependencies, and builds a container image that Scalingo runs and scales. Everything runs in one of two Scalingo-operated regions, both located in Paris, France (a standard region and a SecNumCloud-qualified region), and is managed through a web dashboard, a cross-platform CLI, or the Scalingo API/Terraform provider. ## Profile - **Pricing model**: Usage-based (verified 2026-07-30) - **Starts at**: €7.20/mo (verified 2026-07-30) - **Platforms**: Web - **Status**: active (verified 2026-07-30) ## Ranked alternatives | # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms | |---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------| | 1 | [Northflank](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/northflank.md) | 100 | ? | ? | | 2 | [Render](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/render.md) | 96 | Proprietary | Web | | 3 | [Clever Cloud](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/clever-cloud.md) | 91 | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Linux, Web | | 4 | [Heroku](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/heroku.md) | 91 | Proprietary | Web | | 5 | [Upsun](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/upsun.md) | 91 | ? | Windows, macOS, Linux, Web | | 6 | [DigitalOcean App Platform](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/digitalocean-app-platform.md) | 86 | Proprietary | Web | | 7 | [Porter](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/porter.md) | 86 | ? | Web, macOS, Linux, Windows | | 8 | [Qovery](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/qovery.md) | 86 | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux, Web | | 9 | [Koyeb](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/koyeb.md) | 82 | ? | macOS, Linux, Windows | | 10 | [Railway](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/railway.md) | 82 | Proprietary | Web | | 11 | [Fly.io](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/flyio.md) | 68 | Proprietary | Web | Alt Score = Verified coverage (90%) + Visibility (10%). See https://altcatalog.com/how-alt-score-works/ ## Feature comparison Legend: Yes / No / Partial / ? (not verified). | Cloud PaaS checklist | Scalingo | Northflank | Render | Clever Cloud | Heroku | Upsun | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based | Freemium | Usage-based | Subscription | Usage-based | | Starts at | €7.20/mo | $0/mo | Free | ? | $5/month | €9/project/mo | | License | ? | ? | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | ? | | Platforms | Web | ? | Web | Windows, macOS, Linux, Web | Web | Windows, macOS, Linux, Web | | Free tier | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | | Autoscaling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Managed databases | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Regions available | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Zero-config deploys | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Preview environments | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Cron jobs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Private networking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Pricing predictability | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | Yes | Yes | | CLI quality | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ## Sources Sources for Scalingo. Each alternative is sourced on its own page. - **Starts at**: €7.20/mo — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Cheapest paid container (size S, Standard Region) is 7.20 EUR, described on-page as '¹ Prices are estimated on a 30 days basis, VAT excluded.' Identical price (7,20 €) also shown on the French-languag - Quote: “S 256 Mo low CPU priority 7.20 €” - **Status**: active — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Multiple docs pages show 2026 update dates and the security-bulletin list runs through SSB-2026-003, indicating ongoing active development and operations. - Quote: “Last update: 10 Jun 2026” - **Pricing model**: Usage-based — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Confirmed by the pricing page tagline 'Simple, transparent pricing based on your actual consumption' at https://scalingo.com/pricing. There is no flat subscription; cost scales with per-minute resourc - Quote: “The consumption is based on the lifespan of the resources used by each of your apps. This includes containers, add-ons, databases, one-off containers, review-apps, etc. Most of our products and servic” - **Platforms**: Web — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Scalingo is a cloud PaaS operated through a browser-based dashboard (plus git-based deploys and an API). A companion CLI binary is also distributed for Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD per h - Quote: “open the web dashboard and click the Stop free trial button” - **Free tier**: No — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Scalingo offers a time-limited free trial (capped at 1 app / 5 containers of size S or M) that requires a payment method up front and auto-bills at the end of the trial unless resources are deleted — - Quote: “To start the free trial, you must first configure your billing profile and add a valid payment method. You are not charged while the free trial is active.” - **Autoscaling**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Supports 6 metrics: RPM per container, response time, 5xx errors, CPU, RAM, and swap consumption. - Quote: “The Scalingo Autoscaler is a feature that, once configured and enabled, allows the platform to automatically and dynamically adjust the number of containers of your application (horizontal scaling) de” - **Managed databases**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Engines covered: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis (Caching), Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, InfluxDB. - Quote: “Scalingo Managed Database Service provide fully managed, production-ready data engines, without the operational overhead of running your own database server. Provision in minutes, scale as needed, and” - **Regions available**: Partial — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Only 2 regions are available, and both are physically located in Paris, France (one standard, one SecNumCloud-qualified). Marked 'partial' because multi-region choice exists but with no geographic div - Quote: “osc-fr1 | Paris - Outscale | https://api.osc-fr1.scalingo.com | osc-secnum-fr1 | Paris - SecNumCloud - Outscale | https://api.osc-secnum-fr1.scalingo.com” - **Zero-config deploys**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Buildpacks auto-detect the language/framework (Clojure, Go, Gradle, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala) and build from a git push with no manifest required for supported stacks. - Quote: “A buildpack is a set of scripts which aims at: Detecting the language of an application (detect), Installing the dependencies of a project (compile), Defining how the application should be started (re” - **Preview environments**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Review Apps are implemented via SCM integration for GitHub and GitLab, spinning up one app per pull/merge request. - Quote: “With review apps enabled on Scalingo, we will create a new application (called a review app) with the code of the new feature. You can now share the result of your work, to get it validated, with all ” - **Cron jobs**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Limitations apply: max 5 scheduled tasks, minimum 10-minute interval, tasks capped at 12 hours runtime, enabled via a cron.json manifest file. - Quote: “The Scalingo Scheduler allows to define tasks so that they run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals.” - **Private networking**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Provided free of charge, but currently limited to application containers only (databases are not attached to Private Networks yet). - Quote: “Private Networks is a feature that, within a project, allows to group application containers in a dedicated and isolated network, called a Private Network. ... WireGuard-based encryption. Traffic with” - **Pricing predictability**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Pricing page headline reads 'Simple, transparent pricing based on your actual consumption. No hidden fees, no surprises.' (https://scalingo.com/pricing). Per-minute, fixed-size-tier billing with a pub - Quote: “The consumption is based on the lifespan of the resources used by each of your apps. This includes containers, add-ons, databases, one-off containers, review-apps, etc. Most of our products and servic” - **CLI quality**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Quote assembled from the page's own 'In this article' section headings, each of which documents a working CLI command. The CLI ships as a single dependency-free precompiled binary for Linux, macOS, Wi - Quote: “Create new apps; Setup your account SSH keys; Configure their environment; Configure custom domain names; Configure canonical domain name; Configure router; Manage collaborators of the application; Li” --- Ranked by verified data, never by who paid. https://altcatalog.com/trust/