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European managed PaaS

Scalingo

French Heroku-style PaaS and DBaaS with all data centers in Europe, per-minute billing, containers that never sleep, and ISO 27001, HDS and SecNumCloud options.

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Overview

Scalingo is a French platform for running apps and databases with European data residency: all data centers are in Europe, and the company says no data is transferred outside the EU. You connect a Git repository or push with git, and buildpacks build Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Elixir, Scala and many frameworks. Review apps, rolling zero-downtime deploys, rollbacks, workers, cron jobs, private networks and metric-based autoscaling are built in.

Containers are billed per minute and start at €7.20 for a month of full-time use. Custom domains, Let's Encrypt certificates, metrics, unlimited collaborators and log archives are always included, and containers never sleep. Databases start at €3.60 a month on Starter plans (single node, 98% SLA); Business plans run multi-node clusters with a 99.96% SLA and more backups.

The compliance story is the main reason to choose it: ISO 27001 certification, an HDS option for French health data, and a SecNumCloud region built on Outscale for public sector and sensitive workloads. Around-the-clock support plans are sold separately.

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Pricing and plans

Plan Price What you get
Container From €7.20/mo Per container, 30 days full-time, billed per minute
Database Starter From €3.60/mo Single node, 98% SLA, up to 10 backups, PITR on PostgreSQL
Database Business Custom by size Multi-node, 99.96% SLA, up to 50 backups
OpenVPN €30/mo Unlimited traffic

Prices exclude VAT and are estimated on 30 days of full-time use; billing is per minute. The pricing page loads container and database size tables dynamically, so only starting prices ('from €7.20' per container, 'from €3.60' per database) are given here. SecNumCloud relies on Outscale's SecNumCloud IaaS. Scalingo offers a free start ('Start for free'), but we did not confirm the trial's length or limits.

Source: scalingo.com/pricing · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

Review apps
Every pull request can get its own live environment.
Autoscaling
Scale containers out and in based on metrics.
Managed databases
PostgreSQL with PITR and pgvector, MySQL, MongoDB, caching, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and InfluxDB.
Private networks
Apps communicate privately and expose only what is required.
SecNumCloud region
A region on Outscale's SecNumCloud-qualified IaaS for regulated workloads.
Workers and cron
Background processes and scheduled tasks alongside web containers.
§4

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Data stays in Europe under European jurisdiction.
  • HDS and SecNumCloud options for health and public sector.
  • Containers never sleep, and billing is per minute.
  • Unlimited collaborators included.

Limitations

  • No permanent free tier.
  • Only European regions.
  • Starter databases are single-node with a 98% SLA.
  • Detailed size prices are shown only in the interactive pricing tables.
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Who it suits

Good for

  • EU companies with strict data-residency needs
  • Healthcare and public-sector apps in France
  • Rails, PHP and Node teams leaving Heroku

Look elsewhere if

  • Apps whose users are mainly outside Europe
  • Free hobby projects
§6

Alternatives to Scalingo

Tool From Free option Stages
Render Managed PaaS
$7/mo Free tier
Clever Cloud European managed PaaS
€6/mo Trial
Netlify Frontend and serverless platform
$9/mo Free tier
Cloudflare Workers (incl. Pages) Edge serverless platform
$5/mo Free tier
Heroku Managed PaaS
$5/mo Paid
Vercel Frontend and serverless platform
$20/mo Free tier

All app hosting and PaaS →

§7

Questions

How much does Scalingo cost?

Containers start at €7.20 per month and databases at €3.60 per month for full-time use, billed per minute, excluding VAT.

Where are Scalingo's data centers?

All in Europe; Scalingo states no data is transferred outside the EU, and it offers a SecNumCloud region on Outscale.

Do Scalingo apps sleep when idle?

No. Scalingo states that containers never sleep.

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