Clever Cloud is one of the oldest European PaaS providers, with low add-on prices and health-data certification. orkestr is a single flat seat with previews and a free tier.
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| orkestr | Clever Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | EU company (Romania), EU sub-processors only | Clever Cloud SAS (Nantes, France), since 2010 |
| EU regions | Germany, Finland, France | Paris, Roubaix, Gravelines, Warsaw (plus HDS zones in France) |
| Free tier | Yes: 1 app + Postgres or Redis, sleeps after 30 min idle | Signup credits; free DEV databases (shared, no backups) |
| Pricing model | €15/seat/mo, flat. Compute, 2 add-ons and 1 TB bandwidth included | Per instance flavor + per add-on plan, billed per second from prepaid credits |
| Always-on 1 GB app | Included in Pro | €16.00 / 30 days (XS, 1 vCPU) |
| Postgres | Included in Pro (512 MB RAM) | From €4.90 / 30 days (XXS, 512 MiB RAM, 512 MiB disk) |
| Redis | Included in Pro (256 MB RAM) | From €5.00 / 30 days (S, 128 MiB) |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB on Pro, then €0.10/GB | No exit fees except object storage (per its Jan 2024 blog) |
| Builds | 2,000 build min on Pro, Dockerfile or auto-detected | Native runtimes or Docker (no Docker Compose) |
| PR previews | PR preview deploys on every plan | Via a GitHub Action |
| Crons | Crons + one-off jobs on Pro | cron.json on native runtimes, not in Docker; runs on every instance |
| Rollbacks | Instant rollbacks on Pro | Redeploy a previous commit |
| Certifications | None yet | ISO 27001:2022, HDS |
Clever Cloud prices from their public pricing pages, last checked . All prices exclude VAT.
Clever Cloud has been running since 2010. It is ISO 27001 certified, HDS certified for health data in its French regions, and offers a long list of managed services beyond Postgres and Redis: MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic, Kafka, S3-compatible storage and more. Its smallest dedicated Postgres and Redis plans are a few euros a month.
So this is not a page about Clever Cloud being expensive. For a single app with tiny databases it is close to orkestr, and with its broader catalogue it may suit you better.
Clever Cloud bills every instance and add-on per second against credits you top up each month. orkestr Pro is one flat seat. The difference shows when you add environments: on orkestr every pull request gets a preview deploy automatically, and each project gets three environments, all inside the seat.
Docker is the other gap. Many teams deploy a Dockerfile, and Clever Cloud runs crons only on its native runtimes, not in its Docker environment. On orkestr, crons work the same whether you bring a Dockerfile or not.
Being straight about one gap: orkestr does not have an always-on background worker service today. Queue consumers run inside your web process, or as scheduled and one-off jobs. If your app needs a separate long-running worker, factor that in.
One web app with ~1 GB of RAM, always on. A small managed Postgres, a small managed Redis, a few scheduled jobs, ~100 GB of egress a month, one developer.
Both in EUR excl. VAT, Clever Cloud per 30 days in its Paris zone. The smallest Postgres has 512 MiB of RAM and 512 MiB of disk; with a 1 GB-RAM Postgres (XS Tiny Space, €15) the total is €36. If you deploy with Docker, cron.json is not available and scheduled jobs need a separate setup. Egress at €0 is based on Clever Cloud saying it charges no exit fees except for object storage.
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