Koyeb is a French serverless platform with strong GPU and multi-region options. orkestr is a flat-priced EU platform with Postgres, Redis, crons and previews included.
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| orkestr | Koyeb | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | EU company (Romania), EU sub-processors only | Koyeb SAS (France). Agreement to join Mistral AI announced Feb 2026 |
| EU regions | Germany, Finland, France | Frankfurt, Paris (Postgres in Frankfurt only) |
| Free tier | Yes: 1 app + Postgres or Redis, sleeps after 30 min idle | New sign-ups need a paid plan since Feb 2026 |
| Pricing model | €15/seat/mo, flat. Compute, 2 add-ons and 1 TB bandwidth included | $29/mo Pro plan (incl. $10 compute, 10 users) + per-second compute |
| Always-on 1 GB app | Included in Pro | $5.36/mo (eco-small, 0.5 vCPU) or $10.71/mo (small, 1 vCPU) |
| Postgres | Included in Pro (512 MB RAM) | $29.76/mo always-on (small, 1 GB) + $0.50/GB storage |
| Redis | Included in Pro (256 MB RAM) | No managed Redis. One-click template you run as a service |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB on Pro, then €0.10/GB | 1 TB on Pro per the pricing page, then $0.02/GB (EU/US) |
| Builds | 2,000 build min on Pro, Dockerfile or auto-detected | Dockerfile or buildpacks |
| PR previews | PR preview deploys on every plan | Not built in (GitHub Actions tutorial) |
| Crons | Crons + one-off jobs on Pro | Not built in. Schedule inside your app |
| Background workers | Jobs and crons, no always-on worker service | Yes, worker services |
| Biggest instance | 1 GB on Pro (more on Enterprise) | Up to 40 vCPU / 128 GB, plus GPUs up to 8x H200 |
Koyeb prices from their public pricing pages, last checked . All prices exclude VAT.
Koyeb is a French company and a good platform. Its strengths are the ones you would expect from a serverless provider: per-second billing, autoscaling with scale-to-zero, regions in the US, Europe and Asia, and serverless GPUs all the way up to H200s. In February 2026 it announced an agreement to join Mistral AI.
orkestr is built for the other half: the boring production web app with a database, a cache and a few scheduled jobs. Those pieces are all managed and all included, so you do not assemble them yourself.
Koyeb gives you managed Postgres, but no managed Redis: you deploy a Redis template as an ordinary service and look after it. There is no built-in cron, so scheduled work runs inside your app or from an outside scheduler. Preview environments per pull request are a GitHub Actions recipe, not a platform feature.
On orkestr Pro, Redis is a managed add-on, crons are a setting, and every pull request gets a preview deploy automatically. All of that is in the €15 seat.
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.
Koyeb in USD, orkestr in EUR, both excl. VAT. We assume Koyeb's $10 included compute covers the app and Redis instances but not the database. Scheduled jobs are left at $0 because Koyeb has no cron product. With the 1 vCPU small instance instead of eco-small the total is about $60. Koyeb's pricing FAQ and pricing page state different bandwidth allowances; 100 GB is free under both.
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