Scalingo is a mature French PaaS with health-data certification. orkestr is a flatter, cheaper bill for teams that do not need those certifications.
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| orkestr | Scalingo | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | EU company (Romania), EU sub-processors only | Scalingo SAS (Strasbourg, France) |
| EU regions | Germany, Finland, France | Paris (plus a SecNumCloud-infrastructure region on request) |
| Free tier | Yes: 1 app + Postgres or Redis, sleeps after 30 min idle | 30-day free trial with a card, then billing starts |
| Pricing model | €15/seat/mo, flat. Compute, 2 add-ons and 1 TB bandwidth included | Per container size + per database plan, billed per minute |
| Always-on 1 GB app | Included in Pro | €28.80/mo (L container) |
| Postgres | Included in Pro (512 MB RAM) | From €7.20/mo (starter, single node), €20/mo (business, multi-node) |
| Redis | Included in Pro (256 MB RAM) | From €7.20/mo (starter), €14.40/mo (business) |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB on Pro, then €0.10/GB | No egress fees |
| Builds | 2,000 build min on Pro, Dockerfile or auto-detected | Buildpacks (Heroku-style) |
| PR previews | PR preview deploys on every plan | Review apps, billed as full apps |
| Crons | Crons + one-off jobs on Pro | Scheduler (cron.json), min. 10 min interval, max 5 tasks |
| Background workers | Jobs and crons, no always-on worker service | Yes, Procfile workers billed as containers |
| Certifications | None yet | ISO 27001:2022, HDS 2.0 |
Scalingo prices from their public pricing pages, last checked . All prices exclude VAT.
Scalingo has been running since 2015 and it shows. It is ISO 27001 certified, certified to host health data (HDS) in France, listed on the French public-sector purchasing market, and offers a region on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructure. If a procurement checklist asks for any of those, orkestr cannot tick the box today.
It also has no egress fees, no per-seat pricing, and a Heroku-compatible model (Procfile, buildpacks) that makes moving off Heroku straightforward.
Scalingo prices every container and every database separately. A 1 GB container is €28.80 a month, and a starter Postgres and Redis add €7.20 each. Move to the multi-node business classes it recommends for critical production and the databases alone are €34.40. On orkestr Pro, one €15 seat covers the container, a Postgres, a Redis, crons and PR previews.
Builds are the other difference. Scalingo detects your stack with buildpacks; we could not find a way to deploy your own Dockerfile in its documentation. orkestr uses your Dockerfile as-is, or detects the framework when there is none.
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, Scalingo on its published 30-day basis. Starter databases are single-node with a 98% SLA; with the business classes (multi-node, 99.96% SLA) the Scalingo total is about €63.35. The scheduler line is our estimate: three 5-minute daily jobs on the default M size. One container carries a 98% runtime SLA on Scalingo; two or more get 99.9%.
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