Sliplane is a Berlin-based container host that bills per server, with as many containers on it as fit. orkestr is a flat seat with managed Redis, crons and PR previews built in.
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| orkestr | Sliplane | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | EU company (Romania), EU sub-processors only | Sliplane GmbH (Berlin, Germany) |
| EU regions | Germany, Finland, France | Germany, Finland |
| Free tier | Yes: 1 app + Postgres or Redis, sleeps after 30 min idle | 48-hour demo server |
| Pricing model | €15/seat/mo, flat. Compute, 2 add-ons and 1 TB bandwidth included | Per server (run as many containers as fit), managed Postgres extra |
| Always-on 1 GB app | Included in Pro | €9/mo for a 1 GB server, €17.80 for 2 GB |
| Postgres | Included in Pro (512 MB RAM) | Managed from €19/mo (1 GB) |
| Redis | Included in Pro (256 MB RAM) | Not managed. Run it as a container on your server |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB on Pro, then €0.10/GB | Included under fair use (under 1 TB/server/mo) |
| Builds | 2,000 build min on Pro, Dockerfile or auto-detected | Dockerfile or auto-detected, or any registry image |
| PR previews | PR preview deploys on every plan | Not built in (API recipe) |
| Crons | Crons + one-off jobs on Pro | Not built in |
| Seats | €15 per seat | Unlimited collaborators |
Sliplane prices from their public pricing pages, last checked . All prices exclude VAT.
Sliplane bills for servers. You rent a box, from €9 a month for 1 vCPU and 1 GB up to large dedicated machines, and run as many containers on it as fit. Collaborators are unlimited, egress is included under fair use, and build minutes are not metered. If you have ten small services and a team of five, that model is very good value.
orkestr bills per seat. €15 a month covers your apps, two managed add-ons, crons and previews, with the servers out of sight. For a small team running a typical app with a database and a cache, that usually works out cheaper and needs less assembly.
Sliplane offers managed Postgres with point-in-time recovery, starting at €19 a month. Redis runs as a container on your own server, and Sliplane's docs warn that volume backups may not be consistent for databases that are being written to. There is no built-in cron and no built-in preview environment per pull request; both are things you set up.
On orkestr, Postgres and Redis are both managed add-ons, crons are a setting, and every pull request gets a preview deploy automatically.
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, Sliplane on monthly billing in Germany (yearly billing is a third cheaper). A 1 GB app plus Redis does not fit on the 1 GB Starter server, so we used the 2 GB one. If you also run Postgres yourself as a container instead of the managed one, everything fits on a 4 GB Medium server for €28.80, with backups and upgrades on you.
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