EU PaaS alternatives: blitz.cloud, Scaleway, Clever Cloud, Koyeb, Northflank
blitz.cloud, Scaleway, Clever Cloud, Koyeb and Northflank compared on EU company location, regions, what it costs to start and card requirement, checked 8 October 2026.
If you want a platform run by a European company, Scaleway and Clever Cloud (both France) are the established options with many products and paid databases, Northflank (UK) has a free sandbox with a database but asks for a card, and Koyeb no longer offers a free plan to new sign-ups. blitz.cloud is the smallest of these: one data centre in the EU, a free plan without a card that includes a database, and fewer features than the others. Pick by what you need today, not by the flag. If you're leaving Heroku or Render, their own pages compare them line by line: Heroku, Render, Railway.
At a glance
| blitz.cloud | Scaleway Serverless Containers | Clever Cloud | Koyeb | Northflank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company | BlitzWorks UG, Regensburg, Germany | Scaleway SAS, Paris, France | Nantes, France | Paris, owned by Mistral AI since 17 February 2026 | Northflank Ltd, London, UK |
| US parent | No | No | No | No | No US parent found |
| EU regions | One region in the EU today, more planned | Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Milan | Paris, Roubaix, Gravelines, Warsaw (plus regions outside Europe) | Frankfurt, Paris (plus regions outside Europe) | europe-west, Frankfurt, Netherlands, Zurich |
| Free tier | 5 apps, 512 MB memory, 10 GB storage, one database. Apps sleep after 15 minutes without visitors. No card | Monthly free allowance, scales to zero. Credit card and ID check required | Sign-up credits, no card. No permanent free app tier | Removed for new sign-ups | Developer Sandbox: 2 always-on services, 1 database. Card required |
| Cheapest paid | Pro, 7 EUR a month including VAT | Usage-based: 0.20 EUR per 100k GB-s, 1.00 EUR per 100k vCPU-s | App "pico" about 4.50 EUR per 30 days | Pro, $29 a month plus compute | Pay as you go, smallest size $2.70 a month |
| Run a finished Docker image | Yes, public images from Docker Hub, ghcr.io, Quay and other registries, amd64 | Yes, public external registries | Via git push with a Dockerfile | Yes | Yes |
| Git push deploys | Yes, after you connect GitHub | No built-in, CI only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Managed databases | PostgreSQL 17, MariaDB 11.4, Redis (Valkey 8), one free | PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Serverless SQL. No free tier | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and more. Free DEV databases have no backups since 1 October 2025 | Postgres 14-17 | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and more, one free in the sandbox |
Scaleway Serverless Containers
Scaleway runs containers that scale to zero and bills by the second, which is cheap for bursty traffic. Every region is in the EU and the company is French. It fits if you're comfortable with a card on file and a larger cloud around your containers. Private external registries aren't supported, and there's no built-in git deploy.
Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud is the veteran EU PaaS: git push deploys, many runtimes, and a long list of managed databases. There's no permanent free app tier, and its free DEV databases have had no backups since October 2025. Note that its pricing page lists Oracle Cloud, a US company, among its infrastructure providers.
Koyeb
Koyeb has git and Docker deploys and Postgres, and since February 2026 it belongs to Mistral AI. New sign-ups can't get the free Starter plan anymore; the cheapest plan is Pro at $29 a month plus compute. It fits teams that want a French-owned platform with serverless scaling and are ready to pay.
Northflank
Northflank is a capable platform with git and Docker deploys, many database engines and the option to run inside your own cloud account. Its free sandbox gives two services that don't sleep and one database, but asks for a card. The company is British, so it's European but outside the EU.
sota.io
sota.io is a Berlin company with a platform in Falkenstein, Germany. It's invite-only early access for now and hasn't published pricing, so we left it out of the table.
Where blitz.cloud fits
blitz.cloud makes sense if you want to start without a card, keep a few apps and a database running for free in the EU, and deploy from GitHub or from a public image. If you need private images, several regions or a larger company behind the service, one of the platforms above fits better. See what's live for what blitz.cloud does and doesn't do.
Sources
- https://www.scaleway.com/en/legal-notice/
- https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/api/serverless-containers
- https://www.scaleway.com/en/serverless-containers/
- https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/serverless/
- https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/billing/faq/
- https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/serverless-containers/how-to/deploy-container/
- https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/managed-databases/
- https://www.clever.cloud/developers/doc/find-help/faq/
- https://www.clever.cloud/pricing/
- https://api.clever-cloud.com/v4/billing/price-system?zone_id=par¤cy=EUR
- https://www.clever.cloud/developers/doc/deploy/applications/docker/
- https://www.clever.cloud/developers/changelog/2025/09-01-backups-dev-db/
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/mistral-ai-buys-koyeb-in-first-acquisition-to-back-its-cloud-ambitions/
- https://www.koyeb.com/docs/reference/regions
- https://www.koyeb.com/docs/reference/instances
- https://www.koyeb.com/blog/koyeb-is-joining-mistral-ai-to-build-the-future-of-ai-infrastructure
- https://www.koyeb.com/docs/faqs/pricing
- https://www.koyeb.com/pricing
- https://www.koyeb.com/docs/databases
- https://northflank.com/legal/terms
- https://northflank.com/cloud/northflank/regions
- https://northflank.com/pricing
- https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/databases-and-persistence/deploy-a-database
- https://sota.io/legal
- https://sota.io/
- https://sota.io/pricing
Facts checked on 8 October 2026. Prices and plans change; tell us at hallo@blitzworks.io if something here is out of date.
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