Okteto vs Qovery (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Okteto and Qovery share a 2.0 GPA, both have a free plan and their prices can't be set side by side, so the choice depends on whether you care more about value for money, where Okteto grades higher, or platforms, where Qovery does.
Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on the free plan, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Qovery
Self-service deployment onto your own cloud or Kubernetes
Which one is for you
Pick Okteto if
- Fits if your team already runs Kubernetes and wants per-developer environments
- Makes sense if you have 5 or fewer developers and can self-host
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you don't run Kubernetes, since every tier is self-hosted
- Tight if you need SSO or RBAC, which start at Scale with no published price
- Watch out: OpenID Connect and the SLA need Enterprise
- Watch out: Starter has no cost controls or environment templates
Pick Qovery if
- Fits if you want a deploy layer over your own cloud account
- Works for engineering teams that manage Kubernetes
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you are a small team, as Starter is $299 a month billed yearly
- Watch out: extra deployment minutes cost $0.16 each beyond the allowance
- Skip it if you want Qovery to host the workloads, as the cloud bill is separate
- Tight if you need SSO, a HIPAA add-on or more clusters, which cost extra
How we grade them
| 2.0GPAOktetoFair | 2.0GPAQoveryFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CStarter is free for up to 5 users but self-hosted, so it needs your own cluster, which counts as C. Scale and Enterprise prices aren't published. | DStarter is $299 a month billed yearly, far above the $35 start of the dearest tenth, and your cloud bill is separate. |
| Free plan and trial | BStarter is free for up to 5 users with unlimited environments and no card. It is self-hosted with community forum support. | BFree plan with 3 users, 1 cluster you run yourself and 1,000 deployment minutes a month, with no time limit. |
| Features | CDevelopment, preview and agent environments, Divert and Kubernetes manifests. Starter has no SSO, RBAC, templates or cost controls, and SAML is listed as coming soon. | CDeploys to your own cloud, a service catalog, preview environments, CI/CD and Terraform. It hosts nothing itself, so the compute bill is separate. |
| Ease of use | DNo store rating on record. It needs a Kubernetes cluster and manifests, so it is self-hosted and command-line driven. | DYou connect a Kubernetes cluster and cloud account, which is a lot of setup. |
| Platforms and integrations | CA program for computers only: Mac, Linux and Windows. It connects to Kubernetes, GitHub, Google Workspace and OpenID Connect. | BWeb console with Terraform and agent tooling, plus several integrations. |
| Best for | dev and preview environments on Kubernetes | deploying onto your own cloud account |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Okteto and Qovery. How we grade
Where they differ
- Okteto is self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Okteto also covers AI agents.
- Qovery also covers databases.
At a glance
| Okteto | Qovery | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | Not published | $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly |
| Free plan | Starter is free for up to 5 users with unlimited environments, no credit card needed, self-hosted, with community forum support. | 3 users plus unlimited AI agents, 1 Kubernetes cluster you run yourself, and 1,000 deployment minutes a month, with no time limit. |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial of Starter, Growth and Scale, no credit card required. |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Okteto | Qovery |
| Price read from | okteto.com | qovery.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Okteto
- Scale and Enterprise prices are not published; you contact the vendor.
- Starter has no SSO, RBAC, environment templates or cost controls; those need Scale.
- OpenID Connect and the SLA need Enterprise, and SAML 2.0 is listed as coming soon.
- All tiers are self-hosted; Enterprise adds a bring-your-own-cloud option.
Qovery
- Qovery does not host workloads itself in the way a shared host does: the cloud provider's compute bill is separate from the plan price.
- Deployment time beyond the included minutes costs $0.16 per minute on Starter, Growth and Scale.
- Paid plans are quoted as billed yearly; the page shows a 20% yearly saving but no monthly-billed prices.
- SSO is an add-on on Growth and Scale, a HIPAA add-on on Scale is listed at $5,880 per year, and each extra cluster on Scale is $399 a month.
Key features
Okteto
- Development environments
- Self-service environments on Kubernetes with local-to-cloud code synchronization and remote debugging.
- Preview environments
- Shareable environments created with each pull request, and test environments that run tests directly inside them.
- Agent environments
- Coding agents run in their own isolated environments, with integration for coding agents on every tier.
- Divert
- Share one environment and deploy only the services you change, per the vendor's feature list.
- Cost controls
- Garbage collection and a resource manager on Scale and Enterprise; pricing is per user, never per environment.
- Access and audit
- Role-based access control, namespace and environment sharing, and audit logs of every action.
Qovery
- Deploy to your own cloud
- Applications deploy to your AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, or to an existing Kubernetes cluster such as EKS, GKE, AKS or k3s.
- Service catalog
- Applications, databases, Helm charts and Terraform modules are deployed together as one environment.
- Preview environments
- Temporary environments are created for pull requests, and environments can be cloned.
- Built-in CI/CD
- Builds and deployments run on Qovery-provided resources, with one-click rollbacks.
- AI and agent tooling
- A Copilot reads logs and events to explain failed deployments, and Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can deploy through MCP, CLI and skills.
- Terraform provider
- Qovery resources can be managed with a Terraform provider.
Plans
Okteto
Starter$0
Up to 5 users, unlimited environments, self-hosted, community forum support.
ScaleCustom
Unlimited users, RBAC, SSO with GitHub and Google, SOC 2 Type 2, ticketing support. Priced per user; contact for pricing.
EnterpriseCustom
Adds OpenID Connect, an SLA, dedicated Slack support, and self-hosted or bring-your-own-cloud deployment. Contact sales.
Qovery
Free$0
3 users, 1 of your own Kubernetes clusters (1.31 or later), 1,000 deployment minutes a month, preview environments, and community support.
Starter$299
per month, billed yearly
3 users, 1 cluster (yours or managed by Qovery), 3,000 deployment minutes a month, 7-day log retention and standard support in Slack or Teams.
Growth$899
per month, billed yearly
10 users, 2 clusters, 8,000 deployment minutes a month, the Observe package on 1 cluster and 15-day log and audit retention.
Scale$2,999
per month, billed yearly
Up to 25 users, 3 clusters, 30,000 deployment minutes a month, a SOC 2 Type II report, a HIPAA add-on and priority support.
EnterpriseCustom
Self-hosted control plane, SSO, unlimited custom roles, compliance packages and premium support. Annual billing only.
Ways to pay less
Okteto
No public discounts listed.
Qovery
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
The pricing page shows a yearly billing toggle labeled as a 20% saving; the plan prices shown are the yearly-billed ones.
- Startups
Extra discount on Scale for Y Combinator and Techstars startups
The pricing page says startups from Y Combinator and Techstars can contact Qovery for an additional discount on the Scale plan.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Okteto or Qovery?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Okteto publishes no starting price, and Qovery starts at $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly.
Which has a free plan, Okteto or Qovery?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Okteto and Qovery have a free plan.
Which platforms do Okteto and Qovery run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Okteto lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps and only Qovery lists a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.