# alwaysdata review (2026): is the free plan enough? > French managed hosting with unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. alwaysdata is a French managed hosting platform that runs sites in PHP, Python, Java, Node.js and Ruby on a shared cloud, with SSH access and an API. Paid Plus plans start at 5 euros a month excluding VAT and allow unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases, while a small free plan is kept for personal use. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** ALWAYSDATA - **Website:** https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/ - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 1 GB of disk, 256 MB of RAM and 3 days of backups, for personal use only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, alwaysdata has a free plan, and paid plans start at €5 per month, excl. VAT (Plus Small). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free plan for personal use: 1 GB SSD, 256 MB RAM, a quarter of a CPU and 3 days of backups, with email on your own domain and an alwaysdata.net address for sites. - **Free trial:** 30 days free on the Plus plans. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | €0 | Personal use only, no credit card to register: 1 GB SSD, 256 MB RAM, 1/4 CPU and 3 days of backups. The vendor says it may suspend a free account whose legitimacy is contested. | | Plus Small | €5 per month, excl. VAT | 50 GB SSD, 1 GB RAM, 1 CPU and 7 days of backups, with unlimited sites, databases and email addresses and SSH access. | | Plus Medium | €20 per month, excl. VAT | 100 GB SSD, 2 GB RAM, 2 CPUs and 20 days of backups, with the same unlimited sites, databases and mailboxes. | | Plus Large | €50 per month, excl. VAT | 200 GB SSD, 4 GB RAM, 4 CPUs and 20 days of backups. An X-Large size with 500 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM and 8 CPUs sits above it. | | Max | €369 per month and up, excl. VAT | A private server configured to order, from 1 TB of disk, 16 GB RAM and 8 CPUs, with 24/7 support and 30 days of backups. | Read from https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/offers/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with alwaysdata before buying. ## Key features - **Several languages per site:** PHP, Python, Java, Node.js and Ruby can be chosen for each site, along with the language version. - **Unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases:** Plus plans set no quota on the number of sites, email addresses or databases. MariaDB (MySQL) and PostgreSQL are offered. - **Email on your own domain:** Mailboxes and aliases include filtering rules, anti-spam, an autoresponder and webmail. - **Backups and SSL:** Backups of files, emails and databases can be restored from the control panel, and SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt or your own are handled automatically. - **Scheduled tasks and background services:** Programs can be run on demand, on a schedule or as a background daemon. - **Resizable plans:** Plus plans can change capacity instantly, and a Max offer moves a site to a dedicated private server. ## Good for - Agencies and developers who want several languages and unlimited sites on one account - Small projects that fit the free plan or the 5 euro Plus Small plan - Buyers who want a European host with a French legal entity ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros and exclude VAT. - The free plan is limited to personal use and carries 1 GB of disk, 256 MB of RAM and 3 days of backups. - 24/7 support is part of the Max offer; other plans are answered during office hours. - Max servers start at 369 euros a month, so there is a large step up from the 50 euro Plus Large plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. alwaysdata offers a free plan for personal use and paid Plus plans from €5 a month ex. VAT, with several languages per site. The free plan is small and the next steps jump a long way, up to €369 for a Max server. - **Value for money: B.** Plus Small is €5 a month ex. VAT, about the cheaper quarter of web hosting, and there is a free plan for personal use. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The free plan gives 1 GB SSD, 256 MB RAM and email on your own domain, enough for a personal site. It is personal use only. - **Features: B.** Several languages per site, unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases, backups, SSL and scheduled tasks. Free backups last only 3 days. - **Ease of use: C.** A hosting panel with setup for each site and language, and no store rating. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web panel only, with no integrations listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from alwaysdata's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - alwaysdata's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 114 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 99 of 122) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at about $5.59 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 43 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** alwaysdata sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $67.03 a year. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Databases, Public API ## Alternatives - [Hetzner](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hetzner): German hosting: web hosting, cloud servers and dedicated servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/alwaysdata-vs-hetzner) - [OVHcloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ovhcloud): VPS, public cloud, web hosting and dedicated servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/alwaysdata-vs-ovhcloud) - [Clever Cloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clever-cloud): French managed PaaS that deploys apps with a git push. 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