# Cloud 66 review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Deploy and manage apps on your own servers and cloud accounts

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Cloud 66 is a deployment and server management platform. You connect a Git repository and a cloud provider (or your own servers), and it builds, deploys and monitors the application, including containerized apps, background jobs, static sites and managed databases. It does not sell servers, so hosting costs are paid to the cloud provider separately.

- **Category:** Web Hosting
- **Made by:** Cloud66, Inc. (since 2012)
- **Website:** https://www.cloud66.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you need more than 1 server on the free plan, or 5 deployments a day.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Cloud 66 has a free plan, and paid plans start at $23 per month, billed annually (Developer; $59 billed monthly for Team).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 1 deployment server and 1 static site, 5 deployments per 24 hours, 1 team member, no card required.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 1 server and 1 static site, 5 deployments per 24 hours, 50 build minutes, 1 GB of static-site traffic, 1 hour of metrics. |
| Developer | $23 per month, billed annually | Up to 2 servers and 2 static sites, 50 deployments per 24 hours, 200 build minutes, 100 GB static-site traffic, Slack support. |
| Team | $47 per month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | Up to 4 servers and 5 static sites with unlimited deployments, 10 team members and 1,000 GB static-site traffic. |
| Business | $80 per month, billed annually | Up to 7 servers and 10 static sites, 30 team members, 5,000 GB of static-site traffic and 30 days of metrics. |
| Enterprise | Custom | For more than 50 servers: on-prem and dedicated options, onboarding support, a dedicated account manager and invoicing. |

Read from https://www.cloud66.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Cloud 66 before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save about 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows a 20% saving for annual billing; for example, Team is $47 per month billed annually versus $59 billed monthly. Source: https://www.cloud66.com/pricing
- **Startup and education pricing** (Startups): The FAQ says qualified startups and educational institutions get special pricing, arranged through the sales team. Source: https://www.cloud66.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Deploy to any cloud:** Connect a Git repository and a cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, or deploy to your own servers or a mix of both.
- **Native and containerized apps:** Runs apps directly on virtual machines or in containers, with background jobs, scheduled tasks and deployment hooks.
- **Zero-downtime deployments:** Health checks and zero-downtime deployments are part of the platform, with failover groups and autoscaling listed on the plan comparison.
- **Managed databases and backups:** Managed databases are listed on every plan. Managed backup storage is billed at $0.38 per GB on paid plans.
- **Static sites and preview deployments:** Hosts sites built with generators such as Jekyll and Hugo, and the comparison table lists preview deployments from branches, tags or pull requests.
- **Team controls and API:** Full API access, audit logs, live logs and cost management alerts are listed, with SAML SSO and user provisioning in the comparison table.

## Good for

- Developers who want a PaaS-style workflow on servers they own
- Teams moving off Heroku who need to keep their own cloud account
- Small teams running a handful of servers

## Worth knowing

- Cloud servers are not included; you pay your cloud provider separately.
- Plans cap servers (1, 2, 4 and 7) and static sites; extra servers cost $12 per month and extra sites $10.
- Extra team members cost $5 per month and extra build minutes $0.03 each beyond the plan's allowance.
- Prices shown are the annual rate, and only Team lists its monthly-billed price on the page.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Cloud 66 deploys and manages apps on servers in your own cloud account, with a free plan for 1 server and 1 static site. Cloud servers are billed separately, and server, site, member and build-minute caps push you up the plans.

- **Value for money: C.** Developer is $23 a month billed annually for 2 servers, just above the $20.83 dearer-quarter line for web hosting. Your cloud servers are billed separately.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan with 1 server, 1 static site, 5 deployments per 24 hours and 1 team member, no card. Light use fits inside it.
- **Features: C.** Deploys to any cloud, native and containerised apps, zero-downtime deploys, databases and backups, static sites and team controls. Plans cap servers at 1, 2, 4 and 7.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect cloud accounts and set up servers and apps.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it works with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Slack, and has an API.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cloud 66'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

- Cloud 66's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 99 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 14.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 99 of 122) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $23 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 85 of the 107 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 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.** Cloud 66 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 $276 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: It plugs into other products, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure among them, and has an API.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on and audit logs.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Slack

**Tags:** Databases, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Laravel Forge](https://toolgpa.com/tools/laravel-forge): Server management and deploys for Laravel, PHP and Node apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloud-66-vs-laravel-forge)
- [RunCloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/runcloud): Web server control panel for PHP sites on your own cloud servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloud-66-vs-runcloud)
- [Heroku](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heroku): Platform for deploying apps in containers called dynos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloud-66-vs-heroku)
- [Render](https://toolgpa.com/tools/render): Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloud-66-vs-render)
- [Coolify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coolify): Open-source platform to deploy apps and databases to your own servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloud-66-vs-coolify)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://www.cloud66.com/pricing
- https://www.cloud66.com

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloud-66
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