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

> Heroku-style deploy platform that runs in your own cloud account

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

Convox is a platform-as-a-service layer that deploys and manages applications on infrastructure in your own AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or DigitalOcean account. You pay Convox for its console, which has plans by user count, workflows and racks, and your cloud provider separately for the servers.

- **Category:** Web Hosting
- **Made by:** Convox
- **Website:** https://www.convox.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are a small team, at $165 a month for 2 users and $99 for each extra.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Convox has a free plan, and paid plans start at $165 per month, billed annually ($199 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 1 user, 1 rack, 2 workflows and 1 quick app, with a limited monitoring dashboard.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 1 user, 1 rack, 2 workflows, 1 quick app and 1 deploy key, with some API throttling. |
| Basic | $165 per month, billed annually ($199 billed monthly) | 2 users plus $99 a month per extra user, 5 racks, 10 workflows, Slack notifications and 24-hour audit logs. |
| Pro | $415 per month, billed annually ($499 billed monthly) | 5 users plus $99 a month per extra user, 20 racks, 50 workflows, simple RBAC, email support and 30-day audit logs. |
| Plus | $832 per month, billed annually ($999 billed monthly) | 10 users plus $99 a month per extra user, 100 racks, 100 workflows, priority feature requests and 90-day audit logs. |

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

## Ways to pay less

- **2 months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks annual billing as two months free; Basic is $165 a month billed annually against $199 billed monthly. Source: https://www.convox.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Runs in your cloud account:** Convox deploys to your own AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or DigitalOcean account, so you keep direct access to the infrastructure.
- **Auto-scaling:** The platform ships with pre-configured auto-scaling policies that can be tuned as needs change.
- **CI/CD workflows:** Workflow integrations with GitHub and GitLab build and deploy code, with a limit on workflows and concurrent jobs set by plan.
- **Racks and quick apps:** Racks are the infrastructure environments Convox manages, and quick apps launch prebuilt applications such as Drupal.
- **Database and cache management:** The product pages cover managing databases and caches, plus monitoring and alerts through a dashboard and Slack notifications.
- **Local development rack:** A local rack installs on Mac or Linux to mirror staging and production environments on a developer machine.

## Good for

- Teams moving from Heroku to their own AWS or Google Cloud account
- Small DevOps teams that want one console across several environments
- Companies with PCI or HIPAA needs that can use a self-hosted console

## Worth knowing

- Convox's fee covers the console only; infrastructure is billed by your cloud provider, though the FAQ says Convox adds no markup on instances or apps.
- Each user beyond those included costs $99 a month on every paid plan.
- RBAC and email support start on Pro, and the self-hosted console for PCI/HIPAA is quoted through sales.
- WordPress and Magento quick apps are listed as coming soon.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Convox deploys apps into your own AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or DigitalOcean account and charges for the console only. Paid plans start at $165 a month, each extra user is $99, and the free plan has one user and one rack.

- **Value for money: D.** Basic is $165 a month billed annually with 2 users, many times the $10.99 middle for web hosting, and each extra user is $99. Your cloud account is billed separately.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 1 user, 1 rack, 2 workflows and 1 quick app, with API throttling. Those caps will be hit by any team.
- **Features: C.** Auto-scaling, CI/CD workflows, racks and quick apps, database and cache management and a local rack. RBAC and email support start at Pro, and WordPress and Magento quick apps are listed as coming soon.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect cloud accounts and set up racks and workflows.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it connects to GitHub, GitLab, Slack, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and DigitalOcean.

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

- Convox's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 49 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 24.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 57 of 122) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $165 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 105 of the 107 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 12 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?

**Keep it.** To replace Convox you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $1,980 a year.

- You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them.

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

## Works with

GitHub, GitLab, Slack, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean

**Tags:** Workflow automation, Databases

## Alternatives

- [Heroku](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heroku): Platform for deploying apps in containers called dynos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/convox-vs-heroku)
- [Render](https://toolgpa.com/tools/render): Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/convox-vs-render)
- [Fly.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fly-io): Virtual machines and databases in 18 regions, billed per second. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/convox-vs-fly-io)
- [Dokku](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dokku): Open-source, single-server platform as a service you run yourself. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/convox-vs-dokku)
- [Porter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/porter): App deployment into your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/convox-vs-porter)

## Sources

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

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

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/convox
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