Koyeb review (2026): is it worth $29 a month?
Serverless platform for apps, APIs and GPU workloads
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Koyeb report card
Weak · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for autoscaling containers and GPUs on a usage bill
Koyeb runs containers and GPU workloads with autoscaling and per-second billing. There's no free plan, the Pro fee is $29 a month on top of compute, and its pricing page carries a banner about joining Mistral AI with no detail.
Who Koyeb is for
- Fits if you deploy containers and want autoscaling
- Works for AI jobs that need GPUs and per-second billing
Who Koyeb is not for
- Skip it if you want a free plan
- Pricey if you run one small app, at $29 plus compute
- Watch out: the pricing page says Koyeb is joining Mistral AI and doesn't say what changes
- Watch out: private Slack support, SSO and RBAC are on higher plans, and the SLA starts at Scale, $299
- Watch out: the monthly total depends on usage
Why Koyeb gets a 1.8
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for money$29 a month plus compute on Pro, with $10 of compute included, against a category middle of $11. Scale is $299.
- FFree plan and trialNo free plan, apart from a 5-hour Postgres tier.
- BFeaturesAutoscaling and scale-to-zero, GPUs, Postgres, 7 regions, GitHub and registry deploys, CLI, API and Terraform. Nothing core is missing in the listing.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. You connect repos or containers and pick instance sizes.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with GitHub, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Postgres and AWS.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Koyeb's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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<a href="https://toolgpa.com/tools/koyeb#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/koyeb.svg" alt="Koyeb: 1.8 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Koyeb stands among web hosts
Koyeb's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 9 of the 54 other web hosts we grade, and level with 10.
It stands best on features (B, above 29 of 54) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $9 for the category: 47 of the 52 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 55 web hosts we grade, cut by the letter each got. Koyeb’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 54, level with 4
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 54, level with 35
- BFeaturesAbove 29 of 54, level with 25
- CEase of useAbove 9 of 54, level with 45
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 24 of 54, level with 30
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 53 web hosts. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Koyeb, or make your own?
Your call
Koyeb 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 $348 a year.
What you could make
- It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
What you could not
- It plugs into other products, GitHub, Docker and Terraform among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Koyeb’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Koyeb?
Koyeb runs web services, workers and AI workloads in autoscaling virtual machines on bare metal servers, deployed from a GitHub repository or a container image. Billing is by the second for compute, on top of a monthly plan fee that includes some compute credit. Its pricing page also lists serverless Postgres and a range of GPU instance types.
Worth knowing
- The plan fee is on top of compute, which is billed per second, so the monthly total depends on usage.
- The pricing page carries a banner saying Koyeb is joining Mistral AI; what that means for the product was not stated there.
- Private Slack support, SSO and RBAC are limited to higher plans, and an uptime SLA starts with Scale.
- No free plan is listed on the pricing page, apart from a 5-hour free Postgres tier.
Key features
- Serverless compute
- Apps run in autoscaling VMs on bare metal, with scale-to-zero and per-second billing, and deploy from a GitHub push or a container registry.
- GPU instances
- The pricing page lists GPUs from RTX-4000-SFF-ADA at $0.50 an hour up to 8x H200 at $24 an hour.
- Serverless Postgres
- Postgres instances are billed by the second, from a free 5-hour tier up to larger instances, with storage at $0.50 per GB a month.
- Seven regions
- Pro and Scale deploy to 7 regions in the US, EU and Asia; Scale adds AWS regions, and Enterprise lists 50 on-demand regions.
- Networking
- 1 TB of bandwidth a month is included, with extra at $0.02 per GB in the EU and US and $0.04 in Asia, plus automatic HTTPS, private networking and WebSockets.
- CLI, API and Terraform
- Deployment can be driven from the CLI, an API, Terraform or Pulumi.
Koyeb pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Koyeb is a paid product, starting at $29 per month plus compute (Pro).
- Starts at
- $29 per month plus compute (Pro)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | $29per month, plus compute used | Includes $10 of compute, 10 users, 100 services, 5 concurrent builds, volumes and snapshots, and email and chat support. |
| Scale | $299per month, plus compute used | Includes $100 of compute, 50 users, 1,000 services, 20 concurrent builds, AWS regions, a Slack cross-connect and a 99.9% uptime SLA. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Starts at $1,000 a month, according to the page: private dedicated locations, unlimited users, SSO, RBAC, audit trail and 24x7 support. |
Read from koyeb.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Koyeb before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- StartupsUp to $30k in credits for early-stage startups
The pricing page offers early-stage startups up to $30k in credits; the details are on a separate startup program page.
Stated on koyeb.com - Other savingsUp to 50% off with long-term reservations
The pricing page says saving plans with long-term reservations get up to 50% off on-demand prices, arranged through sales.
Stated on koyeb.com
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Common questions
Does Koyeb have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Koyeb is listed for Web.
Does Koyeb have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Koyeb is listed for Web.
Is Koyeb open source?
Koyeb is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Koyeb have an API?
Yes. Koyeb offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.