# Koyeb review (2026): is it worth $29 a month? > Serverless platform for apps, APIs and GPU workloads Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Koyeb - **Website:** https://www.koyeb.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Koyeb is a paid product, starting at $29 per month plus compute (Pro). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pro | $29 per month, plus compute used | Includes $10 of compute, 10 users, 100 services, 5 concurrent builds, volumes and snapshots, and email and chat support. | | Scale | $299 per 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 https://www.koyeb.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Koyeb before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Up to $30k in credits for early-stage startups** (Startups): The pricing page offers early-stage startups up to $30k in credits; the details are on a separate startup program page. Source: https://www.koyeb.com/pricing - **Up to 50% off with long-term reservations** (Other savings): The pricing page says saving plans with long-term reservations get up to 50% off on-demand prices, arranged through sales. Source: https://www.koyeb.com/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Teams deploying containers and web services with autoscaling - AI inference and fine-tuning jobs that need GPUs - Startups, which the page says can get up to $30k in credits ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: D.** $29 a month plus compute on Pro, with $10 of compute included, against a category middle of $11. Scale is $299. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan, apart from a 5-hour Postgres tier. - **Features: B.** Autoscaling and scale-to-zero, GPUs, Postgres, 7 regions, GitHub and registry deploys, CLI, API and Terraform. Nothing core is missing in the listing. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect repos or containers and pick instance sizes. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with GitHub, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Postgres and AWS. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It plugs into other products, GitHub, Docker and Terraform among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - 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. ## Works with GitHub, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Postgres, AWS **Tags:** Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [Render](https://toolgpa.com/tools/render): Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/koyeb-vs-render) - [Railway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/railway): App and database hosting billed by the second for usage. 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