Qovery review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Self-service deployment onto your own cloud or Kubernetes
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Qovery report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for deploying onto your own cloud account
Qovery deploys apps onto your own cloud account, with a free plan and paid plans from $299 a month billed yearly. Your cloud provider's bill is separate, and the paid plans are far above ordinary hosting.
Who Qovery is for
- Fits if you want a deploy layer over your own cloud account
- Works for engineering teams that manage Kubernetes
Who Qovery is not for
- Pricey if you are a small team, as Starter is $299 a month billed yearly
- Watch out: extra deployment minutes cost $0.16 each beyond the allowance
- Skip it if you want Qovery to host the workloads, as the cloud bill is separate
- Tight if you need SSO, a HIPAA add-on or more clusters, which cost extra
Why Qovery gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for moneyStarter is $299 a month billed yearly, far above the $35 start of the dearest tenth, and your cloud bill is separate.
- BFree plan and trialFree plan with 3 users, 1 cluster you run yourself and 1,000 deployment minutes a month, with no time limit.
- CFeaturesDeploys to your own cloud, a service catalog, preview environments, CI/CD and Terraform. It hosts nothing itself, so the compute bill is separate.
- DEase of useYou connect a Kubernetes cluster and cloud account, which is a lot of setup.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb console with Terraform and agent tooling, plus several integrations.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Qovery's own pages on 13 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/qovery#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/qovery.svg" alt="Qovery: 2.0 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Qovery stands among web hosts
Qovery'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 free plan and trial (B, above 99 of 122) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $299 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 107 of the 107 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 59 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 123 web hosts we grade, cut by the letter each got. Qovery’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 122, level with 12
- BFree plan and trialAbove 99 of 122, level with 21
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 122, level with 85
- DEase of useAbove 0 of 122, level with 39
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 57 of 122, level with 65
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 111 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 Qovery, or make your own?
Your call
Qovery 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 $3,588 a year.
What you could make
- It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
What you could not
- Databases with views, filters and links between them.
- It plugs into other products, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure among them.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. Qovery’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 Qovery?
Qovery is a deployment platform that gives developers a self-service console, CLI and API for deploying applications, databases, Helm charts and Terraform modules onto infrastructure the customer owns: AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway, or a Kubernetes cluster already in place. Plans are priced by users, clusters and monthly deployment minutes rather than by compute, and the cloud bill from the provider is separate.
Worth knowing
- Qovery does not host workloads itself in the way a shared host does: the cloud provider's compute bill is separate from the plan price.
- Deployment time beyond the included minutes costs $0.16 per minute on Starter, Growth and Scale.
- Paid plans are quoted as billed yearly; the page shows a 20% yearly saving but no monthly-billed prices.
- SSO is an add-on on Growth and Scale, a HIPAA add-on on Scale is listed at $5,880 per year, and each extra cluster on Scale is $399 a month.
Key features
- Deploy to your own cloud
- Applications deploy to your AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, or to an existing Kubernetes cluster such as EKS, GKE, AKS or k3s.
- Service catalog
- Applications, databases, Helm charts and Terraform modules are deployed together as one environment.
- Preview environments
- Temporary environments are created for pull requests, and environments can be cloned.
- Built-in CI/CD
- Builds and deployments run on Qovery-provided resources, with one-click rollbacks.
- AI and agent tooling
- A Copilot reads logs and events to explain failed deployments, and Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can deploy through MCP, CLI and skills.
- Terraform provider
- Qovery resources can be managed with a Terraform provider.
Qovery pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Qovery has a free plan, and paid plans start at $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly.
- Starts at
- $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly
- Free plan
- 3 users plus unlimited AI agents, 1 Kubernetes cluster you run yourself, and 1,000 deployment minutes a month, with no time limit.
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial of Starter, Growth and Scale, no credit card required.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 3 users, 1 of your own Kubernetes clusters (1.31 or later), 1,000 deployment minutes a month, preview environments, and community support. |
| Starter | $299per month, billed yearly | 3 users, 1 cluster (yours or managed by Qovery), 3,000 deployment minutes a month, 7-day log retention and standard support in Slack or Teams. |
| Growth | $899per month, billed yearly | 10 users, 2 clusters, 8,000 deployment minutes a month, the Observe package on 1 cluster and 15-day log and audit retention. |
| Scale | $2,999per month, billed yearly | Up to 25 users, 3 clusters, 30,000 deployment minutes a month, a SOC 2 Type II report, a HIPAA add-on and priority support. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Self-hosted control plane, SSO, unlimited custom roles, compliance packages and premium support. Annual billing only. |
Read from qovery.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Qovery before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 20% with yearly billing
The pricing page shows a yearly billing toggle labeled as a 20% saving; the plan prices shown are the yearly-billed ones.
Stated on qovery.com - StartupsExtra discount on Scale for Y Combinator and Techstars startups
The pricing page says startups from Y Combinator and Techstars can contact Qovery for an additional discount on the Scale plan.
Stated on qovery.com
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Common questions
Does Qovery have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Qovery is listed for Web.
Does Qovery have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Qovery is listed for Web.
Is Qovery open source?
Qovery is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.