# Qovery review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Self-service deployment onto your own cloud or Kubernetes Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Qovery - **Website:** https://www.qovery.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are a small team, as Starter is $299 a month billed yearly. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Qovery has a free plan, and paid plans start at $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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 | $299 per 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 | $899 per 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 | $2,999 per 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 https://www.qovery.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Qovery before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows a yearly billing toggle labeled as a 20% saving; the plan prices shown are the yearly-billed ones. Source: https://www.qovery.com/pricing - **Extra discount on Scale for Y Combinator and Techstars startups** (Startups): The pricing page says startups from Y Combinator and Techstars can contact Qovery for an additional discount on the Scale plan. Source: https://www.qovery.com/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Teams that want a Heroku-like workflow while keeping infrastructure in their own cloud account - Engineering teams without a dedicated platform group - Companies that need SOC 2 or HIPAA support from their deployment platform ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: D.** Starter is $299 a month billed yearly, far above the $35 start of the dearest tenth, and your cloud bill is separate. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free plan with 3 users, 1 cluster you run yourself and 1,000 deployment minutes a month, with no time limit. - **Features: C.** Deploys to your own cloud, a service catalog, preview environments, CI/CD and Terraform. It hosts nothing itself, so the compute bill is separate. - **Ease of use: D.** You connect a Kubernetes cluster and cloud account, which is a lot of setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web console with Terraform and agent tooling, plus several integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, 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. - 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. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. 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, Scaleway, Kubernetes, Terraform, Claude Code, Cursor **Tags:** AI features, Databases ## Alternatives - [Porter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/porter): App deployment into your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/porter-vs-qovery) - [Northflank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/northflank): Container platform for services, jobs, databases and GPUs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/northflank-vs-qovery) - [Render](https://toolgpa.com/tools/render): Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/qovery-vs-render) - [Heroku](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heroku): Platform for deploying apps in containers called dynos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heroku-vs-qovery) - [Coolify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coolify): Open-source platform to deploy apps and databases to your own servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coolify-vs-qovery) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.qovery.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/qovery Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).