The Qovery Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Qovery in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Qovery
The Insider’s Guide
Self-service deployment onto your own cloud or Kubernetes
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among web hosts, read from Qovery’s own pages.
Made by Qovery · checked Nov 13, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Qovery’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Qovery’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Nov 13, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.0
GPA, above 49 of the 122 other web hosts we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Qovery, taken from its own pages and our grades.
You connect a Kubernetes cluster and cloud account, which is a lot of setup.
- 1
Best for deploying onto your own cloud account
Your cloud provider's bill is separate, and the paid plans are far above ordinary hosting.
- 2
Paid plans start at $299 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly.
- 3
There is a 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.
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It runs on Web
Web.
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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.
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Service catalog
Applications, databases, Helm charts and Terraform modules are deployed together as one environment.
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Preview environments
Temporary environments are created for pull requests, and environments can be cloned.
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A 2.0 GPA, above 49 of 122
That is against the other web hosts we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
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Your call
Qovery sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either.
Qovery at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial of Starter, Growth and Scale, no credit card required.
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Qovery
- Category
- Web Hosting
- Our grade
- 2.0 GPA, fair
The report card
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Qovery is for
- Fits if you want a deploy layer over your own cloud account
- Works for engineering teams that manage Kubernetes
Who it 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
Good to know
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$299
A month to start. There is a free plan too
Qovery has a free plan. Paid plans start at $299 per month on Starter, billed yearly.
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.
The 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.
Trying it first
14-day free trial of Starter, Growth and Scale, no credit card required.
Read from qovery.com on Nov 13, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Save 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.comStartups
Extra 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
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
Self-service deployment onto your own cloud or Kubernetes. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: AI features, databases.
Deploys to your own cloud, a service catalog, preview environments, CI/CD and Terraform.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- Scaleway
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Claude Code
- Cursor
Qovery is made by Qovery.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
49/122
Other web hosts it is graded above
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
- BFree plan and trialAbove 99 of 122
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 122
- DEase of useAbove 0 of 122
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 57 of 122
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 111 web hosts. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Qovery is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
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.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Porter, Northflank, Render, Heroku and Coolify
The 5 tools Qovery is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 1.6GPA
Porter
From $6
App deployment into your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Qovery has a free plan. Porter does not.
- Qovery also covers databases.
- Porter also covers workflow automation and job scheduling.
- 2.6GPA
Northflank
Free plan · from $12/mo
Container platform for services, jobs, databases and GPUs.
- Qovery also covers databases.
- 2.4GPA
Render
Free plan · from $25/mo
Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers.
- Render also covers workflow automation.
- 1.8GPA
Heroku
From $5/mo
Platform for deploying apps in containers called dynos.
- Qovery has a free plan. Heroku does not.
- 2.4GPA
Coolify
Free plan · from $5/mo
Open-source platform to deploy apps and databases to your own servers.
- Coolify is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
14
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Qovery free?
Qovery has a 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.
How much does Qovery cost?
Qovery lists 5 plans. Free: $0.
What platforms does Qovery work on?
Qovery is available on Web.
Does Qovery offer any discounts?
Qovery publicly lists the following: Save 20% with yearly billing; Extra discount on Scale for Y Combinator and Techstars startups.
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.
What does Qovery integrate with?
Qovery's listing names AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Scaleway, Kubernetes, Terraform, Claude Code and Cursor.
Does Qovery have a free trial?
Yes. 14-day free trial of Starter, Growth and Scale, no credit card required.
Who makes Qovery?
Qovery is made by a company of the same name.
What are the alternatives to Qovery?
The closest alternatives to Qovery in our directory are Porter, Northflank, Render, Heroku and Coolify.
How does Qovery compare with other web hosts?
Qovery's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 49 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 24.
Is Qovery good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Qovery D for value for money. 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.
Could I make my own version of Qovery?
Qovery sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Qovery’s own pages on Nov 13, 2026, and the grades were given on Nov 13, 2026. 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.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Qovery. Prices change, so check qovery.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
7,721
Tools graded, in 95 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
7,721
tools graded
95
categories
739
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Qovery, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/qovery
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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