# Scalingo review (2026): is it worth €7.20 a month? > European PaaS and managed databases billed by the minute Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Scalingo is a European platform-as-a-service that deploys applications from a Git repository and runs managed databases. Containers and databases are priced by size in euros, excluding VAT, and billed by the minute, with a standard region and a SecNumCloud region at a higher price. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Scalingo SAS - **Website:** https://scalingo.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: prices are in euros, exclude VAT and are on a 30-day basis. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Scalingo is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €7.20 per month ex. VAT (smallest container or database). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free for 30 days, per the pricing page description. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Container S | €7.20 per month, ex. VAT, 30-day basis | 256 MB RAM at low CPU priority. Sizes run to 3XL (8 GB RAM) at €230.40. | | Container M | €14.40 per month, ex. VAT, 30-day basis | 512 MB RAM at standard CPU priority; L (1 GB) is €28.80 and XL (2 GB) is €57.60. | | PostgreSQL Starter 512M | €7.20 per month, ex. VAT, 30-day basis | 512 MB RAM, 10 GB storage and 30 connections on a single node with a 98% SLA. | Read from https://scalingo.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scalingo before buying. ## Key features - **Git-based deploys:** Connect a Git repository for deploys, with autoscaling on metrics and zero-downtime rolling deploys. - **Managed databases:** Offers PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, caching, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and InfluxDB, with daily backups and PostgreSQL point-in-time recovery. - **Always-included extras:** Custom domains, Let's Encrypt SSL, metrics, unlimited collaborators and log archives come with every container. - **Sovereign and health regions:** A SecNumCloud region built on Outscale costs 20% more, and HDS plans exist for health data hosting. - **Vector search for AI apps:** Pgvector on PostgreSQL, plus ML and KNN features on OpenSearch, for semantic search and LLM applications. ## Good for - European teams that need data hosted on a sovereign cloud - Rails, Django, Laravel and Node apps that deploy from Git - Health data projects that need an HDS-certified option ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros, exclude VAT and are estimated on a 30-day basis; the page shows no dollar prices. - Starter databases run on a single node with a 98% SLA; the 99.96% SLA is on the Business plan. - Extra database storage is charged on top of the storage included in each plan. - A Docker image download costs €50 and an OpenVPN option €30 per month, both ex. VAT. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Scalingo deploys apps from Git with managed databases, hosted in sovereign regions. Prices are in euros without VAT, starter databases are on a single node, and the better uptime promise is on its Business plan. - **Value for money: C.** A container starts at €7.20 a month and a starter database at €7.20, ex. VAT, in the ordinary range. Dollar prices are not shown. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 30 days free per the pricing page. The page does not say here whether a card is needed. - **Features: C.** Git deploys, managed databases and vector search. Starter databases run on one node with a 98% SLA, a gap, as the 99.96% SLA is on Business. - **Ease of use: C.** Deploys follow a Git workflow and databases need setting up, with no store rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web dashboard with a few integrations. No phone or desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Scalingo'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 - Scalingo's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 74 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 57 of 122) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $8.04 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 49 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 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? **Keep it.** Nothing Scalingo does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. It costs $96.53 a year. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Next.js, Laravel and Django among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Next.js, Laravel, Django, Symfony **Tags:** Databases, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [Heroku](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heroku): Platform for deploying apps in containers called dynos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heroku-vs-scalingo) - [Clever Cloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clever-cloud): French managed PaaS that deploys apps with a git push. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clever-cloud-vs-scalingo) - [Render](https://toolgpa.com/tools/render): Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/render-vs-scalingo) - [OVHcloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ovhcloud): VPS, public cloud, web hosting and dedicated servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ovhcloud-vs-scalingo) - [Railway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/railway): App and database hosting billed by the second for usage. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/railway-vs-scalingo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://scalingo.com/pricing - https://scalingo.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/scalingo Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).