Upsun review (2026): is it worth €9 a month per user?
Application cloud priced by provisioned resources
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Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for an application cloud for developer teams
Upsun is an application cloud priced by provisioned resources. The total is a project fee plus a fee per user plus resources, and it suits developers who work with config files.
Who Upsun is for
- Fits if your team wants a preview environment for every branch
- Works for developers who deploy across several clouds
Who Upsun is not for
- Not for you if you want a simple site host, as projects are configured in files
- Watch out: the total is a project fee plus users plus CPU, memory, storage and bandwidth
- Watch out: Elasticsearch and MongoDB are premium services that need a minimum commitment and sales
- Watch out: the page opened in euros, and object storage is not available on trial projects
Why Upsun gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyEUR 9 per project plus EUR 10 per user a month, plus CPU, memory, storage and bandwidth, so one person lands around the top of the category.
- CFree plan and trialA 15-day trial with no card, covering 1 project fee and 1 user license.
- BFeaturesPreview environments, multicloud deployment, backups and access management cover the whole job.
- DEase of useNo store rating on record, and projects are set up with configuration files.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb and API, with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud and OVHcloud as hosts and Okta for sign-in.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Upsun'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/upsun#review"><img src="https://toolgpa.com/badge/upsun.svg" alt="Upsun: 2.2 GPA on ToolGPA" width="196" height="56"></a>Where Upsun stands among web hosts
Upsun'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 features (B, above 86 of 122) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at about $10.05 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 56 of the 107 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 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. Upsun’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 13 of 122, level with 65
- CFree plan and trialAbove 74 of 122, level with 24
- BFeaturesAbove 86 of 122, level with 36
- 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 Upsun, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Upsun you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $120.66 a year.
What you could not
- Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- Databases with views, filters and links between them.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Upsun’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 Upsun?
Upsun is a cloud application platform that runs apps from Git with a preview environment for each branch, and can deploy to AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud or OVHcloud. It has no plan tiers: you pay a monthly fee per project, a license per user, and hourly rates for the CPU, memory and storage you provision.
Worth knowing
- The page opened in euros and offers GBP, USD, CAD and AUD; the figures here are the euro prices shown.
- Costs depend on what you provision: a project's total is the project fee plus users, CPU, memory, storage and bandwidth.
- Elasticsearch and MongoDB are premium managed services that need a minimum commitment and contact with sales.
- Object storage is not available on trial projects.
Key features
- Preview environments
- Every Git branch can get a full-stack environment, and on-demand preview environments are part of the project fee.
- Provisioned resources, billed per second
- Shared CPU is €0.033 an hour and 1 GB of application memory €0.013 an hour, billed per second on what is allocated.
- Multicloud deployment
- Projects can be placed on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud or OVHcloud, with a 3% credit in six greener regions.
- Storage and backups
- Disk is €0.49 per GB a month per environment, backups €0.10 per GB, and object storage €0.0833 per GB with a 512 GB minimum.
- Access management
- Advanced user management adds teams, MFA enforcement and single sign-on through Google or OIDC providers such as Entra ID and Okta.
Upsun pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Upsun is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €9 per project / month plus €10 per user / month, plus resources.
- Starts at
- €9 per project / month plus €10 per user / month, plus resources
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 15-day free trial with no card; a monthly credit covers 1 project fee and 1 user license
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Project fee | €9.00per project / month, plus resources | Includes preview environments, 30 days of metrics, 10 GB egress and 500,000 ingress requests. |
| User license | €10.00per user / month | Custom project and environment permissions; Advanced user management adds €9 per user for teams, MFA and SSO. |
Read from upsun.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Upsun before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Other savingsFirst project incentive
The pricing page says the first user license and first project fee, up to $19 a month, are saved automatically, with terms and conditions applying.
Stated on upsun.com
Works with
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- IBM Cloud
- OVHcloud
- Okta
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Common questions
Does Upsun have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Upsun is listed for Web.
Does Upsun have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Upsun is listed for Web.
Is Upsun open source?
Upsun is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Upsun have an API?
Yes. Upsun offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.