# Upsun review (2026): is it worth €9 a month per user? > Application cloud priced by provisioned resources Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Upsun - **Website:** https://upsun.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a simple site host, as projects are configured in files. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | €9.00 per project / month, plus resources | Includes preview environments, 30 days of metrics, 10 GB egress and 500,000 ingress requests. | | User license | €10.00 per user / month | Custom project and environment permissions; Advanced user management adds €9 per user for teams, MFA and SSO. | Read from https://upsun.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Upsun before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **First project incentive** (Other savings): 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. Source: https://upsun.com/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Teams that want a managed platform with a preview environment per branch - Companies that need to pick the cloud and region they deploy to - Agencies running several projects with different resource sizes ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** EUR 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 15-day trial with no card, covering 1 project fee and 1 user license. - **Features: B.** Preview environments, multicloud deployment, backups and access management cover the whole job. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record, and projects are set up with configuration files. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and API, with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud and OVHcloud as hosts and Okta for sign-in. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. 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, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, OVHcloud, Okta **Tags:** Public API, Databases, Workflow automation, AI features ## Alternatives - [Heroku](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heroku): Platform for deploying apps in containers called dynos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heroku-vs-upsun) - [Render](https://toolgpa.com/tools/render): Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers. 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