Clever Cloud vs Koyeb — free-tier comparison
This comparison is calculated from verified service fields. It is not presented as an editorial review and remains excluded from the index until reviewed.
At a glance
Koyeb: Most generous free tier
PaaS
One-time free credits at signup with no payment card; the amount is not published on the pricing page
Paid from Per-second usage billing
- Free credits at signup, no payment card required
- Per-second billing on actual usage
- Monthly account funding adjusted to real usage
- Heroku-style Git deploys from a European company
- No payment card needed to try it
- No permanent free tier; the signup credit runs out
Best for
- French and EU companies that need a sovereign PaaS
- Teams moving off Heroku who want Git deploys and managed add-ons
PaaS
One free web service with 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU and 2 GB SSD; free PostgreSQL is limited to 5 active hours and 1 GB storage
Paid from $1.61/month
- One free web service per organization
- 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU and 2 GB SSD
- Free instance in Frankfurt or Washington, D.C.
- Free web instance is explicit and not billed when kept on the free instance type
- GitHub, Docker, buildpack and CLI deployment paths
- Free web services scale to zero after one hour without traffic
Best for
- Small APIs, demos and hobby apps that can tolerate sleep
- Flask, Django, Go, Node.js and Docker apps deployed from GitHub
The catch?
Clever Cloud
- Trial that expires
- Some constraints remain unconfirmed
Koyeb
- Scales to zero when idle
- Credit card required
- Some constraints remain unconfirmed
Detailed comparison
| Clever Cloud | Koyeb | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier & pricing | ||
| Free tier ↑ better | Signup credit | Perpetual (sleeps) ★ |
| Paid from ↓ better | Usage-based | $1.61/mo |
| Regions ↑ better | — | 2 free regions |
| PaaS | ||
| Included RAM ↑ better | — | 512 MB |
FAQ
Not a permanent one. New accounts get free credits at signup with no payment card. The amount is not published on the pricing page, and once the credits are used you fund the account to keep apps running.
Resources are billed per second based on actual usage. You fund the account monthly, adjusted to your real consumption, and receive an itemised bill.
Koyeb documents one free web service per organization with 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU and 2 GB SSD, plus a free PostgreSQL database limited to 5 active hours and 1 GB storage.
Yes. Free instances scale down to zero when they receive no traffic for one hour, so the next request can be cold.