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Porter
Porter: Also deploys into your own AWS, GCP or Azure account and is more direct about what it costs
Qovery
Deployment platform that provisions and operates Kubernetes inside your own cloud account
As of 31 August 2026, Qovery's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Qovery installs and runs EKS, GKE, AKS or Scaleway Kubernetes in an account you own, so your workloads never touch Qovery infrastructure and the compute bill stays with your cloud provider. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Qovery is made by BIRDSIGHT SAS (Qovery), available on Web, CLI, REST API, Kubernetes.
Overview
What Qovery does
Qovery is operated by BIRDSIGHT SAS, a French company registered in Paris under RCS 852 571 108 and incorporated in May 2019, trading as Qovery. The platform is a control plane rather than a host: it provisions managed Kubernetes into your AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, then handles application deployment, preview environments per pull request, secrets, and cluster lifecycle on top. Bring-your-own-Kubernetes and on-premises clusters are available on the Enterprise plan only. The deployment engine and web console are published under GPL-3.0 and the CLI under Apache-2.0, but the API and control plane are closed. The commercial distinction is that Qovery takes no margin on compute, because there is no Qovery compute. That removes the usual platform-as-a-service markup and satisfies data residency rules that rule out a managed host, but it also moves cost and risk onto you: the cloud bill arrives separately, and Qovery drives Kubernetes version upgrades on infrastructure your team is accountable for. The open source components do not provide an exit, because a self-hosted or air-gapped control plane is an Enterprise commercial feature rather than something you can stand up from the public repositories. Buyers are engineering teams of roughly ten to fifty people with a compliance or residency reason to keep workloads in their own account and no platform engineer to build the tooling themselves. The trade-offs are concrete. No plan has a published price, so budgeting requires a sales conversation. Team and Business cap connected clusters at two and three, fix built-in CI runners at 4 vCPU and 8 GB, sell observability as an add-on, and exclude SAML and OIDC from Team entirely. And a company of this size that repositioned to agentic infrastructure in June 2026 is now building a deployment platform, a browser development portal and autonomous coding agents at the same time.
What people use it for
- A regulated business that must keep application data inside its own AWS account but has nobody to build a deployment platform
- Giving twenty engineers preview environments per pull request without writing and maintaining Terraform and Helm by hand
- Standardising deployment across AWS and GCP when acquisitions have left the organisation on two clouds
- Replacing a managed platform when data residency rules put every hosted option out of reach
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Qovery.
- No plan publishes a price, deployment minute overage rates are not disclosed, and there is a 14 day trial rather than a free tier, so you cannot budget or compare against alternatives without going through sales.
- The GPL-3.0 engine and console do not constitute a self-hostable product, because the control plane and API are closed and the self-hosted option is gated behind Enterprise, so the open licence gives you no exit if the company changes direction.
- Qovery provisions managed Kubernetes into your account, which means the cloud bill sits on top of the licence and Qovery initiates control plane and ingress controller upgrades on infrastructure your team is accountable for.
- The company repositioned to agentic infrastructure in June 2026 and now ships a deployment platform, a browser development portal and autonomous coding agents concurrently, so a buyer of the deployment product is not at the centre of the roadmap.
- Team and Business are capped at two and three connected clusters with fixed 4 vCPU CI runners and no single sign-on on Team, which pushes teams of moderate size onto quoted Enterprise pricing earlier than the plan names imply.
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Northflank: Offers a managed option and a bring-your-own-cloud option, so you can start hosted and move later
- QoveryvsRender
Render: Simpler and fully managed if there is no requirement to keep workloads inside your own cloud account
Pricing
What Qovery costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Team
On request
- Billed on usage with no published rate card
- 10 users, up to 100 environments, 2 connected clusters
- 5,000 deployment minutes and 7 day audit logs
- No SAML or OIDC single sign-on
- Observability and cost optimisation sold as add-ons
Business
On request
- Billed on usage with no published rate card
- 20 users, up to 250 environments, 3 connected clusters
- 10,000 deployment minutes and 30 day audit logs
- Policy as code and a 99.9 per cent service level agreement
- Observability and cost optimisation sold as add-ons
Enterprise
On request
- Custom users, environments and clusters
- Self-hosted or air-gapped control plane
- On-premises and bring-your-own-Kubernetes
- Up to 24/7 support and a dedicated customer success manager
Capabilities
Features
Bring your own cloud
Provisions and operates Kubernetes in your AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account
Preview environments
Spins up a full environment per pull request and destroys it on merge
Cluster lifecycle
Handles Kubernetes version upgrades and ingress controller migrations for you
Terraform provider
Declares Qovery projects, environments and services as code
MCP server
Exposes the platform to coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI
Policy as code
Deployment guardrails and approval rules, on Business and above
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Does Qovery run my applications on its own servers?
No. It provisions and operates Kubernetes inside your AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, so compute and data stay with your cloud provider and that bill is entirely separate from the Qovery licence.
Can I self-host Qovery?
Only on Enterprise. The deployment engine and console are GPL-3.0, but the control plane is closed source and the self-hosted and air-gapped deployments are commercial Enterprise features.
What does it cost?
Qovery does not publish a rate card. Team and Business are billed on usage and quoted through sales, and Enterprise is fully custom. There is a 14 day trial with no card required.
What survives if I stop paying?
The Kubernetes cluster and the workloads keep running in your cloud account, but you lose the console, the deployment pipeline, preview environments and every process built on top of them.
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