Platform.sh Review
Platform.sh, now selling as Upsun, clones your whole production stack per Git branch, data included, which agencies and Drupal shops rightly love. You pay real money for that power, and the pricing takes a spreadsheet to forecast.
Review last updated 2026-08-20 · How we rate hosts
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Pros
- Branch an entire environment (app, databases, data) in one command
- First-class support for PHP, Drupal, Symfony and multi-app monorepos
- Infrastructure defined in versioned YAML: reproducible by design
- EU company with strong compliance posture and a green-region credit
Cons
- Usage-based Upsun pricing is hard to predict before you deploy
- Meaningfully pricier than Render or Railway for simple apps
- Brand transition from Platform.sh to Upsun has confused documentation and buyers
Platform.sh plans & pricing
Promotional monthly rates as of August 20, 2026; most require the listed prepaid term and renew at the higher rate shown. Confirm on Platform.sh's site before buying.
| Plan | Intro price | Renews at | Storage | Sites | Bandwidth | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project base (Upsun)App Platforms | $10/mo | $10/mo | About €9/mo per project: includes build resources, 10 GB egress and 500k requests. App containers bill hourly on top (shared CPU ~€0.033/hr, RAM ~€0.013/GB-hr) | |||
| Project + 1 user, small appApp Platforms | $21/mo | $21/mo | Representative cost: €9 project fee plus €10 user license; a small always-on container adds roughly €25 to €40/mo of usage. Free trial with monthly credits, no card required |
Our Platform.sh review
Platform.sh built its reputation on one killer feature: every Git branch becomes a complete, running clone of production, including databases with real data, in about a minute. For agencies juggling client sites and teams doing serious review-app workflows, that remains the best implementation of the idea anywhere, a decade after it shipped.
The company is now mid-metamorphosis. Its modern product is Upsun, and platform.sh pricing pages today redirect to Upsun's usage-based model: roughly €9 a month per project as a base fee (covering builds, 10 GB of egress and 500,000 requests), €10 per user license, and hourly billing for the containers you actually run, at around €0.033 an hour for shared CPU and €0.013 per GB-hour of RAM. A free trial with monthly credits covers one project without a credit card. Legacy Platform.sh fixed plans still exist for existing customers, but new buyers should evaluate Upsun.
The engineering philosophy is infrastructure-as-YAML: applications, services (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ and more), routes and workers are declared in config files, and the platform builds a read-only, reproducible container topology from them. This is more ceremony than Railway's click-to-add canvas, but it means environments never drift and a Git clone is a complete description of production.
The natural habitat is the European CMS and commerce world: Drupal, Symfony, Ibexa, Pimcore, Magento-adjacent stacks, often multi-app and multi-database, where the branch-everything model saves the most pain. Node, Python, Go and the rest are fully supported, but a solo developer with one container will find the project-fee-plus-usage arithmetic lands noticeably above a $7 Render instance for the same horsepower.
Verdict: for complex, multi-service applications and agency fleets, the per-branch environment cloning still justifies the premium and the learning curve. For straightforward apps, simpler and cheaper platforms do the job; and whichever you pick, confirm whether you are buying Platform.sh legacy plans or Upsun usage pricing, because the answer changes the invoice.
Notable facts
- Every Git branch can spin up a full clone of production, data included
- Rebranded its next-generation product as Upsun; platform.sh pricing now redirects there
- Offers a 3% sustainability credit for deploying to greener regions
At a glance
| Founded | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Data centers | AWS, Azure and Google Cloud regions across US, EU and APAC |
| Hosting types | App Platforms |
| Starting price | $10/mo |
| Support | tickets, knowledge-base |
| Free migration | No |
| Green hosting | Yes |
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Platform.sh and Upsun?
Same company, same core technology. Upsun is the current product with usage-based pricing (project fee plus hourly resources), while classic Platform.sh fixed plans persist mainly for existing customers. New projects are steered to Upsun.
Is there a free tier?
There is a free trial with monthly credits covering one project and one user, with no credit card required, but no permanent free tier. Ongoing hosting starts at roughly €9/mo per project plus resource usage.
Bottom line
Platform.sh, now selling as Upsun, clones your whole production stack per Git branch, data included, which agencies and Drupal shops rightly love. You pay real money for that power, and the pricing takes a spreadsheet to forecast.
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