Since we founded Clever Cloud in 2011, we’ve never changed our prices. For more than a decade (a record?), we’ve always preferred to optimize our costs and technologies so that you can enjoy both the highest quality services and the most competitive prices possible. We’re very proud to have achieved this, and to be able to count on your loyalty. 

We wanted to maintain this pricing policy for as long as possible, but the general increase in prices from our suppliers – particularly energy suppliers, and more generally the very high inflation due to the international context, is not sparing Clever Cloud and our employees. It was no longer reasonable to maintain this policy of locked-in prices. We have therefore decided to modify our prices to ensure that we can continue to provide the level of service and support you expect, and to develop our infrastructure, features and new products that you will be using over the coming months.

Our new pricing structure also enables us to improve the overall consistency of our prices. 

Some of you will see your bills drop, especially on higher-capacity plans. Conversely, you will find that the biggest increases are concentrated on certain managed services, in particular ElasticSearch instances, for which we are re-establishing consistency with our infrastructure costs and the rest of our catalog. The increase is much more limited for most PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB plans. Overall, we wanted to ensure a certain homogeneity in order to maintain competitive prices.

You’ll note that Cellar (object storage) prices are currently unchanged. In fact, we’re working on a product enhancement that will enable us to improve service quality here too, while offering you more competitive rates, which will involve a reduction in its cost over the coming months. You will then be able to benefit from the economies of scale made possible by our investments in new infrastructures.

Our commitment remains unchanged: to guarantee the utmost transparency on our prices, and to provide you with the best possible predictability and control of your application hosting costs. Using Clever Cloud is FinOps by design. What’s more, by activating auto-scalability on your applications, you can automatically reduce the size and number of your virtual machines when they are less in demand, and thus adjust your invoices as closely as possible to your consumption needs, taking advantage of our per-second pricing model. 

The new price scale will come into force on August 1, 2023, and will therefore apply automatically to invoices issued on or after September 1, 2023, with the exception of Enterprise contracts, which are subject to special conditions. 

If, as we hope, you decide to renew your contract, you don’t need to do anything to accept these new conditions – just continue to use Clever Cloud!

Our sales and technical support teams are at your disposal to help you optimize your choices and answer any questions you may have. Don’t hesitate to contact them.

• The 2XL instance:
  • 12 CPUs
  • 24 GB of RAM
• The 3XL instance:
  • 16 CPUs
  • 32 GB of RAM

We are excited to announce two new scalers with smaller prices. The Pico and the Nano scalers. That was one of the most requested features this year, and we are glad to announce its general availability today.

Starting at less than $5 per month, these new instances provide our users with new application architecture perspectives, as well as an affordable way to host small projects.

Technical specs

So, two new flavours, with one shared vCPU each:

pico

• RAM: 256MB
• CPU: 1 core
• Price: €4.50 ($4.98) per month

nano

• RAM: 512MB
• CPU: 1 core
• Price: €6.0 ($6.64) per month

How does it work?

Releasing these scalers was quite a tour de force for our engineers. Being able to deploy Node, Docker or Scala applications on such tiny instances is not possible if you don't outsource the very resource-consuming build phase.

So here's how we managed this: the build phase is deported on a specific server in charge of building the application. Then, the artifact is simply copied to the pico or nano instance, and started as usual.

This process allows us to have a cache of the build. This cache is used when your instance needs to restart, scale up or scale down very quickly.

Getting Started

No new knowledge is required to start with these new scalers. All you have to do is to use Clever Cloud as you always did. The new flavours are available in the console for all the languages we support, under the scalability option of your apps.

Happy coding!

Do you know that hosting is one of the nastiest business out there? Hardware, bandwidth suck up huge amounts of money and energy. But some hosting companies want to give it for free, forever. And people keep asking me “do you have a free plan?”

The problem is quite basic. Hosting the web's "hello world" applications for zero money is not a sustainable business model. Most of all, we should really ask ourselves: is it really useful to humanity? The problem with free offerings is that it’s killing product value: nobody really takes care of a free product.

At Clever Cloud, we have built a great platform.
We’ve worked with developers to help them build great applications, be more efficient, and sustain huge traffic surges without stress.

Our job is not to host unfinished side projects.

Hosting the web's "hello world" applications for zero money is not a sustainable business model. Most of all, we should really ask ourselves: is it really useful to humanity?

Since free tier costs money, who really pays for it? Loyal and paying customers, of course. And that’s just not fair. I prefer to say: our price is the right price. We are not making you pay for a poor marketing idea. If you are not ok with our price, don't worry.

We can always agree on something: just email us at sales@clever-cloud.com.

But the problem about free tier goes even deeper: this poor marketing strategy is lowering the overall customer perception of PaaS. What doesn’t have a price doesn’t have any value, and the idea that PaaS provides no value is a deeply entrenched misconception. This is one of the reasons the PaaS market has taken so long to emerge.

Can Clever Cloud ever be free?

Sure, we help open-source projects, charity, media and other projects by giving them free hosting. If you think your project deserves it, just send me an email: quentin.adam@clever-cloud.com.

Post Scriptum: I’m really happy to see Heroku changing their point of view on this and slowly nerfing their free trial offer. The industry, and the web in general, can only benefit from it.

Last february, we've made a massive pricing update. With hindsight, we felt the need the make a more linear pricing for the scalers, and add an in-between offer for the databases.

So here's what's gonna change this week:

Scalers pricing update

First, the Solo scaler don't change. The S scaler get 2x more RAM, as the M, L and XL will got smoother prices:

• M scaler for 72€ per month (was 108€)
• L scaler for 144€ per month (was 180€)
• XL scaler for 288€ per month (was 324€)

The Scaler update will be applied next week.

SQL Databases pricing update

This is on is really nice: we have now a new offer ( for 15€ MySQL and 10€ for PostgreSQL).
Head up to the dashboard to discover these new prices under the add-on section, they are already live!

Up to now Python was in free beta. We are glad to notify you that it comes to an end and that Python is now charged. The smallest Scaler (1 VCPU, 512 Mo RAM) costs 27 EUR/month.

You can have a look at our pricing simulator if you need more ressources or customisation.

Feel free to contact us if you have any other question!

French version

Jusqu’à maintenant, Python était encore en béta et gratuit. Ce service sera dorénavant facturé. Le plus petit scaler (1 VCPU, 512 Mo RAM) coute 27EUR/mois.

Vous pouvez consulter notre simulateur de prix pour des besoins plus fins.

N’hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des questions !

Since the beginning, anyone can use mutual Clever Cloud databases for free because it was in beta.
Actually, this test period is over and databases will be charged from July 1st 2013.

In order to fit high performance needs, we will launch dedicated databases soon

The finesse pricing is daily. It means that once you create a database, you are charged for one day usage, and so on.
For example, a S database will cost 0,23 €/day.

The pricing plans for PostgreSQL and MySQL will be the following:

MySQL pricing plans

	S	M	L
Connexions	15	30	40
Size	1 Go	5 Go	10 Go
Price	7 €/month (0,23 €/day)	35 €/month (1,17 €/day)	70 €/month (2,33 €/day)

PostgreSQL pricing plans

	S	M	L
Connexions	15	30	40
Size	1 Go	5 Go	10 Go
Price	7 €/month (0,23 €/day)	35 €/month (1,17 €/day)	70 €/month (2,33 €/day)

You will be able to configure the number of Scalers dedicated to your database as you can do with apps.

These databases will be more powerful, larger and more scalable than the mutualised databases.

Version française

Depuis le début, tout le monde pouvait utiliser gratuitement les bases de données mutuelles sur Clever Cloud puisqu’elles étaient en beta. Désormais, cette phase de test s’achève et l’utilisation des bases de données sera facturée à partir du 1er juillet 2013.

Les tarifs pour une PostgreSQL et une MySQL seront les suivants:

Tarification PostgreSQL

	S	M	L
Connexions	15	30	40
Taille	1 Go	5 Go	10 Go
Prix (HT)	7 €/mois (0,23 €/jour)	35 €/mois (1,17 €/jour)	70 €/mois (2,33 €/jour)

Tarification MySQL

	S	M	L
Connexions	15	30	40
Taille	1 Go	5 Go	10 Go
Prix (HT)	7 €/mois (0,23 €/jour)	35 €/mois (1,17 €/jour)	70 €/mois (2,33 €/jour)

L’ajustement du pricing est quotidien. Cela signifie qu’une fois que vous avez créé la base de données, vous serez facturé pour une journée d’usage, et ainsi de suite.

À titre d’exemple, une base de données de taille S coûtera 0,23 €/jour.

Pour répondre aux besoins de haute performance, nous lancerons bientôt des bases de données dédiées

Il sera possible de configurer le nombre de Scalers dédiés à la base de données, comme il est déjà possible de le faire avec les applications.

Ces bases de données seront plus puissantes, plus scalables et auront plus de capacité de stockage que les bases de données mutualisées.