Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud · 🚀 PaaS
Clever Cloud is a French PaaS that deploys apps from Git on European sovereign infrastructure, with free signup credits and no card needed.
Free-tier constraints
- Offer type
- Trial
- When idle
- Unknown
- Credit card
- Not required
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- At the limit
- Unknown
- Data expiry
- Not published
- Headquarters
- France
- EU data residency
- EU regions available
Free-tier compatibility
- ✓Static hosting
- —Serverless
- ✓Long-running processes
- ✓Docker
- ✓WebSockets
- ✓Cron
- ✓Background workers
- —Persistent disk
- ✓Custom domains
Overview
Clever Cloud is a French platform-as-a-service built for the same job Heroku used to do: push code with Git and let the platform build, run and scale it. Managed databases and other services plug in as add-ons, and the whole platform runs on European sovereign infrastructure, including partners such as OVHcloud, Scaleway, IONOS and SecNumCloud-qualified Cloud Temple.
There is no permanent free tier. New accounts get free credits at signup without entering a payment card, which is enough to deploy and test real apps. The pricing page does not publish the credit amount, and once it is used you fund the account monthly. Billing is per second on actual usage, so a stopped app stops costing money.
Clever Cloud is not the cheapest way to run an always-on side project; a small VPS costs less. It is a strong choice when you need a managed PaaS that stays under European jurisdiction, for example for public-sector, health or enterprise customers in France.
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Checked 2026-11-01Pros
- ✓Heroku-style Git deploys from a European company
- ✓No payment card needed to try it
- ✓Per-second billing on what you actually use
- ✓Strong sovereignty positioning, including SecNumCloud partner infrastructure
Cons
- ✕No permanent free tier; the signup credit runs out
- ✕The signup credit amount is not published on the pricing page
- ✕Smallest instance prices are only shown in the calculator
- ✕Pricier than a raw VPS for always-on apps
Best for
- →French and EU companies that need a sovereign PaaS
- →Teams moving off Heroku who want Git deploys and managed add-ons
- →Trying a production-grade PaaS without entering a card
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Getting started
- 1 Create a Clever Cloud account; no payment card is required for the trial credits
- 2 Create an application and choose its runtime
- 3 Add a Git remote and push your code
- 4 Add a managed database add-on if your app needs one
- 5 Watch credit usage in the console before the signup credit runs out
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Features
- ✓Git push deployments
- ✓Autoscaling (vertical and horizontal)
- ✓Per-second billing on actual usage
- ✓Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and more as add-ons
- ✓Hosting on European sovereign infrastructure
- ✓Free signup credits with no payment card
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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.
Yes. Clever Cloud is a French company and hosts apps on European sovereign infrastructure, with partners such as OVHcloud, Scaleway, IONOS and Cloud Temple.
Deploy these projects to Clever Cloud
Open-source projects and templates that run on Clever Cloud's free tier.