Laravel hosting, side by side.
There is more than one good way to host a Laravel app. This page sets 21 of them next to Brewless: who makes them, how your app runs, whose account it runs in and what it costs. Every product has its own page with the details and the sources we read.
Facts checked on 20 October 2026.
Four questions to ask
Most hosting choices come down to a few questions. The right answers differ per team, so here they are without a winner.
Servers or serverless?
A server is on all the time, which is simple and cheap when traffic is steady. Serverless starts copies of your app with traffic and can stop at zero, which pays off when traffic varies.
Whose account?
Some platforms run your app on their own infrastructure and bill you for it. Others deploy into a cloud account of your own, so the resources, the data and the contracts are yours.
Who owns the infrastructure?
A European region says where the data sits. The provider’s owner is a second question: a European data centre can belong to a company from anywhere. The tables below name both.
What drives the bill?
A flat fee, a fee per server, per environment or per resource used. Compare it with how your app and your team are likely to grow.
All options at a glance
The short version. Each name leads to a full comparison with its sources.
| Product | What it is | Company based in | Runs in your own account | Scales to zero | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brewless | Serverless deploy platform | Netherlands | Yes: Scaleway and bunny.net | Yes | Free to try; from €15 a month, plus your cloud bills |
| Laravel Vapor | Serverless platform on AWS Lambda; no new signups | United States | Yes: AWS | Yes | $39 a month, plus AWS |
| Laravel Cloud | Managed platform on AWS | United States | No | Yes, on Flex compute | $5 a month, plus usage |
| Laravel Forge | Server management | United States | Yes: your servers | No | $12 a month, plus servers |
| Laravel Envoyer | Zero-downtime deployments to your servers | United States | Yes: your servers | No | $10 a month, plus servers |
| Clever Cloud | Platform-as-a-service | France | No | Not listed | Per second, by instance size |
| Scalingo | Platform-as-a-service | France | No | No | Per minute, by container size |
| Upsun | Platform-as-a-service on several clouds | France | No | No | €9 per project, plus users and resources |
| Koyeb | Serverless platform on its own servers | France | No | Yes, in preview | $29 a month, plus compute |
| Northflank | Container platform, own cloud or yours | United Kingdom | Optional: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure | Not listed | Free sandbox, then per second |
| Render | Managed cloud platform | United States | No | Free instances only | $7 a month per service |
| Railway | Usage-billed cloud platform | United States | No | Yes, opt-in | $5 a month including usage |
| Fly.io | Micro-VMs on its own servers | United States | No | Yes | From $2.19 a month per machine |
| Heroku | Platform-as-a-service on AWS | United States | No | Eco dynos only | $5 a month per dyno |
| Sevalla | Managed app platform | Kinsta Inc. (US law) | No | Yes, by hibernation | $5 a month per app |
| Coolify | Self-hosted PaaS, open source | Hungary | Yes: your servers | Not listed | Free self-hosted; Cloud from $5 a month, plus servers |
| Dokku | Self-hosted PaaS, open source | Open source | Yes: your server | With its K3s scheduler | Free, plus your server |
| Ploi | Server management | Netherlands | Yes: your servers | No | Free, then €8 a month, plus servers |
| RunCloud | Server management | Malaysia | Yes: your servers | No | $9 a month, plus servers |
| Cloudways | Managed servers | United States | No | No | $14 a month per server |
| Bref | Open-source framework for AWS Lambda | Open source | Yes: AWS | Yes | Free; Bref Cloud from $15 a month, plus AWS |
| Google Cloud Run | Serverless containers on Google Cloud | United States | Yes: Google Cloud | Yes | Per use, with a free tier |
Prices as listed on each product’s own site on 20 October 2026, excluding VAT. Where the price says so, the cloud provider bills its infrastructure separately.
Every alternative, by kind
Grouped by how they work, so you compare like with like.
From the Laravel team
Laravel’s own hosting products: a serverless platform, a managed platform, a server manager and a deployment tool.
European platforms
Platform companies from France and the United Kingdom that run your app on infrastructure they operate, or in a cloud account of yours.
- Clever Cloud Platform-as-a-service Compare with Brewless
- Scalingo Platform-as-a-service Compare with Brewless
- Upsun Platform-as-a-service on several clouds Compare with Brewless
- Koyeb Serverless platform on its own servers Compare with Brewless
- Northflank Container platform, own cloud or yours Compare with Brewless
Cloud platforms
Managed platforms, mostly from the United States, that run your app on infrastructure they operate.
Self-hosted platforms
Open-source platforms you install on servers of your own.
Server panels and managed servers
Tools that set up and manage servers for you, at a provider you choose.
Serverless on your own
Run Laravel serverless in your own AWS or Google Cloud account, and put the pieces together yourself.
When Brewless is not the right pick
Better to know now than halfway through a migration.
- Your app is not a Laravel app. Brewless supports Laravel only.
- You need AWS services next to your app. Brewless deploys to Scaleway and bunny.net only.
- You want one bill for everything. With Brewless, Scaleway and bunny.net bill you directly, next to our fee.
- You need WebSockets today. Support for Reverb is planned, not there yet.
- You want a managed Redis cache set up for you. Brewless sets up no cache; you can bring your own.
- You need to start this week. Brewless opens access in small batches.
Questions
- What is the best alternative to Laravel Vapor?
- It depends on what you want to keep. For serverless in your own cloud account: Bref on AWS, Google Cloud Run, or Brewless on Scaleway in Europe. For a managed platform without a cloud account of your own: Laravel Cloud. For servers you control: Laravel Forge, Ploi or Coolify.
- Which Laravel hosting is EU-sovereign?
- Sovereignty is about where the data sits and who owns the provider. Clever Cloud and Scalingo are French companies on French infrastructure, and Koyeb is French with its own servers in Frankfurt and Paris. Upsun is French, and most of its regions run on American clouds. Northflank is British. Ploi (Dutch) and Coolify (Hungarian) manage servers at a provider you pick. Brewless is Dutch and runs your app on Scaleway (France) and bunny.net (Slovenia). Laravel Vapor, Cloud, Forge and Envoyer are run by Laravel Holdings Inc., a company in the United States, as are most of the cloud platforms here.
- Which options run in my own cloud account?
- Laravel Vapor and Bref (in your AWS account), Google Cloud Run (in your Google Cloud project), Brewless (in your Scaleway and bunny.net accounts), Northflank if you bring your own cloud, and Laravel Forge, Laravel Envoyer, Ploi, RunCloud, Coolify and Dokku (on your own servers). Laravel Cloud, Clever Cloud, Scalingo, Upsun, Koyeb, Render, Railway, Fly.io, Heroku, Sevalla and Cloudways run your app on infrastructure they operate.
- Which options scale to zero?
- Laravel Vapor and Bref (on AWS Lambda), Google Cloud Run, Laravel Cloud on Flex compute, Fly.io, Railway when you turn it on, Sevalla through hibernation, Koyeb in preview, and Brewless (on Scaleway Serverless Containers). Render and Heroku only on their free and Eco tiers. Servers managed by Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Ploi, RunCloud, Cloudways or Coolify stay on. Scalingo and Upsun say on their own pages that they do not scale to zero.
- How up to date is this comparison?
- We read every product’s own pages on 20 October 2026 and list them under each comparison. Prices and features change. If something here is out of date, mail contact@coding.agency and we will correct it.
Try Brewless with your Laravel app
We open access to Laravel teams in small batches. Brewless is free to try with one application, production included; you start paying when you want your own domain or more.