A Clever Cloud alternative for Laravel teams.
Clever Cloud is a French platform-as-a-service: you push code and it runs your app on infrastructure it operates, with ISO 27001 and HDS certification. Brewless is European too, but works differently: it deploys your Laravel app into your own Scaleway and bunny.net accounts, and it is built for Laravel only.
Facts checked on 20 October 2026. See the sources.
Clever Cloud and Brewless at a glance
| Topic | Clever Cloud | Brewless |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Clever Cloud SAS, Nantes, France. | Coding Agency, Meppel, the Netherlands. |
| How your app runs | Platform-as-a-service: managed instances, replaced on each deploy, with horizontal and vertical autoscaling. | Serverless containers: your app starts with traffic and stops when it is quiet. There are no servers to manage. |
| Whose account | Clever Cloud’s own infrastructure. | Yours: your own Scaleway project and bunny.net account. Brewless is the control plane and is not in the path of your visitors. |
| Infrastructure | Data centres in France, its own and those of partners such as Scaleway and OVHcloud, and OVHcloud sites elsewhere. | Scaleway (France) for your app, bunny.net (Slovenia) for the edge in front of it. Both European companies. |
| Regions in Europe | Several sites in France, and Warsaw. | Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Milan. |
| Scales to zero | Not listed on its pricing or scaling pages. | Yes, when you set the minimum to zero. |
| Price | Per second, by instance size and number of instances, with a maximum spend you set. Prices are in its calculator. | Free to try with one application. Paid plans from €15 a month, with unlimited environments on every plan. Scaleway and bunny.net bill you directly, and Brewless takes no percentage of that. |
| For Laravel | A Laravel guide, the scheduler through a cron file, background workers, and add-ons for PostgreSQL, MySQL and file storage. | Migrations as their own step in every deploy, queues on Scaleway Queues, the schedule read from your app, Artisan on the live release, and brewless init to start from a vapor.yml. |
What Clever Cloud does well
- A French company with ISO 27001 and HDS certification, and a SecNumCloud zone through Cloud Temple.
- A wide choice of French data centres.
- Horizontal and vertical autoscaling built in, billed per second.
- Many managed add-ons, from databases to file storage, for many languages.
Where Brewless is different
Your own accounts
Brewless deploys into a Scaleway project and a bunny.net account that you own and that bill you directly. On Clever Cloud, the infrastructure and the bill are Clever Cloud’s.
Built for Laravel
Migrations run as a release step, the schedule is read from your app and Artisan runs on the live release. Clever Cloud serves many languages.
Scale to zero
With a minimum of zero, your containers stop when nobody visits, and compute costs nothing in that time.
Leave without moving
If you stop using Brewless, your app keeps running in your own accounts.
Which one fits?
Pick Clever Cloud if
- You need HDS certification for health data.
- You run apps in several languages, not only Laravel.
- You want one provider to run and bill everything.
Pick Brewless if
- Your apps are Laravel, and you want a deploy tool that knows it.
- You want the infrastructure contracts in your own name.
- You want containers that stop when nobody visits.
Moving from Clever Cloud to Brewless
The commands in your Clever Cloud settings and cron.json map onto brewless.yml: build commands, release commands and your queues. The schedule is read from your Laravel app, so there is no cron file to keep. Copy your database to Scaleway, test, then move your domain.
Questions about Clever Cloud
- Is Clever Cloud European?
- Yes. Clever Cloud SAS is based in Nantes, France, and runs mostly in French data centres.
- What is the difference between Clever Cloud and Brewless?
- Clever Cloud hosts your app on infrastructure it operates, for many languages. Brewless hosts nothing itself: it deploys Laravel apps into your own Scaleway and bunny.net accounts.
- Does Brewless hold HDS or SecNumCloud?
- No, Brewless holds neither. Your app runs at Scaleway, which publishes its own certifications.
Sources
The facts about Clever Cloud on this page come from its own pages, read on 20 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check them before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Mail contact@coding.agency.
Other alternatives
- Laravel Vapor alternative Serverless platform on AWS Lambda; no new signups
- Laravel Cloud alternative Managed platform on AWS
- Laravel Forge alternative Server management
- Laravel Envoyer alternative Zero-downtime deployments to your servers
- Scalingo alternative Platform-as-a-service
- Upsun alternative Platform-as-a-service on several clouds
- Koyeb alternative Serverless platform on its own servers
- Northflank alternative Container platform, own cloud or yours
- Render alternative Managed cloud platform
- Railway alternative Usage-billed cloud platform
- Fly.io alternative Micro-VMs on its own servers
- Heroku alternative Platform-as-a-service on AWS
- Sevalla alternative Managed app platform
- Coolify alternative Self-hosted PaaS, open source
- Dokku alternative Self-hosted PaaS, open source
- Ploi alternative Server management
- RunCloud alternative Server management
- Cloudways alternative Managed servers
- Bref alternative Open-source framework for AWS Lambda
- Google Cloud Run alternative Serverless containers on Google Cloud
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.