Scalingo
- Free allowance
- No perpetual free tier: 'start free for 30 days', then containers bill by the minute; containers never sleep on any plan
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe 30-day trial is the whole free allowance
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | no perpetual free tier: 'start free for 30 days', then containers bill by the minute; containers never sleep on any plan unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the 30-day trial is the whole free allowance; after it the smallest container bills per minute for as long as it exists. |
| Binding | retention-clamped day 31 ends it, and there is no sleep to extend it. |
| Identity | card a card at signup; the price page states prices VAT excluded and bills monthly |
| Egress | a TCP Gateway with unlimited traffic is free and a Scalingo OpenVPN option with unlimited traffic is EUR 30.00; no container egress allowance or overage price is printed on https://scalingo.com/pricing read 2026-11-04 free allowance: unlimited on the TCP Gateway |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a container |
| Retention | not applicable to a free tier; there is none |
| Interface | cli, ssh Scalingo CLI, which talks to api.<region>.scalingo.com on port 443 over HTTPS and to ssh.<region>.scalingo.com on port 22 over SSH; documented at doc.scalingo.com/cli |
| Tooling | Scalingo CLI (precompiled binaries for each operating system) |
| Composes with | 30 days of a never-sleeping container is a migration testbed, not a home for a service; the value is the measurement of whether the code runs, and the run must then move to a tier that does not sleep. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Worth keeping for one reason: it is the only provider that states plainly that its containers do not sleep, which is the trade the free tiers make in the other direction. |
| Evidence note | documented 'start free for 30 days' and 'containers never sleeps' were read on the pricing page |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | scalingo.com/pricing | page description reads 'start free for 30 days'; the pricing body lists containers, databases and network with no zero-price plan, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | scalingo.com/pricing | 'Always included: custom domains, automatic Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, performance metrics, unlimited collaborators, unlimited logs archives, containers never sleeps', quoted |
| 2026-10-24 | scalingo.com/pricing | quoted: 'Always included: custom domains, automatic Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, performance metrics, unlimited collaborators, unlimited logs archives, containers never sleeps.' |
| 2026-10-24 | scalingo.com/pricing | quoted page description: 'Optimize hosting costs, start free for 30 days, and scale when you' |
| 2026-11-04 | scalingo.com/pricing | Scalingo OpenVPN with unlimited traffic is 30.00 EUR |
| 2026-11-04 | doc.scalingo.com/cli | Scalingo ships a CLI |
| 2026-11-04 | doc.scalingo.com/cli | an SSH endpoint exists on port 22 |
| 2026-11-04 | scalingo.com/pricing | the TCP Gateway has unlimited traffic at no charge |
| 2026-11-04 | doc.scalingo.com/cli | the CLI documents HTTPS API and SSH endpoints |
| 2026-11-04 | doc.scalingo.com/cli | the provider ships a named CLI |
More fields 8
| facets | {"class": "refutation","free_tier_kind": "trial","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
|---|---|
| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
| billing model | per-minute |
| term | monthly |
| price arithmetic | not computed: the page renders container prices through a selector and prints no figure in the text read |
| free tier kind | trial-only |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "the container port plus a free TCP Gateway","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "'containers never sleeps'"} |
Unknown values 1
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed