- Free allowance
- A 15-day free trial with no credit card, then a monthly credit that covers one project fee (EUR 9) and one user license (EUR 10) for as long as the account exists.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped15 days is the free compute window; afterwards the standing credit covers only the platform fee and the seat, so a running app bills from the first provisioned CPU-hour at EUR 0.033.
- Evidence
- documented8 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 | A 15-day free trial with no credit card, then a monthly credit that covers one project fee (EUR 9) and one user license (EUR 10) for as long as the account exists. Compute is not covered: shared CPU is EUR 0.033 per hour, guaranteed CPU EUR 0.100 per hour and memory EUR 0.013 per GB per hour, billed on provisioned resources. unit users; metered on wall-clock; trial |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) 15 days is the free compute window; afterwards the standing credit covers only the platform fee and the seat, so a running app bills from the first provisioned CPU-hour at EUR 0.033. source
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| Identity | email no card: the pricing page states 'No credit card required' for the 15-day free trial, and the standing monthly credit covers one project fee and one user license. No hold exists because no payment method is taken. The signup fields are not quoted, so the email requirement is inferred rather than read, and debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated. |
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| Egress | Included egress transfer: 10 GB per project per month; additional egress transfer EUR 0.03 per GB. free allowance: 10 GB per project per month |
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| Retention | 15 days is the free compute window; afterwards the standing credit covers only the platform fee and the seat, so a running app bills from the first provisioned CPU-hour at EUR 0.033. |
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| Interface | cli, ssh Upsun Cloud CLI (the upsun command), documented at docs.upsun.com/administration/cli.html: manages projects, pushes code, opens SSH into environments and automates workflows; API tokens authenticate it for CI systems and cron jobs. |
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| Tooling | Upsun Cloud CLI (the upsun command; API tokens authenticate it for CI/CD and automation) |
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| Composes with | 15 days with no card is enough to measure whether a containerised app builds and runs on the platform, and the standing credit keeps the project record alive afterwards so the 15 days can be repeated later without a new account. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Upsun is the successor brand to Platform.sh, and platform.sh pricing redirects into this page. Open: whether the 15 days can be renewed per project, which the page does not say. |
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