Upsun
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What is Upsun
Upsun is a managed application platform that provides a PaaS-style runtime for deploying and operating web applications with built-in environments, routing, and managed services. It targets development teams that want automated builds and deployments, preview environments per branch, and infrastructure abstraction without managing servers directly. The product centers on Git-based workflows and configuration-as-code to define application topology and services. Upsun is positioned for web applications and CMS workloads, including PHP ecosystems such as WordPress, alongside other supported languages and frameworks.
Git-based environment workflows
Upsun supports workflows where code changes in Git can automatically create isolated environments for testing and review. This fits teams that rely on branch-based development and need repeatable, disposable preview environments. The approach reduces manual coordination for staging and QA by tying environments to source control events.
Managed runtime and services
The platform provides a managed runtime layer and commonly used backing services (for example, databases and caches) as part of the deployment topology. This reduces the need to provision and patch servers and service components separately. It is useful for teams that want a single operational model across development, staging, and production.
Configuration-as-code deployments
Upsun uses declarative configuration to define application resources, routes, and service relationships. This improves portability and repeatability compared with ad hoc manual setup. It also supports standardization across multiple projects by reusing configuration patterns.
Platform-specific operational model
Upsun’s deployment and environment concepts require adopting its configuration format and platform conventions. Teams with existing pipelines and infrastructure patterns may need to refactor build/deploy processes to align with the platform. This can increase switching costs if an organization later decides to move to a different hosting model.
Less control than IaaS
As a managed PaaS, Upsun abstracts underlying infrastructure choices and low-level tuning. Organizations that need custom networking, specialized OS-level dependencies, or nonstandard runtime behavior may find the abstraction limiting. Some advanced operational requirements may require workarounds or may not be supported.
Fit varies by workload type
The platform is best suited to web application patterns that align with its supported runtimes and managed services. Workloads with highly specialized compute needs, event-driven serverless patterns, or heavy data/ML pipelines may not map cleanly to the platform model. In those cases, teams may need additional services outside Upsun or a different primary platform.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (resource-based; “No plans. No bundles” on the official pricing page)
Free tier/trial: 15-day free trial; monthly credit covering 1 project fee + 1 user license; no credit card required.
Example costs (from official Upsun pricing page):
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Project fee: €9.00 / project / month
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User license: €10.00 / user / month
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Advanced user management add-on: +€9.00 / user / month
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Application resources (billed per second; hourly prices shown as estimates):
- Application shared CPU: €0.033 / hour (est.)
- Application guaranteed CPU: €0.100 / hour (est.)
- Memory (1 GB): €0.013 / hour (est.)
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Service resources:
- Services shared CPU: €0.049 / hour (est.)
- Services guaranteed CPU: €0.120 / hour (est.)
- Services memory (1 GB): €0.020 / hour (est.)
- MongoDB (Premium) memory (1 GB): €37.50 (unit shown on site)
- Elasticsearch (Premium) memory (1 GB): €136.00 (unit shown on site)
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Storage & backups:
- Disk storage: €0.49 / GB / month
- Backups: €0.10 / GB / month
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Edge / bandwidth / requests:
- Included egress transfer: 10 GB / project / month
- Additional egress transfer: €0.03 / GB
- Included ingress requests: 500,000 / month
- Additional ingress requests: €1.00 / 100,000 requests
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Fastly CDN & add-ons (official site lists Fastly pricing/add-ons):
- Fastly CDN transfer: €0.094 / GB
- Fastly CDN requests: €0.188 / 100,000 requests
- Fastly WAF - Basic: tiered pricing (0–1M: €85 flat; 1–2M: €42 /M; 2–3M: €33 /M; 3M+: €24 /M)
- Fastly WAF - Configurable: tiered (0–2M: €445 flat; 2–3M: €33 /M; 3M+: €24 /M)
- Fastly Image Optimization: tiered (per 10M images: 0–50M: €56; 50M+: €28)
- Fastly Rate Limiting: €52.00
- Fastly TLS certificates: Standard TLS €8.50; Customer generated TLS €187.00
- DDoS protection: €169.00
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CI/CD build resources included per project: 2.5 CPU-hours and 5 GB-hours / month
- Additional build CPU: €0.033 per CPU-hour
- Additional build memory: €0.013 per GB-hour
Discounts & incentives (officially listed):
- First Project Incentive: monthly credit equivalent to first user license + first project fee (terms apply).
- Green Region: 3% sustainability credit when deploying to eligible regions.
Notes & constraints from official site:
- Resources are billed per second on allocation; hourly prices are estimates (732 hours = avg. month).
- Some managed services (Elasticsearch, MongoDB) and certain add-ons require a minimal commitment or contact with sales.
- The official Upsun pricing page is the primary source for exact costs and details.
Seller details
Platform.sh SAS
Paris, France
2010
Private
https://upsun.com/
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/upsun/
