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Best Cloud Platform As A Service (PaaS) Software in 2026

Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) software runs applications on managed or self-hosted infrastructure. It can expose web or API access and support Linux, Windows or macOS environments.

01 Google Kubernetes Engine
GKE is aimed at platform builders, enterprise developer-platform teams, and teams training or serving AI models.

From $0.10/mo Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · API
9.1 Visit Specs
02 Northflank
Northflank suits developers and teams deploying containerized applications across managed, connected-cloud, or imported Kubernetes infrastructure.

From $2.70/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.9 Visit Specs
03 Railway
Railway suits developers and teams that need to deploy services from repositories or container images and manage infrastructure across environments.

From $5/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.8 Visit Specs
04 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
EKS suits teams running Kubernetes workloads across AWS, hybrid, or edge environments, including generative AI, data, and modernization projects.

From $0.10/mo Web · macOS · Linux · API
8.3 Visit Specs
05 Cloud Foundry
Free trial Windows · macOS · Linux · API
8.3 Visit Specs
06 Dokku
Dokku suits developers and teams wanting self-hosted application deployment on Linux servers, Docker, or K3s.

Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
8.3 Visit Specs
07 Salesforce Sales Cloud
Sales Cloud suits teams that want sales pipeline management, automatic email and calendar synchronization, and collaboration tools.

From $25/mo Free plan Browser extension
8.3 Visit Specs
08 AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Free plan Web · Windows · Linux · API
8.1 Visit Specs
09 Clever Cloud
Free trial Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
8.0 Visit Specs
10 Fly.io
From $2.19/mo Free trial Web · Linux · API
8.0 Visit Specs
11 Qovery
Qovery describes Team for startups shipping a first production app, Growth for teams managing staging and production, and Business for companies facing customer security reviews.

From $299/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.0 Visit Specs
12 Zeabur
It suits developers who want to deploy from common project inputs and manage VPS servers through one service.

From $5/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux
8.0 Visit Specs
13 AWS App Runner
From $0.01/mo Web · API
7.9 Visit Specs
14 CapRover
Free plan Web · Linux · Self-hosted
7.9 Visit Specs
15 Koyeb
From $29/mo Free plan Web · API
7.9 Visit Specs
16 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry
Free plan Web · Linux · API
7.8 Visit Specs
17 Google App Engine
Free plan Web · API
7.6 Visit Specs
18 Google Cloud Run
Free trial Web · Linux · API
7.4 Visit Specs
19 Heroku
From $5/mo Web · API
7.4 Visit Specs
20 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines
It suits teams delivering applications on OpenShift, particularly decentralized teams working with microservice-based architectures.

Free trial Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted
7.3 Visit Specs
21 Render
From $25/mo Web · API
7.1 Visit Specs
22 Scalingo
From €7.20/mo Web · API
7.1 Visit Specs
23 Azure App Service
Free plan Web · Windows · Linux
7.0 Visit Specs
24 Azure Kubernetes Service
Free plan Web
6.8 Visit Specs
25 DigitalOcean Kubernetes
From $0.03/mo Web
6.6 Visit Specs

How this list is ordered. Specifiction scores each tool on how fully its maker documents it, whether its prices are published, where the research puts it, the platforms it runs on and whether it can be tried for free (how we rank). Makers can also buy a numbered place (how Specifiction is paid for).

Compare free plans and trials, starting paid prices, hosting model, managed Kubernetes and databases, autoscaling, runtime and region figures, and support tier before choosing.

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