Scalingo vs Engine Yard Cloud

Scalingo8.7Visit Engine Yard Cloud8.5Visit

Higher score Scalingo #6 in Ruby on Rails Hosting 8.7/10 30-day trial Free trial✓ 0 of 3 features Visit Scalingo

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Engine Yard Cloud #8 in Ruby on Rails Hosting 8.5/10 7-day trial Free trial✓ 0 of 3 features Visit Engine Yard

• Scalingo fits best

  Teams needing scalable European PaaS hosting

• Engine Yard Cloud fits best

  Enterprise Rails workloads needing autoscaling

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Side by side

Feature	Scalingo 8.7/10 Visit ↗	Engine Yard Cloud 8.5/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.7	8.5
Ranking	#6 in Ruby on Rails Hosting	#8 in Ruby on Rails Hosting
Best for	Teams needing scalable European PaaS hosting	Enterprise Rails workloads needing autoscaling
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	€7.20/mo	$270/device/mo
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	30 days	7 days
Free trial length	30 days	7 days
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Integrations	2 integrations	8 integrations
Features Scalingo 0/3 · Engine Yard Cloud 0/3
Managed database	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Background jobs	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Git deployment	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Specs
Ruby version support	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Apps on entry plan	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Deployment regions	2	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Git deployments, buildpacks, CLI, and API automation Autoscaling, review apps, private networks, TLS, logs, and metrics Managed databases across standard and SecNumCloud regions	Automated horizontal autoscaling with load balancing Managed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with backups Multi-region AWS deployment across 14 regions
Cons	No free plan after the 30-day free trial The S plan provides 256 MB RAM and low CPU priority Rails-specific capabilities are not explicitly described	Starts at $270 per instance per month AWS instance usage is billed separately Legacy platform with development focused on newer offerings
Our verdict	Scalingo is a managed Platform as a Service for developers, technical teams, and organizations running web applications and APIs. It deploys applications from Git repositories, builds them with buildpacks, and runs them in containers. The… Read the review →	Engine Yard Cloud is a managed platform-as-a-service for deploying and operating Ruby on Rails, PHP and Node.js applications on Amazon Web Services. It runs applications on EC2 instances and combines Git push deployment with automated… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Scalingo — where it wins

  • Git deployments, buildpacks, CLI, and API automation
  • Autoscaling, review apps, private networks, TLS, logs, and metrics
  • Managed databases across standard and SecNumCloud regions

  Where it doesn't

  • No free plan after the 30-day free trial
  • The S plan provides 256 MB RAM and low CPU priority
  • Rails-specific capabilities are not explicitly described

• Engine Yard Cloud — where it wins

  • Automated horizontal autoscaling with load balancing
  • Managed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with backups
  • Multi-region AWS deployment across 14 regions

  Where it doesn't

  • Starts at $270 per instance per month
  • AWS instance usage is billed separately
  • Legacy platform with development focused on newer offerings

• Scalingo8.7/10 · 30-day trial

  A capable European PaaS for teams that need scaling, automation, and managed services.

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• Engine Yard Cloud8.5/10 · 7-day trial

  A mature managed AWS platform for scaling Rails workloads, priced for larger teams.

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