EU alternatives to Heroku (2026)

40 EU-built startups found

• FormVault

  GDPR-compliant form builder with end-to-end encryption (AES-256-GCM), EU data residency, and a submission dashboard. No cookie banners needed.

  developer-tools, no-code, privacy

• FjordID

  Managed OIDC/OAuth2 identity platform hosted on Hetzner in Germany. Drop-in Auth0 replacement with EU data residency and zero US subprocessors.

  developer-tools, security

• Railway

  Instant deployment infrastructure for developers — popular across European teams.

  Cloud Infrastructure, developer-tools

• Liveblocks

  APIs for adding collaborative real-time features to your app — a French alternative to Firebase Realtime.

  developer-tools, SaaS

• Pocketbase

  Open-source backend in a single file — a European alternative to Firebase.

  developer-tools, Open Source

• NocoDB

  Open-source Airtable alternative that turns databases into smart spreadsheets.

  developer-tools, no-code, Open Source

• Portainer

  Container management UI for Docker and Kubernetes — a New Zealand/European alternative to Rancher.

  Cloud Infrastructure, developer-tools, Open Source

• Netdata

  Open-source real-time infrastructure monitoring — an alternative to Datadog.

  developer-tools, Monitoring, Open Source

• Holistics

  SQL-based BI and self-serve analytics — used widely in Europe.

  Analytics, developer-tools

• Better Stack

  Uptime monitoring, log management and incident response — a Czech alternative to PagerDuty.

  developer-tools, Monitoring

• Uptime Robot

  Free website uptime monitoring with 5-minute intervals — a Bulgarian alternative to PagerDuty.

  developer-tools, Monitoring

• Hugging Face

  The AI model hub and open-source ML platform — a French alternative to proprietary AI platforms.

  AI, developer-tools, Open Source

• Budibase

  Open-source low-code platform for building internal tools — a UK alternative to Retool.

  developer-tools, no-code, Open Source

• Directus

  Open-source data platform and headless CMS that wraps any SQL database — a Dutch alternative to Strapi.

  CMS, developer-tools, Open Source

• Hygraph

  GraphQL-native headless CMS — a German alternative to Contentful.

  CMS, developer-tools

• Sylius

  Headless open-source commerce platform for PHP/Symfony — a Polish alternative to Magento.

  developer-tools, E-commerce, Open Source

• Woodpecker CI

  Lightweight open-source CI/CD system — a self-hostable European alternative to Drone CI.

  CI/CD, developer-tools, Open Source

• Grafana Labs

  Open-source observability platform for metrics, logs and traces — a Swedish alternative to Datadog.

  developer-tools, Monitoring, Open Source

• Meilisearch

  Open-source, lightning-fast search engine — a French alternative to Algolia.

  developer-tools, Open Source, Search

• Checkly

  Programmable API and browser monitoring for developers — a German alternative to Pingdom.

  developer-tools, Monitoring

• Coolify

  Open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative with a modern UI.

  Cloud Infrastructure, developer-tools, Open Source

• Codeberg

  Non-profit, community-run Git hosting powered by Forgejo — a European alternative to GitHub.

  developer-tools, Open Source

• Semaphore

  Fast CI/CD platform with native Docker support — a Croatian alternative to Travis CI.

  CI/CD, developer-tools

• Buddy

  Git-based CI/CD automation with a visual pipeline builder — a Polish alternative to Jenkins.

  CI/CD, developer-tools

• Codemagic

  CI/CD built for Flutter and mobile apps — an Estonian alternative to CircleCI.

  CI/CD, developer-tools

• Gitpod

  Cloud development environments that spin up instantly from any Git repo — a German alternative to GitHub Codespaces.

  Cloud Infrastructure, developer-tools

• JetBrains

  Professional IDEs and developer tools for every major language — a European alternative to Visual Studio and Eclipse.

  developer-tools, IDE

• GitLab

  Complete DevSecOps platform with Git hosting, CI/CD and security — a European alternative to GitHub.

  CI/CD, developer-tools, Open Source

• Infra.market

  Swiss VPS and dedicated hosting powered by renewable energy.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Hosting

• Aruba Cloud

  Italian cloud provider with low-cost VPS and public cloud — a European alternative to DigitalOcean.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Hosting

• Contabo

  Affordable German VPS and dedicated servers — a budget-friendly European alternative to DigitalOcean.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Hosting

• Gcore

  European CDN, cloud and edge computing platform — an alternative to Cloudflare and AWS CloudFront.

  CDN, Cloud Infrastructure

• IONOS

  European web hosting, cloud and domain services — a German alternative to GoDaddy and AWS.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Hosting

• UpCloud

  High-performance Finnish cloud with industry-leading disk I/O — an alternative to DigitalOcean and Linode.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Hosting

• Exoscale

  Swiss cloud platform for developers with compute, storage and DBaaS — an alternative to AWS.

  Cloud Infrastructure, developer-tools

• Infomaniak

  Swiss-hosted cloud, email and web services with a strong sustainability focus — an alternative to Google Workspace.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Email, Hosting

• Bitrise

  Mobile-first CI/CD platform — a European alternative to CircleCI and Bitbucket Pipelines.

  CI/CD, developer-tools

• OVHcloud

  Europe's largest cloud provider with global infrastructure — an alternative to AWS, Azure and GCP.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Hosting

• Scaleway

  French cloud platform with compute, storage and AI services — a European alternative to AWS.

  Cloud Infrastructure, developer-tools

• Hetzner

  Affordable EU cloud servers, dedicated hardware and hosting — an alternative to AWS and GCP.

  Cloud Infrastructure, Hosting