What is Porter?
Platform as a Service that runs in your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account, eliminating DevOps overhead while maintaining full cloud control. Deploy applications from Git or Docker with automatic CI/CD, autoscaling, and infrastructure management.
Porter pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based metering: $0.009/GB RAM/hr + $0.019/vCPU/hr, prorated to the minute. Enterprise volume discounts available. Does not include underlying cloud provider costs.
Standard
Usage-based pricing for compute resources, prorated to the minute
- Deploy from GitHub
- Unlimited Applications
- Preview Environments
- Autoscaling
- Jobs & Cron Jobs
- Certificate Management
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Custom Autoscaling
- Alerting
Enterprise
Contact salesVolume discounts and advanced features for large-scale deployments
- min_resources
- 40 vCPU, 80 GB RAM
- Everything in Standard
- Volume Discount
- Premium Support
- Advanced RBAC
- SAML-based SSO
- Custom Alerts
- On-Prem Installation
What Porter does
The capabilities that matter for paas & hosting, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Git-push auto-deploy
- ✓
- Deploy arbitrary container image
- ✓
- Per-PR preview environments
- ✓
- Build system
- Buildpacks
- Runtime / language breadth
- Node.js, Python, Go, and any Docker-compatible application
- Autoscaling
- Horizontal
- Geographic reach
- Multi-region
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Bundled managed data services
- ✓
- Built-in global CDN / edge
- -
- Custom domains + automatic TLS
- ✓
- Env vars & secrets management
- -
- Instant rollbacks
- -
- CLI + deploy API
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- On-premise
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
Porter alternatives
Other paas & hosting we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- VercelAgentic Infrastructure to ship apps and agentslow · 49%
- NetlifyPush your ideas to the webmedium · 64%
- KoyebHigh-performance Infrastructure for APIs, Inference, and Databasesmedium · 60%
- RailwayThe all-in-one intelligent cloud providermedium · 62%
- CoolifySelf-hosting with superpowerslow · 21%
- DokkuThe smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seenlow · 21%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Porter, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 50 | 22.00 | 1100.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 12.00 | 973.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 75 | 12.00 | 900.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 16.00 | 219.5 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 30.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","regions":"multi","runtimes":"Node.js, Python, Go, and any Docker-compatible application","autoscaling":"horizontal","cli_and_api":true,"build_system":"buildpacks","git_push_deploy":true,"preview_deploys":true,"container_deploy":true,"managed_databases":true,"custom_domains_tls":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |