A flat-priced alternative to the usage-based crowd.
Most platforms bill you for bandwidth, build minutes and every busy hour, so the price of being always-on only ever goes up. Ruust is one flat price per Egg, in GBP, with unmetered egress and no cold starts. Here is how we stack up against the platforms you are probably weighing.
Flat per-Egg pricing · unmetered egress · always-on
The whole bill, across the board.
Compute is close everywhere. It is egress and seat fees that decide the real bill, and that is where flat, unmetered Ruust pulls away.
| Per month | RuustYou are here | Railway | Render | Fly.io | Vercel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | Flat per-Egg, GBP | Usage metered | Bundled instances | Per-second VMs | Serverless functions |
| RAM /GB | £6 | $10 | ~$12.50 | ~$5 | ~$8-11 |
| vCPU /mo | £12 | $20 | ~$12.50-21 | ~$22 | usage-based |
| Egress | Unmetered | $0.05/GB, no free tier | $0.15/GB, 25 GB free | $0.02/GB, no free tier | $0.15/GB after 1 TB |
| Fixed fee | £0 | $20/seat | $25/mo | $0 | $20/seat |
| 2 TB egress | £0 | ~$100 | ~$296 | ~$40 | ~$150 |
Ruust prices are live. Competitor figures are indicative list prices for an always-on equivalent, converted at roughly £1 = $1.27, as of September 2026. Usage-based platforms vary with what you run; these use a 1 GB RAM / 0.5 vCPU service and 2 TB of monthly egress.
Ruust vs Vercel
Ruust is a flat-priced Vercel alternative in GBP with unmetered egress and always-on Eggs. No cold starts, no surprise bandwidth bills. Compare the two.
Read the comparison ->Container PaaSRuust vs Railway
Railway meters RAM and CPU by the minute in USD, and bills egress too. Ruust is flat per Egg in GBP, always-on, with unmetered egress on every tier.
Read the comparison ->Cloud application platformRuust vs Render
Ruust is a flat-priced Render alternative: one predictable GBP price per Egg, unmetered egress on every tier, and always-on apps with no cold starts.
Read the comparison ->Classic PaaSRuust vs Heroku
Compare Ruust and Heroku. Flat per-Egg pricing in GBP, unmetered egress on every tier, and always-on apps with no cold starts or scale-to-zero.
Read the comparison ->Edge app platformRuust vs Fly.io
Compare Ruust and Fly.io for always-on apps: flat per-Egg GBP pricing, unmetered egress and no cold starts, versus Fly usage-based edge model.
Read the comparison ->Jamstack platformRuust vs Netlify
Ruust is a flat-priced Netlify alternative in GBP: unmetered egress, always-on Eggs, no build minutes, no bandwidth meter, bundled Postgres and Redis.
Read the comparison ->Cloud app platformRuust vs DigitalOcean App Platform
A flat-priced, always-on DigitalOcean App Platform alternative. Fixed GBP per Egg, unmetered egress, no cold starts. Deploy a git repo to HTTPS in minutes.
Read the comparison ->Serverless platformRuust vs Koyeb
Koyeb bills by usage and can scale to zero. Ruust is flat GBP per Egg, unmetered egress and always warm. Compare pricing, cold starts and egress.
Read the comparison ->Enterprise PaaSRuust vs Platform.sh
Platform.sh is a capable enterprise PaaS. Ruust is flat GBP pricing per Egg, unmetered egress and always-on apps with no cold starts. Compare the two.
Read the comparison ->Developer platformRuust vs Northflank
Compare Ruust and Northflank. Ruust bills a flat monthly price per Egg in GBP, with unmetered egress and no cold starts. See where each one fits.
Read the comparison ->Hyperscale cloudRuust vs AWS
Ruust is a flat, GBP-priced AWS alternative for always-on apps. Unmetered egress, no cold starts and a bill you can predict. See how the two compare.
Read the comparison ->Hyperscale cloudRuust vs Google Cloud
Compare Ruust and Google Cloud Run for always-on apps. Flat GBP pricing per Egg, unmetered egress and no cold starts, versus usage-based serverless.
Read the comparison ->Hyperscale cloudRuust vs Microsoft Azure
A flat-priced Microsoft Azure alternative in GBP. Unmetered egress, always-on Eggs, no cold starts, no portal sprawl. Git repo to HTTPS in minutes.
Read the comparison ->Edge platformRuust vs Cloudflare
Ruust is a flat-priced Cloudflare alternative for always-on container apps in GBP, with unmetered egress and no cold starts. Compare the two here.
Read the comparison ->Self-hosted PaaSRuust vs Coolify
Coolify is a free, self-hosted PaaS you run yourself. Ruust is managed: flat GBP per Egg, unmetered egress, always-on, plus BYOH for your own boxes.
Read the comparison ->Self-hosted PaaSRuust vs CapRover
CapRover is free self-hosted PaaS you run and operate. Ruust is managed, flat GBP per Egg, unmetered egress and always-on. Compare the two honestly.
Read the comparison ->Self-hosted PaaSRuust vs Dokku
Dokku is a free, self-hosted mini-Heroku you run yourself. Ruust is managed and flat-priced per Egg in GBP, with unmetered egress and no box to babysit.
Read the comparison ->European PaaSRuust vs Scalingo
Compare Ruust and Scalingo. Ruust gives flat per-Egg GBP pricing, unmetered egress and always-on apps with no cold starts. See how the two differ.
Read the comparison ->European PaaSRuust vs Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud autoscales and bills by resource use, usually in EUR. Ruust is flat per Egg in GBP, always-on, with unmetered egress on every tier.
Read the comparison ->Deploy on your own cloudRuust vs Porter
Porter deploys onto your own AWS, GCP or Azure over Kubernetes, so the cloud bill is yours. Ruust is flat GBP per Egg, unmetered egress, no Kubernetes.
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