A flat-priced home for your always-on apps, without the enterprise plan.
Platform.sh is a capable enterprise PaaS built for agencies and complex, multi-service estates, and it does that job well. Ruust takes the opposite bet: one predictable price per Egg in GBP, unmetered egress on every tier, and apps kept warm around the clock. If you run lots of small services that simply need to stay up, the maths tends to look very different.
Flat price per Egg, in GBP · unmetered egress · no cold starts
Here is how the two approaches line up on the things that matter for small, always-on apps. Platform.sh figures describe its general model and can change, so we have kept them broad on purpose; Ruust's numbers are exact.
| Ruust | Platform.sh | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat price per Egg per month in GBP. No plan fee to start. | Per-project plans with resource-based pricing, priced in USD or EUR. |
| What you pay for | The size you pick: Nano £3, Small £6, Standard £12, Large £24, or a custom slider. | Tends to bundle resources into a plan that scales with project size and add-ons. |
| Egress | Unmetered on every tier. No bandwidth bill, ever. | Bandwidth usually counts towards plan allowances, with overage beyond them. |
| Always-on | Every Egg kept warm 24/7. No cold starts, no scale-to-zero. | Production environments run continuously; suited to always-on estates. |
| Best fit | Many small, always-on apps and services that just need to stay up. | Agencies and complex, multi-service applications with rich environments. |
| Databases | Managed Postgres and Redis Eggs in a private Coop, or bring your own by URL. | Managed services defined per project, a genuine strength for complex stacks. |
| Deploy | Connect a repo, Nixpacks or your Dockerfile, live on HTTPS in about two minutes. | Git-driven builds with a mature, configuration-led workflow. |
| Own hardware | BYOH: run the open-source agent on your Linux boxes, £2 per Egg (capped £20 per host). | Managed cloud; not aimed at running on hardware you own. |
Platform.sh details are as we understand them and can change. Always check Platform.sh's current pricing and features for the latest.
What you get by switching.
Flat GBP pricing, not a resource meter
You pick a size and pay the same figure every month, in pounds, in every region. Nano is £3, Standard (the popular one) is £12, and custom sizes run at £12 per vCPU plus £6 per GB. There is no plan tier to grow into and no currency surprise on a UK card.
Unmetered egress on every tier
Bandwidth is never metered and never billed, on any size. Fair-use rate caps exist to stop abuse, but there is no cap on volume and no line item for it. For a busy small app, that removes the one bill that usually creeps upward month on month.
Always-on by default, no cold starts
Every Egg stays warm around the clock, so the first request after a quiet spell is as quick as the last. There is no scale-to-zero and no spin-up lag to design around, which is exactly what a small always-on service wants.
Live in about two minutes
Connect a git repo, let Nixpacks build it or bring your own Dockerfile, choose a region and a size, and you are on HTTPS in roughly two minutes. TLS is issued in about ninety seconds and renews itself. Rolling deploys, health checks and replicas come as standard.
Where Platform.sh is the better fit.
Built for complex, multi-service applications
Platform.sh is designed around rich, multi-service projects with many moving parts. If your app is a web tier plus queues, workers, search and several databases wired together, its configuration-led model is made for exactly that shape of estate.
Strong fit for agencies
Its per-project structure and environment tooling suit agencies juggling many client sites at once. Cloned preview environments per branch and a consistent workflow across projects are things it has invested in heavily, and it shows.
A mature, opinionated platform
Platform.sh (and Upsun) have been at this for years and offer a broad, battle-tested feature set with enterprise support behind it. For teams that want a well-trodden path and a vendor used to large deployments, that maturity is a real asset.
Ruust vs Platform.sh, the common questions.
Is Ruust cheaper than Platform.sh?
It depends on your workload, so we will not quote a competitor price. What we can say precisely is that Ruust is flat in GBP: Nano £3, Small £6, Standard £12, Large £24, the same in every region, with no plan fee to start. For many small, always-on apps that tends to be simpler to predict than a resource-based plan billed in USD or EUR.
Does Ruust really not charge for egress?
Correct. Egress is unmetered on every tier and there is no bandwidth line item at all. Per-Egg fair-use rate caps exist to prevent abuse, but there is no cap on how much traffic you serve and nothing to meter. Platform.sh usually counts bandwidth towards plan allowances, so this is often the biggest difference on a busy app.
Will my app suffer cold starts on Ruust?
No. Every Egg is kept warm 24/7, so there is no scale-to-zero and no spin-up lag after a quiet period. Ruust is built for always-on services rather than bursty, scale-from-nothing workloads.
When does Platform.sh make more sense?
If you are an agency running many client projects, or your application is a large, tightly coupled multi-service stack that benefits from its environment tooling and configuration model, Platform.sh is a strong, mature choice. Ruust is aimed at running lots of small, always-on apps on flat, predictable pricing.