wpshift vs Koyeb

Compare wpshift and Koyeb on pricing, features, platforms, and ratings — both Hosting tools, Plans start at $6/mo with a 7-day free trial; full tier breakdown…

At a Glance

 wpshiftKoyeb
Primary categoryHostingHosting
RatingNot documentedNot documented
Pricing modelPlans start at $6/mo with a 7-day free trial; full tier breakdown is not disclosed in crawled evidence (see wpshift.io/pricing).Freemium
Starting price$6/moFree (Hobby plan)
Free planNot documentedYes
Free trialYesNot documented
PlatformsNot documentedWeb
Team collaborationNot documentedNot documented
AI featuresNot documentedYes
Public APIYesYes

Pricing Compared

Starting price reflects the lowest paid tier, not the full cost for every team size or usage level.

wpshift

No individual plan breakdown documented yet.

Koyeb

Hobby — Free N/A
Pro — $29/month + compute Monthly
Scale — $299/month + compute Monthly
Enterprise — Custom, from ~$1,000/month + compute Custom

Pros & Cons

wpshift

Pros

  • Works with your own cloud provider — DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, AWS, or GCP — instead of locking you into a single host.
  • Centralizes common WordPress operations (install, clone for staging, import existing sites, magic login to wp-admin) in one dashboard.
  • Includes built-in domain/email tooling — DNS editor and per-site mailboxes — alongside server management.
  • Low entry cost: plans start at $6/mo with a 7-day free trial.

Cons

  • Still in Public Beta as of this review, so features, pricing, and stability could still change.
  • The bring-your-own-cloud model means you're still responsible for your own DigitalOcean/Hetzner/Vultr account and its separate costs, adding a setup step that fully-managed WordPress hosts avoid.
  • Public information about the company itself (legal entity, headquarters, team size, funding) is limited in the crawled pages, making it harder to gauge long-term stability.

Koyeb

Pros

  • Genuinely free, non-expiring Hobby plan with a bundled Postgres database
  • Per-second billing on GPUs makes AI inference workloads cost-efficient
  • Simple git-push deployment model without Kubernetes overhead
  • Access to high-end GPUs (H100, H200, B200) without long-term commitments
  • Now backed by Mistral AI's infrastructure investment following the 2026 acquisition

Cons

  • Free Hobby tier is explicitly not intended for production traffic
  • Smaller regional footprint than hyperscalers like AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Enterprise pricing is not published and requires a custom quote
  • Post-acquisition roadmap and independence from Mistral AI's priorities is still unfolding
  • Smaller team size relative to larger PaaS competitors could affect support responsiveness at scale

Use Cases

wpshift

Koyeb

  • AI inference deployment — AI teams deploy model inference endpoints on Koyeb's GPU instances with per-second billing and scale-to-zero.
  • API and backend hosting — Developers deploy production APIs and backend services directly from Git without managing infrastructure.
  • Hobby and side projects — Individual developers use the free Hobby plan to host small personal projects and prototypes.

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