Scalingo

US alternative: Heroku

French sovereign platform-as-a-service for deploying, scaling, and operating web applications and managed databases.

Fully European

Overview

Scalingo is a French platform-as-a-service that lets developers deploy and operate web applications without managing the underlying infrastructure themselves. The platform includes application deployment, scaling, monitoring, and managed database services, with a strong focus on sovereign European hosting. Scalingo reports more than 35,000 developers and over 1,000 customers, including public-sector and regulated use cases. Its PaaS model gives European teams a credible alternative to Heroku for applications that need French legal and infrastructure governance.

Why it is listed

Replaces

Heroku

European signal

Reviewed as strongly European-aligned

Privacy and hosting notes

Scalingo presents a sovereign French hosting model and states that its infrastructure and value chain are in France for relevant offers; exact service-region and processor scope should be verified per plan.

Funding and ownership

Scalingo announced a €3.5M Series A in 2024 from Side Angels, CAJUBA, NEO Founders, Bpifrance, Caisse d’Épargne, and BNP Paribas.