Containers as a Service
Combine filters →CaaS sits between a VPS and a PaaS: the customer supplies a container image and the provider schedules it, runs it and restarts it, without detecting a language or building anything. That makes it the most portable arrangement in the register — the same image runs anywhere — and the one that hands the most back. Everything inside the image is the customer’s, security updates included, which is why records here answer self-managed even though nobody rents a server: an image is still yours to rebuild. What the provider actually operates is the scheduler and the host underneath it. The deployment method is a container image.
17 providers are containers as a service, listed alphabetically. Across 22 countries.
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- Aruba.it
An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
B
- Back4App
Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
D
- Divio
Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.
E
- E2B
A cloud API that starts isolated Linux microVMs on demand, for an AI agent to run code in.
H
- HostimOne we like
Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.
K
- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPUs and serverless Postgres.
N
- Nebius
Amsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.
- nine
A Swiss provider selling managed Kubernetes, managed and root servers, databases and object storage, all from data centres in Zurich.
- Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
R
- Runpod
US GPU cloud renting containerized GPU Pods, serverless GPU endpoints and hosted model APIs.
S
- SaladCloud
Container platform that runs customer images on idle consumer GPUs contributed by a distributed network of home and small-business machines.
- SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
- Sliplane
German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.
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W
- Webslice
New Zealand host that sells a container platform on virtual machines at a fixed monthly price and a metered serverless PHP platform built on AWS.
Z
- Zeabur
Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
Who is the best Containers as a Service provider?
Hard to say without knowing the project. A free tier matters for a side project and barely at all for a shop that loses money every minute it is down. Read a few records side by side; the guide says where to start.