Laravel Cloud vs Serversinc
Laravel Cloud runs your Laravel app on managed AWS and bills on usage. Serversinc runs any container on servers you own.
Checked against Laravel Cloud's public pricing and docs on 2026-09-27.
What Laravel Cloud is, and what Serversinc is
Both get your apps running. Here is how each one does it.
Laravel Cloud is a managed platform on AWS for Laravel and Symfony. Compute scales to zero when idle and autoscales under load, with managed MySQL, Serverless Postgres and Valkey. You pay a plan fee from $5 a month plus usage.
Serversinc gives you a managed deploy flow on servers you own. Import a box or provision one on your cloud account, and run Laravel next to anything else in a container. You pay £5 a month for your first three servers and £2 for each after.
What the bill looks like
Laravel Cloud plans are $5 (Starter), $20 (Growth) and $200 (Business) a month plus usage. Compute is billed per second, capped at $6 a month for Flex 512 MiB, and bandwidth past the allowance is $0.10 per GB.
- Platform fee
- Laravel Cloud $5/mo Starter (includes $5 credit), $20 Growth, $200 Business Serversinc £5/mo for three servers
- Compute
- Laravel Cloud Per second while awake: Flex up to $24/mo, Pro 4–32 GiB $32–$256/mo Serversinc Your server at your provider's price; run as many apps as fit
- Databases
- Laravel Cloud MySQL, Serverless Postgres and Valkey, billed on usage Serversinc Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB on your server, no per-database charge
- Bandwidth
- Laravel Cloud $0.10/GB past the allowance Serversinc Not billed by Serversinc; your provider's terms apply
- Seats
- Laravel Cloud Unlimited Serversinc Up to 10, no seat charge
List prices in each vendor's own currency. Server costs from your cloud provider are billed separately on both sides unless stated.
Side by side
Deploys, databases, backups, alerts and automation.
- Where apps run
- Laravel Cloud Laravel's managed AWS infrastructure, 9 regions Serversinc Servers you own, at any provider and in any region they offer
- Stack
- Laravel Cloud Laravel and Symfony Serversinc Anything that runs in a container, Laravel included
- Scaling
- Laravel Cloud Scale to zero, autoscaling replicas and preview environments Serversinc CPU and memory limits per application, on the server you choose
- Databases
- Laravel Cloud Managed MySQL, Serverless Postgres and Valkey Serversinc Provision Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB with users, schemas and grants
- Backups
- Laravel Cloud Held by the platform Serversinc Scheduled database and volume backups to an S3-compatible bucket you own
- Server upkeep
- Laravel Cloud Laravel runs the infrastructure Serversinc The server is yours; Serversinc sets up routing, HTTPS and the agent
- Automation
- Laravel Cloud REST API and CLI Serversinc REST API, per-application deploy triggers and an MCP server
Both are good tools. Pick the one that fits.
Where each one is the stronger choice, stated plainly.
Pick Laravel Cloud if
- Your apps are Laravel or Symfony and you never want to own a server.
- Your traffic is spiky or idle most of the day, so scale to zero saves money.
- You need autoscaling, preview environments or a WAF.
- You want serverless Postgres and Valkey managed for you.
Pick Serversinc if
- You run Laravel next to services in other languages.
- Your apps run all day, so a fixed server costs less than always-on usage.
- You want the server, the data and the backups to be yours.
- You want MariaDB or self-managed MySQL and Postgres with full access.
Laravel Cloud vs Serversinc, answered
Connect your first server
Import a server you already run, or provision one on your own cloud account. The first three servers are £5 a month.