About Ubicloud
Ubicloud is an open source cloud that can run anywhere. You can use our managed service to reduce your cloud spend by 3–10x, or self-host Ubicloud to control your own cloud. Built by a team with experience from Citus Data, PostgreSQL, and Heroku, Ubicloud aims to offer an open, portable, and cost-efficient cloud platform.
Key features
- IaaS cloud features on bare metal providers (e.g., Hetzner, Leaseweb, AWS Bare Metal) with either self-hosted or managed delivery
- Elastic Compute: provision, use, and delete isolated VMs on bare metal
- Virtual Networking: public and private networks, IPv4/IPv6, firewall rules, load balancer, encryption in transit
- Block Storage with encryption at rest
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained access control
- Managed PostgreSQL with backups, PITR, and high availability
- ParadeDB (Elasticsearch-like) managed on Postgres, plus Managed Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions integration with dedicated runners
- Open source with transparent operations and portability across clouds
Why choose Ubicloud?
Open source foundation with transparent operations and portability, reducing vendor lock-in. Significant cost advantages (3–10x cheaper than traditional cloud providers) when used as a managed service or self-hosted. Flexible deployment across bare metal providers in Europe and beyond, with data residency options and a focus on simplicity and control over cloud infrastructure.
Pricing
Pricing is based on the managed service and billed per minute with pro-rated usage. Overall pricing is advertised as 3–10x cheaper than comparable offerings. Examples (Germany region):
- Compute: standard VM pricing from 2 vCPU / 8 GB RAM starting at $26.60 per month; burstable VMs start at $6.65 per month; higher-end configurations go up to 60 vCPU / 240 GB RAM ($798–$1,498+ per month shown in tables).
- GitHub Actions runners: Linux x64 from $0.0008/min (standard) and $0.0016/min (premium); arm64 variants available with similar scaling; GPU runners available at higher rates.
- Networking: 0.625 TB per 2 vCPUs included; $3 per TB of egress beyond the monthly allowance.
- Managed PostgreSQL: standard plans from $49/month to $1,498+/month depending on vCPU, RAM, and storage; Burstable PostgreSQL from about $12.41 to $24.81/month.
- Managed ParadeDB: ranges from $99 to $2,997+ per month depending on size.
- Managed Kubernetes: control plane plus worker node pricing (e.g., single node $45.60/month; 3-node HA configurations from ~$136.80/month, up to higher scales).