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velixir vs Azure App Service

Any language. European cloud. One simple bill.

Azure App Service is a capable PaaS, and it shows in the surface area: an App Service plan, a separate database service, a separate cache service, and egress metered on top. velixir runs your app in any language (push your source, we build it), keeps your data in the EU, and puts the app, Postgres and Valkey on one hourly euro bill with no egress charges.

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Why teams switch from Azure App Service to velixir

The specific reasons, not generic ones.

  • One bill for the whole stack. Azure's app, Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Managed Redis are three services with three pricing models; velixir's app, Postgres and Valkey are billed hourly in one place.
  • No egress charges. Azure bills internet egress from West Europe at about $0.087/GB after the first 100 GB a month; velixir's bandwidth is unmetered.
  • Autoscaling on every paid plan, and staging slots from €12.95/mo. On Azure, autoscale and slots need Standard or Premium v3 (P0v3 is $64.97/mo); Basic has neither.
  • One command to deploy, with no Dockerfile and no build script. Push your source in any language and velixir builds it server-side.
  • One dashboard instead of a portal maze. Deploys, logs, metrics, Postgres and Valkey live in one console, not across blades and resource groups.

Side-by-side

Pricing checked October 2026. Specs reflect the closest equivalent plan in each direction.

Dimension velixir Azure App Service
Smallest always-on tier
B1 is Basic: no autoscale and no deployment slots.
 €3.49/mo (Hobby, 0.5 vCPU / 512 MB) $13.14/mo (B1, 1 vCPU / 1.75 GB)
4 GB class, with autoscale and slots
Premium v3 is where Azure's autoscale and slots live now that Standard is legacy pricing.
 €24.95/mo (Pro, 2 vCPU / 4 GB) $64.97/mo (P0v3, 1 vCPU / 4 GB)
Managed Postgres
Same project, same bill, same support.
 Built-in, from €4.95/mo Separate service (Flexible Server B1ms from $14.53/mo + storage)
Managed Redis / Valkey
Azure Cache for Redis no longer accepts new customers and retires in September 2028.
 Valkey, built-in, from €2.45/mo Azure Managed Redis (Balanced B0 from $13.87/mo)
Build without Docker
No Dockerfile and no build script.
 Yes (any language) Yes for its supported stacks; custom scripts common
Time to first deploy
No portal ritual before your first deploy.
 Sign up, push, live in about 2 minutes Plan, resource group and app setup first
Where you manage it
Everything for your app in one console.
 One dashboard: apps, databases, caches Azure Portal, across several blades
Sign-up trial
Azure's offer is broad but needs a card to start.
 Free tier (sleeps) plus first-month credit $200 credit for 30 days, plus 12 months of selected free services
Pricing model
No commit-to-save trade-off.
 Hourly EUR, no commitments Hourly USD, with reserved-instance discounts for 1 or 3 years
Bandwidth / egress
Egress is the classic surprise line on an Azure bill.
 Unmetered, no egress fees First 100 GB/mo free, then about $0.087/GB
Roll back a bad deploy
Rollback is on every velixir plan.
 One click from deploy history Slot swap (Standard and up) or redeploy

Same workload, both sides

A production web app with 4 GB of RAM, autoscaling and a staging slot, managed Postgres with 2 GB of RAM and 25 GB of storage, and a 1 GB cache.

Azure App Service
App Service P0v3 (1 vCPU / 4 GB), the smallest current plan with autoscale and slots
$64.97
PostgreSQL Flexible Server B1ms (1 vCPU / 2 GB)
$14.53
25 GB Postgres storage
$3.42
Azure Managed Redis Balanced B0 (1 GB, no HA)
$13.87
Per month
$96.79
velixir
Pro app (2 vCPU / 4 GB)
€24.95
Standard Postgres (1 vCPU / 2 GB)
€17.95
Standard Valkey (0.5 vCPU / 1 GB)
€8.95
Per month
€51.85

At the ECB reference rate of €1 = $1.1206 (9 October 2026), velixir's €51.85 is about $58.10 a month: roughly 40% less than $96.79.

Both sides can autoscale and stage releases in a slot. Azure's egress beyond 100 GB a month would be extra.

List prices before tax, for a month of continuous running. Azure App Service prices checked October 2026 on its own pricing pages; velixir prices are today's.

Move off Azure App Service in an afternoon. Connect your repo, or deploy from the CLI.

Push your code via Git or CLI. velixir builds, publishes, and deploys it in EU Central, inside the EU, in under two minutes. No Docker, no YAML soup - and your first month's on us, up to €14.99.

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