Qovery

Qovery is a Paris-based infrastructure platform that provides a production-grade Kubernetes control plane operating inside a customer's own cloud account. It supports AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Scaleway, as well as bring-your-own Kubernetes clusters and on-premise environments. The platform covers deployment (built-in CI/CD, GitOps, preview environments per pull request, rollbacks, service catalog with applications, databases, Helm charts and Terraform modules), cluster provisioning and day-2 operations such as upgrades, patching, networking, IAM, encryption and autoscaling, plus observability (logs, live metrics, Kubernetes events) and cost optimization features including spot instances, sleep mode and right-sizing.

Under a bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) architecture, workloads, data and secrets remain in the customer's VPC while Qovery operates the control plane; the company states it is not a sub-processor of customer data. Access is governed by role-based access control, policy-as-code guardrails, approvals, quotas, environment restrictions, SSO and audit logging. Since 2025 the company has extended the same interfaces to AI coding agents through an MCP server, the Qovery Skill and an AI Copilot that explains failed deployments, so agents authenticate with scoped API tokens rather than personal credentials and their actions are logged like those of human engineers. Compliance scope includes SOC 2 Type II and GDPR on the Business plan, with HIPAA, HDS, ISO 27001 and DORA packages on Enterprise.

The company positions itself against PaaS products and internally built developer platforms, emphasising standard Kubernetes, Helm charts and open Terraform providers rather than proprietary resource formats, and offers migration tooling for teams leaving Heroku, Render, Railway, Vercel or self-managed clusters.

Founding story

Co-founder and CEO Romaric Philogène describes being paged at 2 a.m. at age 22 at a Paris startup, where a four-minute database fix took forty-five minutes to reach, and later building an internal developer platform in 2012 and observing that platform engineering is repeatedly rebuilt at every company. He and Morgan Perry founded Qovery in 2020 on the thesis that engineering teams should get a production-grade infrastructure platform running in their own cloud and governed by their own policies. Company blog and press accounts also name Pierre Mavro as a co-founder from the Techstars 2019 cohort, with the founders' backgrounds at Red Hat, Criteo and Ullink.

Business model

Subscription software sold to engineering organizations, with the customer's own cloud account bearing the compute cost. Qovery provides the control plane, managed cluster operations and support.

Tiered SaaS subscriptions: a Business plan at $2,999 per month for 20 users (annual billing, 20% discount) including up to three Qovery-managed clusters, 10,000 monthly deployment minutes and SOC 2/GDPR scope, with metered overages ($399 per additional cluster, $0.16 per extra deployment minute, $150/month custom builder size); an Enterprise plan with custom pricing covering bring-your-own Kubernetes, a self-hosted or air-gapped control plane, unlimited RBAC roles, SSO and extended compliance packages. Paid add-ons include an observability bundle at $299 per cluster per month and custom support. AI agents and bots do not consume user seats.

Traction

200+ organizations and 1,000+ clusters managed; 4.8 rating on G2 from over 80 reviews; 115% year-over-year growth reported at the September 2025 Series A, with hundreds of clients and thousands of users. Published customer outcomes include Alan cutting deployment time from 55 to 8 minutes after leaving Elastic Beanstalk, RentalReady increasing deployment capacity 17x, Kelvin reducing deployment times by 80%, and Charles.co tripling development speed.

Latest developments

Following the September 2025 Series A, Qovery repositioned as an agentic infrastructure platform: AI agents can deploy through the MCP server, Qovery Skills and Policy API tokens with scoped RBAC and audit logging, and an AI Copilot diagnoses failed deployments. The company promotes agent-assisted migrations from Heroku, Vercel, Railway and self-managed clusters, added Azure and Scaleway alongside AWS and GCP, and expanded compliance coverage to HIPAA, HDS, ISO 27001 and DORA on Enterprise plans, including a self-hosted air-gapped control plane.