Reasons to choose Laravel Cloud
Full-stack scale-to-zero. Since Laracon US 2026, a dormant app scales the whole stack to zero — including MySQL — and wakes in under 500 ms. A fleet of sleeping side projects makes per-VPS economics impractical, and Cloud is built for exactly that shape. strackt has no scale-to-zero: your VPS is always on.
Next.js and Nuxt monorepo deploys. Cloud deploys a Next.js or Nuxt frontend alongside a Laravel API from one repository. strackt can't.
Org tooling and compliance. An org-level, client-side-encrypted secrets manager and a private-cloud tier. We have neither.
Side by side
Comparison recorded August 2026. Check the linked official pages for current plans and availability.
| Laravel Cloud | strackt | |
|---|---|---|
| Experience | Platform — push and it works |
Platform — push and it works |
| Infrastructure | Theirs (AWS-backed, locked in) |
Yours (any VPS, any provider) |
| Pricing model | Usage-based: compute + bandwidth + storage (live) |
€5/app/month excl. VAT after the first free app, plus your provider bill |
| Server access | Black box |
Full SSH |
| Disaster recovery | Platform-dependent |
Code and configuration rollback; available backups recover data |
| Edge / CDN | Cloudflare CDN bundled — cache + DDoS + WAF at hundreds of edge locations |
Bring your own Cloudflare (or any CDN) in front of your VPS |
| App compute regions | One AWS region per app today (8 to choose from); multi-region planned |
Any region you can provision a VPS in — each application runs in the region of the server you place it on, and one server can host several |
| Team behind it | Laravel team — full support capacity, framework-team backing |
Solo founder project — async ticketing only, smaller capacity |
| Exit strategy | Migrate everything off |
Your server keeps running |
What changes the bill
Usage-based cloud costs depend on the workload. strackt charges per application; your provider bills the VPS and any usage separately. These examples show the assumptions behind the comparison.
- strackt
- €5 per app, excl. VAT
- Your VPS
- €5.49 and up, paid to your provider
- Laravel Cloud
- $5 floor, then usage
Every figure excludes VAT and sales tax. Hetzner CX23 (€5.49, Germany or Finland, excluding IPv4) is the cheapest VPS that runs a strackt application; Hetzner raised cloud prices on 15 June 2026 and retired the CX22 this page previously used. Laravel Cloud publishes a $5 monthly floor and bills compute, bandwidth and storage on top, so there is no monthly figure to quote against ours — the ranges this page used to show were estimates, not list prices, and have been removed. Re-verified 26 August 2026.
Before moving an application
Plan replacements for the managed services your app uses. Provision a VPS, deploy the repository, migrate data and verify the application before switching DNS. Cutover is in your hands; we cannot promise zero downtime during migration.
Is the developer experience really the same?
Both support a push-to-deploy workflow. They are not feature-for-feature equivalents: check the Features page for the supported stacks, previews and controls in strackt.
What happens to my server if I leave strackt?
Detach the server through a verified handover: strackt activates a standalone configuration and checks the services before releasing management. You keep the server, provider account and running applications.
Is strackt cheaper because it's worse?
The billing model is different. strackt charges per application and you pay your provider separately. Whether it costs less depends on your workload, server and the services you need.
Does strackt have edge / CDN like Laravel Cloud?
A CDN is not bundled. You can put Cloudflare or another CDN in front of your VPS. Each application runs in the region of its server; strackt does not provide multi-region failover.
Who's behind strackt, and what's your support capacity?
strackt is built by Jan Peter, a solo developer. Support is async and hands-on while capacity allows; there is no published SLA during beta. If guaranteed response times are essential, weigh that limit when choosing a provider.