Upsun vs LucidLink
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Upsun and LucidLink.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Upsun
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4.0/5
LucidLink
0 reviews
Both Upsun and LucidLink are equally rated at 4.0/5. Upsun is a cloud application platform that runs full-stack apps across multiple clouds and regions, with tools for running agentic development workflows, for developer and platform teams. LucidLink turns S3 object storage into a shared, streaming cloud filesystem for teams working with large files.
Upsun Multicloud managed application platform (formerly Platform.sh) with production-parity environments | LucidLink Cloud file streaming for teams: a shared filesystem on top of S3 object storage | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $9/mo | From $7/mo✓ |
| Best for | Mid-market and enterprise teams shipping frequently who need compliant (PCI, SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA), EU-friendly, multicloud PaaS with Git-driven infrastructure and real preview environments | Creative and production teams (video, audio, VFX, design) with large shared files and distributed members who need one live filesystem without syncing or shipping drives. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | 16+ regions across AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud, OVHcloud incl. EU (Zurich, Berlin, Paris x2, London, Dublin, Stockholm), US, Canada, Australia | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | managed optioneu datacenterus datacenterteam featuressso | — |
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Upsun
Pros
- + Production-parity preview environments per branch: cloned data, services and routing, not just code review
- + True multicloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud, OVHcloud) with portable YAML configuration
- + Compliance out of the box: PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA; Git-auditable infrastructure changes
- + Explicit uptime terms: 99.5% best-efforts baseline, 99.90%/99.99% SLA add-ons with service credits
- + Granular per-service resource sizing billed per second; idle environments pause and stop billing compute
Cons
- - The cost stack adds up: $9/project + $10/user + metered resources and storage, and standard support at +10% of global spend
- - No formal free tier — only a 15-day trial plus a credit covering one project and one user
- - YAML configuration model is powerful but has a real learning curve; SLA guarantees are paid add-ons
- - Proprietary platform layer from a ~290-person independent competing with hyperscaler PaaS pricing
LucidLink
Pros
- + Streams large shared files on demand — no full downloads before work starts
- + Zero-knowledge encryption: the vendor cannot read customer content
- + Transparent published per-member pricing with included storage per seat
- + Built on S3, with bring-your-own-S3 on Enterprise for storage-substrate flexibility
- + 30-day free trial without a credit card; desktop, mobile and web clients
- + TeamCache add-on brings cloud files to on-prem users at LAN speed
Cons
- - Storage overage of $7-8 per 100 GB is roughly $70-80 per TB per month — far above raw S3
- - Starter tier is tightly capped: 10 members, 1 filespace, 1 TB, and no snapshot recovery
- - Specialized for file-streaming workloads; wrong shape for databases or block storage
- - No published region list or public uptime SLA outside Enterprise discussions
- - Client and control-plane dependency on a mid-size specialist vendor
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