Zeabur vs Shuttle
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Zeabur and Shuttle.
Quick Verdict
3.3/5
Zeabur
0 reviews
3.4/5
Shuttle
0 reviews
Shuttle is rated higher (3.4 vs 3.3). One-click deployments and managed databases on a subscription platform (Free $0, Dev $5, Pro $19, Team $79 per month) plus fixed-price servers from Tencent Cloud, Aliyun, Hetzner, AWS, GCP, Linode, DigitalOcean and Volcengine, or bring-your-own-server; the usage-billed shared cluster closed to new projects in March 2026. Shuttle deploys Rust backend services with zero configuration — annotate your code with macros and Shuttle handles the infrastructure. No YAML, no Terraform. Pay-per-use serverless Rust.
Zeabur Deploy services in seconds — APAC-focused PaaS | Shuttle Deploy Rust backends from your code — no config | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.3 (0 reviews) | 3.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | freemium |
| Starting price | Free tier available | Free tier available |
| Best for | Individual developers and small teams in Asia-Pacific who want PaaS-style deployments on Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore or Greater China infrastructure, at fixed low monthly cost | Rust developers — solo or small teams — who want a backend live in minutes from annotated code and can accept a London-only region and no contractual uptime guarantee. |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 2 vCPU✓ | 0 vCPU |
| RAM | 2 GB✓ | 1 GB |
| Storage | — | 1 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | — | — |
| Data-center count | 10✓ | 1 |
| €/vCPU/mo | €0.00 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €0.00 | €0.00 |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Newark, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Toronto, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney (Zeabur clusters), plus marketplace regions via Tencent Cloud/Aliyun including Seoul, Jakarta, Manila, Hong Kong and mainland China | AWS eu-west-2 (London) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tiermanaged optioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter | free tieropen sourceus datacenter |
| Visit Zeabur → | Visit Shuttle → | |
Zeabur
Pros
- + Best budget-tier APAC coverage we have seen: Seoul, Jakarta, Manila, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China via Tencent Cloud and Aliyun
- + PaaS ergonomics (auto build detection, templates, domains, SSL, monitoring, backups) over fixed-price servers or your own hosts
- + Genuine free tier and cheap entry: Tencent 2C/2GB from $2-3/month plus a $0-5 plan fee
- + Open-source tooling and documentation on GitHub, with an AI agent that provisions infrastructure from natural language
Cons
- - Platform model changed in 2026 — shared usage-billed cluster closed to new projects with weeks of notice
- - No published uptime SLA below the Enterprise tier; reliability rests on the underlying provider
- - Small, young vendor: thin operational documentation and Discord-first support
- - Refund policy is unfriendly: roughly 30% Stripe fee on card refunds and no refunds on servers created or renewed after July 2025
Shuttle
Pros
- + Infrastructure from code annotations: databases, secrets and static assets provisioned from function signatures, no YAML or Terraform
- + Real free tier (0.25 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM, 0.5 GB database, 100 build minutes/month) with custom domain support
- + Published, itemized usage rates ($0.12/GB storage, $0.025/build minute, $0.10/GB egress) instead of sales-quoted pricing
- + Clear isolation tiering: spot instances on free, reserved VM-isolated instances from Pro
- + First-class Rust framework support (Axum, Actix Web, Rocket, Serenity) and open-source platform code
Cons
- - Rust only — other language stacks are not supported today
- - Single AWS region (London, eu-west-2) with no region choice below the not-yet-available Enterprise tier
- - No published uptime SLA on any current tier; support is Discord-based with 1-business-day response on Pro
- - Steep jump from $20/mo Pro to $250/mo Growth, with metered usage on top of every paid tier
- - Tier contents have changed materially over time (projects and included egress were cut in 2025)
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