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BuildPusher is the own-your-servers alternative to Laravel Cloud

Laravel Cloud is a fully managed platform for Laravel applications: it runs them on its own infrastructure, with managed databases, caches and storage. BuildPusher puts deploys, servers, monitoring and analytics in one account.

No card to start. Every service has a free tier.

Laravel Cloud is fully managed hosting for Laravel. BuildPusher is the convenience of a platform on servers you own.

BuildPusher and Laravel Cloud at a glance
BuildPusherLaravel Cloud
FocusDeploy to servers you own, then monitor, secure and analyseRun Laravel apps on managed infrastructure
Where your apps runServers in your own cloud accountLaravel Cloud’s infrastructure
How you payPer service, plus your provider’s server priceA plan plus usage
Server accessSSH, commands and a browser terminalManaged for you
StacksAny app that runs on LinuxLaravel apps

Who should choose which?

Choose BuildPusher if…

You want deploys, the servers they run on, monitoring and analytics to work together, on one bill.

  • Your apps run on servers in your own cloud account, so you choose the provider and region, see the cloud bill, and can SSH in when you need to.
  • Monitoring, error tracking, status pages and Analytics are in the same account, and traces show the deploy that served them.
  • Not only Laravel: any app that runs on a Linux server.

Choose Laravel Cloud if…

You want someone else to run the servers entirely and are happy for your apps to live on their infrastructure.

  • No servers to think about at all, including patching and capacity.
  • Managed databases, caches and storage that scale with usage.

3 reasons teams choose BuildPusher over Laravel Cloud

  1. 1

    Your servers, your bill

    Apps run on servers in your own cloud account, at your provider’s price, in the region you choose. Leaving means your servers simply keep running.

  2. 2

    A way in when things break

    SSH, one-off commands and a browser terminal are there when you need to see what a server is doing.

  3. 3

    More than hosting

    Security scanning, privacy-friendly analytics and site audits sit beside deploys and monitoring, on the same bill.

Try BuildPusher: deploy without the busywork

Deployment #1841

Storefront · production

Health verified

A release record with revision, rollout and verification in one place.

  1. Approve

    Recorded

  2. Release

    Recorded

  3. Verify

    Recorded

Revision
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Strategy
Blue-green
Recovery
Available

Illustrative interface with sample data.

Sample data, for illustration.

What’s included in each

FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Cloud
Push to deployYesYes
Preview environmentsYesYes
AutoscalingYesYes
Servers in your own cloud accountYes—No
Choose any provider and regionYes—No
FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Cloud
SSH and a browser terminalYes—No
Any stack, not only LaravelYes—No
FeatureBuildPusherLaravel Cloud
Privacy-friendly analyticsYes—No
Package, secret and server security scanningYes—No
Public status pagesYes—No

What’s alike

  • Push to deploy, preview environments and autoscaling.
  • Databases, caches and storage buckets beside your application, and usage-based billing past a plan’s allowance.

Also in BuildPusher

  • Security scanning, a deploy gate for vulnerable packages, server hardening and compliance evidence, in the same account.

Switching is easier than you think

Three steps, with nothing to rebuild by hand.

  1. Step 1

    Connect your cloud provider and create a server

  2. Step 2

    Connect the repository, add the environment’s variables and deploy a preview

  3. Step 3

    Copy the database across and point DNS at the new server when the preview looks right

Read the step-by-step guide

Run deploy without the overhead.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Deploy from $9 a month, Infrastructure is included, Monitoring from $29 a month. The free tiers of every other service come with it, on one bill.

What else you should know

Laravel Cloud is a trademark of its owner. This page is based on their public information as of September 2026; products change, so check their site for the latest.

Connect your cloud provider and create a server. Connect the repository, add the environment’s variables and deploy a preview. Copy the database across and point DNS at the new server when the preview looks right. Nothing changes at Laravel Cloud until you point DNS at the new server, so the old site keeps serving until then.

Push to deploy, preview environments and autoscaling. Databases, caches and storage buckets beside your application, and usage-based billing past a plan’s allowance.

You want someone else to run the servers entirely and are happy for your apps to live on their infrastructure. No servers to think about at all, including patching and capacity. Managed databases, caches and storage that scale with usage.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Deploy from $9 a month, Infrastructure is included, Monitoring from $29 a month. Each is a line on the same bill, and servers are billed by your cloud provider.