Comparison
Tensel vs Sliplane
Choose Sliplane if you want to rent a server in Germany and pack it with containers: fixed monthly prices from €9, unlimited services and collaborators, volumes, managed Postgres and a hosted MCP server.
Choose Tensel for serverless economics and a stricter chain: apps that scale to zero and cost nothing while asleep, static sites that are free outright, usage metered in euros against a hard limit, and every subprocessor European.
What both do
- European companies running containers on European infrastructure: Hetzner there, Scaleway here.
- Push to deploy from GitHub, zero-downtime rollout, automatic TLS.
- Builds without a Dockerfile: Railpack there, detection and Nixpacks here; a Dockerfile wins on both.
- Unlimited team members without seat pricing, on Sliplane everywhere and on Tensel's Team plan.
- Both publish llms.txt and ship real agent tooling.
The differences
| Dimension | Tensel | Sliplane |
|---|---|---|
| Operating jurisdiction | French company under EU law; hosted on Scaleway in Paris | German operator (Berlin), under EU law |
| Infrastructure | One region: Paris. Backups, logs and platform data included | Hetzner in Germany and Finland; US and Singapore regions on DataPacket and Latitude |
| Subprocessors | Public register; every subprocessor is European, the one optional US integration (GitHub) is disclosed | Includes US companies (DataPacket, Latitude.sh, Backblaze), with transfers under SCCs |
| Scaling model | Serverless: automatic sizing, scale-out under load, scale to zero when idle | Fixed servers you rent and size by hand; scale up only, no downgrades, no scale to zero |
| Pricing model | Every euro of subscription is a euro of included usage; you pay the higher of plan or usage, never both | Per server, from €9/month, flat and predictable; billed per server whether busy or idle |
| Databases and volumes | No managed databases; bring your own via environment variables | Managed Postgres from €19/month; persistent volumes (mounting one disables zero-downtime deploys) |
| Workers and cron | No background workers, cron jobs or volumes; stateless HTTP only | Scheduled jobs, private services and TCP protocols supported |
| Static sites | Detected automatically, served from a European CDN, never billed | No static product; everything runs as a container |
| Rollback | One click, to the exact image of any earlier deployment | A failed deploy keeps the old version live; rolling back to an older build is not documented |
| Free tier | Free plan; a free organisation is never billed. There is no path from Free to an invoice | Demo servers, deleted after 48 hours; no permanent free tier |
| Agents | Eleven agent skills ship in the CLI package; skills hold no credentials; /llms.txt published | Hosted MCP server, public API, llms.txt |
Where Sliplane is ahead
- Price floor and predictability: €9 rents a server that hosts as many services as it can carry.
- Stateful workloads: volumes, managed Postgres, cron jobs, private TCP services.
- Regions outside Europe when you want them: US East, US West, Singapore.
- A hosted MCP server an agent can call directly, plus a public API.
Where Tensel is ahead
- Idle apps cost nothing: Tensel scales to zero; a Sliplane server bills around the clock.
- Static sites are free and never metered; Sliplane has no static product.
- Rollback to the exact image of any earlier deployment, in one command.
- The subprocessor register stays European; Sliplane's DPA includes US companies under SCCs.
- Capacity is the platform's problem: automatic sizing and scale-out, instead of picking server sizes by hand on servers that cannot scale back down.
- A free plan that exists, and never bills.
The price for a team of five
- Tensel Team
- €49/monthunlimited members, €49 of usage included
- Sliplane
- from €9/month per serverunlimited services and collaborators; each server billed monthly, busy or idle
Public prices as checked on 24 August 2026, excluding tax. Dollar amounts depend on the exchange rate and do not include usage.
Frequently asked questions
Isn't a fixed server cheaper than usage billing?
Often, yes. A €9 server running several always-on services beats usage pricing for steady load, and we would rather tell you that than hide it. Usage wins when apps are idle most of the time: a Tensel app asleep costs nothing, and a staging environment does not need a server of its own.
Sliplane is European too. What is the difference?
Both companies are European, and for their EU regions both run on European infrastructure. The difference is at the edges: Sliplane's DPA lists US subprocessors (backups on Backblaze, US and Singapore regions on DataPacket and Latitude) under SCCs, and it offers regions outside Europe. Tensel's register is European end to end, and public.
Can I bring my docker-compose stack?
Not as a stack. Tensel runs one HTTP container per environment. A compose file with Postgres, Redis and a worker maps better to Sliplane's server model; on Tensel the web process deploys, and the stateful pieces live with a European database provider.
Comparison built on 24 August 2026 from Sliplane's public documentation. Spotted something out of date? Write to contact@tensel.eu and we will correct it. Trademarks belong to their owners; Sliplane is not a partner of or affiliated with Tensel.