Comparison
Tensel vs statichost.eu
Choose statichost.eu for plain static sites with one of the strictest EU stories around: a Swedish operator, Hetzner and BunnyWay as the only subprocessors, no cookies, flat tiers from €9, and a human on the other end of billing questions.
Choose Tensel when a site becomes an application. The sovereignty posture is comparable; the difference is what runs behind it: containers, a CLI, environments, and usage billing with a hard limit.
What both do
- European operators with documented, all-European subprocessor lists.
- BunnyWay delivers the static content for both.
- No trackers: neither marketing site sets a cookie.
- Custom domains with automatic TLS, apex included.
- One-click rollback to an earlier build.
- Deploy without git: direct upload there, folder import here.
The differences
| Dimension | Tensel | statichost.eu |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Static sites and full applications: any HTTP server in a container | Static sites only, by conviction; no SSR, functions or forms |
| Operating jurisdiction | French company under EU law; hosted on Scaleway in Paris | Swedish operator, founded 2022 in Stockholm |
| Infrastructure | One region: Paris. Backups, logs and platform data included | Hetzner (Germany) datacenters, BunnyWay (Slovenia) CDN; no US providers |
| Git hosts | GitHub (optional; folders deploy without git) | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Forgejo, SourceHut, Azure DevOps |
| Builds | Any HTTP server in a container: Node frameworks detected, Go, Python, Rust, PHP, Java, Ruby via buildpacks, Dockerfile when present | Any public Docker image as the build environment, configured in statichost.yml |
| Team pricing | Team plan: €49/month, unlimited members, never per seat | Teams on the €49 plan: 5 seats included, then €19 per seat |
| Pricing model | Every euro of subscription is a euro of included usage; you pay the higher of plan or usage, never both | Flat tiers with bandwidth and build-minute quotas; prepaid credits act as a spend cap, and overruns are handled by a person, not a shock bill |
| Preview environments | No preview environments | On the roadmap; the documented workaround is a second site on another branch |
| CLI and API | Complete CLI; every read command emits documented JSON | None documented; the dashboard is the interface |
| Static sites | Detected automatically, served from a European CDN, never billed | The product; bandwidth and build minutes metered per tier |
| Agents | Eleven agent skills ship in the CLI package; skills hold no credentials; /llms.txt published | No agent tooling published |
Where statichost.eu is ahead
- Git breadth: Forgejo, SourceHut and Azure DevOps alongside the usual three.
- Build flexibility: any public Docker image can be the build environment.
- Static-site details Tensel does not offer: password-protected sites, custom headers, configurable redirects.
- A billing philosophy worth copying: prepaid credits as a cap, and a person who contacts you instead of a surprise invoice.
Where Tensel is ahead
- Scope: containers run the backend a static host cannot.
- Price for pure static: unlimited static sites cost nothing on Tensel, on every plan; statichost.eu meters bandwidth and builds per tier.
- A CLI, an API and eleven agent skills; statichost.eu documents neither a CLI nor an API.
- Environments, members and roles, an audit log, organisation export.
- Live runtime logs and metrics, for when there is a runtime.
The price for a team of five
- Tensel Team
- €49/monthunlimited members, €49 of usage included, applications and static sites
- statichost.eu Professional
- €49/month5 seats included, then €19 per seat; static sites only
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
Two European hosts for a static site. How do we pick?
For a static site, both are honest choices. statichost.eu is a fine product, and Tensel's Free plan hosts unlimited static sites for €0. Pick on tooling: Tensel adds a CLI, agent skills and environments; statichost.eu adds broader git hosts, Docker build images and password protection.
Is their sovereignty story weaker than yours?
No, and we will not pretend it is. A Swedish operator on Hetzner and BunnyWay with no US subprocessors is as strict as it gets. The difference between the platforms is scope and tooling, not jurisdiction.
What happens when my static site needs an API?
On a static host you add a second provider. On Tensel the API is one more environment: a container in Paris next to your site, same account, same invoice.
Comparison built on 24 August 2026 from statichost.eu's public documentation. Spotted something out of date? Write to contact@tensel.eu and we will correct it. Trademarks belong to their owners; statichost.eu is not a partner of or affiliated with Tensel.