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Zeabur alternatives in 2026: how to migrate before Zeabur shuts down

By the Pethost team · 29 October 2026 · 10 min read

Zeabur is shutting down, and your n8n, OpenClaw or app needs a new home before December. The Zeabur alternatives are of three kinds: platforms priced per service (Railway, Render, Fly.io), self-hosted panels on a server you rent (Coolify, Dokploy), and a set size at one flat price. Pethost is the third: €9.99 a month for 2 vCPU and 3 GB, for as many projects as fit, with n8n, OpenClaw and WordPress among 110 one-click apps.

Zeabur is shutting down: the dates that matter

On 17 October 2026 Zeabur's founder, Yuanlin Lin, announced: “we will be winding down Zeabur”. It followed an intrusion on 14 October, its second security incident after one in late August. By Zeabur's own report, the attacker “read the environment variables stored in the Zeabur platform database”.

A server bought through Zeabur is shut down, and its data deleted, on its own expiry date, “which may be earlier than December 31”: its Settings tab shows the day.

What Zeabur did for you, and what replaces it

Zeabur's migration guide lists what ends with the platform. Here is each line, and what does that work on Pethost.

Zeabur alternatives in 2026: where to move

Zeabur's guide names “Railway, Render, Fly.io, …” as managed platforms and “Coolify, Dokploy, …” as self-hosted ones. One workload on each: three always-on web services of 512 MB, a worker, a Postgres and 10 GB of traffic a month.

Railway's is memory alone, at our assumption of use: Railway vs Render vs Fly.io pricing has every sum.

Railway, Render and Fly.io

Railway bills each service by the second, $10 a gigabyte of memory and $20 a vCPU over a month, and says it is “unable to give exact quotes or estimates”; it lists over 2,000 templates, n8n and OpenClaw among them. Render fixes a price per service, $7 for 512 MB, keeps request logs for its $25 Pro workspace, and has templates, n8n among them. Fly.io bills each Machine by size and running time, with no spending cap, for apps in several regions. More in Railway alternatives.

Coolify and Dokploy

Both are open-source panels that deploy from Git and run Compose files on a server you connect, with one-click apps: Coolify lists over 300, Dokploy 586+, n8n and OpenClaw among them. Coolify asks for 2 CPU cores and 2 GB of memory, Dokploy at least 2 GB, and the server's updates, security and backup storage stay yours, hosted panel or not: see Coolify vs Dokploy vs CapRover vs Dokku.

Pethost

A set size in the EU at one flat price, with our software doing a platform's work on it. Postgres, MariaDB and Valkey are managed, in one click, without replicas or point-in-time recovery.

What if I just rent a VPS?

Zeabur's guide also lists Docker Compose on a new host. You can, with two things in mind. An agent on a bare server works as root over SSH, where a wrong command takes down the proxy, a database or the firewall; on Pethost it works through tools that each do one clear thing, its shell inside a project's containers.

And a server is not sure to cost less. Hetzner raised its prices on 15 June 2026, and every plan of its cheap Cost-Optimized range is marked “not available”: hardware bought before the RAM shortage, long out of stock. Its 2 vCPU, 4 GB CPX22 is €19.49 a month, €23.89 with an IPv4 address and backups, before a panel, the proxy, certificates and your hours. Starter is €9.99 with all of it done.

What €9.99 a month buys after Zeabur

Starter is 2 vCPU, 3 GB and 30 GB for as many projects as fit, and its bill is one number, busy month or idle. The same 3 GB of always-on memory at each host's own prices:

That is €3.33 a gigabyte, with the work Zeabur did inside: 14 nights of encrypted backups off the machine, 30 days of request logs, HTTPS, your domains, GitHub deploys, SSH into any container, security updates and an MCP server. Of the Zeabur alternatives here, that is the best value: the most memory for the money, with the work done. Grow, twice the size, is €17.99. Moving from Zeabur? The code ZEABUR takes 20% off your first month on any plan, typed at checkout.

How to migrate from Zeabur to Pethost

1. Take stock npx zeabur@latest project export --id <projectID> lists a project's services, ports and volumes, and --json variable list --id <serviceID> a service's variables, those a database gives it under readonlyVariables. Both are secret: keep them out of Git.
2. Services into one compose.yaml image: where Zeabur ran an image. Where zbpack built your repository there is no Dockerfile: have your agent write one, or run pethost deploy before the folder has a compose file; then build: .. A .zeabur.internal name becomes a service's name, and a hard-coded .zeabur.app URL the new address: OAuth callbacks, webhooks, payment providers.
3. Variables into .env, with new secrets Zeabur lists them unexpanded, as ${PASSWORD}, and its report asks you to “Replace every password and key stored on Zeabur”: give the new project new ones. pethost env push sends your .env and deploys it.
4. Postgres by dump and restore With pg_dump and pg_restore 18 on your laptop, dump it by the connection string Zeabur shows, make a Postgres 18 here in one click, open a tunnel and restore into the URL its Connect card shows. A dump needing an extension our image lacks, such as pgvector, will not restore.
5. MySQL and Redis An app made for MySQL gets a MariaDB 11.8 in one click: load the mysqldump file through a tunnel too. Redis used as a cache needs no move, says Zeabur's guide; Valkey is one click.
6. Volumes Zeabur's guide streams a volume out as a tar archive through service exec; pethost cp puts it into a container, to unpack into the volume.
7. Domains Once the app works at its pethost.app address, point your domain at the machine: a CNAME to its name, an ALIAS at the apex. The certificate comes by itself.

pg_dump -Fc "$ZEABUR_POSTGRES_URL" -f zeabur.dump
pethost tunnel -p shop-db
pg_restore --no-owner --no-privileges -d "postgresql://app:…@localhost:5432/app" zeabur.dump

pethost tunnel -p shop-mariadb
mariadb -h 127.0.0.1 -u app -p app < zeabur.sql

Zeabur's n8n, OpenClaw and other templates on Pethost

By Zeabur's own counts its 1,825 templates were deployed 308,471 times, OpenClaw's and n8n's alone 74,993 times. Six of its ten most-deployed have their match here, with 124,676 of the ten's 166,154 deploys.

Deploy the template, then bring the data. Zeabur's n8n keeps workflows in a Postgres, ours in its volume: n8n export:workflow --all --output=/tmp/workflows.json there, out by the guide's base64 recipe, pethost cp into the n8n service and n8n import:workflow --input=/tmp/workflows.json here. Switch the workflows on, as an import leaves them off, and enter the credentials with new keys: Zeabur's report says the attacker read n8n's credentials at scale. A template we lack is still public images, mostly Docker Hub's, and anything Docker runs runs here.

Let your coding agent move it

Zeabur's guide is written for coding agents, and our MCP server gives yours the other end. Tell it “Install the Pethost plugin from https://github.com/pethost-dev/plugin for yourself”, or install it by hand:

claude plugin marketplace add pethost-dev/plugin
claude plugin install pethost@pethost

codex plugin marketplace add pethost-dev/plugin
codex plugin add pethost@pethost

Any other agent takes the skill with npx skills add pethost-dev/plugin and the MCP server at https://mcp.pethost.dev/mcp, signed in by OAuth. Then give it the move:

Read https://zeabur.com/blogs/migrate-from-zeabur.md and keep its ground rules.
Move my Zeabur project "shop" to Pethost: a compose.yaml for its services,
a Pethost Postgres with its data, new values for every secret. Deploy it,
tell me the DNS record to change, and ask me before the cutover.

Hosting for AI coding agents shows what else it does, managed Docker Compose hosting what a compose.yaml may hold.

Who Pethost is for

Zeabur's dates and words are from its pages and its template counts from its public API; they and the others' numbers were read on 28 October 2026. Prices are in the vendor's currency, ours without VAT; the sums are ours.

1. Zeabur: Zeabur is shutting down
2. Zeabur: migrating off Zeabur
3. Zeabur: migration, refunds and security claims
4. Zeabur: October 2026 security incident
5. Zeabur: templates
6. n8n: CLI commands
7. Railway: pricing
8. Railway: pricing FAQ
9. Railway: templates
10. Render: pricing
11. Render: n8n template
12. Fly.io: pricing
13. Fly.io: cost management
14. Coolify: pricing
15. Coolify: installation
16. Coolify: services
17. Dokploy: pricing
18. Dokploy: installation
19. Dokploy: templates
20. Hetzner: Cost-Optimized plans
21. Hetzner: Regular Performance plans
22. Hetzner: price adjustment