---
title: "Best Django hosting in 2026: 4 options compared"
url: https://while.sh/en/comparisons/django-hosting/
author: "Grégoire Mougeolle, co-founder of Nextmap"
updated: 2026-11-02
---

# The best Django hosting in France in 2026

Your Django app has to run in France, with its PostgreSQL database, and with no server to maintain. Here are the PaaS platforms that do it, and what each one allows when your AI agent is the one deploying.

## The right choice depends on your app

- **Do your apps handle health data, or do your customers require certifications?** Choose Scalingo: it is ISO 27001 certified and offers health data hosting (source 1).
- **Does your team prefer to assemble its own cloud building blocks?** Choose Scaleway: containers, database and network are separate products there, with a region in France (source 2).
- **Do you want your AI agent to deploy your Django app, without a Dockerfile?** Choose while: Django is detected there and started with gunicorn, and its database is backed up every day.

## The comparison

| Host | Your AI agent | The database | In France | To get started |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalingo | No official MCP server: the command line | Managed PostgreSQL, with point-in-time recovery over 7 to 30 days (source 3) | Yes (source 4) | €7.20 for the container and €7.20 for the database, per month (source 5) |
| Clever Cloud | A local MCP server, still young (source 6) | PostgreSQL free on the DEV plan, then from €4.90 per month (source 7) | Yes, by default (source 8) | From €4.50 for the app (source 9), and the database free on DEV, then €4.90 (source 7), per month |
| Scaleway | An MCP server in the CLI, with every command open by default (source 10) | Managed PostgreSQL, one backup per day kept 7 days (source 11) | Yes, in its French region (source 2) | Containers billed by usage, with a free tier every month (source 13), and the database from about €11 per month (source 12) |
| while | An MCP server with OAuth: sensitive actions wait for your approval | PostgreSQL backed up every day, with point-in-time recovery over 14 days (source 14) | Yes, with Nextmap, a French company | €0 to get started, then €13.75 per month for an app and its database |

## Scalingo, built for compliance

Scalingo is built for compliance, with ISO 27001 and health data hosting, and it responds to critical incidents in under 15 minutes on average (source 1).

## Clever Cloud, in France by default

Clever Cloud runs your apps in France by default (source 8), in many languages.

## Scaleway, containers on demand

Scaleway runs your containers from zero to 200 instances depending on demand, in a European cloud (source 2).

## while, Django deployed by your AI agent

Your AI agent deploys your Django app over MCP, without a Dockerfile: it adds gunicorn, applies the migrations at every startup and connects the PostgreSQL database, which is backed up every day. Sensitive actions, like deleting a production database, wait for your approval, and your agent reads the database in SQL, without being able to write to it.

## Next steps

- [Deploy a Django app and its PostgreSQL database](/en/guides/deploy-django/)
- [Compare Scaleway and while](/en/comparisons/while-vs-scaleway/)

## Sources

1. [Scalingo, home page](https://scalingo.com/), 2026-11-02
2. [Scaleway, Serverless Containers](https://www.scaleway.com/en/serverless-containers/), 2026-11-02
3. [Scalingo, database backups](https://doc.scalingo.com/databases/about/backup-policies), 2026-11-02
4. [Scalingo, regions](https://doc.scalingo.com/platform/internals/regions), 2026-11-02
5. [Scalingo, pricing](https://scalingo.com/pricing), 2026-11-02
6. [Clever Cloud, the MCP server (mcp-simple-server)](https://github.com/CleverCloud/mcp-simple-server), 2026-11-02
7. [Clever Cloud, PostgreSQL pricing](https://www.clever.cloud/product/postgresql/), 2026-11-02
8. [Clever Cloud, application regions](https://www.clever.cloud/developers/doc/manage/cli/applications/), 2026-11-02
9. [Clever Cloud, Node.js application pricing](https://www.clever.cloud/product/node-js-applications/), 2026-11-02
10. [Scaleway, the CLI's MCP server](https://www.scaleway.com/en/developers/cli/mcp), 2026-11-02
11. [Scaleway, managed database backups](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/managed-databases-for-postgresql-and-mysql/how-to/manage-backups/), 2026-11-02
12. [Scaleway, managed database pricing](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/managed-databases/), 2026-11-02
13. [Scaleway, Serverless pricing](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/serverless/), 2026-11-02
14. [while, tested backups](https://while.sh/fr/docs/briques/sauvegardes/), 2026-11-03

## Questions

### Do I need a Dockerfile for Django?

Not on while: your app is detected and installed from requirements.txt. At Scaleway, you build the image yourself.

### Can my agent configure Django for production?

Yes: it configures Django for production, security included, and serves it with gunicorn.

### Which ones host in France?

All four: Scalingo, Clever Cloud, Scaleway and while.