Porter is a platform that provisions and runs a Kubernetes cluster (EKS, GKE or AKS) in your own AWS, GCP or Azure account, billed on the resources your apps request. Quave ONE Connect runs our platform in your own cloud account, and Direct runs it on our regions.
Facts checked on November 10, 2026, with a source link on every row.
Porter is a good fit for startups that want a Heroku-like experience in their own AWS, GCP or Azure account: public, metered pricing, a startup program, preview environments for every pull request, autoscaling on custom metrics, AWS-managed Postgres and Redis (RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache), and one-click SOC 2/HIPAA infrastructure on AWS.
Quave ONE Connect is a platform license (from $399/month, plus a one-time setup fee and a 12-month minimum) with your cloud bill paid directly. It fits teams that want managed MongoDB and MySQL as well as PostgreSQL and Redis, logs kept 20 days without a third-party tool, OCI as an option, and eligible idle app environments that scale to zero automatically (autoscaling enabled on request).
| Quave ONE | Porter | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Connect: a platform license from $399/month, set by a capacity tier of the vCPU and memory you provision, plus a one-time setup fee and a 12-month minimum contract. You pay your cloud provider directly. The license and setup fee cover one region and one provider. | Metered on the CPU and RAM your apps request, not on cluster capacity: $13 per vCPU and $6 per GB of RAM per month. The underlying cloud provider bill is separate. Enterprise starts at 40 vCPU and 80 GB RAM. |
| Entry point | Tier 1 covers up to 25 vCPU / memory. Tier prices and the setup fee are in your agreement; talk to our team for current pricing. | |
| Free option | Startups get 6 months free. A free self-serve plan is not documented. | |
| Run in your own cloud | Yes, with Connect: the same platform in your AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, or on-premise. 12-month minimum and a one-time setup fee. | |
| Who runs the cluster | The Quave team runs the Kubernetes cluster in your cloud account: cluster and platform upgrades, monitoring and infrastructure alerts, with 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages. You pay your cloud provider directly. | |
| Regions | Regions of your own cloud account (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, another provider) or on-premise. The license covers one region and one provider; more may cost extra. | You select a region when you create the cluster in your AWS, GCP or Azure account. |
| Bandwidth | You pay your cloud provider directly for the underlying infrastructure. The Connect license tier is set by the vCPU and memory you provision. | Porter pricing does not include the cost of the underlying cloud provider; you pay that bill directly. |
| Managed databases | Managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis work the same on Connect as on Direct, and Disaster Readiness can keep recoverable data in another region. | Datastores for Postgres (in-cluster, RDS or Aurora) and Redis (in-cluster or ElastiCache), on AWS only for now. MongoDB and MySQL are not documented. |
| Long-running apps and WebSockets | Long-running containers, so WebSockets work. Idle connections close after 60 seconds without data by default; keep-alive pings (such as Meteor DDP heartbeats) keep them open. | |
| Autoscaling | App environments autoscale warm containers on CPU and memory (enabled per account on request). On Connect, eligible environments can also scale to zero when idle and wake on traffic. | |
| Logs and metrics | Included: logs kept 20 days, Grafana metrics, alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email or webhooks, and OpenTelemetry tracing (enabled per account). | |
| Preview environments | Branch previews per pushed branch with the Quave ONE CLI and GitHub Action, cleaned up after a TTL. | When enabled, preview environments are created automatically for every pull request. |
| Support | Email support, Monday to Friday, 9AM–5PM São Paulo time, usually answered within an hour. 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages on every plan. | The pricing page says clusters are monitored 24/7 by Porter SREs, and Enterprise lists premium support. Support channels and an SLA for the Standard plan are not documented. |
| Compliance | Working towards SOC 2 (preparing for the audit). Customers with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications run on Quave ONE; with Connect, workloads stay in your own cloud account. | One-click compliant infrastructure: Porter says it ensures SOC 2/HIPAA compliance for the AWS infrastructure it manages, and integrates with compliance platforms. |
| AI agents (MCP) | Remote MCP server included: AI clients can inspect logs, review deployments, manage environments and run approved Jobs, within your account permissions. | Official remote MCP server (mcp.porter.run). |
Every fact on this page links to the public page it came from: our own docs for Quave ONE, and the vendor's own pricing or docs pages for everyone else. We checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before you decide. If something here is wrong or out of date, email support@quave.one and we will fix it.