Omeganodes vs Ziploy: flat EU-hosted pricing vs metered local billing
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Ziploy and Omeganodes both deploy your app from a git push and neither asks for an international card. They differ on two things: Ziploy runs in Lagos, Kano and Accra and meters usage by the hour in naira, while Omeganodes runs in Germany under EU data-protection law and charges one flat monthly price in EUR.
| Omeganodes | Ziploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Server location | Germany (Hetzner, Falkenstein) under EU data-protection law. No African region yet. | Data centres in Lagos and Kano (Nigeria) and Accra (Ghana). No EU location. |
| Billing model | One flat monthly price per plan. CPU, RAM and hours are not metered: the plan price is the whole bill unless you add an optional add-on at a fixed price. | Usage metered by the hour (CPU, RAM, storage, egress, build minutes). Each paid plan is a monthly floor: you pay the floor or your usage, whichever is higher. 7.5% VAT is added on the invoice. |
| Currency | Priced and billed in EUR: €0, €5, €12, €25 a month, or €0, €3, €8, €18 in Africa, Latin America and most of Asia. VAT included where it applies. | Prices shown in your local currency, billed in Nigerian naira (₦0, ₦6,500, ₦22,000, ₦60,000 a month, then Enterprise on request). |
| Payments | Card (via Stripe), PayPal, or MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money confirmed by our team. No card needed to start. | Local and international cards, bank transfer, a virtual account and USSD, paid into a Ziploy wallet (through Paystack and Stripe). No PayPal or mobile money listed. |
| Free tier | Free plan that does not expire: 1 project, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB disk, automatic HTTPS. No card. | Free plan with ₦1,000 of usage included each month: 512 MB RAM, 0.5 vCPU, 3 apps, 1 database. No card. Custom domains on paid plans only. |
| Data protection | EU GDPR, a public Data Processing Agreement and a public sub-processor list. | Data centres labelled for Nigeria's NDPR and Bank of Ghana rules. No GDPR terms found; data-residency commitments are agreed case by case on Enterprise. |
| Real monthly cost | One app running all month on Pro (1 GB RAM, 15 GB disk): €12, or €8 in Africa, Latin America and most of Asia. No CPU, RAM or hourly charge is added. | Its pricing calculator's default example, one app running all month (730 hours), comes to ₦15,660 before 7.5% VAT, and changes with what the app uses. |
Questions people ask
- Is Omeganodes cheaper than Ziploy?
- It depends on what your app uses. On Omeganodes you pay the plan price and CPU, RAM and running hours are never metered: Pro is €12 a month (€8 in Africa, Latin America and most of Asia) however busy the app is. On Ziploy you pay the plan floor or your metered usage, whichever is higher, plus 7.5% VAT; its own calculator puts one always-on app at ₦15,660 a month before VAT.
- Can I pay Omeganodes without an international card?
- Yes. You can pay with MTN Mobile Money or Airtel Money, which our team confirms by hand, usually within one working day, or by card (via Stripe) or PayPal. The Free plan needs no payment method at all.
- Where is my data stored on each platform?
- Omeganodes runs every app on servers in Falkenstein, Germany, under EU GDPR, with a public Data Processing Agreement. Ziploy lists data centres in Lagos, Kano and Accra and agrees data-residency commitments separately on its Enterprise plan.
- Can I move from Ziploy to Omeganodes?
- Yes. Both deploy from a GitHub repository, so you connect the same repository to Omeganodes, set your environment variables and push. Your app gets an HTTPS address straight away; point your own domain at it when you are ready.
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