About
Tugboat is a deployment preview platform that creates a working website for each pull request. It connects to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or generic Git repositories and builds on-demand staging environments with shell access, CLI and API control, centralized logging, and email capture.
The service is aimed at developers who need review environments for frontend and backend applications. The free plan includes 5 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 0.5 CPU, community support, shell access, centralized logging, a command-line tool, API access, and email capturing; paid plans add more storage, processing power, and features such as visual regression testing and premium support.
- Deploy previews for pull requests
- 5 GB free storage allowance
- 512 MB RAM allocation
- 0.5 CPU allocation
- Community support included
- Shell access and CLI tools
- Centralized logging and email capture
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable for small projects: it includes the core workflow tools, unlimited users and previews, and a concrete 5GB/512MB/0.5 CPU cap, so it is not an uncapped forever-free offer. The cheapest paid plan is Intro at $39/month; the free tier delivers roughly 38% of that plan’s price, so about $15/month is a fair estimate of its monthly value. A credit card is not required, which lowers friction and supports a stronger free-tier score.
What's included in the free tier
- Community support
- Shell access
- Centralized logging
- Command-line tool
- API
- Email capturing
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited previews
- 5GB storage
- 512MB RAM
- 0.5 CPU
See Tugboat pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Intro
- storage
- 15GB
- ram
- 1GB
- cpu
- 1 CPU
- Everything in Free
- 3x more preview storage than Free plan
- 2x more processing power than Free plan
- Standard support
Plus
- storage
- 60GB
- ram
- 2GB
- cpu
- 2 CPU
- Everything in Intro
- 4x more preview storage than Intro plan
- 3x more processing power than Intro plan
- Visual regression testing
Premium
- storage
- 300GB - 7TB
- ram
- 16GB - 512GB
- cpu
- 6 - 64 CPUs
- Everything in Plus
- Up to 120x more preview storage than Plus
- Up to 24x more processing power than Plus
- Premium Support
- Accessibility + SEO audits
- Private previews
- VPN compatibility
- On-premise hosting and configuration
Pricing extracted from Tugboat's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
