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OneBit Deploy and Pxxl, compared

We are one of the two platforms in this comparison, so treat it accordingly. The rule we set ourselves: every claim about the other product is something we checked on 9 September 2026 and can link to. Where we could not verify something, we say so instead of guessing — including where that leaves a gap in our own favour.

What we can say about OneBit Deploy

These are our own documented facts, and they are in our reference docs so you can hold us to them.

  • Runtimes: Node.js, Next.js, Python (early access) and static sites. Go and PHP are not available yet.
  • Region: a single region. No multi-region routing, no geo-failover.
  • Databases: managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB, on paid plans only. See managed databases.
  • Idle behaviour: on the Free plan an app scales to zero when idle and wakes on the next request. Paid plans stay warm.
  • Backups: no automated managed backups yet.
  • Rollback: one step back to the previous successful deployment, or Build again on an older update to put that commit back online.
  • Price: Free ₦0 (5 apps, 1 GB memory, 5 GB storage), Hobby ₦30,000/month, Enterprise ₦89,000/month. Prices exclude tax; Nigerian VAT of 7.5% is added at checkout. Payment is by Paystack, in naira.

What we checked about Pxxl

Both platforms sell to the same person. Pxxl's site titles itself "Pxxl | Best Cloud Deployment Platform for Developers" and positions the product as a deployment platform for African developers (pxxl.app, fetched 9 September 2026).

Pxxl publishes far more content than we do. Their blog is a large library of per-stack hosting guides (pxxl.app/blog) against our handful of posts. If you are searching for a guide to a specific stack, you are more likely to find one of theirs than one of ours. That is a real advantage and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Pxxl documents an MCP server; we do not have one. Their documentation site (docs.pxxl.app) includes an MCP integration, which lets an AI coding tool deploy to them directly from the editor. OneBit Deploy has no equivalent today.

Pxxl's marketing site is client-rendered. Fetched without JavaScript on 9 September 2026, https://pxxl.app/ and https://pxxl.app/pricing returned byte-identical HTML — the same 3,210-byte shell, the same checksum. A browser runs the JavaScript and shows you the right page; a crawler that does not execute JavaScript sees one page for every URL. Their documentation site does serve real HTML per page. This is an observation about how the site is built, not a judgement about the product behind it.

What we deliberately did not compare. We are not publishing a table of their prices, their supported runtimes or their regions. Their pricing page is rendered in the browser, we could not read it from a non-JavaScript fetch, and a comparison table built from a competitor's marketing copy — or from our memory of it — is exactly the kind of thing that ends up wrong and quoted for years. Open pxxl.app/pricing in a browser and read it yourself; it takes a minute and the numbers will be current, which is more than a table in a blog post can promise.

Choosing between them

Pick OneBit Deploy if you want Node.js, Next.js or static sites, billed in naira through Paystack, with managed databases on a paid plan, and you want the platform's limits written down in a reference page rather than discovered later. If you also buy .ng domains, they are on the same account.

Pick Pxxl if your stack is one we do not support, or you want to deploy from your editor through their MCP integration, or their guides simply cover the thing you are trying to do and ours do not.

Pick neither if you need multi-region hosting or managed automated backups. Neither of those is something we offer today, and we would rather you found that out here than after a migration.

Limits, one more time

OneBit Deploy: single region, Node.js, Next.js, Python (early access) and static sites only, and free apps sleep when idle and wake on the next request. If any of those three is a dealbreaker, no amount of naira billing fixes it.

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