Flow Swiss
Cloud servers, Kubernetes, object storage and Mac hosting from Swiss data centres.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss DevelopedThe product is primarily developed by a team operating from Switzerland.
- Hosted in SwitzerlandCore customer data and workloads are hosted in Switzerland by default.
flow.swiss
Overview
Flow Swiss provides a self-service cloud with virtual machines (up to 32 vCPUs and 512 GB of memory), volumes, private networks, load balancers, VPN, managed Kubernetes, App Engine for container-based applications, S3-compatible object storage and dedicated Mac mini and Mac Studio hosting. It is managed through a web console, an API and an open-source CLI.
Flow states that all customer data is hosted in Switzerland across three regions: ZRH1 in Zurich, operated by NTT, ALP1 in Lucerne, operated by CKW, and ALP2, a bunker data centre in central Switzerland. Storage is encrypted at rest by default, and Flow states that its cloud platform is ISO 27001-certified.
Pricing is pay-as-you-go in CHF, billed hourly without commitment; the pricing page does not state whether VAT is included. Since September 2024 Flow has been part of the Swiss IT service group Sonio and continues under its own brand.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Flow Swiss is operated by Flow Swiss AG, which is headquartered in Baar, Zug. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
- Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services, Inc. · USCovers compute, managed Kubernetes, object storage, load balancers and VPN; much smaller service catalogue.
- DigitalOceanDigitalOcean, LLC · USCovers virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, an app platform and object storage.
- Amazon S3Amazon Web Services, Inc. · USVia the S3-compatible Flow object storage.
- HerokuSalesforce, Inc. · USVia App Engine, a managed container hosting platform.
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Baar, Zug (ZG), SwitzerlandVerified[3]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Unknown / not verified
Flow has been part of the group of Swiss IT service provider Sonio AG (Baar) since September 2024 and keeps its brand and founders. Sonio's earlier mergers were backed by the investor group AH & Capital Partners and Alpha VCX; Sonio's ultimate shareholders are not published.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- YesInferred[1]
Flow is run by its founders from Switzerland and maintains its own CLI and API clients; the development location is not stated explicitly.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[1]
Flow states that customer data is hosted exclusively in Switzerland. Its documentation lists three regions: ZRH1 (Zurich), ALP1 (Lucerne) and ALP2, a bunker data centre in central Switzerland.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Unknown / not verified
Flow names external operators for its data centres, so the platform is assumed to run in colocation. The operator of ALP2 is not stated. Flow belongs to the Swiss Sonio group, whose ultimate shareholders are not published. Data-centre facility: NTT Global Data Centers Switzerland AG (ZRH1); CKW Fiber Services AG (ALP1)
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
Privacy & security
- Encryption at rest
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
Paid plans fromCHF 10 / monthObject Storage, from CHF 0.0138 per hour; compute from CHF 29/month (CHF 0.04/hour); hourly billing, no commitment
- Pricing model
- Usage-based
- Free plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Billing in CHF
- Yes
Prices checked 15 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Open source
- Open source
- PartlyVendor claim[6]
The CLI, Go client and CSI driver are open source; the cloud platform itself is proprietary.
- Licence
- MIT · OSI-approved licence
- Source code
- github.com/flowswiss/cli
- GitHub
- 4 stars
- 0 forks
- MIT
- Go
- last commit
Statistics from GitHub, fetched 15 Oct 2026.
Company
Swiss cloud provider founded in 2009, registered in Baar (Zug), offering IaaS, Kubernetes, object storage and Mac hosting; part of the Sonio group.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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