Nine
Managed Kubernetes, app platform, databases and servers on Swiss infrastructure.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss OwnedThe ultimate controlling owner is Swiss (Swiss persons, companies, foundations or public bodies).
- 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.
- Swiss InfrastructureHosted in Switzerland on infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider (or the company itself) — not a foreign hyperscaler.
Overview
Nine is a managed cloud and hosting provider from Zurich. Its main offerings are Nine Kubernetes Engine (NKE), a managed Kubernetes service; Deploio, an app platform that builds and deploys applications from Git; managed MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis-compatible databases; S3-compatible object storage; and managed, root and GPU servers. Self-service resources are managed through the Cockpit portal, an API and the nctl CLI, and most are billed per minute in CHF.
All services run on Nine’s own hardware in two colocation data centres in the canton of Zurich, ColoZüri and NTT Zürich 1. Nine Internet Solutions AG is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified. Out-of-hours on-call support is handled through a subsidiary in Canada.
Nine’s self-service catalogue is narrower than that of large public clouds; the company focuses on managed operations with optional SLAs and 24/7 on-call support. NKE pricing starts at CHF 305.30 per month for a cluster with one worker node and the managed software stack.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Nine is operated by Nine Internet Solutions AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Swiss-headquartered, Swiss-owned company; product developed (wholly or largely) in Switzerland.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
- HerokuSalesforce, Inc. · USVia Deploio, a managed app platform that builds and deploys on Git push.
- Google CloudGoogle LLC · USCovers managed Kubernetes, databases, object storage and servers; much smaller service catalogue.
- Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services, Inc. · USCovers managed Kubernetes, databases, object storage and servers; much smaller service catalogue.
- Amazon S3Amazon Web Services, Inc. · USVia the S3-compatible Nine object storage.
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 native. Swiss-headquartered, Swiss-owned company; product developed (wholly or largely) in Switzerland.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[3]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- YesVendor claim[1]
Nine states that it is 100 percent employee-owned (self-declaration as of September 2026). Founder Thomas Hug is CEO. A Canadian subsidiary, Nine Internet Solutions Ltd., is wholly owned by the Swiss company.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- YesVendor claim[1]
Operated and developed from Zurich; out-of-hours on-call support is provided through a wholly owned subsidiary in Canada.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
Services run on Nine's own infrastructure in two data centres in the canton of Zurich. A legacy managed GKE offering on Google Cloud is no longer available to new customers.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Yes — Nine Internet Solutions AG (own hardware in colocation) · SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
Data-centre facility: ColoZüri (Zurich-Altstetten) and NTT Zürich 1 (Rümlang)
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
Privacy & security
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
Paid plans fromCHF 5.50 / monthOn-demand MySQL or PostgreSQL Single DB (1 GB), billed per minute; NKE from CHF 305.30/month
- 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[7]
The nctl command-line tool is open source and the managed stacks are built on open-source software; the Cockpit portal and platform are proprietary.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0 · OSI-approved licence
- Source code
- github.com/ninech/nctl
- GitHub
- 16 stars
- 9 forks
- Apache-2.0
- Go
- last commit
Statistics from GitHub, fetched 15 Oct 2026.
Company
Zurich-based cloud and managed hosting provider founded in 2000, operating its own infrastructure in two data centres in the canton of Zurich.
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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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