Phusion Passenger
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Phusion Passenger, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Phusion Passenger's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger Enterprise Bronze support | Free | 1 support ticket per year · Max 5 day response time · Community, email, and chat support |
| Passenger Enterprise Silver support | $23.52 a year | 6 support tickets per year · Max 3 day response time · 1 year support for older versions · per GB/year |
| Passenger Enterprise Gold support | $89.11 a year | 18 support tickets per year · 1 day response time · 3 year support for older versions · Full stack consultancy max 4 hours/year · per GB/year |
| Passenger Enterprise Diamond support | $308.19 a year | Unlimited support tickets · 2 hour response time · 5 year support for older versions · Full stack consultancy max 8 hours/year · per GB/year |
| Passenger Enterprise | Priced on request | Pricing page says production starts at $23.52 p/m and non-production starts at $11.14 p/m · Contact sales for a quote · Custom pricing based on production and non-production cluster RAM and selected support plan |
The facts
Each one read from Phusion Passenger's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Deployment
- Passenger can run locally or on a remote cloud server, and its features page also describes Docker integration.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Enterprise features
- Enterprise premium features include mass deployment, rolling restarts, live debugging tools, and dedicated engineering support.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Feature limits
- Passenger lists multithreading and its live debugger as Ruby-only premium features.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Languages
- Passenger 6 supports generic language support and the product site describes deploying apps regardless of language.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Open source
- The open-source version is free and community supported, and includes arbitrary app hosting, web server integration, request and response buffering, and privilege separation.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Performance
- Passenger says it supports evented I/O and multiple concurrency models, and includes Turbocaching.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Phusion states that it complies with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).checked 7 Oct 2026
- Process management
- Passenger restarts apps that crash, hang, or leak memory and can limit application memory use and response times.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Product
- Passenger is an application server that runs and automatically manages web applications.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- Passenger says it defends against slow client attacks and common HTTP parser exploits and uses privilege separation.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security reporting
- Phusion directs users to report possible security problems by email to [email protected] and says it works to resolve vulnerabilities and communicate fixes.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- Support tiers offer between one ticket per year and unlimited tickets, with stated response times ranging from five days to two hours.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Web server integration
- The automated installer integrates Passenger with NGINX or Apache.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlandschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial
- Passenger Enterprise offers a free 14-day trial, with signup by contacting sales.checked 7 Oct 2026
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