Host profiles

Vercel
Managed platform (serverless)

Hobby $0 (personal, non-commercial only). Pro $20/mo per developer seat with included usage: 1 TB Fast Data Transfer, 10M CDN requests, 1M function invocations.

Netlify
Managed platform (credits)

Credit-based plans: Free (300 credits), Personal $9/mo (1,000 credits), Pro $20/mo (3,000 credits, unlimited members). Bandwidth costs 20 credits/GB.

Railway
Usage-based containers

Hobby $5/mo including $5 of usage; Pro $20/mo per workspace including $20 usage. Billed per second: memory ~$10/GB-month, CPU ~$20/vCPU-month, egress $0.05/GB.

Render
Managed containers

Hobby workspace $0 + compute; Pro $25/mo + compute. Web services from $7/mo (512 MB). Bandwidth: 5 GB included on Hobby, then $0.15/GB.

Fly.io
Usage-based VMs

No platform fee, no free tier (short trial only). Smallest always-on machine $2.19/mo (256 MB); 512 MB $3.69/mo. Egress $0.02/GB in North America and Europe, $0.04/GB in South America/APAC.

DigitalOcean App Platform
Managed containers

3 static-site apps free (1 GiB transfer each). Containers from $5/mo (512 MiB, 50 GiB transfer). Extra transfer $0.02/GiB.

Cloudflare Pages / Workers
Edge platform

Free plan: 100k Worker requests/day, static asset requests free and unlimited. Workers Paid $5/mo: 10M requests + 30M CPU-ms included. No egress charges.

Hostinger VPS
VPS

KVM 1 (1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe, 4 TB bandwidth) $6.49/mo promo, renews at $11.99/mo. Paid upfront.

Cloudways
Managed cloud servers

Managed servers on DigitalOcean/Vultr/AWS/GCP. DigitalOcean 2 GB / 1 vCPU / 2 TB transfer from $11/mo, billed hourly. Mostly PHP/WordPress-oriented.

Coolify (self-host)
Self-hosted PaaS

Self-hosted: free forever, all features, you bring the server. Coolify Cloud (managed dashboard): $5/mo for 2 servers, +$3 per extra server.

Dokploy
Self-hosted PaaS

Open-source self-hosted PaaS. Dokploy Cloud Hobby: $4.50/mo per server; Startup from $15/mo.

Hetzner Cloud
Cloud VPS

Shared Regular Performance servers from €6.49/mo max, excl. VAT (Cost-Optimized from €5.99 was listed as currently not available). Dedicated vCPU from €43.49/mo.

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