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15 providers, side by side. Free tier, paid entry, bandwidth, build minutes, cold start, strengths, and gotchas. Sortable, filterable, sourced from public docs.
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| Provider⇅ | Category⇅ | Monthly free tier | Paid entry tier⇅ | Bandwidth | Build minutes | Cold start⇅ | Key strengths | Gotchas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel vercel.com/pricing | Platform | Hobby: 100 GB bandwidth, 6k build min | $20 / user / mo (Pro) | 1 TB included on Pro | 24,000 min on Pro | ~50 ms (Edge), ~200 ms (Node) | Best in class Next.js DX, edge network, preview URLs | Bandwidth and function invocation overage adds up fast |
| Cloudflare cloudflare.com/plans/developer-platform | Edge / Storage | Workers 100k req/day, Pages unlimited bandwidth, R2 10 GB | $5 / mo (Workers Paid) | Unlimited on Pages, R2 egress free | 500 builds / mo (Pages free) | ~5 ms (V8 isolate) | Free egress on R2, lowest cold start, global by default | Workers CPU time limits, KV eventual consistency |
| Netlify netlify.com/pricing | Platform | 100 GB bandwidth, 300 build min | $19 / user / mo (Pro) | 1 TB on Pro | 25,000 min on Pro | ~100 ms (Edge), ~250 ms (Functions) | Solid Jamstack DX, forms and identity built in | Build minutes burn fast on monorepos, function timeouts |
| Railway railway.com/pricing | Platform | Trial credit only, no permanent free tier | $5 / mo (Hobby) + usage | Pay per GB egress | Usage based | Always on (no cold start) | Easy Docker deploys, Postgres / Redis one click | Costs scale with RAM, no real free tier |
| Render render.com/pricing | Platform | Free static sites, free web service (sleeps) | $7 / mo per service (Starter) | 100 GB included, then $0.10 / GB | 500 build min on free, 1500 on paid | ~30 s on free (sleep), none on paid | Predictable per-service pricing, managed Postgres | Free services sleep, build minutes are tight |
| Fly.io fly.io/docs/about/pricing | Platform | $5 / mo trial credit, no perma free | Pay as you go from ~$2 / mo per VM | $0.02 / GB (NA / EU egress) | Local Docker build (free) or remote builder | ~1 s wake from stopped | Run real VMs near users, IPv6 native, fly machines API | No free tier since late 2024, ops surface is wider |
| Hetzner hetzner.com/cloud | VPS | None | EUR 4.59 / mo (CX22, 2 vCPU / 4 GB) | 20 TB included, then EUR 1 / TB | N / A (bring your own CI) | Always on | Cheapest serious VPS in EU / US, 20 TB included | DIY ops, no managed services, account verification can be slow |
| AWS aws.amazon.com/pricing | Hyperscaler | 12 mo free EC2 t2.micro, 5 GB S3, 1M Lambda req / mo forever | From ~$8 / mo (t4g.nano on demand) | $0.09 / GB egress (first 100 GB free) | CodeBuild $0.005 / build min (Linux small) | Lambda 100 to 500 ms cold, EC2 always on | Every service you can imagine, RDS, S3 reliability | Egress pricing, IAM complexity, surprise bills |
| DigitalOcean digitalocean.com/pricing | VPS | $200 trial credit (60 days) | $4 / mo (basic Droplet, 512 MB) | 500 GB included on $4 droplet, $0.01 / GB after | App Platform 100 build min free, then $0.007 / min | Always on (Droplets), ~1 s (App Platform) | Simple flat pricing, Spaces (S3 compatible), managed Postgres | Smaller global footprint than AWS, fewer managed services |
| Linode (Akamai) linode.com/pricing | VPS | $100 trial credit (60 days) | $5 / mo (Nanode 1 GB) | 1 TB included on $5 plan, $0.005 / GB after | N / A | Always on | Owned by Akamai, predictable VPS pricing, good docs | DIY ops, fewer managed PaaS features |
| Convex convex.dev/plans | Backend / DB | Starter: 1 GB storage, 1M function calls / mo | $25 / mo (Pro) | Included generously on Pro | N / A (managed) | Negligible (warm always) | Reactive DB, type safe queries, real time out of box | Lock in to Convex query model, smaller ecosystem |
| Neon neon.com/pricing | DB (Postgres) | 0.5 GB storage, 191 compute hours / mo | $19 / mo (Launch) | Included; data transfer 5 GB free | N / A | ~500 ms (compute autosuspend) | Branching for Postgres, scale to zero, cheap dev DBs | Cold start on autosuspend, single primary writer |
| Supabase supabase.com/pricing | Backend / DB | 500 MB DB, 1 GB file storage, 50k MAU auth | $25 / mo (Pro) | 250 GB included on Pro | N / A | Always on (Pro), free pauses after 1 week idle | Postgres + auth + storage + realtime + edge fns in one | Free project pauses, edge function limits |
| PlanetScale planetscale.com/pricing | DB (MySQL) | None (free tier ended 2024) | $39 / mo (Scaler) | 100 GB included on Scaler | N / A | Always on | Vitess, branching, zero downtime schema changes | No free tier, MySQL only, pricier entry |
| Turso turso.tech/pricing | DB (SQLite) | Starter: 5 GB storage, 500 DBs, 1B row reads / mo | $8.25 / mo (Scaler) | Included generously | N / A | ~10 ms (libSQL embedded replicas) | Edge SQLite, embedded replicas, very generous free tier | SQLite write model, regional write primary |
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