Cheaper Netcup alternatives
Pricing data as of 2026-08-28 · refreshed weekly
Baseline: a Next.js app with startup-level traffic (~50,000 visits/month) costs $6.4/month on Netcup (VPS 500 G12). Every provider below can run the same workload — ranked by real list price. Cheaper is not always better: a vps platform and a raw VPS differ in how much ops work lands on you.
| Provider | Type | Plan | $/month | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | serverless | Hobby | $0 | Netcup vs Vercel → |
| Orkestr | paas | Starter | $0 | Netcup vs Orkestr → |
| Koyeb | paas | eco-micro | $2.68 | Netcup vs Koyeb → |
| DigitalOcean Droplets | vps | Basic 512MB | $4 | Netcup vs DigitalOcean Droplets → |
| OVHcloud VPS | vps | VPS-1 | $4.54 | Netcup vs OVHcloud VPS → |
| Fly.io | paas | shared-cpu-1x 512MB | $4.8 | Netcup vs Fly.io → |
| Vultr | vps | Cloud Compute 1GB | $5 | Netcup vs Vultr → |
| Railway | paas | Hobby | $5 | Netcup vs Railway → |
| Linode (Akamai) | vps | Nanode 1GB | $5 | Netcup vs Linode (Akamai) → |
| AWS Lightsail | vps | $5 bundle | $5 | Netcup vs AWS Lightsail → |
| Heroku | paas | Eco | $5 | Netcup vs Heroku → |
| Hostinger VPS | vps | KVM 1 | $6.49 | Netcup vs Hostinger VPS → |
| Hetzner Cloud | vps | CX23 | $7.09 | Netcup vs Hetzner Cloud → |
| Scaleway | vps | DEV1-S | $7.1 | Netcup vs Scaleway → |
| Render | paas | 512 MB / 0.5 CPU | $17.35 | Netcup vs Render → |
| Netlify | serverless | Pro | $20 | Netcup vs Netlify → |