Hosting cost calculator
Pick your stack and expected traffic — we rank every provider that can actually run it by real monthly cost. Pricing data as of 2026-08-28, refreshed weekly.
| Provider | Plan | $/month | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | Hobby | $0 | Non-commercial only; 1M function invocations |
| Orkestr | Starter | $0 | Free; 0.25 vCPU; EU-only (Nuremberg/Falkenstein/Helsinki), GDPR |
| Koyeb | eco-micro | $2.68 | 0.25 vCPU; Eco regions; egress metered |
| DigitalOcean Droplets | Basic 512MB | $4 | 10GB SSD |
| OVHcloud VPS | VPS-1 | $4.54 | Unlimited @500Mbps; 40GB NVMe; 12-mo upfront |
| Fly.io | shared-cpu-1x 512MB | $4.8 | Always-on est.; egress $0.02/GB (NA/EU) included in our totals |
| Vultr | Cloud Compute 1GB | $5 | 25GB SSD |
| Railway | Hobby | $5 | $5 incl. usage credit (~100GB egress); $0.05/GB beyond, included in our totals; up to 48GB RAM per service (usage-billed) |
| Linode (Akamai) | Nanode 1GB | $5 | 25GB SSD |
| AWS Lightsail | $5 bundle | $5 | 20GB SSD; burstable vCPU |
| Heroku | Eco | $5 | Sleeps after 30min idle; 1000 dyno-hrs pool |
| Netcup | VPS 500 G12 | $6.4 | €5.91 incl VAT; 128GB NVMe; fair-use unlimited |
| Hostinger VPS | KVM 1 | $6.49 | PROMO 24-mo; renews $11.99; 50GB NVMe |
| Hetzner Cloud | CX23 | $7.09 | €5.99 incl IPv4; 40GB SSD, 20TB traffic; x86 CX line often out of stock |
| Scaleway | DEV1-S | $7.1 | €6.55; 200Mbps unmetered; storage+IPv4 extra |
| Render | 512 MB / 0.5 CPU | $17.35 | Free Hobby workspace incl. 5GB bandwidth, then $0.15/GB (in our totals); Pro workspace ($25/mo) incl. 25GB |
| Netlify | Pro | $20 | 3,000 credits/mo; flat price, unlimited members |
| Cloudflare Workers/Pages | Workers Paid | $5+ | May not handle this traffic — 10M req/mo included; static assets free unlimited |