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 2026-10-12, refreshed weekly.
| Provider | Plan | $/month | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orkestr | Starter | $0 | Free; 0.25 vCPU; EU-only (Nuremberg/Falkenstein/Helsinki), GDPR |
| DigitalOcean Droplets | Basic 512MB | $4 | 10GB SSD |
| OVHcloud VPS | VPS-1 | $4.54 | Unlimited @500Mbps; 40GB NVMe; 12-mo upfront |
| 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 |
| Fly.io | shared-cpu-1x 512MB | $5.17 | Always-on, Ashburn/Secaucus (iad/ewr, Fly's lowest-priced regions; Amsterdam ×1.038, Frankfurt ×1.154); memory price rise effective 2026-10-01 (was $3.19); egress $0.02/GB (NA/EU) included in our totals. Verified 2026-10-05 (docs.fly.io; old fly.io/docs URL still shows pre-October prices) |
| DigitalOcean App Platform | Shared 1 vCPU / 512MB | $5.48 | apps-s-1vcpu-0.5gb; fixed size, no manual or auto scaling; 50 GiB outbound included (pooled across the team), then $0.02/GiB (in our totals). Prices from docs.digitalocean.com App Platform pricing (page 'last verified 13 Jul 2026'), checked 2026-10-14 |
| Hostinger VPS | KVM 1 | $6.49 | PROMO 24-mo; renews $11.99; 50GB NVMe |
| Scaleway | DEV1-S | $7.1 | €6.55; 200Mbps unmetered; storage+IPv4 extra |
| Netcup | VPS 500 G12.5 | $7.79 | €6.94 net (€8.26 incl. 19% DE VAT), 12-month term; page also shows €9.50 incl VAT (likely the 1-month term); 64GB SSD; traffic fair-use unlimited; G12.5 replaced G12 on 2026-09-22 (G12 was €5.91 / 128GB NVMe). Verified 2026-10-05 |
| 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 |
| Vercel | Pro | $20 | Per seat ($20 per extra paid seat); Flat Rate CDN base tier (default for new Pro teams since 2026-09-08) includes 1TB + 1M CDN requests. Past 1TB we charge on-demand $0.15/GB (US rate; $0.15–0.35 by region) or the $20 flat tier below, whichever is cheaper. Active CPU billed. Verified 2026-09-25 |
| Netlify | Pro | $20 | 3,000 credits/mo; flat price, unlimited members |
| Hetzner Cloud | CPX22 (Regular Performance) | $23.59 | €19.99 incl IPv4 (€19.49 + €0.50 IPv4, excl. VAT; Hetzner USD list $22.99 + $0.60 IPv4); shared AMD vCPU; 80GB NVMe, 20TB traffic in EU; NBG1/HEL1 (not FSN1). Prices from Hetzner's 15 Jun 2026 price-adjustment table (docs.hetzner.com, checked 2026-10-14). Regular Performance carries no 'not available' label on hetzner.com/cloud; per-location stock can still vary |
| Koyeb | eco-micro | $29 | Pro plan $29/mo incl. $10 compute (pricing page lists only Pro/Scale/Enterprise; organization docs still describe a Starter plan and one tiny Free instance — conflicting, re-checked 2026-10-12) + eco-micro $2.68 (0.25 vCPU) → covered by credit; Eco regions only (WAS/FRA/SIN); egress metered. Prices verified 2026-10-12 |
| Cloudflare Workers/Pages | Workers Paid | $5+ | May not handle this traffic — 10M req/mo included; static assets free unlimited |