Hosting and deploy
Where your app runs, and what each developer on the team costs. Prices checked 2026-10-21.
What it is, and what decides the price
Hosting and deploy is where your app runs and how new code gets there: you push to Git, the vendor builds it, gives each branch a preview address and serves the live site on your own domain. Some vendors run your code as small functions and charge for what runs; others rent you a server that stays on.
The price has two parts that vary a lot between vendors. One is bandwidth and compute, which a small app often fits inside the included amounts. The other is people: some vendors charge for every developer who deploys, and some charge a flat fee for any team size. That is why we compare by the number of developers, for one small app.
Which one do you pay for today?
Other tools we compare
What each costs at 3 developers
Cheapest first, for the default use case (4 must-haves). Pick a tool to see its plans, limits and sources, or open a leader above to compare it with the others at every size.
| tool | plan | $/mo | covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages | Workers Free | $0 | all 4 |
| Fly.io | Pay as you go | $5.69 | 3 of 4, the rest not confirmed |
| DigitalOcean App Platform | Paid tier | $5.86 | 3 of 4, the rest not confirmed |
| Heroku | Basic dyno | $7 | all 4 |
| Netlify | Pro | $20 | all 4 |
| Railway | Pro | $20 | all 4 |
| Render | Pro | $43.25 | all 4 |
| Vercel | Pro | $60 | all 4 |
How we compare
One small web app for a business (commercial use), built by this many developers who each need to deploy. Every month it serves 100 GB of bandwidth and 1 million web requests, makes 30 production deploys and runs server code 1 million times for about 100 ms each (about 5 ms of that is CPU). Where a vendor rents a server instead of running functions (Render, Railway, DigitalOcean, Fly.io, Heroku), the app runs on its smallest always-on server with 512 MB of memory. Monthly billing in USD, list prices, the cheapest plan that covers all of that and everything you need. Functions (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare) and rented servers are priced for the same app but are not the same thing: functions have time and memory limits and no background processes, so pick the "Always-on backend" use case if the app needs a server that stays on. Plans whose terms forbid commercial use (Vercel Hobby) and plans too small for this load (Netlify Free and Personal credits) are not priced. Databases, storage, image optimisation, logs, analytics and overage beyond this load are not included, and each vendor's own extras are listed on its page. Prices are worked out from each vendor's published rates, not read off a calculator.