App hosting: cheapest modeled plans
Eligible plans ordered by monthly equivalent at the workload below. A low subscription fee alone does not establish the cheapest total.
What this comparison covers
A commercial web API with uncached dynamic requests, US compute, one deploying developer and standard builds. Runtime compatibility, concurrency and performance must be assessed separately. No databases, image transformations, middleware, premium logs or other add-ons.
Evaluating 5 products from 5 published in this category. USD monthly equivalents, before tax. Features and service compatibility need separate evaluation.
- Dynamic requests
- 1,000,000 requests / month
- CPU time per request
- 10 milliseconds / request
- Provisioned memory
- 100 GB-hours / month
- Data sent to visitors
- 100 GB / month
- Production deployments
- 20 deployments / month
Cost ranking at this workload
5 eligible products. Quote-only, expired and unsupported configurations are excluded from cost rankings.
Render
Fully managed cloud platform for web services, background workers, and static sites.
$0 / month
Free Hobby
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-05
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Free web services spin down after 15 minutes of inactivity and take up to 50 seconds to restart.
- Persistent disks, custom scaling, log streams, and background workers.
Free Hobby: $0/month at reference usage.
Cloudflare Workers
Edge compute with no data-transfer fee.
$5.00 / month
Standard
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-05
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $5.00
- Dynamic requests (10,000,000 included): $0
- Active CPU (30,000,000 included): $0
- Workers runtime compatibility must be checked. This model assumes no Workers Cache feature and no paid build service. The $5 account subscription also covers paid D1 access.
- KV, D1, R2, Durable Objects, queues, paid logs and build-service charges. Free plan daily limits are not modeled.
Standard: $5.00/month at reference usage.
Railway
Instant infrastructure platform with per-second execution and pay-per-use billing.
$6.47 / month
Hobby
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-08
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $5.00
- Active CPU time: $0.08
- Provisioned RAM: $1.39
- Network egress: $5.00
- Included monthly usage credit: -$5.00
- Hobby has a $5 monthly minimum including $5 usage credit. Enter total active CPU and provisioned memory for the service, including background work. Aggregate monthly usage does not establish per-service capacity eligibility.
- Volume storage, object storage, sandboxes and optional services. Hobby is a single-developer workspace.
Hobby: $6.47/month at reference usage.
Vercel
Managed deployments with Fluid compute and CDN capacity tiers.
$20.00 / month
Pro · included CDN
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-05
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $20.00
- Active CPU: $0.36
- Provisioned memory: $1.06
- Function invocations: $0.60
- Fast origin transfer: $6.00
- Included monthly usage credit: -$8.02
- US East (iad1) compute and transfer rates. One deploying seat. $20 monthly usage credit offsets metered infrastructure, not the subscription. CDN tiers show steady-state cost; changes take effect next cycle.
- Paid build concurrency, image optimization, middleware, logs, databases, extra seats and optional add-ons. Hobby excludes commercial use and is not ranked.
Pro · included CDN: $20.00/month at reference usage.
Netlify
Deployments, bandwidth and compute draw from a shared credit pool.
$30.00 / month
Pro · 3,000 credits
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-05
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $20.00
- Additional usage credits (3,000 included): $10.00
- Includes 3,000 credits. Auto-recharge must be enabled. Higher prepaid Pro credit tiers are not modeled.
- AI inference, databases, forms and paid build capacity.
Pro · 3,000 credits: $30.00/month at reference usage.
Questions before you decide
Which App hosting product is cheapest?
Render has a lowest modeled cost among the eligible products shown at reference usage. Ties share a rank. This is not a claim about every vendor or workload.