Hosting
What hosting really costs, past the free tier.
Free plans come with limits: some sleep, some pause, some are for personal projects only. Pick what you’re hosting, put in your own numbers, and see what each provider charges a month for the same project, with every line of the sum shown.
Static site
A landing page, docs or a blog: files only, no server code. Priced for one developer. Change the numbers to match your project: nothing you type leaves this page.
Cheapest: Cloudflare Workers & Pages Free at $0.00 a month.
| Plan | A month | How it adds up | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| CloudflareCheapest, no catchWorkers & Pages Free | $0.00 | Static file requests are free and unlimited; no bandwidth chargeSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | —Static files free and unlimited, no bandwidth charge, 500 builds a month. Server code: 100,000 requests a day |
| VercelHobby | $0.00 | Inside the included 100 GB and 1M requestsSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | Personal, non-commercial use only.Past a limit, that feature stops until 30 days have passed.100 GB transfer, 1M requests, 1M function calls and 4 CPU-hours a month |
| RenderStatic site | $2.25 | Static site: $0Bandwidth: 5 GB included, 15 GB more at $0.15 = $2.25Source · checked Oct 3, 2026 | —Static sites are free to deploy; 5 GB bandwidth and 500 build minutes a month on the Hobby workspace |
| NetlifyPersonal | $9.00 | 10 deploys, 20 GB and 500k requests use about 650 of 1,000 creditsSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | —$9 a month, 1,000 credits; extra packs of 500 credits for $5 |
| NetlifyPro | $20.00 | 10 deploys, 20 GB and 500k requests use about 650 of 3,000 creditsSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | —$20 a month for the whole team, 3,000 credits; extra packs of 1,500 credits for $10 |
| VercelPro | $20.00 | $20 per developerTransfer and requests are inside the included 1 TB and 10MSource · checked Oct 3, 2026 | —$20 per developer, with $20 of usage, 1 TB transfer and 10M requests included |
| NetlifyFree | Doesn’t fit | Needs about 650 credits a month; this plan has 300.Source · checked Oct 3, 2026 | When the credits run out, all your sites are paused until the next month.300 credits a month |
None yet: we began checking these prices on Oct 3, 2026. Changes will be listed here from the next check on.
How these numbers are made
- Source
- Each provider’s own pricing page or docs, read by hand and linked in every row. List prices in US dollars, monthly billing, before tax.
- Checked
- Oct 3, 2026, and again every month. Hosting prices change often: the provider’s page is the final word.
- The sum
- The same project priced at each provider with its published numbers. Server code on usage-billed plans (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare) is noted but not added, because it depends on the app. Railway is priced as if the instance is busy all month. The calculator stays within small-project sizes, where one small server is a fair comparison.
- Worth knowing
- Limits stated in the provider’s own docs. “No catch” means none of those is listed for the plan, not that it suits every project.
Each provider on its own page: Vercel · Netlify · Cloudflare · Render · Railway · Fly.io · Supabase · Neon
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