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Vercel

The smoothest deploy for Next.js and frontend apps.

Serverless Free tier

Netlify

Git-push hosting for static sites and frontend apps.

Serverless Free tier

Cloudflare

Free bandwidth, global edge, five dollars a month.

Serverless Free tier

Laravel Cloud

Laravel-native deploys with managed databases and scale to zero.

App platform From ≈$5/mo

Railway

Push a repo, get an app and a database.

App platform From ≈$5/mo

Unkey

Deploy APIs with keys, gateways, and observability built in.

App platform From ≈$5/mo

Render

Heroku-style deploys with clearer per-service prices.

App platform From ≈$7/mo

Heroku

The original git-push platform, now without a free tier.

App platform From ≈$5/mo

Google Cloud Run

Serverless containers with the best free tier in the business.

Serverless Free tier

Azure App Service

Microsoft’s PaaS: solid git deploys, a maze of tiers.

App platform From ≈$13.14/mo

DigitalOcean

One provider, two honest paths: a platform or a plain server.

App platform From ≈$5/mo

Fly.io

Run Docker containers close to your users, billed per second.

App platform From ≈$3/mo

Deno Deploy

JavaScript hosting with builds, databases, and a real Deno runtime.

Serverless Free tier

AWS Lightsail

AWS without the bill anxiety: flat-price VPS bundles.

VPS From ≈$5/mo

Hetzner Cloud

European servers with huge bandwidth allowances.

VPS From ≈€5.99/mo

Scaleway

The French cloud: hourly billing, EU-only regions, à la carte pricing.

VPS From ≈€11.15/mo

OVHcloud

Europe’s biggest host, with truly unmetered VPS traffic.

VPS From ≈€3.81/mo

Vultr

Five-dollar servers in 30+ locations worldwide.

VPS From ≈$5/mo

Akamai Linode

The veteran VPS, now on Akamai's network.

VPS From ≈$5/mo

Netcup

German price-performance champion with German contract terms.

VPS From ≈€8.26/mo

Contabo

The most RAM and storage per euro, with visible corners cut.

VPS From ≈€5.50/mo

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