Hetzner
CE 93Anyone expecting a support desk to lean on should look elsewhere.
CX23, flat account fee$4.49 / mo
6 seats, no per-seat charge+ $0
Against your $72 ceiling−$67.51
Team cost$4.49 / mo
Verified
Reviewed by
Oleh Kem
Oleh KemPlans checked145 / 24 vendors
“Contact sales”28/145
Median entry$11.50/mo
Entry range$0.83-35
Publish a price23/24
Free tier12/24
Leader94 Neon
Cloud hosting compared: pricing, Kubernetes, GPU and serverless
Published prices for 24 cloud hosts, from a $0.83 virtual machine up to managed WordPress at $35, plus the hyperscalers that price by the hour and the gigabyte instead of by the plan. Every plan here was read straight from the host's published page, and we marked what lands in month two: renewals, traffic charges and the components sold beside the server.
How much does cloud hosting cost per month?
Something free is available at 12 hosts here, out of 24 on the page, though in this market it mostly buys a sandbox that falls asleep. Paid entry begins at $0.83 and the priciest first step is $35, median $11.50. Those opening prices sit close together. Bills separate afterwards, on traffic, renewal terms and the parts sold beside the plan.
- 12 free tiers across 24 hosts, and no two are shaped alike: an allowance that never expires, a wallet of credits, a starter instance that scales to zero, a trial credit with a date on it.
- Twenty-eight plans of 145 show no figure. Two shapes account for most of them: enterprise tiers at the far end of a lineup, and consumption lines whose rate lives in a calculator.
- Nine hosts out of 24 price every plan they sell. The rest keep a step back, and it is nearly always the step that arrives with a contract.
- Cheapest entry $0.83, dearest entry $35, median $11.50. That is the narrowest number in this review and the least useful, because it prices the way in rather than the month that follows.
- AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Fly.io put no plan on the axis at all. They publish rate cards instead, so a month costs whatever the meter reads.
- Traffic is where identical workloads stop costing the same. Roughly two orders of magnitude separate the cheapest metered transfer here from the dearest, and the plan price mentions none of it.
Ranked by a transparency score: pricing transparency 60%, user satisfaction 40%. Capability is not scored. It is the condition grid below. Prices are read from vendor pricing pages and re-checked per product on the dates shown. ComparEdge sells no cloud hosts and takes no payment for placement. How the score is built.
01 / 07
Cloud hosts ranked: IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, GPU and serverless
Our score decides the order, not the price. The axis is monthly and logarithmic, which makes horizontal distance a genuine cost difference, and hosts that sell by consumption carry no mark at all: a rate card has no entry tier to plot.
Sorted by transparency scorePriced tiers 117 / 145Full disclosure 9 / 24
How to read this table
Reading the console
Two figures on the same row can mean very different purchases. The entry price is the cheapest monthly plan a host publishes, which on a virtual machine buys a small instance you then administer, and on managed WordPress buys one site with somebody else patching it. Rows without a marker price by consumption: their monthly cost can land under the cheapest figure in this table or many times above it, depending entirely on what runs and how much leaves the network. A granted cell says the host documented that capability itself, on our verification date, and in hosting that is a low bar. Nearly everyone lists Kubernetes. Listing it and running it well for you are separate claims, and only the first one is on the record.
- Price axis
- One shared logarithmic axis, $0.83 to $599. A tick further right is genuinely dearer. The tall tick is the cheapest paid tier.
- Diamond
- A flat platform fee, billed per month, not per seat.
- Granted
- Listed on the vendor’s own pages on the verify date.
- Conditional
- Present, but some tiers carry no published price.
- Not on the record
- Absent from the recorded feature set. It means unlisted, not incapable.
01NeonFree tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$15flat94Alternatives to Neon
02HetznerNo free tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes listedGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB not on the record$4.49flat93Alternatives to Hetzner
03NetlifyFree tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless listedManaged DB not on the record$9flat91Alternatives to Netlify
04CloudwaysNo free tier1 of 12 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$11flat87Alternatives to Cloudways
05KinstaNo free tier1 of 7 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$35flat86Alternatives to Kinsta
06SupabaseFree tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless listedManaged DB listed$25flat86Alternatives to Supabase
07RailwayFree tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$5flat85Alternatives to Railway
08DigitalOceanFree tier1 of 7 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS listedKubernetes listedGPU instances listedServerless listedManaged DB listed$4flat83Alternatives to DigitalOcean
09VercelFree tier1 of 3 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless listedManaged DB not on the record$20/u83Alternatives to Vercel
10RenderFree tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$25flat83Alternatives to Render
11Amazon Web Services (AWS)Usage-priced, public rate cardFree tier5 of 6 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS listedKubernetes listedGPU instances listedServerless listedManaged DB listedSales only82Alternatives to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
12VultrNo free tier1 of 8 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes listedGPU instances listedServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$2.50flat82Alternatives to Vultr
13Google Cloud PlatformUsage-priced, public rate cardFree tier4 of 5 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS listedKubernetes listedGPU instances listedServerless listedManaged DB listedSales only82Alternatives to Google Cloud Platform
14Linode (Akamai Cloud)Free tier3 of 14 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes listedGPU instances listedServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$5flat81Alternatives to Linode (Akamai Cloud)
15Microsoft AzureUsage-priced, public rate cardFree tier3 of 4 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS listedKubernetes listedGPU instances listedServerless listedManaged DB listedSales only80Alternatives to Microsoft Azure
16Fly.ioUsage-priced, public rate cardNo free tier0 of 3 tiers pricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances listedServerless not on the recordManaged DB listedSales only79Alternatives to Fly.io
17WP EngineNo free tier1 of 6 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS listedKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$30/site79Alternatives to WP Engine
18RetoolFree tier1 of 4 tiers unpricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$12/u77Alternatives to Retool
19HostingerNo free tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB not on the record$8.99flat67Alternatives to Hostinger
20SiteGroundNo free tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS not on the recordPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB listed$24.99flat66
21NamecheapNo free tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB not on the record$5.88flat65
22hosting.comNo free tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB not on the record$11.99flat63Alternatives to hosting.com
23BluehostNo published priceNo free tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB not on the recordSales only56
24HostGatorNo free tierAll tiers pricedIaaS / VPS listedPaaS not on the recordKubernetes not on the recordGPU instances not on the recordServerless not on the recordManaged DB not on the record$4.50flat53Alternatives to HostGator
GrantedSome tiers sealedNot on the recordCheapest paid seatFlat account fee, not per seatScore ranks pricing transparency and user ratings, not capability. Capability is the grid.
24 vendorsMedian entry $11.50Coverage span 6 → 1 of sixSealed tiers 28 / 145
Scroll the console sideways to reach the remaining conditions.
02 / 07
Shortlist a cloud host by workload size and what it costs
The shortlist ranks by what the plan actually costs your team, not by list price. Flat plans are folded into a per-team number so they compare like for like. Only vendors rated 85 and up are eligible.
Servers
6
Budget / server
For 6 servers at $12 per server, start with these
Ranked by monthly team cost, vendors rated 85 and up · Your ceiling for this team: $72 / mo
Railway
CE 85 free tierNot a subscription, whatever the plan page suggests: Railway's monthly figure is a minimum that converts into usage credits, and after those are spent the meter charges per second.
Hobby, flat account fee$5 / mo
6 seats, no per-seat charge+ $0
Against your $72 ceiling−$67
Team cost$5 / mo
Netlify
CE 91 free tierNetlify is a build pipeline with hosting attached rather than a server you rent, and front-end teams deploying from Git are the whole audience.
Personal, flat account fee$9 / mo
6 seats, no per-seat charge+ $0
Against your $72 ceiling−$63
Team cost$9 / mo
Not sure what to weigh? Five questions narrow it faster than the grid.Answer 5 questions
03 / 07
Every host's plans, verdicts and the date we checked each price
Every row opens onto every tier, the check date and what the plan quietly leaves out. The order is the verdict we reached on transparency. It is not a price sort, and not a popularity contest.
Transparency scorePricing transparency 60%User satisfaction 40%
Not a server and not a hosting plan: Neon is Postgres metered by the compute-hour, and it scales to zero when nobody is querying. Its paid tiers meter from zero usage, so the free allowances do not follow you up the tiers.
Critical gapThe platform experiences connection slot exhaustion under high concurrency during peak scaling events.
Plan table and expert take
Neon: expert take
Two paid steps, and the dearer one meters compute at a higher hourly rate: $15 Launch against $31 Scale. What the upgrade buys is branches and a longer restore window, not cheaper compute, with extra branches charged by the branch-month.
Where Neon holds up
- Git-like branching for isolated dev/test environments
- True serverless: compute scales to zero, saving costs
- Instant database creation via copy-on-write branching
- Bottomless storage with point-in-time restore
- Seamless Vercel integration for Next.js/Jamstack apps
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 419 reviewsFounded 2021Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Launch | $15 | Not published |
| Scale | $31 | Not published |
Anyone expecting a support desk to lean on should look elsewhere. Hetzner sells raw German and Finnish capacity to teams that can run it themselves, and the amount of memory and traffic per euro is why people put up with the rest.
Critical gapThe platform's automated fraud detection systems often suspend new accounts without human intervention.
Plan table and expert take
Hetzner: expert take
Two costs sit outside the server figure. Dedicated machines carry a one-time setup fee, and an IPv4 address is not part of the listed rate either. Cloud instances ship with a large traffic allowance, so the surprise here is the address, not the bandwidth.
Where Hetzner holds up
- Industry-leading price-to-performance ratio for compute
- Generous free egress traffic (20TB/month included)
- Affordable dedicated root servers with high-end CPUs
- No-frills, developer-focused interface without vendor lock-in
- Strong European data sovereignty with German/Finnish locations
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 13 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 1997Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| CX23 | $4.49 | Not published |
| CX33 | $6.99 | Not published |
| CX43 | $12.49 | Not published |
| CX53 | $22.99 | Not published |
| CPX22 | $7.99 | Not published |
| CPX42 | $25.49 | Not published |
| CAX11 | $4.99 | Not published |
| CAX21 | $8.49 | Not published |
| CAX31 | $16.49 | Not published |
| CAX41 | $31.99 | Not published |
| CCX13 | $16.49 | Not published |
| CCX23 | $31.99 | Not published |
| CCX53 | $250.49 | Not published |
| AX41-NVMe | $59 | Not published |
| AX51-NVMe | $79 | Not published |
| AX61-NVMe | $99 | Not published |
| AX101-NVMe | $139 | Not published |
| EX-Line | $44 | Not published |
| Block Storage | $0.06 | Not published |
| Snapshots | $0.01 | Not published |
| Traffic Overage | $1 / TB | Not published |
| Load Balancer | $39 | Not published |
Netlify is a build pipeline with hosting attached rather than a server you rent, and front-end teams deploying from Git are the whole audience. Everything on it is priced in credits, deploys included, so a busy repository can spend the month's allowance before the traffic does.
Critical gapBandwidth costs become non-linear for high-traffic projects, limiting scalability for resource-heavy applications.
Plan table and expert take
Netlify: expert take
Credit allowances step 300 on Free, 1,000 on the $9 Personal plan and 3,000 on $20 Pro, and running out either blocks the account or pushes an upgrade. Enterprise is quoted from a $500 floor rather than priced.
Where Netlify holds up
- Atomic deploys with instant rollbacks ensure site stability.
- Integrated Edge Functions for fast, personalized dynamic content.
- Automated build previews for every pull request simplifies review.
- Global Edge CDN provides exceptional performance out-of-the-box.
- Seamless Git-based workflow automates the entire CI/CD pipeline.
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 75 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2014Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Personal | $9 | Not published |
| Pro | $20 | Not published |
| Enterprise | $500 / custom | Not published |
Not a host in the ordinary sense: Cloudways manages servers that other clouds actually run, and you choose which cloud. The management is charged separately from the server. A server card never shows the whole invoice.
Critical gapManual file permission configuration is required for specific application deployments.
Plan table and expert take
Cloudways: expert take
Backups are the line people miss. Offsite storage is charged per gigabyte per server, so a fleet multiplies it, and servers bill by the hour rather than the month, which means a forgotten test server keeps costing until somebody destroys it.
Where Cloudways holds up
- Choice of 3 top IaaS providers (DO, AWS, GCE)
- Pay-as-you-go pricing with no long-term contracts
- Built-in advanced caching (Varnish, Memcached, Redis)
- Free SSL, migrations, and staging for all applications
- Vertical scaling allows resizing servers with one click
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 1,127 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2011Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean Standard 1GB | $11 | $8.25 |
| DigitalOcean Premium 2GB | $22 | Not published |
| DigitalOcean Premium 4GB | $50 | Not published |
| Vultr Standard 1GB | $14 | $10.50 |
| Vultr High-Frequency 1GB | $16 | $12 |
| Linode 1GB | $14 | $10.50 |
| AWS Small | $20.56 | $15.42 |
| Google Cloud Small | $37.33 | Not published |
| Autonomous Small | $11 | Not published |
| Autonomous Medium | $88 | Not published |
| Autonomous 8XL | $342 | Not published |
| Autonomous Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Nobody buys this to save money. Kinsta is managed WordPress for sites where an hour of downtime costs more than a year of hosting, priced per site rather than per server, which is why its entry price is the highest door in this table.
Critical gapThe premium pricing structure limits utility for small-scale, low-budget web projects.
Plan table and expert take
Kinsta: expert take
Annual billing is the only published lever: pay for the year and two months come off, which on the $70 WP 2 plan is ten monthly charges instead of twelve. Bandwidth overage rates appear nowhere on the pricing page.
Where Kinsta holds up
- Highly rated (4.8/5 on review platforms)
- 15 key features including Managed WordPress and Google Cloud Platform
- Multiple pricing tiers (4 plans) to match different needs
- AI-powered features built in
4.9CE scoreG2 4.8 · 1,454 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2013Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Single 20GB | $35 | $30 |
| WP 2 | $70 | $59 |
| WP 5 | $115 | $96 |
| WP 10 | $225 | $188 |
| WP 20 | $340 | $284 |
| WP 40 | $450 | $375 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
The layer underneath an application rather than a place to put one: Postgres with authentication, storage and APIs from a single vendor. The Pro plan at $25 carries one project, and every extra environment is billed beside it, not inside it.
Critical gapRow Level Security implementation creates a steep learning curve for database policy configuration.
Plan table and expert take
Supabase: expert take
The ladder has a hole in it: $25 Pro, then $599 Team, nothing between. Point-in-time recovery is a separate monthly charge per retention window, so a team that needs real backups is not shopping at the Pro price.
Where Supabase holds up
- Direct PostgreSQL access with full SQL and extension support
- Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs from your database schema
- Open source core allows for self-hosting and no vendor lock-in
- Integrated row-level security (RLS) for fine-grained data access
- Generous free tier includes two organizations and 500MB database
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 47 reviewsCapterra 4.8Founded 2020Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Pro | $25 | Not published |
| Team | $599 | Not published |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Not a subscription, whatever the plan page suggests: Railway's monthly figure is a minimum that converts into usage credits, and after those are spent the meter charges per second. It suits full-stack teams shipping a server and its database from one repository.
Critical gapThe platform currently requires manual intervention to cancel subscriptions, creating potential billing friction for inactive projects.
Plan table and expert take
Railway: expert take
The free plan stops being free once the trial ends: it takes on a small monthly subscription and shrinks to one project and three services. Egress meters per gigabyte on top of compute, so traffic is a line the included credits never cover.
Where Railway holds up
- Automatic Nixpacks builds from your repo with no config files
- Usage-based pricing scales from free tier to production loads
- Integrated database services (Postgres, Redis) deploy in one click
- Preview Deployments for every pull request on GitHub
- Connect all services on a private network automatically
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 37 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2020Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Hobby | $5 | Not published |
| Pro | $20 | Not published |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Not the cheapest infrastructure here and not trying to be. DigitalOcean is the only host on this page that grants every capability column and still prints a monthly figure for each piece, which is why small teams use it as a hyperscaler substitute.
Critical gapThe platform experiences stability issues during high-availability tasks and lacks the performance required for complex AI/ML workloads.
Plan table and expert take
DigitalOcean: expert take
Backups are priced as a share of the machine: a fifth of the droplet cost for weekly, closer to a third for daily. Outbound traffic past the 500 GB a droplet includes meters per gibibyte, and traffic between datacentres meters the same.
Where DigitalOcean holds up
- Simple, predictable pricing with no complex billing surprises.
- Developer-friendly UI and API simplifies infrastructure management.
- Extensive library of high-quality tutorials and community support.
- Fast SSD-based Droplets (VPS) with one-click app installations.
- Managed databases, Kubernetes, and App Platform for easy scaling.
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 745 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2011Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| App Platform (Free Tier) | Free | Free |
| App Platform | Contact sales | |
| Droplets | $4 | Not published |
| Kubernetes | $12 | Not published |
| Databases | $15 | Not published |
| Spaces Standard Storage | $5 | Not published |
| Volumes | $10 | Not published |
| Container Registry | Free | Free |
| Functions | Free | Free |
| Load Balancers | $12 | Not published |
| Network File Storage | $0.15 | Not published |
| VPC NAT Gateway | $40 | Not published |
Wrong tool for a database-heavy back end, right one for a front end that has to be fast everywhere. Vercel sells the deploy pipeline, and the bill follows traffic and function time rather than the size of any machine.
Critical gapUnpredictable usage-based billing at scale creates significant financial instability for high-traffic, business-critical web applications.
Plan table and expert take
Vercel: expert take
The $20 Pro plan includes exactly $20 of usage credit, which a heavy month clears quickly, and build minutes are billed outside that credit. Single sign-on and a HIPAA agreement are separate add-ons, each priced in the hundreds per month above the plan.
Where Vercel holds up
- Seamless Git integration for instant, automated deployments
- Optimized infrastructure for Next.js and frontend frameworks
- Global Edge Network for high-performance static and dynamic content
- Built-in serverless functions that scale automatically
- Preview Deployments for every Git push, simplifying collaboration
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 67 reviewsCapterra 4.7Founded 2015Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | Free |
| Pro | $20 | Not published |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Between a virtual machine and a serverless runtime sits Render, deploying services and databases from Git onto instances you name and size. Compute is billed only while a service actually runs, which is unusual here.
Plan table and expert take
Render: expert take
Bandwidth past the included allowance carries the steepest published transfer rate in this category, and build minutes over quota are sold by the thousand. A HIPAA workspace adds a fifth to the compute bill, which is a multiplier rather than a feature toggle.
Where Render holds up
- Zero-config deploys directly from a Git repository
- Predictable pricing based on instance types, not usage
- Native support for background workers, cron jobs, and Redis
- Integrated private networking between services at no extra cost
- Automatic, free TLS certificates and a global CDN for all services
4.8CE scoreG2 4.7 · 81 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2018Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | Free |
| Pro | $25 | Not published |
| Scale | $499 | Not published |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Nobody arrives here for the price. AWS is the widest service catalogue and the deepest regional map, and the reason its bills surprise people is that the instance rate is the first line rather than the total: storage, the public address, the load balancer and everything leaving the network arrive separately.
Critical gapComplex IAM policy management requires dedicated technical expertise for secure configuration.
Plan table and expert take
Amazon Web Services (AWS): expert take
Data leaving the network is the usual detonator: the first hundred gigabytes a month are free, the rest meters per gigabyte, and cross-zone traffic counts on its own. Burstable instances in unlimited mode bill extra CPU credits, and Spot capacity vanishes on two minutes' notice.
Where Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds up
- Unmatched breadth of 200+ fully-featured services
- Most extensive global cloud infrastructure and availability zones
- Deepest enterprise adoption and third-party ecosystem support
- Mature, robust services for compute, storage, and databases
- Pioneering serverless (Lambda) and managed container services
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 80 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2006Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Free Tier | Free | Free |
| Pay-as-you-go (On-Demand) | Contact sales | |
| Savings Plans | Contact sales | |
| Reserved Instances | Contact sales | |
| Spot Instances | Contact sales | |
| Private Pricing | Contact sales | |
Not managed, not hand-held, and cheaper to start than anything else here. Vultr sells hourly instances from a small IPv6-only configuration up to bare metal and GPUs, and that entry figure changes the moment an IPv4 address is required.
Critical gapUsers report inconsistent performance metrics during complex server management and high-load production operations.
Plan table and expert take
Vultr: expert take
DDoS protection is an add-on with its own monthly charge rather than something the instance price covers. Billing runs hourly with a monthly ceiling of 672 hours, so a machine left running all month never bills past the listed monthly figure.
Where Vultr holds up
- Extensive global footprint with 32 low-latency data centers
- Hourly billing and per-second billing for Bare Metal instances
- High-performance NVMe SSD storage standard on all compute plans
- One-click deployment for popular apps like WordPress and cPanel
- Offers both high-performance virtual machines and dedicated bare metal
4.5CE scoreG2 4.4 · 285 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2014Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Compute | $2.50 | Not published |
| High Frequency Cloud Compute | $6 | Not published |
| Optimized Cloud Compute | $28 | Not published |
| VX1 Cloud Compute | $43 | Not published |
| Bare Metal | $120 | Not published |
| Cloud GPU | Contact sales | |
| Kubernetes Engine | $10 | Not published |
| Managed Databases | $15 | Not published |
| Block Storage | $1 | Not published |
| Object Storage | $5 | Not published |
| Load Balancers | $10 | Not published |
| DDoS Protection | $10 | Not published |
Wrong first cloud for a plain website, right one for anything that ends in BigQuery or Kubernetes. Google prices by consumption, applies its sustained-use discount without being asked, and bills BigQuery by the bytes a query scans rather than the answer it returns.
Critical gapThe platform currently lacks the widespread industry talent pool of competitors.
Plan table and expert take
Google Cloud Platform: expert take
The first terabyte of BigQuery scanning each month is free, and everything after it tracks how much data a query touches rather than what it returns. The machine rate excludes persistent disks, the external address and egress, each of which arrives as its own line.
Where Google Cloud Platform holds up
- Industry-leading AI/ML services like Vertex AI and BigQuery ML
- Superior global private fiber network for low latency and high speed
- Live migration for virtual machines enables updates with zero downtime
- Per-second billing and sustained use discounts offer cost efficiency
- Exceptional data analytics and warehousing with BigQuery
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 83,794 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2008Verified July 17, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Always Free | Free | Free |
| Pay-as-you-go | Contact sales | |
| Committed Use Discounts | Contact sales | |
| Sustained Use Discounts | Contact sales | |
| Spot VMs | Contact sales | |
Predictability is the pitch, not hyperscaler breadth: Akamai's Linode publishes one monthly figure for every instance size and bundles a transfer pool into each one. Traffic metered past that pool sits among the cheapest published rates on this page.
Critical gapTechnical support response times often exceed 24 hours, which delays resolution for time-sensitive production deployment issues.
Plan table and expert take
Linode (Akamai Cloud): expert take
Three charges sit outside the instance price. A high-availability Kubernetes control plane is $60 on the LKE Control Plane (HA) line, Object Storage bills a $5 minimum even while nearly empty, and backups run about a twentieth of the compute they cover.
Where Linode (Akamai Cloud) holds up
- Predictable, flat-rate pricing with no egress fees.
- Simple, intuitive UI focused on core compute features.
- Free bundled support included with all service levels.
- Excellent price-to-performance ratio on CPU and RAM.
- Now integrated with Akamai's massive edge network.
4.6CE scoreCapterra 4.5Founded 2003Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB | $5 | Not published |
| Linode 2 GB | $12 | Not published |
| Linode 4 GB | $24 | Not published |
| Linode 8 GB | $48 | Not published |
| Linode 24 GB (High Memory) | $60 | Not published |
| Linode 48 GB (High Memory) | $120 | Not published |
| NETINT Quadra T1U VPU x1 Small (Accelerated Compute) | $280 | Not published |
| NETINT Quadra T1U VPU x1 Medium (Accelerated Compute) | $352 | Not published |
| NETINT Quadra T1U VPU x2 Small (Accelerated Compute) | $488 | Not published |
| Object Storage | $5 | Not published |
| Block Storage | $0.10 | Not published |
| NodeBalancer | $10 | Not published |
| LKE Control Plane (HA) | $60 | Not published |
| LKE-Enterprise | $300 | Not published |
| Backups (for 1 GB Shared CPU instance) | $2 | Not published |
| Cloud Firewalls | Free | Free |
| Dedicated CPU (Contact Sales) | Contact sales | |
| Managed Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) (Contact Sales) | Contact sales | |
| Bare Metal (Contact Sales) | Contact sales | |
Almost nobody picks Azure on price. They pick it because the identity system is already running, and then discover the one line the other hyperscalers do not have: Windows and RHEL licensing billed per vCPU on top of the machine itself.
Critical gapThe portal complexity requires significant specialized architectural knowledge for initial configuration.
Plan table and expert take
Microsoft Azure: expert take
A savings plan cuts the hourly rate hard, but committed capacity you do not use never rolls forward, so an over-sized commitment is money gone. The starting credit lasts thirty days, and cold storage charges for operations and retrieval above storage.
Where Microsoft Azure holds up
- Seamless integration with Microsoft 365, Teams, and Active Directory.
- Strong hybrid cloud capabilities with Azure Arc and Azure Stack.
- Extensive PaaS offerings like App Service and Azure SQL Database.
- Robust enterprise-grade security and compliance certifications.
- Generous free tier with popular services free for 12 months.
4.5CE scoreG2 4.4 · 73 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2010Verified July 17, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free Account | Free | Free |
| Pay-as-you-go | Contact sales | |
| Reserved Instances | Contact sales | |
| Azure Savings Plans | Contact sales | |
Not a region you pick but a map you spread across, with application instances running close to users. Fly publishes no plan at all: the per-resource rates live in a calculator, and support costs extra rather than coming with a tier.
Critical gapThe platform exhibits architectural instability when scaling multiple instances across global regions.
Plan table and expert take
Fly.io: expert take
Three flat lines sit beside the meter: $29 a month on the Support plan, $99 for HIPAA Compliance, and prepaid machine reservations that take around forty percent off the on-demand rate. None of them is a tier, and compute bills separately from all three.
Where Fly.io holds up
- Runs full-stack apps, not just static sites, on the edge
- Uses lightweight Firecracker MicroVMs for better isolation
- Built-in global request routing and private networking
- Postgres clusters deploy globally alongside your application
- Generous free tier includes compute, storage, and databases
4.4CE scoreG2 4.3 · 5 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2017Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | Contact sales | |
| Support | $29 | Not published |
| HIPAA Compliance | $99 | Not published |
| Reservations | Contact sales | |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Not priced by server size at all. WP Engine meters visitors, and going over on visits, storage or bandwidth is billed outside the plan, which is the trade agencies accept when a client's outage is their phone ringing.
Critical gapThe interface creates significant operational overhead for small-scale developers managing legacy stacks.
Plan table and expert take
WP Engine: expert take
Each additional site is billed monthly above the plan, and the ladder breaks after Scale: the $276 Scale plan is followed by Core Hosting at $400 with no step between. Security, plugin updates and speed optimisation stack on top of whichever tier you land on.
Where WP Engine holds up
- Genesis Framework & premium themes included ($2,000+ value)
- Proprietary EverCache technology for extreme speed & scalability
- Automated plugin updates with AI-powered visual regression testing
- Integrated local development tools (Local) for streamlined workflows
- 24/7 expert WordPress support with fast response times
4.5CE scoreG2 4.4 · 337 reviewsCapterra 4.5Founded 2010Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Startup | $30 | $29 |
| Professional | $55 | $54 |
| Growth | $109 | $108 |
| Scale | $276 | $275 |
| Core Hosting | $400 | $400 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Whatever this shelf implies, Retool hosts nothing of yours: it builds internal tools over databases you already run. It charges per seat, and a seat quietly becomes a dearer builder seat the moment that person edits an app.
Critical gapComplex applications experience significant loading latency during heavy data refresh operations.
Plan table and expert take
Retool: expert take
AI credits renew monthly and never roll forward, while agents bill by the hour from a separate pool with roughly twenty free hours before execution pauses. Workflow runs are capped too: five hundred on Free, five thousand on the paid tiers.
Where Retool holds up
- Best platform for internal tools
- Connects to any database or API
- Fast to build admin panels
- Strong enterprise features
4.7CE scoreG2 4.6 · 357 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2017Verified July 8, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free |
| Team | $12 | $10 |
| Business | $65 | $50 |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | |
Everything under this line is priced as an introduction. These hosts sell a prepaid term measured in years, and the figure worth comparing is the one that follows it.
A cheap managed box for a handful of small sites, and nothing more ambitious than that. The advertised rate needs years of prepayment to hold, and the domain, mailboxes and email marketing bundled with it are free during year one only.
Critical gapUsers report inconsistent email delivery performance and latency during periods of high traffic volume.
Plan table and expert take
Hostinger: expert take
The whole term is paid as one sum in advance, so the advertised monthly figure is never actually charged monthly. VPS plans sit on the same account and price on annual terms as well, which leaves no honest way to test anything month to month.
Where Hostinger holds up
- Generous resources (100GB SSD, 100 sites) on entry-level plans
- Proprietary hPanel is faster and more intuitive than cPanel
- Integrated AI tools for site building, logo creation, and writing
- Global data centers in 8 regions for improved local performance
- LiteSpeed web server and cache included for superior speed
4.6CE scoreG2 4.5 · 802 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2004Verified August 5, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Premium | $11.99 | $10.99 |
| Unlimited | $18.99 | $16.99 |
| Cloud Startup | $27.99 | $25.99 |
| VPS KVM 1 | $9.99 | $4.99 |
| VPS KVM 2 | Not published | $8.99 |
| VPS KVM 4 | Not published | $12.99 |
| Hostinger Pro (Agency Startup Plan) | Not published | $23 |
Monthly billing is not on offer here at all, which rules it out for anyone paying as they go. SiteGround sells prepaid annual terms of managed WordPress hosting, and buyers inside the EU see the figure before VAT is added.
Plan table and expert take
SiteGround: expert take
The prepaid year is discounted by roughly four fifths, the deepest promotional gap on this shelf, which is also why the second year reads as a shock. The standing rate lands three to five times the promotional one across every plan.
Where SiteGround holds up
- Google Cloud infrastructure for speed and reliability
- Proprietary Site Tools control panel is fast and intuitive
- Free daily backups and one-click restores on all plans
- Advanced NGINX caching and Ultrafast PHP for performance
- Top-rated, 24/7 multi-channel expert support
4.5CE scoreG2 4.4 · 285 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2004Verified August 9, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| StartUp | $24.99 | $17.99 |
| GrowBig | $34.99 | $29.99 |
| GoGeek | $49.99 | $44.99 |
A registrar that also sells hosting rather than a host that also sells domains. Namecheap's Stellar plan lists $2.28 monthly on a prepaid year, and the catch is structural: the discount belongs to the term, and no renewal discount exists to move onto.
Critical gapSupport teams utilize ticket-escalation models that restrict real-time technical resolution.
Plan table and expert take
Namecheap: expert take
Two years up front takes about seventy-one percent off the monthly rate and one year about sixty-two, which is the entire pricing mechanism. A thirty-day trial runs before billing starts, and the $5.88 Stellar monthly rate is what a month-to-month buyer really pays.
Where Namecheap holds up
- Affordable starting at $1.98/mo
- Highly rated (4.4/5 on G2)
- 15 key features including Domain Registration and Shared Hosting
- Multiple pricing tiers (3 plans) to match different needs
- AI-powered features built in
4.4CE scoreG2 4.3 · 101 reviewsCapterra 4.6Founded 2000Verified August 9, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Stellar | $5.88 | Not published |
| Stellar Plus | $7.88 | Not published |
| Stellar Business | $11.88 | Not published |
Not a new host, just a renamed one: this is A2 Hosting under a new sign, selling LiteSpeed shared hosting to small business sites. The first year carries the promotional rate; what follows is several times it.
Critical gapRecent reports flag inconsistent uptime and support changes since the rebrand.
Plan table and expert take
hosting.com: expert take
The standing ladder runs $11.99 on Starter up to $27.99 on Max, and every step is sold at a promotional first-year price instead. All four plans carry LiteSpeed caching and a thirty-day money-back guarantee, so the tiers differ mostly by resources.
Where hosting.com holds up
- LiteSpeed-accelerated servers with NVMe storage
- Free automatic backups on most plans
- Optimized software for WordPress, Drupal, and Magento
- Money-back guarantee with prorated refunds
- Choice of data center locations on three continents
4.4CE scoreG2 4.3 · 205 reviewsCapterra 4.4Founded 2003Verified July 16, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $11.99 | $2.99 |
| Plus | $14.99 | $3.99 |
| Pro | $22.99 | $6.99 |
| Max | $27.99 | $8.99 |
Bluehost is the officially recommended WordPress host rather than the best one. Its Basic plan sells for $3.99 on a three-year prepayment and renews at more than twice that, which is the whole story of this end of the table.
Critical gapThe platform experiences abrupt site downtime during security patches and suffers from restrictive DNS configuration capabilities.
Plan table and expert take
Bluehost: expert take
Domain privacy is free for a year only from the second tier upward, so the cheapest plan never carries it. Every tier above Basic is published at its own rate, and all of them renew onto the standing price once the prepaid term ends.
Where Bluehost holds up
- Affordable starting at $2.95/mo
- Strong user ratings (3.7/5 on G2)
- 15 key features including WordPress Hosting and Free Domain
- Multiple pricing tiers (4 plans) to match different needs
- AI-powered features built in
3.8CE scoreG2 3.7 · 279 reviewsCapterra 4.3Founded 2003Verified August 9, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $11.99 / mo, 12-mo term | $9.99 |
| Business | $15.99 / mo, 12-mo term | $13.99 |
| eCommerce Essentials | $23.99 / mo, 12-mo term | $21.99 |
Nobody should read the front-page figure as the price. HostGator's Hatchling plan sells at $3.75 a month on a three-year prepayment, the standing rate runs more than four times that, and backups are not bundled: CodeGuard is sold on its own.
Critical gapThe platform exhibits inconsistent site restoration reliability during outages.
Plan table and expert take
HostGator: expert take
Add-ons are where a shared plan gets expensive: cPanel and WHM cost $12 a month on the cPanel/WHM line, SSL is sold as a yearly certificate, and CodeGuard backups arrive as four paid tiers rather than as a plan feature.
Where HostGator holds up
- Generous 45-day money-back guarantee, longer than industry standard
- Unmetered bandwidth and disk space on all shared hosting plans
- Free domain name and SSL certificate included for the first year
- User-friendly cPanel control panel simplifies site management
- Free website and cPanel-to-cPanel migration service included
3.7CE scoreG2 3.6 · 256 reviewsCapterra 4.1Founded 2002Verified August 5, 2026
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Hatchling | $17.59 | $13.19 |
| Baby | $24.19 | $18.69 |
| Business | $30.79 | $24.19 |
| WordPress Baby Plan | Not published | $4.50 |
| WordPress Pro Plan | Not published | $13.95 |
| Snappy 2000 NVMe 4 | $54.99 | $34.99 |
| Snappy 4000 NVMe 8 | $85.99 | $53.99 |
| Value - NVMe 32 | $191.79 | $144.19 |
| Dedicated Hosting | Not published | $119 |
| CodeGuard Basic | Not published | $3.99 |
| CodeGuard Professional | Not published | $4.99 |
| CodeGuard Premium | Not published | $8.99 |
| CodeGuard Enterprise | Not published | $19.99 |
| cPanel/WHM | $12 | Not published |
| Domain Expiration Protection | Not published | $0.83 |
| Professional Email | $2.99 | Not published |
| SSL Certificate | Not published | $19.99 |
04 / 07
Compare any two cloud hosts: plans, egress limits and score
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What the records say
Hetzner starts cheaper: $4.49 / mo flat against $15 from Neon, 3.3× apart at the door.
Headcount does not move these bills: Hetzner is $4.49 / mo and Neon is $15 / mo, $10.51 / mo apart.
Hetzner carries 2 of the 6 capability columns on the record; Neon shows 1.
Users side with Neon: 4.7 on G2 against 4.6 for Hetzner.
Neon runs a free tier to start on; Hetzner does not.
Both publish every tier they sell.
Pick Neon for: Not a server and not a hosting plan: Neon is Postgres metered by the compute-hour, and it scales to zero when nobody is querying.
Pick Hetzner for: Anyone expecting a support desk to lean on should look elsewhere.
Neon
CE 94 · G2 4.7Published plans, US$/mo
FreeFree
Launch$15
Scale$31
Team of 6$15 / mo
Verified July 8, 2026
Hetzner
CE 93 · G2 4.6Published plans, US$/mo
CX23$4.49
CCX13$16.49
Load Balancer$39
Team of 6$4.49 / mo
Verified July 8, 2026
Both price lists on the category axis
Neon
Hetzner
Where they differ
Only Neon has on the record
- $0 tier
- Managed DB
Only Hetzner has on the record
- IaaS / VPS
- Kubernetes
05 / 07
Cloud hosting questions: cheapest host, AWS against Google, hidden fees
Which cloud host is genuinely the cheapest?
Depends which cheap you mean. The cheapest door is a bare instance, and Vultr's Cloud Compute opens at $2.50 a month in an IPv6-only configuration, dearer as soon as an IPv4 address is involved. Cheapest across a month is a separate contest, decided by traffic and by the components you bolt on, and there Hetzner and Linode meter well below the deployment platforms.
Is AWS or Google Cloud cheaper?
Neither, reliably. Both meter compute hourly and both bill data leaving the network on top, so your workload decides it rather than the vendor. The discount mechanics differ more than the rates do: Google applies a sustained-use discount by itself once a machine runs most of the month, while AWS wants a one or three year commitment before its price moves at all.
Does managed hosting have hidden fees?
Not hidden so much as billed elsewhere. Cloudways adds a platform fee above the server you chose and charges offsite backups per gigabyte per server. WP Engine meters visitors and bills each extra site monthly. Kinsta sells staging environments, extra disk and Redis as separate add-ons. Check what a managed plan carries before you check the price, since the add-ons decide most of the difference between hosts.
Is it cheaper to rent a virtual machine or to buy managed hosting?
The machine is cheaper in dollars, every time. A small instance at Hetzner or DigitalOcean costs a fraction of a managed WordPress plan, and the difference is not margin. It is who applies the security patch at two in the morning. Rent the machine when that person already works for you. Buy the managed plan when the honest answer is nobody.
How do you avoid egress charges?
Start with what the plan already includes, because the allowances are nothing alike: a Hetzner server ships with 20 TB of traffic, a DigitalOcean droplet with 500 GiB, and a deployment platform usually ships credits that traffic spends. After that the levers are ordinary. Cache at the edge, keep chatty services inside one region, and stop scheduling backups across a cloud boundary.
Why is the renewal so much higher than the price I signed up at?
Because the first price is a term promotion, not the rate. Hostinger's Premium plan stands at $12.99 once the promotional term ends, and Bluehost, HostGator, SiteGround, Namecheap and hosting.com all sell the same way: pay one to four years up front, then renew at list. Budget the second term, since that is the one you will live in.
How much does a year of hosting come to?
On the shared end, a prepaid year of a starter plan is the cheapest twelve months you will ever buy here, and the year after costs multiples of it. On the infrastructure end there is no year to buy. You pay by the hour, and an instance you forgot to turn off bills like one you are using. Annual billing at the platforms buys a discount, not a different product.
Can a free tier run a real site?
Rarely, and each one fails differently. Vercel's Hobby tier forbids commercial use outright. Google Cloud's Always Free allowance never expires but is sized for a single micro instance. Azure's starting credit dies after thirty days. Neon's free compute scales to zero when idle and wakes with a visible pause. Read the licence and the expiry ahead of the allowance.
What does IaaS bill for that PaaS does not?
Infrastructure bills you for a machine whether it works or not, and the rest is your problem: patching, backups, the load balancer, the address it answers on. A platform bills you for what the application does, which reads as the fairer deal until a traffic spike arrives and requests, bandwidth and build minutes all meter at once. One is predictable and unforgiving, the other elastic in both directions.
Are the hyperscalers dearer than the independent providers?
Per unit of compute, usually yes, and by a wide margin. The gap is widest on data leaving the network, where an independent provider bundles terabytes into the server price and a hyperscaler starts metering after the first hundred gigabytes a month. The premium buys breadth back: regions, managed services, compliance paperwork and engineers who already know the console.
What changes on the bill when you buy a backend instead of a server?
The machine stops being the thing you buy. What you rent is a set of entitlements, and the bill then moves with how many you hold: projects at Supabase, branches at Neon, seats at Retool. Each of those meters separately from the plan fee. The subscription figure tells you very little about the invoice that follows.
Which hosts will stop the bill, and which just keep charging?
Netlify and Supabase are the exceptions. Netlify lets you set a hard spending limit on metered features, and Supabase ships its paid plan with a spend cap already switched on, so overage billing is something you opt into. Everywhere else the meter runs until somebody notices. That asymmetry outweighs a few dollars of tier price, because the bill that hurts is the unwatched one.
Do I need managed Kubernetes, or is that just a bigger bill?
For one application on one machine it is a bigger bill and a second job. DigitalOcean and Vultr give the control plane away and charge for worker nodes, which sounds cheap until you count three nodes, a load balancer and the storage they share. Linode charges for a high-availability control plane on top. Kubernetes earns its keep across many services, not one.
Is a dedicated server cheaper than the cloud?
For a steady workload, often, and the published rates make it easy to check: Hetzner, Vultr and HostGator all sell dedicated machines with the rate printed publicly. A dedicated box beats an equivalent pile of instances once utilisation stops swinging. What you give up is elasticity, and dedicated hardware usually carries a one-time setup fee the monthly figure never mentions.
The cheapest cloud hosting plan rarely produces the cheapest bill
Opening prices across this category sit in a narrow band, $0.83 at the cheap end and $35 at the dear one, and that narrowness is the most misleading thing about them. It puts a bare instance you have to administer next to a managed WordPress plan that includes somebody administering it, and treats the two as neighbours because they cost about the same to start.
The second month is where the field separates: a promotional term ends, a traffic spike lands on a meter, and a component that looked like a feature turns out to carry its own line. Price the second month.
Renewals, egress and the charges that arrive in month two
Two different mechanics produce the same surprise. At the shared end the first price is a term promotion and the renewal is the real rate, applied across whatever term you signed. At the infrastructure end there is barely a renewal to speak of, and the bill grows through the meter instead: data leaving the network, bandwidth over the bundled allowance, build minutes, backups charged as a percentage of the machine they protect.
The database and back-end services on this shelf misbehave in a third way. They sell limits rather than a server. The extra cost arrives as a second currency inside the subscription: another project, another branch, another compute size, each with its own line. Whichever end you buy from, read what sits under the price before the price itself.
The verdict on cloud hostsSigned review · Updated
Work out which of three shelves you are standing at. A prepaid host, a metered platform and a backend sold by the entitlement all answer to this one word. None of them fails you the same way.
Then put a price on the part that is not the tariff. On the prepaid shelf that is the rate you resubscribe at, and it is rarely the one on the button. On the metered shelf it is traffic, storage and the line items dressed as plans. Four of these vendors sell no tariff at all and publish rates instead, which is a legitimate way to be open, and our number treats it as one.
MethodWe read 145 plans across twenty-four hosts, tariffs and published rate cards alike, and dated every figure .
DisclosureCollection is tool-assisted; every verdict is written and signed by a human analyst.
06 / 07
Not sure which? Answer one, take a shortlist.Pick the line that sounds like your team. Each one opens the vendor built for it.
Not a server and not a hosting plan: Neon is Postgres metered by the compute-hour, and it scales to zero when nobody is queryingNeonAnyone expecting a support desk to lean on should look elsewhereHetznerNetlify is a build pipeline with hosting attached rather than a server you rent, and front-end teams deploying from Git are the whole audienceNetlifyNot a host in the ordinary sense: Cloudways manages servers that other clouds actually run, and you choose which cloudCloudwaysNobody buys this to save moneyKinstaThe layer underneath an application rather than a place to put one: Postgres with authentication, storage and APIs from a single vendorSupabaseStill weighing it? Answer 5 questions, take a shortlist.
07 / 07
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Cost guidesNeon cost guideHetzner cost guideNetlify cost guideCloudways cost guideKinsta cost guideRelated categoriesAnalytics & BIIdentity & Access ManagementDatabasesData ObservabilityPayments & BillingWebsite BuildersCompare two vendorsNeon vs HetznerHetzner vs NetlifyNetlify vs CloudwaysCloudways vs KinstaKinsta vs SupabaseSupabase vs RailwayStill unsureAnswer 5 questions → a shortlistAll categories
How this review is made. Prices are read from vendor pricing pages and re-checked on the dates shown against each product. Condition columns reflect the feature set recorded on the vendor’s own pages on that date. ComparEdge sells no cloud hosts and takes no vendor payment for placement. Where a vendor publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating. Ranking is by transparency score: pricing transparency 60%, user satisfaction 40%. What a product can do is shown in the condition columns and carries no weight in the number.