What will a traffic spike cost you?
Enter your traffic and see the monthly bill on 9 hosts, including Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare, for a normal month, a 10× spike or a viral day. Every price is checked against the provider's own pricing page (last checked Oct 16, 2026).
One month at your traffic. Totals use verified prices only; “≥” means some items are unverified and left out.
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DigitalOceanBasic Droplet 512MiB/1vCPU/10GiB$4/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown Droplet (flat monthly price) $4.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 A flat-price server has fixed CPU and RAM; whether it can serve this much traffic depends on your app.
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Cloudflare Pages/WorkersWorkers Paid$5/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown Workers Paid (minimum) $5.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 -
Hostinger VPSKVM 1 (1 vCPU/4GB/50GB NVMe)$6.49/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown VPS (flat monthly price) $6.49 Source, Oct 16, 2026 $6.49/month is a promotional price paid upfront; it renews at $11.99/month.
A flat-price server has fixed CPU and RAM; whether it can serve this much traffic depends on your app.
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Fly.ioPay As You Go$7.60/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown Machine (shared-cpu-1x, 512 MB) one always-on machine$3.69 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Egress (North America & Europe) 195.31 GB over 0 included × $0.02$3.91 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Egress is priced by region: $0.02/GB North America & Europe, $0.04/GB Asia-Pacific, $0.12/GB Africa & India. This total uses the first.
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RailwayHobby$24.77/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown Hobby plan $5.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Egress 195.31 GB × $0.05$9.77 Source, Oct 16, 2026 vCPU (always on) 0.5 vCPU × $20/month$10.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Memory (always on) 0.5 GB × $10/month$5.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Included usage $5 of usage is included−$5.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Railway bills actual use; this assumes your server runs all month at the vCPU and RAM you set.
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NetlifyPersonal$49/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown Personal plan $9.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Extra credit packs 3,784.03 credits over 1,000 → 8 × 500-credit pack at $5$40.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 -
RenderPro$57.55/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown Pro workspace $25.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Starter instance (512 MB) one always-on web service$7.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Bandwidth 170.31 GB over 25 included × $0.15$25.55 Source, Oct 16, 2026 -
VercelPro≥ $20/mo
How this is calculated
Cost breakdown Pro plan (1 seat) $20.00 Source, Oct 16, 2026 Not included (unverified): Function invocations (included amount not in the data); Active CPU (included amount not in the data); Memory (included amount not in the data); Build minutes (included amount not in the data)
Pro keeps billing past the included amounts; Vercel sets a default on-demand budget of $200, with an optional hard pause.
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Hetzner CloudPrices not verified yetUnverified
At a glance
| Provider | Free tier | Free bandwidth | Paid plan from | Bandwidth overage |
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| — | unmeteredSource · Oct 16 | $5/monthSource · Oct 16 | $0/GBSource · Oct 16 | |
DigitalOceanVPS | UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | — | $4/monthSource · Oct 16 | UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 |
Fly.ioPlatform (PaaS) | No free tier; trial up to 2h machine runtime or 7 daysSource · Oct 16 | 0 GBSource · Oct 16 | $0/monthSource · Oct 16 | $0.02/GBSource · Oct 16 |
| UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | — | UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | |
| UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | — | $6.49/monthSource · Oct 16 | UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | |
NetlifyPlatform (PaaS) | Free $0, 300 credit limit/monthSource · Oct 16 | UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | $9/monthSource · Oct 16 | $0.13/GBSource · Oct 16 |
RailwayPlatform (PaaS) | Free $0 with $1/month usage credit (plus $5 one-time 30-day trial)Source · Oct 16 | UnverifiedSource · Oct 16 | $5/monthSource · Oct 16 | $0.05/GBSource · Oct 16 |
RenderPlatform (PaaS) | — | 5 GBSource · Oct 16 | $25/monthSource · Oct 16 | $0.15/GBSource · Oct 16 |
VercelPlatform (PaaS) | Hobby $0 (personal, non-commercial; hard caps, no overage purchase)Source · Oct 16 | 100 GBSource · Oct 16 | $20/monthSource · Oct 16 | $0.15/GBSource · Oct 16 |
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