Hosting cost calculator

One month at your traffic. Totals use verified prices only; “≥” means some items are unverified and left out.

1. 

   DigitalOcean

   Basic Droplet 512MiB/1vCPU/10GiB

   $4/mo
   Cheapest verifiedKeeps billingNo free tier.
   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.

2. 

   Cloudflare Pages/Workers

   Workers Paid

   $5/mo
   Keeps billingFree tier stops at its cap with this setup.
   How this is calculated

   Cost breakdown

   Workers Paid (minimum)

   $5.00

   Source, Oct 16, 2026

3. 

   Hostinger VPS

   KVM 1 (1 vCPU/4GB/50GB NVMe)

   $6.49/mo
   Keeps billingNo free tier.
   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.

4. 

   Fly.io

   Pay As You Go

   $7.60/mo
   Keeps billingNo free tier.
   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.

5. 

   Railway

   Hobby

   $24.77/mo
   Keeps billingFree tier goes over its limits (what happens next isn’t stated) with this setup.
   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.

6. 

   Netlify

   Personal

   $49/mo
   Keeps billingFree tier goes over its limits (what happens next isn’t stated) with this setup.
   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

7. 

   Render

   Pro

   $57.55/mo
   Keeps billingFree tier goes over its limits (what happens next isn’t stated) at ~2.6k pageviews/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

8. 

   Vercel

   Pro

   ≥ $20/mo
   Keeps billingExcludes unverified itemsFree tier stops at its cap at ~50k pageviews/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.

9. 

   Hetzner Cloud

   Prices not verified yet

   Unverified
   No free tier.