Compare hosting platforms
Every comparison we publish, in one place. The posts use dated list prices and worked monthly bills, and each says when staying where you are makes more sense.
Alternatives to the platform you use now
What else is worth a look, what the same app costs on each, and when staying put is the better call.
Railway alternatives
Six options compared on starting cost, and when to stay on Railway.
Render alternatives
Five options with the same app priced on each, and when to stay on Render.
Heroku alternatives
Five options with a small production stack priced on each, with real dyno math.
Fly.io alternatives
Five options with a small app and Postgres priced on each, and when to stay.
Vercel alternatives
Where to run the whole app, backend included, with workers, cron and Postgres.
Northflank alternative
A comparison for solo developers and small teams who want to ship without platform-team tooling.
Supabase alternatives
What the same Postgres costs on Neon, Render, Railway, Heroku, self-hosted Supabase and Ownkube.
Coolify alternatives
Coolify, Dokploy, Dokku and CapRover on your own server, plus the managed option.
Kubernetes alternatives
What Kubernetes costs a small team to run, and the simpler options, with a decision table.
Head to head
Two or three platforms side by side, with dated list prices and worked monthly bills.
Railway vs Render vs Northflank
Pricing, billing, where your app runs and the buyer each fits, plus Ownkube.
Railway vs Render
Metered usage against fixed instances, with three worked monthly bills.
Railway vs Fly.io
Plans, regions, Postgres and sleeping, with three worked monthly bills.
Railway vs Vercel
A frontend platform against a backend host, and when to use both together.
Render vs Heroku
Instance prices, Postgres plans and a worked production bill, plus how to move off Heroku.
Pricing explained
How each bill adds up, with dated list prices and worked monthly examples.
Railway pricing
Hobby and Pro plans, usage rates, volumes and egress, with three worked monthly bills.
Render pricing
Workspace plans plus instance, Postgres and Key Value prices, priced for a side project and a small team.
Fly.io pricing
Machines, RAM, volumes, egress and Managed Postgres, with Fly's own worked bills.
Managed Postgres pricing
A 1 GB and a 4 GB database priced on eight providers, list prices checked 2026-10-13.
Cheapest app with Postgres
One app, one database and one cache priced on seven platforms, idle and busy.
n8n Cloud vs self-hosted
n8n Cloud plans against the free community edition, and what running it yourself costs each month.
Does Railway credit expire?
How Railway's plan credit and postpaid billing work, next to a prepaid wallet that rolls over.
DevOps engineer cost
What a senior DevOps hire costs your runway, how long hiring takes, and the smaller-team option.
Ownkube compared
How Ownkube lines up against each platform on billing, databases and scaling, from the docs.
Ownkube vs Railway
Billing, managed databases, autoscaling and running the same app in your own AWS account.
Ownkube vs Render
Per-minute wallet billing against per-service monthly pricing.
Ownkube vs Heroku
Per-minute wallet billing against dyno pricing, with git-push deploys on both.
Ownkube vs Fly.io
Managed databases and autoscaling against a global edge deployment model.
Ownkube vs Vercel
Long-running servers and managed databases against a frontend platform.
Ownkube vs self-managed Kubernetes
Portability and control without operating the platform layer yourself.
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