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Developer infrastructure, compared

A neutral, filterable directory of 41 platforms — app hosting, managed PaaS, Jamstack, self-hosted options and managed databases. Compare free tiers, engines, regions and Docker support, then jump to the one you want.

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41 platforms

All platforms

Managed PaaS

Heroku

The original git-push PaaS

~$25/mo

Managed DBDocker
Managed PaaS

Render

Often called the closest Heroku replacement

~$7/mo

Free tier*Managed DBDocker
Managed PaaS

Cloudways

Managed cloud on DO/AWS/Vultr, no server ops

~$11/mo

Managed DB
Managed PaaS

Railway

Usage-based infra with a slick UX

~$20.26/mo

Managed DBDocker
Container hosting

Fly.io

Run containers close to users

~$5.7/mo

Managed DBDocker
Managed PaaS

Koyeb

Serverless deploys, global edge

~$5.36/mo

Managed DBDocker
Managed PaaS

Northflank

PaaS power with more control

~$12/mo

Free tier*Managed DBDocker
Static / Jamstack

Vercel

The Next.js cloud

Free tier
Static / Jamstack

Netlify

Jamstack pioneer

Free tierManaged DB
Static / Jamstack

Cloudflare Pages

Static + Workers on the edge

Free tierManaged DB
Self-hosted PaaS

Coolify

Open-source Heroku/Netlify you host

Free tierSelf-hostManaged DBDockerOpen source
Self-hosted PaaS

Dokploy

Self-hosted deploy platform

Free tierSelf-hostManaged DBDockerOpen source
Self-hosted PaaS

Dokku

The smallest PaaS you can build

Free tierSelf-hostManaged DBDockerOpen source
Self-hosted PaaS

CapRover

One-click apps, self-hosted

Free tierSelf-hostManaged DBDockerOpen source
VPS / IaaS

Hetzner Cloud

The price/performance benchmark for cloud VPS

~$7.09/mo

Self-host
VPS / IaaS

Vultr

Wide region coverage and flexible instance types

~$5/mo

Self-hostManaged DB
VPS / IaaS

Akamai (Linode)

Simple, stable pricing on Akamai's network

~$5/mo

Self-hostManaged DB
VPS / IaaS

Contabo

Maximum RAM and storage per dollar

Self-host
Managed database

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative

PostgreSQLFree tierSelf-hostOpen source
Managed database

Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching

Serverless PostgreSQLFree tierOpen source
Managed database

PlanetScale

Serverless MySQL built on Vitess

MySQL (Vitess) / PostgreSQL
Managed database

MongoDB Atlas

Managed MongoDB in the cloud

Document (NoSQL)Free tierSelf-host
Managed database

Turso

SQLite (libSQL) with embedded replicas

SQLite / libSQLFree tierSelf-hostOpen source
Managed database

CockroachDB

Distributed SQL that scales horizontally

Distributed SQL (Postgres-compatible)Free tierSelf-host
Managed database

Firebase

Google's BaaS: NoSQL data, auth and hosting

Document (NoSQL)Free tier*
Container hosting

Google Cloud Run

Serverless containers that scale to zero on GCP

Free tier*Docker
Object storage

Cloudflare R2

S3-compatible storage with zero egress fees

Free tier*
Object storage

Backblaze B2

Cheap storage with generous free egress

Free tier*
Object storage

Wasabi

Flat-rate hot storage, no egress or API fees

Object storage

Amazon S3

The industry standard — with egress fees

Free tier*
Monitoring / Uptime

Better Stack

Uptime, on-call and logs in one

Free tier*
Monitoring / Uptime

UptimeRobot

Simple, popular uptime monitoring with a real free tier

Free tier*
Monitoring / Uptime

Checkly

Programmable API + browser checks, as code

Free tier*
Monitoring / Uptime

Pingdom

Established uptime + real-user monitoring (SolarWinds)

Monitoring / Uptime

Uptime Kuma

Open-source, self-hosted uptime monitoring

Free tier*Self-hostDockerOpen source

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