Hosting cost calculator
What will your hosting cost? Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare
= 300 GB transfer · 4M CDN requests · 400k function calls · 3 CPU-hours / month
Click a row for the breakdown. Monthly list prices in USD, before tax and credits.
Same traffic, every host
| Host | Side project · 10k views | Static blog · 300k views | Startup · 200k views, 3 devs | Growing SaaS · 2M views | Went viral · 20M views |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | $20 | $20 | $60 | $265 | $6,804 |
| Netlify | $9 | $53 | $53 | $493 | $6,016 |
| Cloudflare Workers & Pages | $5 | $0 | $5 | $8 | $37.40 |
| AWS Amplify Hosting | $2.96 | $45.90 | $51.36 | $524 | $6,458 |
| Firebase Hosting | $0.75 | $43.38 | $43.50 | $475 | $6,210 |
| Render | $8.50 | $44.25 | $73.25 | $478 | $6,035 |
| Railway | $5.75 | $20 | $20.09 | $156 | $2,014 |
| Fly.io | $3.99 | $9.69 | $9.69 | $63.69 | $815 |
| DigitalOcean App Platform | $5 | $5.98 | $10 | $64 | $827 |
| Heroku | $7 | $7 | $7 | $7 | $100 |
Monthly USD, commercial project, 1.5 MB per page view. Cheapest per column in green; hover for the plan.
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FAQ
Which hosting is cheapest?+
For a static site, Cloudflare: it doesn’t charge for bandwidth or static requests, so a 300k-view blog costs $0. For an app with server code at 2M page views a month, the cheapest here is Heroku ($7). Always-on servers (Heroku, Fly.io, DigitalOcean) get cheap at steady traffic but don’t scale to zero; serverless hosts cost nothing when idle and grow with traffic.
How much does Vercel cost?+
Pro is $20 per deploying seat a month, with $20 of usage credit and 1 TB / 1M CDN requests included. For a 3-person startup at 200k page views it comes to about $60; at 2M views with 8 seats about $265. Hobby is free but only for non-commercial projects.
Vercel vs Netlify: which is cheaper?+
It depends on team size and bandwidth. Vercel charges per seat but includes 1 TB of transfer; Netlify Pro has unlimited members but bills bandwidth from credits (20 credits per GB). At the startup preset: Vercel $60, Netlify $53.
How is this calculated?+
Page views × data per view gives bandwidth; × CDN requests per view gives requests; × server calls gives function invocations, and CPU and duration per call give compute. Each host’s published rates and included quotas (checked 2026-10-25) are applied to the cheapest self-serve plan that fits. For server-based hosts we size enough always-on instances for the CPU time at 50% utilization. Databases, storage, images and logs are not included.
What’s missing from the estimate?+
Databases, image optimization, file storage, logs, analytics, add-ons, taxes, free credits (most hosts give startups credits: see DevHunt’s perks list) and annual discounts. Caching also matters: a page served from CDN cache runs no function at all, so lowering "server calls per page view" is the biggest lever on serverless bills.