Category · 4 options
Choosing hosting
Where the app's frontend and server code run. Match the runtime to the framework, check whether the free plan allows commercial use, and check what happens at the usage cap (pause or bill).
Free plans and prices
In Cuely's default order for the general case. Your needs change the order; see below.
| Tool | Free plan | Paid from | At 1,000 users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel First-class Next.js support with a preview URL for every branch. | Hobby, $0/month: 1M function invocations, 4 hours Active CPU, 1M CDN requests, 100 GB Fast Data Transfer and 10 GB Fast Origin Transfer per month, 1 developer seat. | Pro: $20/month, including $20 of usage credit, then pay as you go. | $20/month |
| Cloudflare Workers Very low cost at scale with no egress charges. | Workers Free: 100,000 requests per day and 10 ms of CPU time per invocation. | Workers Paid: $5/month minimum per account, including 10M requests and 30M CPU ms per month; then $0.30 per additional million requests. | $0/month |
| Netlify Simple credit-based hosting with no per-seat charge on Pro. | Free: 300 credits per month (a production deploy is 15 credits, bandwidth 20 credits per GB), 1 concurrent build, 1 member; the site pauses when credits run out. | Personal: $9/month (1,000 credits). Pro: from $20/month (3,000 credits, unlimited members). | $9/month |
| Render Runs persistent servers and background workers, not just functions. | Hobby workspace: free web services (512 MB RAM, 750 instance hours/month, spin down after 15 minutes idle), 5 GB bandwidth, 500 build minutes per month. | $7/month for the smallest paid web service (512 MB RAM). | $7/month |
Best pick by need
From the published scores Cuely ranks with. Only needs where one tool clearly leads.
- background jobs or long-running servers: Render. Always-on services, background workers and cron jobs are first-class.
- global low latency: Cloudflare Workers. Code runs in Cloudflare's edge locations by default.
- high volume: Cloudflare Workers. Per-request pricing stays low at high volume and there are no data transfer charges.
- keep costs as low as possible: Cloudflare Workers. 100k free requests a day, then $5/month covers 10M requests, with no egress charges.
- Next.js or React: Vercel. Built by the Next.js team; Next.js features work without adapters.
- realtime features: Render. Persistent servers hold websocket connections.