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Hosting: free tiers side by side

14 services, 10 with a free tier. Values are copied from each pricing page as of Oct 23, 2026. Open Evidence on any row to read the exact sentences.

Picks for static sites and front ends (TierDiff's overall score)

1st Cloudflare Pages
2nd Sevalla Static Site Hosting (Kinsta)
3rd Render

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App and API servers: in preparation. We are still collecting values such as free instance memory, and the services to compare.

Best in its column Not on the pricing pageCopy gives tab-separated rows with source links and the check date

Free-tier limits of 14 hosting services
Service								Source
Cloudflare Pages Static sites on Cloudflare's network, with server code billed as Workers requests. +3 more in Evidence	Unlimited	not published	100	not published	not published	not published	not published	developers.cloudflare.comchecked Oct 22 Official site
Bandwidth outUnlimited…and developers to iterate quickly. All plans come with unlimited sites, seats, requests, and bandwidth. Global Performance… Quoted from cloudflare.com/products/pages, checked Oct 22, 2026. Concurrent jobs1…depend on your plan: \| Free \| Pro \| Business \| Builds \| 1 build at a time \| 5 concurrent builds \| 20 concurrent… Custom domains100…a per-project basis. \| Free \| Pro \| Business \| Enterprise \| 100 \| 250 \| 500 \| 5001 Files Pages uploads each file on your… File upload size25 MB…file size for a single Cloudflare Pages site asset is 25 MiB. Larger Files To serve larger files, consider… Sites / projects100…your Pages site. Projects Cloudflare Pages has a limit of 100 projects2 per account. This limit is not routinely… Quoted from developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, checked Oct 22, 2026.
GitHub Pages Publish a static site from a GitHub repository, built with Jekyll or GitHub Actions.	100 GB	not published	not published	1 GB	not published	not published	not published	docs.github.comchecked Oct 22 Official site
Bandwidth out100 GB / mo…GitHub Pages sites have a soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month. GitHub Pages sites have a soft limit of 10… File storage1 GB…Published GitHub Pages sites may be no larger than 1 GB. GitHub Pages deployments will timeout if they take… Quoted from docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/github-pages-limits, checked Oct 22, 2026.
Sevalla Static Site Hosting (Kinsta) Kinsta's Sevalla: static sites deployed from Git and served through Cloudflare's CDN.	100 GB	not published	100	not published	not published	600	not published	sevalla.comchecked Oct 23 Official site
Bandwidth out100 GB / mo…with it. 100 static sites 600 build minutes per month 100GB bandwidth per month / account 1GB build size and 1… Build minutes600 min / mo…exceeds limits, billing scales with it. 100 static sites 600 build minutes per month 100GB bandwidth per month /… Sites / projects100…When your site exceeds limits, billing scales with it. 100 static sites 600 build minutes per month 100GB bandwidth… Quoted from sevalla.com/static-site-hosting, checked Oct 23, 2026.
Vercel Hosting from the team that maintains Next.js, with preview URLs for each branch and PR. +2 more in Evidence	100 GB	not published	not published	1 GB	1	not published	not published	vercel.comchecked Oct 23 Official site
Bandwidth out100 GB / mo…Included in Flat Rate CDN Custom Fast Data Transfer 100 GB / month included Included in Flat Rate CDN Custom… Events50,000 events / mo…/ month $0.65 per 10K events Custom Web Analytics Events 50K events / month included $3 per 100K events Custom Web… Requests1,000,000 requests / mo…Starting at $0.0106 per GB-hr Custom Function Invocations 1M / month included Starting at $0.60 per 1M Custom Service… Team members1…Suffix — $100 / month Team Seats Developer seat 1 $20 / month Custom Viewer seat — Unlimited Custom Billing… File storage1 GB…/ month per 25K redirects Custom Blob Blob Storage Size 1 GB / month included $0.023 per GB Custom Blob Simple… Quoted from vercel.com/pricing, checked Oct 23, 2026.
Render Web services, background workers, cron jobs and Postgres side by side in one dashboard. +2 more in Evidence	5 GB	512	25	not published	1	500	15	render.comchecked Oct 23 Official site
Bandwidth out5 GB / mo…touch Connect your repo, and go Deploy up to 25 services 5 GB of bandwidth included Single-service previews Global… Build minutes500 min / mo…— Build & Deploy Automatic builds Standard build pipeline 500 mins per month then $5 per 1K mins 1K mins per month then… Memory512 MB…$0.25/GB per month \| Free (limitations apply) \| $0/month \| 512 MB RAM \| free \| Less than 1 CPU \| $7/month \| 512 MB RAM \|… Data retention7 days…Health checks Service metrics Notifications Log retention 7 days 14 days 30 days 30 days Log streams HTTP request… Team members1…metrics stream — Platform Access & Security Team seats 1 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Workspaces 1 1 Unlimited… Sites / projects25…Scale Get in touch Connect your repo, and go Deploy up to 25 services 5 GB of bandwidth included Single-service… Quoted from render.com/pricing, checked Oct 23, 2026. Compute hours750 hr / mo…Monthly usage limits Free instance hours Render grants 750 Free instance hours to each workspace per calendar month:… Time before sleep15 min…on idle Render spins down a Free web service that goes 15 minutes without receiving any inbound traffic. This… Quoted from render.com/docs/free, checked Oct 23, 2026.
DigitalOcean App Platform DigitalOcean's PaaS: deploy from Git or a container image, next to its managed databases.	1 GB	not published	3	not published	not published	not published	not published	digitalocean.comchecked Oct 22 Official site(affiliate)
Bandwidth out1 GB / mo…Free Tier Starting at $0/month 3 apps with static sites 1GiB data transfer allowance per app with static sites… Sites / projects3…App Platform. Free Tier Starting at $0/month 3 apps with static sites 1GiB data transfer allowance per… Quoted from digitalocean.com/pricing/app-platform, checked Oct 22, 2026.
Azure App Service	not published	1,024	not published	not published	not published	not published	20	azure.microsoft.comchecked Oct 22 Official site
Time before sleep20 min…On is turned off (default), the app is unloaded after 20 minutes without any incoming requests. The unloaded app… Quoted from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/configure-common, checked Oct 22, 2026. Memory1,024 MB…\| Pay as you go F1 Free \| Shared (60 CPU minutes / day) \| 1 GB \| 1.00 GB $- Dev/Test Pricing Available Available for… Quoted from azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/linux, checked Oct 22, 2026.
Google App Engine	not published	384	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	cloud.google.comchecked Oct 22 Official site
Memory384 MB…\| CPU Limit \| Supported Scaling Types \| F1 (default) \| 384 MB \| 600 MHz \| automatic \| F2 \| 768 MB \| 1.2 GHz \|… Quoted from docs.cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/overview, checked Oct 22, 2026.
Netlify Git deploys with a Deploy Preview per pull request; HTML forms collected with no server. +1 more in Evidence	not published	not published	not published	not published	1	not published	not published	netlify.comchecked Oct 22 Official site
Credits300 credits / mo…Firewall Traffic Rules & basic rate limiting Global CDN 300 credit limit / month Start for free Personal $9 /month… Team members1…not have membership requirements for deploys. Limited to 1 free member, with free & unlimited Git Contributors on… Quoted from netlify.com/pricing, checked Oct 22, 2026.
Railway Build a project on a canvas from repos, images and templates; pay for resources used. +3 more in Evidence	not published	512	not published	500 MB	not published	not published	not published	railway.comchecked Oct 23 Official site(affiliate)
Usage credit$1 / mo…Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service 0.5 GB of… One-time credit$5…apps on Railway Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per… Memory512 MB…trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service 0.5 GB of volume storage Community… File storage500 MB…then $1 per month Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service 0.5 GB of volume storage Community support Deploy a new… Trial length30 days…started and deploying small apps on Railway Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month Up to 1… Quoted from railway.com/pricing, checked Oct 23, 2026.
Cloudways Managed servers on a cloud you choose, for WordPress and PHP apps; a trial, no free plan. Trial only +1 more in Evidence	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	cloudways.comchecked Oct 22 Official site(affiliate)
Trial length3 days…and integrations included in every plan. Start Your 3-Day Trial Free Migration Lightning Stack New Vertical… Quoted from cloudways.com/en/pricing.php, checked Oct 22, 2026.
Fly.io Fast-starting VMs called Machines, run in regions near your users, Tokyo included. Trial only	not published	not published	not published	10 GB	not published	not published	not published	fly.iochecked Oct 22 Official site
File storage10 GB…India \| $0.12 / GB \| Dedicated IPv4 \| $2.00 / mo First 10GB of snapshots free each month. Every app gets a shared… Quoted from fly.io/pricing, checked Oct 22, 2026.
Heroku Deploy with git push; buildpacks, dynos and add-ons. Free plans ended in 2022. No free tier	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	heroku.comchecked Oct 23 Official site
Koyeb Serverless containers and GPUs that scale to zero when idle, with a Tokyo region. No free tier	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	not published	koyeb.comchecked Oct 23 Official site

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Priced by credits or usage: special picks

These services charge for what you use, in credits or in dollars, instead of setting fixed free limits. They are not ranked: TierDiff shows each one as the pick for one situation, chosen from the facts on this site. Credits and unit prices are as each pricing page lists them, not converted to one unit.

For running in Tokyo

Fly.io
Pay as you go

To run apps in Tokyo
Good for: people who want to run an app in Tokyo and pay for what they use. You can pick Tokyo (nrt), and Machines are billed per second while running. New organizations get no free tier.
Free allowance

No value on TierDiff
Transfer price
- $0.12 per GBAfrica and India
- $0.04 per GBAsia Pacific, Oceania and South America
- $0.02 per GBNorth America and Europe
Visit the official site Free tier details

fly.io/pricingchecked Oct 22, 2026

Quotes from the pricing pages

Transfer price per GB (Africa and India)

…South America | $0.04 / GB | Egress, Africa and India | $0.12 / GB | Dedicated IPv4 | $2.00 / mo First 10GB of…

Transfer price per GB (Asia Pacific, Oceania and South America)

…/ GB | Egress, Asia Pacific, Oceania and South America | $0.04 / GB | Egress, Africa and India | $0.12 / GB | Dedicated…

Transfer price per GB (North America and Europe)

…GB / month | $0.08 | Egress, North America and Europe | $0.02 / GB | Egress, Asia Pacific, Oceania and South America |…
For staying within credits

Netlify
Credits

Staying within monthly credits
Good for: people with a static site and forms who want to stay within the monthly credits. On the Free plan, using up the month's credits pauses every project until the next cycle.
Free allowance
- Credits300 credits / mo
Transfer price
- 20 credits per GB
Visit the official site Free tier details

netlify.com/pricingchecked Oct 22, 2026

Quotes from the pricing pages

Credits

…Firewall Traffic Rules & basic rate limiting Global CDN 300 credit limit / month Start for free Personal $9 /month…

Credits per GB of transfer

…measures compute usage by Netlify Database. Bandwidth 20 credits per GB Bandwidth metering includes two items: Web…
For trying before paying

Railway
Pay as you go

Try it before paying
Good for: people who want to run it before paying anything. There is trial credit, and a small free allowance continues every month after it. No card is needed to start, and services in the same project talk over a private network.
Free allowance
- Usage credit$1 / mo
- One-time credit$5
- Trial length30 days
Transfer price
- $0.05 per GB
Visit the official site(affiliate) Free tier details

railway.com/pricingchecked Oct 23, 2026

Quotes from the pricing pages

Usage credit

…Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per service 0.5 GB of…

One-time credit

…apps on Railway Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month Up to 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB RAM per…

Trial length

…started and deploying small apps on Railway Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 per month Up to 1…

Transfer price per GB

…per vCPU / sec Volumes $0.00000006 per GB / sec Egress $0.05 per GB for services Object Storage $0.015 per GB-month…

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HOHosting: free tiers side by side

Priced by credits or usage: special picks

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Netlify

Railway

Hosting: free tiers side by side

Fly.io