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Find infrastructure for what you're building.

Pick everything your project is made of and needs. The list below narrows to providers that document support for everything picked — nothing here is a guess at what a provider can do. Need the whole stack, not just where it runs? Plan every layer, with a starting-cost floor →

What stage is this project at?

Picks inetGeek's usual starting checklist for that stage below — every box stays yours to change.

What are you building?

Frameworks

Backend

Self-hosted apps

Runtimes

CMS

What does it need?

27 providers on this site

ProviderCategoryEntry paid planFree tier
AWS AmplifyFrontend & serverlessNo monthly minimum — Amplify Hosting is billed per unit. A representative month for one small app, priced at Amplify's published rates: 100 build minutes ($1.00), 5 GB stored ($0.11), 100 GB served ($15.00), with SSR requests inside the free 500,000 — about $16.11. Our arithmetic on Amplify's rates, not a price Amplify quotes, and it moves with traffic: egress is 93% of it. Recorded without a magnitude for that reason.Yes
Azure Container AppsApp platformsNot documentedYes
Cloudflare PagesFrontend & serverless$5 / month account minimumYes
Cloudflare WorkersFrontend & serverless$5/month minimum charge for an account on the Workers Paid plan, which covers Workers, Pages Functions, Workers KV, Hyperdrive and Durable Objects usage.Yes
Deno DeployFrontend & serverless$20/month for Pro. Builder is $200/month for subhosting; Enterprise is custom.Yes
DigitalOceanVPS & cloud$4.00Yes
DigitalOcean App PlatformApp platforms$5.00 per month for the smallest container: 1 shared vCPU, 512 MiB of RAM and 50 GiB of bandwidth.Yes
DreamHostMass-market$10.99/month on renewal for Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan. The advertised $2.89 is a first-year rate on an annual prepay.No
Fly.ioApp platformsNot documentedNo
FlywheelManaged hosting$25/month for Starter, billed $300 a year with two months free. Monthly billing is offered at a higher rate.No
Google Cloud RunApp platformsNo plan fee and no minimum commitment. Cloud Run bills per vCPU-second, GiB-second and request once the monthly free allowance is used, so there is no entry price to compare, only a rate card. Recorded without a magnitude for that reason.Yes
HerokuApp platforms$5 per month (Eco dynos plan, 1000 dyno hours shared across the account)Not documented
HetznerVPS & cloud€5.99/month for the CX23 (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 40 GB NVMe), including a primary IPv4 address, or €0.0096/hour. The ARM CAX11 with identical specs is €6.49. Converted for comparison at the ECB reference rate of 1 EUR = 1.1622 USD (2026-09-04, api.frankfurter.dev), which puts the CX23 at about $6.96/month. Hetzner publishes no USD price; the conversion is ours and moves with the rate.Not documented
HostingerMass-market$10.99/month on renewal (Premium plan)No
Hostinger VPSVPS & cloud$11.99/month on renewal for KVM 1, on a two-year term. The advertised $6.49 is an introductory rate for the first term only.No
KinstaManaged hosting$35/month for the entry single-site plan (first month $0, then $35/month); $30/month if paid annually.No
KoyebApp platforms$29/month for Pro, plus compute. The plan fee buys team and support features; compute is billed separately per second.Yes
Linode (Akamai Cloud)VPS & cloud$5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above it: $6.00 in Jakarta and $7.00 in São Paulo.No
NetlifyFrontend & serverless$9/month for 1,000 credits/monthYes
NhostApp platforms$25/month for Pro is a plan fee that includes $15 of compute credits, not the cost of a running project — compute is metered on top. Team is $599/month on the same basis.Yes
PressableManaged hosting$20.83/month for Signature 1, billed $250 a year. Monthly billing is offered at a higher rate; the yearly plan advertises two months free.No
RailwayApp platforms$5 / month (Hobby)Yes
RenderApp platformsNot documentedYes
SiteGroundMass-market$17.99/month on renewal ($3.99/mo intro, prepaid 12 months)No
VercelFrontend & serverless$20 per developer seat / month (Pro)Yes
VultrVPS & cloud$2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6 only — and available in two of Vultr's 33 regions, Newark and Atlanta. The first plan offered nearly everywhere is vc2-1c-1gb at $5.00, in 31 of them.Not documented
WP EngineManaged hostingStarting at $28.00/month for the Managed Hosting Platform, quoted in USD; $336.00 if billed annually. On 14 September 2026 the same URL also served a euro-priced variant at €25.60/month, to roughly one request in eight; thirty consecutive samples on 15 September returned only the dollar-priced body, so that behaviour is recorded as observed and not as current.No

Places to run your project, not what it stores its data in or how it signs a user in — every other layer your project might need is below, collapsed until you need it.

Storing what your project produces?

9 providers

Object storage is a separate decision from where your app runs, and egress is the sharpest line between the providers documented here — free to serve back out for most of them, and a real per-GB charge from the hyperscalers in the set, which is the one column below actually worth comparing.See the full list →

What does it need?

9 providers on this site

ProviderEgress over allowanceFree tier
Amazon S3$0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB a month out to the internet, after a free 100 GB aggregated globally. It falls to $0.085 above 10 TB, $0.07 above 50 TB and $0.05 above 150 TB. This is AWS's outbound data transfer rate rather than an S3-specific one — the charge that R2, Wasabi and Tigris do not levy at all.Yes
Azure Blob StorageFirst 100 GB a month free, then $0.087 per GB over Microsoft's global egress meter, falling to $0.083 above 10 TB.No
Backblaze B2Free up to three times your stored capacity each month on the $6.95/TB tier; unlimited free egress on the $15/TB tier. Egress beyond the 3x allowance is chargeable.Yes
Bunny StorageFree to Bunny's own CDN, and no API fees or API egress charges. Bunny prices storage by replication rather than by transfer.Not documented
Cloudflare R2Free. Cloudflare charges nothing for egress to the internet on any storage class; Infrequent Access adds a $0.01/GB retrieval fee instead.Yes
IDrive e2Free up to three times your active storage volume each month — the same shape as Backblaze B2's allowance rather than the unconditional free egress R2 and Wasabi advertise.Not documented
Storj$7 per TB, the same rate as storage — reduced from $20 per TB on the Standard tier. Storj charges for egress where R2, Wasabi and Tigris do not, but at a tenth of what S3 charges.Not documented
TigrisNone. Tigris charges no egress fees; retrieval is free on Standard and Archive tiers and $0.01–$0.03 per GB on the Infrequent Access and Glacier tiers.Yes
WasabiNone. Wasabi charges for capacity only, with no egress or API request fees.No

Need somewhere to put your data?

13 providers

Managed databases split on a couple of real questions: whether you can branch a database the way you branch a git repo, and whether read replicas exist for scaling reads separately from writes.See the full list →

What does it need?

13 providers on this site

ProviderEntry paid planFree tier
Aiven$5 a month for Developer — one VM, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage, with no choice of cloud or region and no connection pooling. The first plan that behaves like a production service is Startup at $75 a month or $0.10 an hour, which is where the uptime SLA and multi-CPU sizing begin; Hobbyist sits between them at $12.Yes
Amazon AuroraNo plan fee and no minimum commitment — Aurora charges for what you use. AWS's own worked example prices serverless compute at $0.12 per ACU-hour on Aurora Standard in US East (N. Virginia), and the smallest capacity you can set is 0.5 ACUs; storage and I/O are billed separately.Yes
Amazon RDS$0.016 per DB instance-hour on-demand for db.t4g.micro, the smallest DB instance class — RDS for MySQL, Single-AZ, US East (N. Virginia). No plan fee or minimum: instance-hours, storage and backups are billed separately. Cheapest of the 216 on-demand rates in this feed; db.t3.micro is next at $0.017.No
Crunchy Bridge$9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on lower-quality infrastructure, has no PgBouncer and is not intended for production; the first production tier is Standard-4 at $70 a month for 1 core and 4 GB. There is no free plan.Not documented
Neo4j$65/GB/month (minimum 1GB cluster) on AuraDB Professional, or $0.09/hour ($65.70/month for 1GB) metered hourly. 14-day free trial available.Yes
NeonNo fixed monthly fee. Launch is usage-based — Neon's own worked example puts typical spend at $15/month for intermittent load on 1 GB — so there is no entry price to compare, only a rate card. Recorded without a magnitude because a vendor's spend estimate is not a price.Yes
Nile$15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.Yes
PlanetScale$5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Metal with local NVMe starts at $50/monthNo
Prisma Postgres$10/month for Starter. Pro is $49 and Business $129, each including a larger request allowance.Yes
ScaleGridDedicated Hosting starts at $10/month for Redis; $13/month PostgreSQL, $18/month MongoDB, $23/month MySQL, all-inclusive of machine, disk and network costs. From the Dedicated Hosting Plans doc; the live /pricing/ calculator quotes higher figures (see notes).No
Supabase$25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to cover one Micro instance, so this runs a small project rather than being a fee on top of it. Additional projects from $10/mo.Yes
TigerDataCompute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separately. Scale starts at $36/month.Yes
Turso$4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan. Scaler is $24.92 and Pro $416.58.Yes

Watching for what breaks in production?

9 providers

Error tracking splits on two real questions: whether session replay exists alongside error capture, and whether you can self-host it instead of sending your data to someone else.See the full list →

What does it need?

9 providers on this site

ProviderEntry paid planFree tier
Axiom$25/month platform fee for Cloud, plus usage, with no minimum commitment. The plan carries an always-free allowance of 1 TB loaded, 100 GB-hours of query compute and 100 GB stored.Yes
Better StackFrom $29/month, or $34/month depending on the plan selected; Better Stack advertises both figures as starting prices on the same page.Yes
Datadog$15 per host per month for Infrastructure Pro, the entry paid product. Datadog prices per product rather than per plan, so this is one meter of many rather than a platform fee.Yes
Elastic CloudElastic Cloud Hosted Standard, cheapest of four subscription tiers: as low as $99 per month for a production config of 120 GB storage across 2 zones. Gold $114, Platinum $131, Enterprise $184 per month on the same config basis. Serverless is metered, no plan fee.No
GlitchTip$15/month for the 100,000 event plan; $50 for 500,000 and $250 for 3 millionYes
Grafana Cloud$19/month platform fee for Pro, which includes 10,000 active series before usage billing starts.Yes
OpenObserveNo minimum: Cloud Professional is pay-as-you-go from $0.50 per GB ingested plus $0.01 per GB queried, billed monthly with no upfront commitment.No
Sentry$26/month for Team, the cheapest paid planYes
SigNoz$49/month for Teams, and the $49 is usage credit rather than a fee on top — SigNoz bills against it before charging more.No

Calling a model from your app?

8 providers

LLM APIs are priced per token, not per month, so the entry price below is the cheapest model's rate rather than a plan fee. What actually varies between providers is whether that price includes prompt caching.See the full list →

What does it need?

8 providers on this site

ProviderCheapest model, per tokenFree tier
Anthropic$1 per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 4.5, the cheapest current model.No
Baseten$0.10 per million input tokens for GPT OSS 120B, with output at $0.50. GLM-5.3-Flash is $0.15 in and $0.50 out.No
DeepInfra$0.06 per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, with cached input at $0.015 and output at $0.18. DeepSeek itself charges $0.44 at peak for the same checkpoint and Fireworks $0.22.No
DeepSeek$0.3 per million input tokens for deepseek-flash at peak on a cache miss, $0.15 off-peak; output is $1.2 peak and $0.6 off-peak.Not documented
Fireworks AI$0.15 per million input tokens for GLM 5.3 Flash, with output at $0.50. DeepSeek-V4-Flash is $0.22 in and $0.66 out — the same model DeepSeek itself sells at $0.44 peak.Yes
Google Gemini API$0.30 per million input tokens for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, with output at $2.50.Yes
Novita AI$0.075 per million input tokens for GLM 5.3 Flash at short context, rising to $0.15 above the threshold, with cache reads at $0.015 and output at $0.25. Fireworks serves the same model at $0.15.Yes
OpenAI$0.20 per million input tokens for gpt-5.6-luna at short context.Not documented

Sending transactional email?

11 providers

Transactional email splits on deliverability control — a dedicated sending IP — and whether the provider can receive mail back for your app, not just send it.See the full list →

What does it need?

11 providers on this site

ProviderEntry paid planFree tier
AhaSend$10/month for Pro; Max is $80/month.Yes
Amazon SESNo monthly plan — SES bills per email. Ten thousand emails, the tier Postmark and Mailgun both price at, costs $1.00 at the published $0.10 per 1,000. Our arithmetic on Amazon's rate, not a price Amazon quotes, and attachments add $0.12 per GB.Yes
BrevoStarter is priced per region, not globally. A visitor in India is shown ₹562.50/month for 5,000 emails; at the ECB reference rate of 1 INR = 0.01046 USD (2026-09-11, api.frankfurter.dev) that is about $5.88, but Brevo sets each market's price separately, so this is the Indian price converted rather than what a buyer elsewhere pays. No global price is published.Yes
Cloudflare Email ServiceNot documentedYes
EmailLabsNot documentedNo
MailerSend$31.50/month for Starter, billed $378 a year. Professional is $99/month, billed $1,188.Not documented
Mailgun$15/month for Basic, described as a starting price.Yes
MailjetNot documentedYes
Postmark$15.00/month for Basic at the 10,000-email tier. Postmark prices by volume, so the figure rises with the slider.Yes
Resend$20/month for Pro, the cheapest paid plan.Yes
SMTP2GO$10/month for Starter, or $100 a year. Professional is $75/month.Yes

Handling sign-in and user accounts?

8 providers

Auth is where the SSO tax hides: SAML support, SCIM provisioning and MFA are the three capabilities most often paywalled well above the entry price shown below.See the full list →

What does it need?

8 providers on this site

ProviderCategoryEntry paid planFree tier
Auth0Auth$35/month for Essentials at 500 monthly active users; Professional is $240/month at the same volume. Both scale with the MAU slider.Yes
Better AuthAuth$20/month for Pro on the managed infrastructure. The framework itself costs nothing — the plan buys a dashboard, audit logs and security detections around it.Yes
ClerkAuth$25/month for Pro, or $20/month billed annually. Business is $300/month.Yes
KindeAuth$25/month for Pro. Plus is $75 and the top tier $250 — each including the same 10,500 MAU as the free plan.Yes
NhostApp platforms$25/month for Pro is a plan fee that includes $15 of compute credits, not the cost of a running project — compute is metered on top. Team is $599/month on the same basis.Yes
StytchAuthNo priced paid plan: Pay as you go starts at $0/month and meters usage above the free allowances; the only other tier, Enterprise, is quoted "Custom".Yes
SuperTokensAuth$100 per month minimum billing on the managed Cloud service; anything from 1 to 4,999 MAU bills at that $100 floor.Yes
WorkOSAuthNot documentedYes

Need background jobs or a queue?

10 providers

Queues and background job runners split on whether a failed message lands in a dead-letter queue you can inspect, or just vanishes.See the full list →

What does it need?

10 providers on this site

ProviderEntry paid planFree tier
Amazon SQSNo paid plan or minimum fee; billed per request after the free 1 million requests a month.Yes
Azure Queue StorageNot documentedNo
Cloudflare QueuesNot documentedYes
Google Cloud Pub/SubNot documentedYes
Hatchet$500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage. Scale is $1,000/month.Yes
Inngest$99/month for Pro, described as a starting price with usage above the included allowance billed on top.Yes
Temporal$100/month for Essentials, including 1 million Actions, 1 GB active storage and 40 GB retained storage. Business starts at $500/month with 2.5 million Actions.Yes
Trigger.dev$10/month for Hobby, which includes $10 of credits; Pro is $50/month including $50 of credits.Yes
Upstash QStashNot documentedYes
Zeplo$39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional members are $15 each.Yes

Training or serving a model that needs a GPU?

9 providers

GPU compute is priced per hour, per card, and the rate for the same H100 SXM varies sharply across the providers below — a marketplace like Vast.ai prices well under a dedicated cloud — no capability chips here, since none of these differ on what they support, only on what they charge.See the full list →

9 providers on this site

ProviderCategoryH100 SXM, per GPU-hourFree tier
BasetenLLM API$6.50 per hour for a dedicated H100 80GB. Baseten publishes $0.10833 per MINUTE — the hourly figure is that times 60, ours rather than Baseten's, and the page offers an hourly toggle. A100 80GB is $0.06667 a minute and B200 $0.16633.No
CoreWeaveGPU compute$6.16 per GPU-hour for H100 SXM 80GB. CoreWeave sells the 8-GPU HGX H100 node at $49.24/hour on demand — the per-GPU figure is that divided by eight, ours rather than CoreWeave's, and you cannot rent one card.Not documented
DeepInfraLLM API$2.20 per GPU-hour for a dedicated H100 80GB — below every dedicated cloud in this dataset. A100 80GB is $0.89, H200 $2.69, B200 $3.69. Billed in minute granularity, invoiced weekly.No
Fireworks AILLM API$7.00 per hour for an H100 80GB on demand, or $8.00 on the shorter commitment shown beside it. The same rate applies to an H200 141GB.Yes
HyperstackGPU compute$3.20 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB on demand. The NVLink variant is $2.60 and the PCIe H100 is $2.50.No
LambdaGPU compute$4.29 per GPU-hour for H100 SXM 80GB on a single-GPU instance, falling to $3.99 on an 8-GPU node. The PCIe variant is $3.29.Not documented
Novita AILLM API$3.39 per GPU-hour for an on-demand H100 SXM 80GB, or $1.70 spot.Yes
RunPodGPU compute$3.49 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, single card. The PCIe variant is $2.89 and H100 NVL is $3.19.Not documented
Vast.aiGPU computeMedian $2.40 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, with a floor of $1.73 from the cheapest host. Vast is a marketplace — the floor is one host's offer at one moment and the median is what the market is actually charging, so both move without anyone announcing anything. This figure is a snapshot, not a rate card.No
01.

Compare infrastructure providers.

Objective comparisons across pricing, infrastructure and developer experience — built from published documentation rather than marketing copy.

DigitalOcean vs Hetzner — 6 of 23 criteria on which they differ. Full comparison, with sources, on the page itself.
DigitalOceanHetzner
Entry paid plan$4.00€5.99/month for the CX23 (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 40 GB NVMe), including a primary IPv4 address, or €0.0096/hour. The ARM CAX11 with identical specs is €6.49. Converted for comparison at the ECB reference rate of 1 EUR = 1.1622 USD (2026-09-04, api.frankfurter.dev), which puts the CX23 at about $6.96/month. Hetzner publishes no USD price; the conversion is ours and moves with the rate.
Pricing modelbilled per second with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higherYour server's bill will never exceed its monthly price cap. If you delete your cloud server before the end of the billing month, we will only bill you for the hourly rate.
Egress over allowance$0.01 per GiB (Droplets); inbound transfer is free and allowances pool across the team.€1.00 per TB over the included traffic in Europe and the US; €7.40 per TB in Singapore. Billed in blocks of 100 MB, rounded up.
When you exceed a capBilled automatically — outbound transfer beyond the pooled plan allowance is charged at $0.01 per GiB; inbound transfer is freeBilled automatically — traffic beyond the amount included with the server is billed in blocks of 100MB, rounded up; Hetzner emails at 75% and 100% of the included traffic but explicitly does not cap or stop usage
Storage (entry plan)10 GiB SSD on the cheapest Basic Droplet (Regular CPU, 512 MiB / 1 vCPU, $4.00/mo).40 GB NVMe on CX23 and CAX11, the smallest plans in Hetzner's cost-optimized line
Memory (entry plan)512 MiB on the cheapest Basic Droplet (Regular CPU, 1 vCPU, $4.00/mo).4 GB on CX23 and CAX11, the smallest plans in Hetzner's cost-optimized line
02.

Infrastructure decisions without marketing copy.

Every comparison is assembled from the same five dimensions, so two pages can be read against each other.

Pricing
Published plan pricing and the infrastructure costs underneath it, read from official pricing pages.
Limits
Bandwidth, compute, storage, build minutes and deployment ceilings — including the ones that only appear in the docs.
Developer experience
Deployments, logs, CLI, Git integration and observability, judged by what the workflow actually feels like.
Infrastructure
Regions, edge network, runtimes and scaling behaviour, rather than marketing claims about speed.
Lock-in
How much of the setup is portable, and what has to be rewritten to leave.

Every figure keeps the sentence it was read from. Flip between the two and the reduction is visible — not something to take on trust.

DigitalOcean, two ways

When you exceed a cap

Each Droplet plan includes an amount of free outbound data transfer. Additional outbound transfer is billed at $0.01 per GiB. Inbound transfer to Droplets is free.

Droplet Pricing | DigitalOcean Documentation · read 2026-09-05

Entry paid plan

Memory vCPU Transfer SSD $/hr $/mo 512 MiB 1 vCPU 500 GiB 10 GiB $0.00595 $ 4.00 1 GiB 1 vCPU 1,000 GiB 25 GiB $0.00893 $ 6.00

Droplet Pricing — DigitalOcean · read 2026-09-13

Egress over allowance

Each Droplet plan includes an amount of free outbound data transfer. Additional outbound transfer is billed at $0.01 per GiB. Inbound transfer to Droplets is free. Transfer allowance and usage is pooled cumulatively across all Droplets at the team level, not individually per Droplet.

Bandwidth billing — DigitalOcean Docs · read 2026-09-14

03.

Check the infrastructure behind any domain.

The lookup at the top of this page reads live authoritative DNS. The full tools cover every record type worth inspecting.

Resolving a namewww.example.com · A
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Illustrative. A resolver with an empty cache walks down from the root, and each answer is only a referral until the zone's own nameserver replies. Every hop is cached for its TTL, which is why the second lookup is one question, not four.

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Popular comparisons.

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