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Cloud compute: what 18 tools cost

Virtual servers and computing resources for hosting applications. Every price below is the plan a buyer actually lands on to get this capability — not the headline figure on the pricing page, and not the free tier that does not include it. Read from each vendor's own material and dated.

Ordered by what it costs, cheapest first, starting at $4. 7 more products do this and have no researched price, so they are not listed here.
Droplets DigitalOcean Verified 2026-08-22 Virtual private servers for hosting applications and websites $4/mo Basicthe plan this buyer lands on Details → Vultr Vultr Verified 2026-08-24 Global cloud compute $6/mo High Performance 1GBthe plan this buyer lands on Details → VPS Hosting Hostinger Verified 2026-08-22 Virtual private servers with root access and dedicated CPU and memory, for workloads that have outgrown shared hosting. $8.99/mo VPS2the plan this buyer lands on Details → Web Hosting Infrastructure Hostinger Verified 2026-08-22 Shared and WordPress-optimised hosting on its own LiteSpeed stack, with SSL, email and backups on the plan. $10.99/mo Premium (standard renewal)the plan this buyer lands on Details → Headless CMS Strapi Verified 2026-08-22 Open-source, MIT-licensed headless CMS built on Node.js that auto-generates REST and GraphQL APIs from custom content models — lets teams self-host or cloud-host their content and own the data instead of renting a proprietary SaaS CMS. $18/mo Essentialthe plan this buyer lands on Details → Continuous Deployment Netlify Verified 2026-08-22 Git-based deployment from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket $20/mo Prothe plan this buyer lands on Details → Serverless Functions Netlify Verified 2026-08-22 Run backend code without managing servers $20/mo Prothe plan this buyer lands on Details → Edge Functions Netlify Verified 2026-08-22 Execute code at the CDN edge for low-latency computing $20/mo Prothe plan this buyer lands on Details → Cloud Platform Railway Verified 2026-08-22 Infrastructure-as-a-service platform for deploying applications $20/mo Prothe plan this buyer lands on Details → Environment Management Railway Verified 2026-08-22 Multiple environments for development, staging, and production $20/mo Prothe plan this buyer lands on Details → Frontend Platform Vercel Verified 2026-08-22 Deploy and host frontend applications with global CDN $20/mo Prothe plan this buyer lands on Details → Serverless Functions Vercel Verified 2026-08-22 Run backend code without managing servers $20/mo Prothe plan this buyer lands on Details → Web Hosting Plans SiteGround Verified 2026-08-22 Three-tier managed hosting lineup spanning StartUp (single site), GrowBig (unlimited sites, staging, on-demand backups), and GoGeek (Git integration, priority support) — lets site owners scale hosting resources and features as traffic and site count grow. $24.99/mo GrowBig (monthly billing)the plan this buyer lands on Details → Render Compute render Verified 2026-08-24 Cloud platform for deploying web services, static sites, and databases with automatic scaling and built-in CI/CD from git — positioned as a simpler alternative to configuring raw cloud infrastructure. $25/mo Standardthe plan this buyer lands on Details → InMotion VPS Hosting Inmotion Hosting Verified 2026-08-22 Virtual private servers with full root access and cPanel/WHM control, offered as both managed (InMotion-patched) and unmanaged tiers — entry plans provide 2 vCPU cores and 4GB RAM, scaling up to 8 vCPU cores and 16GB RAM for higher-traffic sites. $30/mo Monthly subscriptionHigher-tier hosting generates larger commissions Details → Server & File Backups SimpleBackups Verified 2026-08-22 Automated backup of file systems or full server snapshots for connected servers, storable to any destination including the vendor's own SimpleStorage — covers whole-machine recovery rather than just individual databases. $99/mo PLUSthe plan this buyer lands on Details → Cloud Hosting Cloudways Verified 2026-08-22 Managed hosting on DigitalOcean, AWS, Linode, Vultr $149/mo GrowthStandard server size Details → Web Scraping Infrastructure Bright Data Verified 2026-08-22 Hosted browsers and scraping APIs that handle rendering, retries and blocking, so a collection job runs without operating a browser fleet. $499/mo $499/mo committed planthe plan this buyer lands on Details →

This page compares what each tool does and what it costs. It does not name a winner: picking one honestly needs a researched verdict for every option, and the corpus does not carry those yet — so nothing here is ranked by anything but price.

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Vendors change plans and quietly move capabilities between tiers. We re-read the terms and send one note a week with what moved — including cloud compute.

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