Platforms.

9 platforms publishing a price the bot can read, cheapest entry price first (November 2026 data, read every 3 days). Between them they sell 62 plans, of which 48 are runtimes of a stated size. A platform page says what kind of thing it is, what the monthly price includes, what it charges on top once the app has traffic, and every price it publishes.

The cheapest way onto a platform today is $1.61/mo at Koyeb, and 4 of the 9 also run something for nothing, read 1 Nov 2026.

Koyeb
Koyeb pricing
App platform
It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
plans
6
free tier
no
from
$1.61/mo
cheapest instance $1.61/mo
Fly.io
Fly.io pricing
Micro-VM
It gives you a machine of your own, started and stopped in a second.
plans
6
free tier
no
from
$2.19/mo
cheapest instance $2.19/mo
Heroku
Heroku pricing
App platform
It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
plans
8
free tier
no
from
$5/mo
cheapest instance $5/mo
DigitalOcean App Platform
DigitalOcean App Platform pricing
App platform
It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
plans
14
free tier
no
from
$5/mo
cheapest instance $5/mo
Railway
Railway pricing
App platform
It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
plans
2
free tier
no
from
$5/mo
sells no runtime of a stated size
Zeabur
Zeabur pricing
App platform
It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
plans
4
free tier
yes
from
$5/mo
sells no runtime of a stated size · free tier sleeps when idle
Render
Render pricing
App platform
It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
plans
17
free tier
yes
from
$7/mo
cheapest instance $7/mo · free tier sleeps when idle
Netlify
Netlify pricing
Frontend cloud
It builds your site, serves it from a network of its own and runs your functions beside it.
plans
3
free tier
yes
from
$9/mo
sells no runtime of a stated size · free tier
Vercel
Vercel pricing
Frontend cloud
It builds your site, serves it from a network of its own and runs your functions beside it.
plans
2
free tier
yes
from
$20/mo
sells no runtime of a stated size · free tier