Hosting alternatives
Hosting alternatives: start from what you are leaving
Start with the platform you are replacing. Each card shows the lowest bills among its alternatives; the guide behind it keeps every candidate and what changes when you switch.
Start from the platform
Which deployment are you replacing?
Each guide covers one platform you are leaving: every alternative, what counts as one, what changes when you move, the regions, and each provider's own docs.
Replace Vercel
Leave Vercel
- Must move
- Static or framework output, functions, and public web runtime behavior
- Check first
- Build behavior, runtime limits, and the required destination regions
- Alternatives
- 23, not ranked, each linked to its own docs
Replace Railway
Leave Railway
- Must move
- Application services, workers, persistent state, and a chosen region
- Check first
- The complete service graph, attached data, and how each process deploys
- Alternatives
- 13, not ranked, each linked to its own docs
Replace Render
Leave Render
- Must move
- Web services, workers, cron jobs, static sites, disks, or managed data
- Check first
- Every service the application uses, persistence, and region evidence
- Alternatives
- 13, not ranked, each linked to its own docs
Before you start
Sometimes the right next page is not an alternatives list
Start from what you need to move, so managed platforms, raw servers, databases and static hosts are not mixed into one list.
| What must move | Start here | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Static frontend only | Compare static and frontend hosting | This is a workload choice; a full application-platform replacement may be unnecessary. |
| Functions or a framework web app | Compare Vercel alternatives | Preserve build and runtime behavior before comparing provider prices. |
| Several services, workers, or cron jobs | Choose Railway or Render above | Start from the platform you use now; its guide lists what each alternative must support. |
| A container with an undecided operating model | Docker hosting: PaaS, VPS or serverless? | Managed deployment, a raw VPS, and Kubernetes are different operating commitments. |
| A raw virtual machine | Compare VPS plans | A VPS means running the server yourself, not a like-for-like swap for a managed platform. |
Where to start
One page per platform you are leaving
This page points to the guides; it does not repeat their lists. Prices stay on the provider pages, workload costs on the main comparison, and each guide keeps its own full list of alternatives.