Hosting & deployment — compare pricing, reliability & setup
Generated 2026-11-03 03:53 UTC · JSON
For small web app (100 gb/mo), the current pick is Fly.io (score 75.5). $2.39/mo at 100 bandwidth_gb.
Ranking — Small web app (100 GB/mo)
| Vendor | Score | 10/mo | 100/mo | 1k/mo | Free | Agent-friction | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fly.io | 75.5 | $2.39 | $4.19 | $22.19 | no | 70 | 2026-11-02 |
| Cloudflare Workers | 74.55 | $5 | $5 | $5 | no | 100 | 2026-11-02 |
| Render | 60 | $7.75 | $21.25 | $156.25 | no | 100 | 2026-11-02 |
| Vercel | 56.97 | $20 | $20 | $20 | no | 100 | 2026-11-02 |
| Netlify | 56.47 | $20 | $20 | $137 | no | 100 | 2026-11-02 |
Agent-friction — can a service be set up without a human?
Each check and its weight is published; the column total is the 0–100 agent-friction score.
| Check | Fly.io | Cloudflare Workers | Render | Vercel | Netlify |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test credentials without a credit card (20) | × | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sandbox or test mode (15) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Setup with no human-only steps (15) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Official CLI (10) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Official MCP server (10) | × | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Markdown docs, current with the SDK (10) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Typed SDK for main languages (10) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Error messages that name the fix (10) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Score | 70 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
How this category is scored
Per use case, weights published in the data: fit 25% · cost 20% · integration 20% · agent_friction 15% · health 10% · lock_in 10%. Affiliate status is never an input.