Always-on from €1/mo.
Pay only for what you run.
Per-resource pricing — every service, database, queue, and search instance has its own monthly price you see before you create it. No subscription tiers, no seat fees, no annual lock-in. One Nano service + one Starter Postgres are always free.
All prices excluding VAT. Stripe Tax computes the right rate at checkout based on your billing address; EU B2B customers with a valid VAT number get reverse-charge.
Services
— web services, workers, cron jobs, static sites| Size | Memory | vCPU | Disk | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PicoCheapest Always-on at €1/mo. Cheaper than Koyeb (~$1.6), Fly ($2.02), Northflank ($2.70), Render ($7). | 128 MB | 0.1 vCPU | 1 GB | €1/mo |
NanoFree 1× Free tier sleeps after 60 min idle; paid always-on | 256 MB | 0.25 vCPU | 1 GB | €3/mo |
Micro | 512 MB | 0.5 vCPU | 5 GB | €5/mo |
Small | 1 GB | 0.5 vCPU | 10 GB | €10/mo |
Standard | 2 GB | 1 vCPU | 20 GB | €20/mo |
Large | 4 GB | 2 vCPU | 40 GB | €40/mo |
XLarge | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | 80 GB | €80/mo |
Price is per instance. Scale a service to N replicas and pay N × the size price.
Dedicated node
— predictable latency under loadAvailable nowPro Standard
€29/mo
Pro Large
€58/mo
Pick a Pro tier in the create-service wizard. We provision a fresh single-tenant Hetzner node and run your container as the only workload on it — no bin-packing, no noisy neighbours.
Managed databases
— PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, RedisMicro
€4/mo
Starter
Free 1×€7/mo
Standard
€15/mo
Pro
€50/mo
Extra storage beyond the included GB is billed at €0.10/GB-month.
Queues & search
— NATS JetStream, MeilisearchStarter
€5/mo
Standard
€15/mo
Pro
€40/mo
Metered usage
— only if you exceed the free allowancePersistent storage
€0.10/GB-month
Beyond the disk included with your service size.
Bandwidth
€0.01/GB
First 200 GB/team-month free.
Build minutes
€0.005/min
First 500 min/team-month free.
Enterprise
Volume pricing, dedicated hardware, custom availability terms, and priority support for teams running serious workloads.
- Volume pricing on services and databases
- Dedicated single-tenant hardware
- Negotiated availability terms
- Priority support
- SSO/SAML, audit log retention, RBAC
- Custom contracts and procurement
Cheapest at every line item
HostStack vs. the platforms hobbyists actually shop. Numbers from each provider's public pricing page on 2026-05-16.
| What you get | HostStack | Render | Railway | Fly.io | Heroku |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest always-on tier | €1/mo (Pico) | $7/mo (Starter) | $5/mo trial-min | $2.02/mo (256 MB) | $7/mo (Basic) |
| Free tier (always-on) | 1 svc + 1 DB | sleeps 15 min idle | Not available | legacy users only | Not available |
| Free Postgres | Yes, never expires | Expires 30 days | Not available | $2/mo dev cluster | $5/mo (Essential-0) |
| Cheapest managed Postgres | €4/mo (Micro) | $7/mo | $5/mo + RAM | $2 dev / $82 HA | $5/mo (Essential-0) |
| Bandwidth overage | €0.01/GB | plan-capped | $0.05/GB | $0.02/GB EU/US | not metered |
| Free bandwidth (paid) | 200 GB/mo | 100 GB/mo | Not available | 100 GB/mo | Not available |
| Volume storage | €0.10/GB·mo | $0.25/GB·mo | $0.15/GB·mo | $0.15/GB·mo | Not available |
| Custom domain + TLS | Free, unlimited | Free | 2 on Hobby | 10 free, then $0.10 | Free on Basic+ |
| EU data residency | Helsinki (Nuremberg, Falkenstein soon) | Frankfurt | EU-West | Multiple EU | Dublin |
| EU-incorporated company | Denmark (CVR 45587452) | US — Delaware | US — Delaware | US — Delaware | US — Salesforce |
All competitor prices in USD as published; HostStack in EUR. USD → EUR at 0.92 (ECB Apr 2026). Verify directly against Render, Railway, Fly, Heroku before signing a contract.
Cost calculator
Drag to size your stack. HostStack price is the real bill at Micro services and Standard databases.
HostStack
€10/mo
61% less than Render
Render (est.)
$28/mo
≈ €26
Railway (est.)
$20/mo
≈ €18
The HostStack column is our real bill: first nano service + first starter Postgres are always free. The other two columns are our estimate, not a quote — Render Starter at $7 per always-on service and $7 per Postgres, and Railway usage-based RAM at ≈$5/mo per 512 MB instance, read from their public pricing pages in July 2026 and converted at 0.92 EUR/USD (ECB Apr 2026). The percentage compares HostStack with Render only. Your actual costs will differ with usage, region, and plan.