Best Hosting Platforms 2026
Places to deploy apps, sites, and workers. We list 17 tools with researched pricing and features; 15 of them can be used for free.
How this list is ordered: Sorted by how much you can use for free (free or open source first, then free plan with paid tiers, then paid only), then by the number of documented features, then alphabetically. No ratings or reviews are used.
These lists are not benchmark scores; they follow the ordering above. How benchmark evidence is labeled
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Amazon's cloud, including compute, storage, and databases.
- Resizable compute capacity for many workloads
- Serverless relational databases for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL
- Platform to build generative AI applications and agents
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DNS, CDN, Workers, and R2 for hosting on the edge.
- Content delivery, unmetered DDoS protection, and universal SSL
- Serverless Workers that run in 330+ cities
- Web application firewall and bot protection
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Self-hosted alternative to Heroku and Netlify. Paid plans from $5/month.
- Deploy apps, databases, and 280+ services over SSH
- Build with Nixpacks, Dockerfile, Compose, or registry images
- Start PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and other databases
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Edge hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript. Paid plans from $20/month.
- Hosts JavaScript and TypeScript apps from many frameworks
- Auto-deploys GitHub repos with preview domains per pull request
- Links databases and clones a branch database per pull request
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Virtual machines, Kubernetes, and app platform. Paid plans from $4/month.
- Serverless, dedicated, or batch inference on 75+ models
- Router sends each request to a selected model
- GPU machines for model training and inference
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Edge cloud and CDN.
- Global CDN for sites, apps, and live or on-demand video
- WAF, bot management, DDoS protection, and API security
- Run serverless code at the edge near users
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Google's backend platform for app hosting, auth, and data.
- Authenticate users, including phone number verification
- Store data with Firestore, Realtime Database, and SQL
- Host apps, store files, and run cloud functions
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Run containers close to users.
- Virtual machines start in less than one second
- Sprites keep files, services, and dependencies across sleep
- Save checkpoints and restore them within seconds
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Google's cloud platform.
- Cloud computing and AI services
- Security tools, including AI threat defense
- Data management for hybrid and multi-cloud setups
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Serverless platform for deploying containers globally. Paid plans from $29/month.
- Deploy apps on CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators
- Autoscale containers from zero to hundreds of servers
- Deploy code, containers, or models with Git or CLI
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Microsoft's cloud platform.
- Run Linux and Windows virtual machines
- Build and scale apps on managed Kubernetes
- Create, test, and deploy generative AI agents
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Hosting for static sites and web apps. Paid plans from $9/month.
- Deploy from Git, the CLI, drag-and-drop, or an AI agent
- Give every change a private preview URL before it goes live
- Run backend APIs as serverless functions
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Infrastructure as code using general-purpose languages. Paid plans from $40/month.
- Define cloud infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java, YAML, or HCL
- Pull secrets from Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and Azure Key Vault
- Query managed and unmanaged cloud resources in natural language
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Platform for deploying apps and databases from a repo.
- Deploy apps, servers, and databases from a connected repo
- Read code to set config and edit it on a canvas
- Private networking, SSL, public endpoints, and load balancing
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Hosting for web services, workers, and databases.
- Deploy static sites, web services, workers, and cron jobs
- Scale services automatically when load increases
- Postgres with point-in-time recovery and read replicas
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CDN, storage, and edge scripting. Paid plans from $1/month.
- Deliver website content through a global CDN
- Store objects on replicated edge storage
- Process and optimize images dynamically
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Low-cost cloud servers and dedicated machines.
- Dedicated servers in AMD, Intel, GPU, and Dell lines
- Cloud servers and S3-compatible object storage
- Web hosting, domain registration, and managed servers
