Hosting Tools in 2026, Compared by Price

We track 14 hosting tools. The list below is ordered by what it costs to start, cheapest first. Tools that cannot be put on that scale — usage-based pricing, a free tier, or a price we could not verify — come last, and each one says which case it is. The cheapest verified entry point is DigitalOcean at $4/user/mo.

No vendor has paid for a position on this page. Price is not quality: the cheapest tool here is not the best one for your team, it is only the cheapest. We do not publish a quality score because we do not have one we can stand behind. How we score tools.

1. 1
   DigitalOcean

   Simple cloud for devs.

   From $4/user/mo

2. 2
   AWS

   Cloud computing giant.

   Usage-based pricing

3. 3
   Bunny.net

   Low-cost CDN and edge storage.

   Usage-based pricing

4. 4
   Cloudflare

   Internet security & speed.

   Free tier available

5. 5
   Fastly

   Edge cloud and CDN.

   Usage-based pricing

6. 6
   Google Cloud

   Data-first cloud platform.

   Usage-based pricing

7. 7
   Hetzner

   European cloud and dedicated servers.

   Usage-based pricing

8. 8
   Kinsta

   Managed WordPress and application hosting.

   Pricing not verified

9. 9
   Microsoft Azure

   Enterprise cloud by Microsoft.

   Usage-based pricing

10. 10
    Netlify

    Modern web hosting.

    Free tier available

11. 11
    Porkbun

    Domain registrar with low renewal prices.

    Usage-based pricing

12. 12
    SiteGround

    Shared and managed WordPress hosting.

    Pricing not verified

13. 13
    Vercel

    Fast web hosting.

    Free tier available

14. 14
    WP Engine

    Managed WordPress hosting.

    Pricing not verified